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Etiquette for US College Students
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
20 Apr 2024 – The University of Southern California recently cancelled the commencement address of its pro-Palestinian Muslim valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, after pressure from Jewish groups, and as of today has also cancelled the appearances of commencement speakers John Chu, director of ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ and the tennis star Billie Jean King.
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There Is No Grudge That Cannot Be Resolved: China’s Xi Jinping to Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
“[There is] [n]o problem that cannot be talked through. And there are no forces that can separate us,” Xi Jinping said in momentous Beijing meeting.
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Spin Cycle
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Western Civilization… as Gandhi said, ‘It Would Be a Great Idea’
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Where There’s Smoke
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
5 Feb 2024 – The Usual BS…
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An Open Letter from Editors and Publishers on Julian Assange –> Publishing Is Not a Crime
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
18 Feb 2024 – The following is a letter from the Guardian, Le Monde, El Pais, The New York Times, and Der Spiegel urging the U.S. government to end its prosecution of Julian Assange for publishing secrets.
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Winners and Losers
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
2 Feb 2024 – Spineless World Justice and Civil Society
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South Africa Invokes Genocide Convention against Israel
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – South Africa becomes the first country to approach the International Court of Justice and invoke the Genocide Convention with regard to Israel’s attacks on Palestinians.
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Gaza Divides the World, Again
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
7 Dec 2023 – As the brutal crisis unfolds, the savage exercise of power by the U.S. and Israel has catalyzed world reactions. A significant transformation in global diplomacy is underway as the oppressed became the oppressors.
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The Anti-Semite
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
5 Dec 2023 – No Comment
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
Meanwhile, in the Homo Sapiens’ 21st Century…
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Reflections on the Deep State’s Media Watchdog Tool
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
29 Nov 2023 – NewsGuard at first glance looks like a media watchdog organization, a group that seeks to keep misinformation and disinformation out of the mainstream. That notion is quickly dispelled, however, as soon as one takes a look under the hood.
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Medical Doctors Gabor Maté and Tarek Loubani on Israel’s Medical Siege of Gaza
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
24 Nov 2023 – Dr. Tarek Loubani, who treats patients in Gaza and runs the Glia Project to provide medical supplies to impoverished locations, and Dr. Gabor Maté break down Israel’s systematic destruction of medical practice in Gaza.
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Peace through Horror
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Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – Palestine and the New World Order – Bombing hospitals was, just a few days ago, a red line the IDF dared not cross without provoking international condemnation. Today the IDF is bombing hospitals and its soldiers are shooting invalid patients as Gazans try to evacuate bombed buildings.
→ read full articleFull Steam Ahead
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – Killing Democratically
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Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – The video provokes a disgust as profound as any I have ever felt. It features Israelis recording themselves sadistically ridiculing Palestinians in the most cruel manner. They imitate Palestinian children dying or starving. They apply racially offensive makeup and mock Gazans as Israel deprives them of power, potable water, food and much else.
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Dear Dove
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – What Is Going On
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Israeli Airstrike on Gaza City Hospital Kills at Least 500 People
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – An Israeli airstrike on the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City has killed more than 500 people. “This is genocide. This is a war crime,” a Red Crescent Society representative said.
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Bare Bones
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Palestine Israel
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Torture at Guantanamo
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
25 Sep 2023 – I Was the only U.S. Official Imprisoned over the Torture Program — because I Opposed and Blew the Whistle on It
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
A Suggestion…
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The Real Threat from China: They’re Better at Capitalism Than We Are
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – The Biden administration’s China strategy comes down to parrying, in a word. All the pointless talk is to obscure an effort to undermine China’s economy because we cannot compete with it, while—part two—buying time to move maximum U.S. military hardware as close to China as possible under the Pacific Defense Initiative.
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Independent Journalism as It Was: Portugal Case Study
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Lisbon, following the revolution, was the author’s classroom. As Washington made another nation one of its experiments in altered reality, the U.S. press played POLO — “the power of leaving out” — with abandon.
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Harold Pinter Had It Right
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
“After Oliver Cromwell had taken the town of Drogheda, he announced: ‘Kill all the women and rape all the men.’ His aide said: ‘Excuse me General. Isn’t it the other way around?’ A voice from the crowd called out: ‘Mr. Cromwell knows what he’s doing!’”
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78 Years Ago Today, in Hiroshima: What Oppenheimer Wrought
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
6 Aug 2023 – The official U.S. bombing survey on what happened in Hiroshima 78 years ago today.
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Opera Buffa in Ukraine
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
“How would President Biden react if China had established a base in Tijuana, Mexico, and met there with all the left-leaning governments of South America? That’s how Putin would be expected to react to the meeting earlier this month of all the NATO chiefs in Vilnius, close to the Russian border.”
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Congressional Testimony of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. on the Weaponization of the US Federal Government
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – The hearing examined the federal government’s role in censoring North Americans, the Missouri v. Biden case, and Big Tech’s collusion with out-of-control government agencies to silence free speech on social media.
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Why the Ukraine Conflict Will Unravel NATO and Biden
Radhika Desai | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – The US has only military might to offer allies. So, Biden’s impending military failure in Ukraine is likely to prove the effective undoing of NATO. If the US cannot ensure military victory, its utility to Europe can only be limited. And if Biden’s has failed in this intermediate Russian stage, it can hardly go onto its final, Chinese one.
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Gitmo’s Permanent Chains
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
7 Jul 2023 – Now comes yet another little-noted UN Report on the continuing excesses and inhumanity at Guantánamo Bay, the post-9/11 US military prison that only two decades ago set the standard for war crimes.
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Say Uncle
Mr Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4th JULY 2023 – HAPPY 4th!
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The Talented Mr. Fish
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – For the second year in a row, Mr. Fish comes out on top for “Best Editorial Cartoon.”
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The Elite’s War on Free Thought
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
24 Jun 2023 – Address at Free Speech Event in London, with Russell Brand and Michael Shellenberger
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Mediterranean Migrant Shipwreck Reveals Cost of Cruel European Asylum Policies
Sasha Abramsky | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
23 Jun 2023 – Eighty-one people have been confirmed dead, but roughly 500 more likely drowned when the ship sank, locked below decks.
→ read full articlePartners in Doomsday
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
17 Jun 2023 – As Ukraine begins a counter-offensive and Biden’s hawks look on, new rhetoric out of Russia points to a revival of the nuclear threat.
→ read full articleQuitting Time
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
30 May 2023 – AI Times
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As US Considers Reoccupying Haiti, History Shows Occupation Is the Root Problem
Danny Shaw | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
6 Jun 2023 – The tragedy unfolding in Haiti is a direct result of over a century of U.S. political, military and economic coercion.
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
26 May 2023 – Say, what?
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Rearmament & Europe’s Welfare
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
17 May 2023 – Farewell to the Welfare State? Not Just Yet. Let’s see how Europeans respond when they are told their peace dividend is to be spent on the machinery of war — when it’s “howitzers instead of hospitals” now, as a New York Times article puts it.
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Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
19 May 2023 – Ukraine’s neighbors push for Zelensky to pursue peace as millions of displaced people flow into Europe.
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Squeezed by the Shorts: Time to Ban Short Selling?
Ellen Brown | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
17 May 2023 – Short sellers have made a killing in the recent banking crisis, scalping $14.3 billion from bank stock owners just in March of this year. Short sellers “borrow” stock they don’t own and immediately sell it, driving the price down. Then they buy it back at the lower price, return the stock, and pocket the difference.
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Ditto!
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The Bombing of Nord Stream — This Act of War against Europe Requires Congressional Investigation
Dennis Kucinich | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – President Biden’s own statements predicting the end of Nord Stream , preliminary to the devastating attack on its infrastructure, point to the necessity of determining whether or not the president was speaking from his singularly informed position of the Chief Executive, as Hersh indicated.
→ read full articleThe Nord Stream Ghost Ship
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – The false details in the CIA’s cover story.
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Russia and China Summit: The Reconfiguration of World Power
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The three-day Moscow summit signals China and Russia’s commitment to each other and the vision of a new multipolar world.
→ read full articleThe U.S. Cover-Up
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The Biden Administration continues to conceal its responsibility for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
→ read full articleIraq Plus 20 (Part 2): From Iraq into the Abyss?
Dennis Kucinich | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – In Part 1, I detailed the careful lies to ignite the war on Iraq. The US military attack on Iraq commenced on March 20, 2023, after a highly structured domestic and international media campaign of misinformation and disinformation, by the Bush Administration, which succeeded in getting major media and Congressional support.
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China’s Great Leap in the Middle East
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
14 Mar 2023 – What Beijing just sponsored and got done, putting two millennia of diplomatic craft to work, is an exquisite example of what can be accomplished once this imperative is fully realized.
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Twitter Files: My Statement to the US Congress
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
9 Mar 2023 – “Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files” for the House Judiciary Committee. We release a “Twitter Files Statement to Congress” for the record. It contains some surprises. My opening:
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Twitter Files—GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
Global Engagement Center: North Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise themselves, as government agencies and subcontractors undertake a massive digital blacklisting project.
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Media: Objectivity and Its Discontents
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – It is one thing for reporters and editors to abandon the principle of objectivity as they hurl their hatchets at those who provoke their prejudices—Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, whomever. It is another for the retired coots now posing as the profession’s wise men to elevate these derelictions to the principle of there-are-no-principles. How far down the crater of corruption are those running US media’s newsrooms going to cascade?
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Missing Links in Textbook History: Indigenous Peoples
Jim Mamer | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – By the time I started high school I had come to see the world in Manichaean terms, full of good guys and bad guys. We, North Americans, were the good guys, often presented as settlers defending our families against hostile Indians. It was dangerously easy to accept the notion that history is pretty simple.
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Land of the Fee, Home of the Depraved
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
10 Jan 2023 – Who is in charge?
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Japan Reenlists as Washington’s Spear-Carrier
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – It is always the same when Japanese premiers travel to Washington to summit [submit?] at the White House. Nothing seems to happen and nobody pays much attention even when important things happen, when we should all pay attention.
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Europe and the Legitimization of Deception
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
8 Jan 2023 – The U.S. has long practiced the diplomacy of no diplomacy. You can’t expect much from bimbos such as Antony Blinken or Wendy Sherman, his No. 2 at the State Department. All they can do is roar, even if they are mice next to any serious diplomat.
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The Sino-Russian Summit You Didn’t Read About
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
4 Jan 2023 – The New York Times coverage of the recent summit between Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping misses some of its most important details.
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ICC Wanted to Investigate Israeli War Crimes–Now It’s Caving to US Pressure
Marjorie Cohn | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
17 Dec 2022 – Two years after launching an investigation of war crimes in Palestine, the International Criminal Court is still dragging its feet.
→ read full articleHaving a Blast
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
New Worlds…?
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International Media Groups Urge US to Drop Julian Assange Charges in Letter
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Twelve years ago, on 28 Nov 2010, our five international media outlets–the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, El País and Der Spiegel–published a series of revelations in cooperation with WikiLeaks that made the headlines around the globe. Our statement supporting the end of the US government’s prosecution of Julian Assange.
→ read full articleStop and Smell the Apocalypse
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
23 Nov 2022 – In the eyes of the beholder…
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Biden Sides with Trump in Killing Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
27 Nov 2022 – Events in the U.S. and in Israel indicate that the Biden administration has decided to drop all notion of reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action-JCPOA. Biden will hold to Trump’s position when he pulled the U.S. out of the pact in 2018.
→ read full articleEat Me
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Help Yourself…
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Will the U.S. War-for-Profit Capitalist System Lead to Nuclear Annihilation?
Leonard Goodman | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
9 Nov 2022 – The US continues to fan the flames of nuclear conflict with massive investments in the war department. How long can this last? A cancer on Earth.
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Disinformation, Absolutely
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
1 Nov 2022 – This is what our public discourse has come to. We in the USA have made a nonsense of ourselves. Our troubled republic sounds like an indecipherable cacophony amid which anything we say can be turned to mean other than what we mean. When we come across anyone who thinks differently than we do, we simply call him or her a disseminator of disinformation, a liar, and nothing more need be said.
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Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it.
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Our Shared Addiction to Empire
Patrick Lawrence | Scheerpost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
If the Columbus myth has been thoroughly discounted, what is it that causes us to continue closing the banks, stopping the mail, and marching in parades on a Monday around October 12 each year?
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The Non-West Coalesces
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – Nations representing more than 80 percent of the global population and a like percentage of global gross domestic product are perfectly capable of seeing the Biden administration’s pointed provocations and do not approve.
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Putin Sees Future with Asia and Claims Western Economic Decline in New Speech
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Sep 2022
9 Sep 2022 – Speaking at the Eastern Economic Forum, Putin addressed Western sanctions, Russia’s growing relationship with Asia and an update on Ukraine.
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How Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan Has Enabled China to Redefine the Rules of the Game
Míng Jīnwéi (明金维) | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Editor’s Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides documentation of important ongoing dialogue within top circles in China unavailable elsewhere.
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A Hall of Mirrors
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 – I have long wondered why our mainstream journalists, correspondents and commentators give so similar accounts of things. This has been especially so in the Ukraine crisis: Keeping readers and viewers a safe distance from reality is a touchy matter. One slip and the shroud shreds.
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Three Lessons from Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan
Huáyǔ Think Tank (华语智库) | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Editor’s Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides documentation of important ongoing dialogue within top circles in China unavailable elsewhere.
→ read full articleThe Invention of Capitalism
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
As Official Narratives Go…
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CIA Vault 7 Leaker Found Guilty–What Did He Actually Reveal?
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
26 Jul 2022 – CIA veteran John Kiriakou breaks down some of the most important elements of Vault 7—the biggest leak in CIA history—allegedly divulged to WikiLeaks by another former CIA officer.
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Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us
Sue Ann Martinson | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022 – It’s time to acknowledge how the failure to connect the dots between U.S. imperialism and the growing climate crisis threatens all life on this planet in more ways than one.
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Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster
Jeffrey D. Sachs | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Jul 2022 – If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these U.S. foreign policy debacles, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.
→ read full articleA Mazing Grace
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
Meanwhile in the USA
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The Tragic Absurdity of Qatar’s World Cup Sportswashing
Dave Zirin | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Were there not so much suffering involved, the Qatar 2022 World Cup would be an absurdist parody of sportswashing. Labor abuses, homophobia, corruption? Qatar and FIFA will use the men’s World Cup to put a happy gloss on it all.
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Who Is to Blame for Inflation? The Power Brokers of Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong – A half-century long strategy, led by corporations, Wall Street, governments, and central banks, is coming undone. As a result, the West’s authorities now face an impossible choice: push conglomerates and states into cascading bankruptcies or allow inflation to go unchecked.
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The Triumph of Death
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.
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The Unbearable Reactions of Zelensky
Éric Denécé | CF2R/ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – If Russia is clearly the aggressor in this conflict, those who pushed it to this attack are undoubtedly the United States, NATO and the Zelensky government. It is essential never to forget it. If NATO had not been constantly expanding, and if Zelensky and his clique had not listened to the disastrous advice of their American mentors, we would not be here.
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How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – There are ways to defeat the billionaire class and many of these tactics have been pioneered or refined by Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative party in Seattle.
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No Way Out but War
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Permanent war has cannibalized the country. It has created a social, political, and economic morass. Each new military debacle is another nail in the coffin of Pax Americana.
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Guantanamo, Cuba: VII Symposium on the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases
Ann Wright | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – The Seventh Iteration of the Symposium on the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases Was Held May 4-6, 2022 in Guantanamo, Cuba, Near the 125-Year-Old US Naval Base Located a few Miles from the City of Guantanamo
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Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of U.S. Fascism
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
9 May 2022 – The Democratic Party is hoping to thwart an election by running against the Supreme Court decision on abortion. The Christian fascists believe military power, and its “manly” virtues, are blessed by God. No military budget is too big. No war waged by the US is evil. Violence is the primary form of communication. Vengeance is the highest good.
→ read full articleBar None
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
22 Apr 2022 – No Comment
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The Age of Self-Delusion
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
The US and Russia, faded relics of the Cold War, unable to accept their terminal decline, launch futile and self-defeating wars to reclaim their lost imperial power.
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The Curious Case of PayPal and Consortium News
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
3 May 2022 – The independent news website has been banned from taking donations on PayPal without so much as an explanation. The reason might be as simple as it is chilling.
→ read full articleGetting Back to Work
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
8 Apr 2022 – Amazon
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Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend. Boycott the Bay Area Book Festival. That is the least we owe a literary and moral titan.
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The US Military Is Driving Environmental Collapse across the Planet
Sam Carliner | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
24 Apr 2022 – The U.S. military emits more carbon than 140 countries combined, fueling climate change and environmental degradation. Below we examine five ways in which the Pentagon is destroying the environment.
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U.S. Commissars
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – Social media platforms are aggressively censoring all who challenge the dominant narrative on Ukraine, the ruling Democratic Party, the wars in the Middle East and the corporate state.
→ read full articleGive War a Chance
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
12 Apr 2022 – More and more, we’re told outright war isn’t just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve U.S. existential problems.
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The Pimps of War
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
11 Apr 2022 – The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.
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The Censorship Campaign against Western Criticism of NATO’s Ukraine Policy Is Extreme
Glenn Greenwald | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – Preventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.
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The Role of Capitalism in the War in Ukraine
Richard Wolff | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – To the motives for war in human history, capitalism added another: profit. Ukraine, per se, is not the issue. It is tragically a war-ravaged pawn in a much larger conflict.
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Let Us Now Praise Amazon Unionists
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – The only way to halt the global assault on the human rights of workers is to unionize.
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On Being Disappeared
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – The entire archive of On Contact, the Emmy-nominated show I hosted for six years for RT America, has been disappeared from YouTube. I received no inquiry or notice. I vanished. In totalitarian systems you exist; then you don’t. Are we a more informed and better society because of this wholesale censorship?
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The Marriage of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – I was in London as a guest of Julian Assange and Stella Moris for their wedding, but even on that day the authorities continued their relentless campaign of cruelty against Julian.
→ read full articleWorld’s Dullest Editorial Launches Panic
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Mar 2022 – In an inane sequel to the Harper’s Letter fiasco, a New York Times editorial ignites a fury proving its anodyne thesis.
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The Lie of North American Innocence
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. Our hypocrisy makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible.
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Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – The Cold War, 1945-1989, was a Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another, and the global corporations able to equate predatory capitalism with freedom. The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives then–and now.
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