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Sudan: A Failed Mediation Process
Meg-Ann Lenoble | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

27 Jun 2023 – The two generals had jointly orchestrated the Oct 2021 coup, leading to the fall of the civilian government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, thus leading them both to the governance of Sudan. Allies in the past, how can we explain this reversal?

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Afghanistan: Civil War among the Taliban?
Ozair Khan | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

27 Jun 2023 – Prominent Taliban figures have criticized the ban on girls’ education, including Abdul Salam Hanafi, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister, who said: “We can only develop the country with high-standard educational institutions. …”

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‘No Guilty Bystander’ Tells the Inspiring Story of Thomas Gumbleton
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

6 Jul 2023 – What does it mean to live as a follower of Jesus in the struggle for justice in today’s world? No Guilty Bystander: The Extraordinary Life of Bishop Thomas Gumbleton tells the inspiring story of a bishop who has lived such a life in a world deeply in need of healing.

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How So Many Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nukes
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

7 Jul 2023 – Social psychosis is widespread. The insouciant acceptance and support of psychotic rulers who promote first-strike nuclear war is very common; it is the United States’ nuclear policy. I recently wrote an article about the dangers of the fourteen U.S. Trident submarines.

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Asia-Pacific NATO: Fanning the Flames of War (SHAPE Webinar)
Richard Falk, Joseph Camilleri and Chandra Muzaffar | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

“I encourage attendance at this webinar on July 4 or 5, depending on time zone, devoted to encroachment of NATO on Asia-Pacific security, with excellent speakers.”
— Richard Falk

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Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard | Waterstones – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

“Silent Coup is investigative journalism at its best, charting the rise of corporate power after World War II, where the freedoms fought for were redefined.”

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Sea Monsters Threaten the World with Their Tridents
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

The obsession with the alleged marvels of technology and naming them after ancient Greek and Roman gods are fixations of elite technologues who have lost what Spengler called “living inner religiousness” but wish to show they know the classical names even though they miss the meaning of these myths. 

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Daniel Ellsberg: A U.S. Hero
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023

25 Jun 2023 – If democracy survives the digital age with its scary newly appreciated AI dimensions, it will be thanks to brave whistleblowers starting with Ellsberg and continuing with Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Jack Teixeira, individuals currently hounded as criminals by the U.S. government.

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(Italiano) Dar retta al ‘grido accorato’ di Cornel West
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023

La reazione di Biden all’attacco russo all’Ucraina non è stata di quelle che cercano quanto prima una tregua e un compromesso diplomatico. Ha optato piuttosto per armamento e assistenza tali da sostenere una guerra protratta in Ucraina come dimostrazione del la rinascita della NATO a guida USA, a quanto pare non tanto motivata per la difesa dell’Ucraina ma per un incontenibile interesse ad umiliare Putin e sconfiggere la Russia. E non solo.

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Heeding Cornel West’s ‘Cri de Coeur’
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023

Biden’s response to the Russian attack on Ukraine was not for a ceasefire and diplomatic compromise but for weaponry and assistance to sustain a prolonged war as a demonstration of US-led NATO resurgence; not motivated by the defense of Ukraine but by an overwhelming interest in humiliating Putin and defeating Russia. Not only this.

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Achieving Growth as a Constraint
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

Let us take a closer look at the systemic imperative to do whatever must be done to achieve growth.

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Rehearsed Lives and Planned History
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

“Certain lies are too big to fail, for if they did and entered the official histories as truths, they would be preserved, not to be forgotten. Then society could deal with their implications.”

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UK: Julian Assange Dangerously Close to Extradition Following High Court Rejection of Appeal
RSF/Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

8 Jun 2023 – RSF is deeply concerned by the UK High Court’s rejection of the WikiLeaks publisher’s appeal, bringing him close to being extradited to the US where he could face life in prison for publishing leaked classified documents in 2010. 

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Against Involuntary Death
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

29 May 2023 – I recently celebrated my 85th birthday, an event that clearly lands me in “the valley of the shadow of death,” as King David so neatly put it. For a self-donated birthday present I gave myself permission to talk publicly about the more general implications of this situation in a way that some people may consider irritating or tasteless.

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Voting for Peace? A Democratic Dilemma
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

I recently discussed Biden’s and U.S. Democratic Party’s foreign policies with a friend in the peace movement. He agreed that to call these policies “imperialist” was, if anything, an understatement: “In the American two-party system, there is no lesser evil to vote for or support.” No lesser evil?

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(Português) Um Humanismo Radical
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

23 maio 2023 – Um dos problemas mais angustiantes na cultura mundial é a falta de humanidade. Não olhamos para o outro em suas dores, buscas e necessidades. Consideremos os imigrantes do Oriente Médio e de África que buscam a Europa por causa de guerras e da fome. São rejeitados e fizeram do Mediterrâneo um cemitério. O mesmo destino trágico sofrem os milhares de Latino Americanos que procuram atravessar as fronteiras dos Estados Unidos.

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Assessing Big History at a Time of Global Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

27 May 2023 – To achieve positive forms of change at a time of multiple converging crises imperiling the human species and its natural habitat is the ‘crisis of crises’ facing humanity at this time.

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(Português) Se Lula Rifar o Meio Ambiente Seu Governo Acaba
Eliane Brum/Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

Um grito de alarme sobre as funestas consequências da exploração de petróleo na foz do Rio Amazonas. Não se trata de vantagens e lucros, mas de colocar a vida do planeta e da humanidade em risco. Eliane Brum vê o desastre que pode significar se este projeto de exploração vingar. Precisamos reagir e nos opor renhidamente a este ataque à vida e negação da ciência.

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Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

21 May 2023 – We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti, use you forgetty.” The adults had no idea what they meant.  Many still do not.

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War Prevention Depends on Respecting Invisible Geopolitical Fault Lines
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

18 May 2023 – ‘Rule-governed’ seems to be a synonym to international law. But Blinken makes no such claim to rationalize U.S. international behavior as ‘law-governed,’ but rather believe, following Thucydides, ‘that strong do as they will, while the weak do as they must.’

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The Crisis (or Crises) of Civilization
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

The word “crisis” draws its meaning from medicine.  When a patient is in crisis, life and death hang in the balance.  When the crisis is over, although the patient may not have recovered yet, the prognosis is that s/he will recover. Below I suggest (1) that business civilization is in crisis too, and (2) a way forward.

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The Current Collapse of Ethics
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

13 May 2023 – I perceive two main factors, among others, that strike at the heart of ethics: the globalization of predatory capitalism and the commodification of society.

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AI Machines Aren’t ‘Hallucinating’. But Their Makers Are
Naomi Klein | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

8 May 2023 – Tech CEOs want us to believe that generative Artificial Intelligence will benefit humanity. They are kidding themselves

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David Miranda, Campaigner and Former Brazilian Congressman, Dies Aged 37
Tom Phillips | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Servivce, 15 May 2023

9 May 2023 – Pres. Lula celebrates ‘extraordinary trajectory’ of favela-born politician and Guardian columnist who played key role in Snowden leaks with husband Glenn Greenwald.

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(Português) O Colapso Atual da Ética
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

12 maio 2023 – Percebo dois fatores principais, entre outros, que atingem o coração da ética: a globalização do capitalismo depredador e a mercantilização da sociedade.

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There Is No Escape from Telling
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

A new Dark Age is closing upon us, as Max Weber noted more than a century ago when he described the people who run our societies and educational institutions as “specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”

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How Facebook and Instagram Became Marketplaces for Child Sex Trafficking
Katie McQue and Mei-Ling McNamara | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

27 Apr 2023 – Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

Despite a family actively opposed to his candidacy, despite all the media lies about him, and despite the oddsmakers giving him little chance, RFK, Jr. is entering the race.  It is an act of supreme moral courage.  Like his father in ’68, he is the only candidate who can heal this nation’s great divide. 

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500 Australians Join World’s First COVID Vaccine Injury Class Action Lawsuit
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

27 Apr 2023 – Dr. Melissa McCann raised more than $110,000 to crowdfund the case, which accuses the Australian government of negligence related to the approval and monitoring of COVID-19 vaccines.

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A World of Violence
Eduardo Galeano | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

30 Apr 2023 – On Women Who Refused to Live in Silence and Be Consigned to Oblivion – Passages excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s book ‘Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History,’ just out in paperback.

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Lemon Tree (Music Video of the Week)
Fools Garden – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

Kick back and enjoy – w/ Lyrics

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‘Spreading Faster than Ever’: Bangladesh’s Tea Pickers Have World’s Highest Rate of Leprosy
Thaslima Begum and Kaamil Ahmed | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the disease.

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Who Is Jack Teixeira, the Man Arrested over Pentagon Files Leak?
Peter Beaumont | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

13 Apr 2023 – Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old air national guardsman suspect in the leak of classified intelligence documents is youthful looking, like his teenage friends in the online group where the documents were leaked. Today the FBI arrested Teixeira and were searching his home.

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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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Ambiguous Geopolitical Fault Lines Endanger World Peace
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

The idea of ‘geopolitical fault lines’ is not well established in the practice or theory of international relations, but their existence is profoundly relevant to the maintenance of peace and security because of the failure of international law to set consistently respected limits on the behavior of political actors, granting them impunity for acting beyond the limits of the law.

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Democracy at Risk for Jews in Israel, Bare Survival for Palestinians
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Apr 2023

7 Apr 2023 – Israeli police violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque directed at Palestinian worshipers in the midst of Ramadan on the nights of April 5 and 6 is a serious violation of international arrangements in Jerusalem to protect Muslim holy sites, none more sacred than Al-Aqsa.

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As Donald Trump Surrenders to Authorities in NY, Remember Feb 1924: The Trial of Adolf Hitler
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Apr 2023

A bit of history as a warning to those celebrating Donald Trump’s forthcoming trial in NY for violating laws on hush money payments, campaign expenditures, business records, and tax filings; also in Georgia and DC for suborning election fraud and inciting violence at the U.S. Capitol. 

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Vatican Renounces Euro-supremacist “Doctrine of Discovery”
Richard Becker | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Apr 2023

5 Apr 2023 – Five centuries later, the Vatican issued an announcement on 30 Mar repudiating the “Doctrine of Discovery,” which said that all lands not occupied by “Christians” passed to the European conquerors when they were “discovered,” and their inhabitants enslaved.

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(Português) Brasil: Lava-Jato, Essa Desconhecida
Leneide Duarte-Plon e Leonardo Boff | RED – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

2 abril 2023 -Publicamos este texto-pesquisa que revela o escondido da Lava-Jato e mantido escondido pela grande imprensa empresarial e conservadora do Brasil. Foi preciso que pesquisadores estrangeiros pusessem esse escondido à luz e assim refutar tantas afirmações de jornalistas nacionais que não se comprometem com a verdade dos fatos mas servem aos interesses do grande sistema nacional e norte-americano.

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Why EU Strategic Autonomy Apart from the U.S. Is Currently Impossible
James W. Carden | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

30 Mar 2023 – With Paris distracted by a populist revolt, Washington is exercising a kind of hegemony on the continent not seen since President Reagan. A politically stable France and German buy-in are the two foundational prerequisites for strategic autonomy to succeed. And as of this writing, there is neither.

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Martin Luther King: Beyond Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan…
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

4 Apr is the day the USA lost a great prophet, truth teller, and leader on nonviolence. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on that day in 1968; exactly one year after he delivered an extraordinary and prophetic speech titled “Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence.”

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“Facing Clear Evidence of Peril” in a Country of Lies
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

28 Mar 2023 – Perhaps silence is the best response to the endless cavalcade of official lies that is United States history. The Internet and digital technology have allowed those lies to increase exponentially in number and frequency with the result that people’s minds have become like 7-Eleven stores, open 24/7 for snack-crap “news.”

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The Mafia: BP Stole £15 Billion of Iraqi Oil after British/West Invasion
Matt Kennard | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023

23 Mar 2023 – Shell, the other U.K. “super-major” oil company, also re-entered Iraq in 2009 after an invasion in 2003 that was widely denounced at the time as a war-for-oil on the part of the U.S. and U.K.

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Creating Dignified Livelihoods
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023

My title is taken from the last speech of Martin Luther King, Jr given in Memphis less than 24 hours before his assassination. He was only 39 years old and world-famous for nonviolent resistance to racism, but his thinking and his activism had moved on.

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Bordeaux City Hall Set on Fire amid Nationwide Protests against French Pension Changes
Kim Willsher | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023

23 Mar 2023 – Largely peaceful protests are marred by outbreaks of violence as unions claim 3.5 million turned out, while authorities put number at just over 1 million.

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US Banks Want Socialism for Themselves–and Capitalism for Everyone Else
Robert Reich | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023

19 Mar 2023 – When banks like Silicon Valley Bank collapse, money floods to bigger ones like JPMorgan. Clients know they’re ‘too big to fail.’

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(Português) A Importância Fundamental da Vida do Espírito
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023

24 Mar 2023 – O conhecido e apreciado piloto e escritor Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, autor do Pequeno Príncipe, num texto póstumo escrito em 1943–Carta ao General “X”–antes que seu avião se precipitasse no Mediterrâneo, afirma com grande ênfase, ”Não há senão um problema, somente um: redescobrir que há uma vida do espírito que é ainda mais alta que a vida da inteligência, a única que pode satisfazer o ser humano”.

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The Pentagon’s B-Movie: Looking Closely at the Sep 2001 Attacks
Edward Curtin and Graeme MacQueen | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

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

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16 Mar 1968: The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam by US Invading Forces
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

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

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Quoth the Vultures “Evermore”
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Mar 2023

It was an intentional genocidal war waged to torture, kill, and maim as many Vietnamese as possible and to use North American boys to do the killing and suffer the consequences. Its Phoenix Program, the CIA’s assassination and torture operation, became the template for Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, CIA black sites, hybrid wars, terrorist actions, etc. up to today.

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Nuclear Remembrance Day: A Day to Say Abolish Nuclear Weapons NOW!
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Mar 2023

1Mar 2023 – Today is Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day (‘Bikini’ Day) marking the anniversary of the infamous 1954 US ‘Bravo’ nuclear bomb detonation at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, where the US tested its first deliverable hydrogen bomb.

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The Ukraine War Viewed from the Global South
Krishen Mehta | ACURA American Committee for US Russia Accord – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

22 Feb 2023 – In October 2022, about eight months after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the University of Cambridge harmonized surveys that asked the inhabitants of 137 countries about their views of the West, Russia, and China: different perspectives.

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Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara (Music Video of the Week)
Nathalie Cardone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

Song in honor of the great revolutionary leader, Ernesto Che Guevara, by Cuban composer Pablo Cuebras. Viva Che !!!

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In Homage to David Ray Griffin: Indispensable Public Intellectual
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

I think it was the successful branding of the 9/11 skeptics as ‘wacky’ that proved more useful in squelching their influence than by labeling them as ‘dangerous,’ ‘subversive,’ and ‘radical’ or ‘socialist.’ It might be understood as the advent of a more advanced, more sophisticated version of McCarthyism, a discrediting ploy that George Orwell would have immediately understood.

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The Case for Diplomacy in Ukraine
Katrina vanden Heuvel and James W. Carden | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

23 Feb 2023 – As 2023 unfolds, we fear that US policy will continue to be characterized by both mission creep and the absence of any sort of diplomatic engagement with Russia. Throughout the course of the war, the Biden administration has slowly, steadily, even stealthily increased US involvement.

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Saint Valentine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

14 Feb 2023 – A whimsical poem to celebrate the love legacy of Saint Valentine, written by Marianne Moore 63 years ago, published in The New Yorker on 13 Feb 1960, dedicated by me to all of us who love poetry and dare to love love on Valentine’s Day 2023.

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Israeli Security Forces Carry Out Massacre in Jenin, Palestine
Richard Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

13 Feb 2023 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have vowed to make it easier for Israelis to carry guns. Ben-Gvir: “I want weapons on the streets, I want Israeli citizens to be able to protect themselves.” It follows the Zionist narrative of demonizing the victim and sanctifying the aggressor [remember Hitler & Nazism?].

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Biden’s Misplaced Optimism: 2023 State of the Union Address
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

18 Feb 2023 – The national situation is far too deeply challenged for us to be content with presidential bromides. What is most needed are policies and practices that embody compassion, and are dedicated with the fullness of being to responding to the imperatives of human security at all levels of social interaction.

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Inside the Iron Cage
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

7 Feb 2023 – I would prefer not to relay the following very strange story given to me by a fellow sociologist, but I feel obligated.  I don’t know what to make of the whole thing.  Below you will find the manuscript he handed me. I realize you are getting this third hand, but there’s nothing I can do about that.  I don’t know his friend.  So here it is.

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(Norsk-Norwegian) USA – et militarisert samfunn
Richard E. Rubenstein - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

I regnskapsåret 2021 gikk 11 prosent av USAs statsbudsjett til militære formål, litt mindre enn før koronaepidemien. Militærbudsjettet utgjorde $754 milliarder (omkring 7 500 milliarder kroner) og foreslås økt til $773 milliarder i 2023. I 2022 var utgiftene større enn totalen for de neste ni landene i verden, og i 2020 var militærbudsjettet drøyt 20 prosent av alle føderale inntekter.

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Dignity & Humiliation
Prof. Howard Richards - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

Acceptance of the Lifetime Commitment Award from the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Association

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Ukraine, Rethinking Global Security—Webinar
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar, et al. | SHAPE – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

Our second webinar on 23 Feb 2023 draws lessons from the Ukraine war and sets new pathways to global security. An initiative to address the multiple crises that brought us to the brink of the precipice. Doomsday Clock: 90 seconds to midnight.

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(Português) A Ética de um Capitalismo Selvagem: A Corrupção das Americanas
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Feb 2023

10 fev 2023 – No Brasil, os cristãos são apenas cristãos culturais que não aprenderam nada do Jesus histórico que estava sempre do lado da vida, do pobre, do cego, do coxo e do desprezado. Por isso há tanta desigualdade social, das maiores do  mundo. Porque falta sensibilidade, solidariedade, sentido humano.

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The New York Times Is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Feb 2023

It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if all were reversed and Russia had put troops and weapons in Mexico and Canada that the United States would respond forcefully.

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Reasons (Other than Age) That Joe Biden Should Not Run again for President
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Feb 2023

Three factors seem far more important than ageism: the advantages of an open fight for the nomination, Biden’s deficit of charisma, and, most important, this President’s uncritical commitment to a bellicose, imperialist foreign policy.

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Decommission US Land-Based Nuclear Missiles NOW!
Leonard Eiger | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Feb 2023

10 Feb 2023 – There has not been any international outcry over the launch of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile that would carry a thermonuclear warhead. No discussion anywhere by the news media about the test and its implications regarding control of the proliferation of nuclear weapons and disarmament.

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Three New Books by Former Soldiers That the US Military Doesn’t Want You to Read
Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Feb 2023

5 Feb 2023 – Several new memoirs from disillusioned military veterans reflect on the horrors of war. They’re essential tools for challenging US empire.

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Antony Blinken Plays the ‘Two Sides Game’: Getting Netanyahu/Israel off the Hook
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Feb 2023

31 Jan 2023 – Antony Blinken is the most lightweight Secretary of State, a fitting complement to the overweight Mike Pompeo. Together they could do a late night TV comedy routine on the ‘arrogance of decline’ when it comes to US foreign policy in the Trump/Biden years.

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Ukraine: Rethinking Global Security–Saving Humanity and Planet Earth
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Feb 2023

Saving Humanity and Planet Earth (SHAPE) is an initiative to address the multiple crises that have brought us to the brink of the precipice. This, our second webinar to be held on 22/23 February 2023, draws lessons from the Ukraine war and sets new pathways to global security.

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Shell Makes ‘Obscene’ $40bn Profit—Highest Ever
Alex Lawson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Feb 2023

2 Feb 2023 – Sunak government under pressure after gas prices fuel ‘outrageous’ doubling of profits at Anglo-Dutch group

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Remembering the Man Who Saved the World (from a Nuclear War)
Glen Milner and Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Feb 2023

The man who saved the world from thermonuclear annihilation in 1962 was born on 30 January 1926.

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The Rules-Based International Order and the Foggy Bottom Blues
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jan 2023

The four words Rules Based International Order are surrounded by controversies. I will review some controversies as a prelude to a proposal. The proposal will recommend discarding the currently dominant discourses that are, as Michel Foucault might say, the historical conditions of the possibility of RBIO discourse.

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Look at How the 1% Are Doing Right Now, and Tell Me the System Isn’t Rigged
Nesrine Malik | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jan 2023

23 Jan 2023 – The world’s super-rich have amassed so much wealth since the pandemic that even a Tory minister can see something is amiss.

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Jeffrey Sachs Highlights from Athens Democracy Forum
Jeffrey Sachs | Bryan Van Norden – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jan 2023

Some highlights from Jeffrey Sachs’s comments at the 2022 Athens Democracy Forum session on “A Decade of Democracy: China and Russia.” Prof. Sachs is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.

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Lifting the Curtain: Barbara Walters
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

21 Jan 2023 – This post is a departure from my usual focus on current political concerns. It attempts a mini-exploration of the public/private interface of a news and entertainment celebrity, especially known for her ability to go ‘persona,’ and even enter intimate terrain with some of the most famous political leaders of our time.

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(Português) Merecemos ainda continuar sobre a Terra?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

20 jan 2023 – Sou um pessimista esperançado. Pessimista face à realidade perversa sob a qual vivemos e sofremos. Esperançado porque creio que o ser humano pode mudar a partir de uma nova consciência e no Criador que desta crise e eventualmente de uma ruína pode construir ou tipo de seres  humanos, mais fraternos entre si e respeitosos da Casa Comum.

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‘Jaw-Dropping’ Evidence Syngenta Knew Its Paraquat Weedkiller Could Cause Parkinson’s
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

19 Jan 2023 – Internal documents show Swiss chemical giant Syngenta and Chevron USA for decades covered up research showing long-term exposure to the weedkiller Paraquat could cause Parkinson’s disease, investigative journalist Carey Gillam shows.

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Have We Reached ‘Peak Meat’? Why One Country Is Trying to Limit Its Number of Livestock
Senay Boztas | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

16 Jan 2023 – Dutch farms are feeling the squeeze from EU rules and need to make sweeping changes to the farm system – could a huge producer like the US follow suit?

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Israeli Settler Colonialism and Apartheid: Poised for Victory or Defeat?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023

13 Jan 2023 – Anyone with but half eye open during the last several decades should by now be aware of the existence of an undisclosed Zionist Long Game that preceded the establishment of Israel in 1948,  and remains currently very much alive. It aims at extending Israeli sovereignty over the whole of Occupied Palestine.

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Venezuela: Guaidó Is Gone, but Media Dishonesty Is Here to Stay
Ricardo Vaz | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023

11 Jan 2023 – The latest iteration of Washington’s regime-change efforts against the democratically elected Venezuelan government came to an end. On 30 Dec an opposition-controlled parliament voted to end the US-backed “interim government” headed by Juan Guaidó.

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Harvard University Succumbs
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023

7 Jan 2023 – Harvard University Withdraws a Fellowship from Kenneth Roth & Human Rights Watch

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Brazil Protests: Lula Vows to Punish ‘Neo-Fascists’ after Bolsonaro Supporters Storm Congress
Tom Phillips and Andrew Downie | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023

9 Jan 2023 – President tours scene of riot and orders federal government to take control of policing in capital Brasília as extremists refuse to accept his presidency.

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Toward Justice for Kashmir
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

18 Dec 2022 – Among the self-determination struggles of our time, Kashmir is at risk of being forgotten by most of the world (except for Pakistan), while its people continue to endure the harsh crimes of India’s intensifying military occupation that has already lasted 75 years.

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The Failure of Development
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

Although “peace” and “security” were ideals that led to the founding of the United Nations, “development” was not. However, conceived as the solution, not as the problem, “development” named an ideal that could keep the UN united. It solved the problem of keeping the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe on board.

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(Português) Brasil: Da calamidade das calaminades de Bolsonaro à esperança esperante de Lula
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

29 Dez 2022 – Durante os quatro anos da administração do presidente Bolsonaro, o país viveu afetado por  todas as pragas do Egito. Das muitas opções possíveis para algum problema, o presidente geralmente escolhia a pior. Psicótico, era apático face às desgraças infligidas ao´povo, particularmente aos mais vulneráveis.

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Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates Is Promoting ‘Surveillance Agriculture’
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Dec 2022

5 Dec 2022 – Vandana Shiva and Russell Brand discussed the history of agriculture, the role of Big Food in the current global cost-of-living crisis and how Gates is promoting “basically a surveillance agriculture.”

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Our Authentically Fake and Hypocritical Society of Copies
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Dec 2022

4 Dec 2022 – Indeed, to make people into machines is the goal of trans-humanists Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum with its Great Reset and the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Artificial Intelligence for artificial people.  While there are innocent examples of repetition, the use of it is a fundamental tactic of propaganda.

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Inculcating the “Military Virtues”: The Pentagon’s Predatory Role in U.S. High Schools
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Dec 2022

On 11 Dec, the New York Times broke a front-page story about “J.R.O.T.C,” described as “a program funded by the U.S. military designed to teach leadership skills, discipline, and civil values – and to open students’ eyes to the idea of a military career…” If peace education programs can be combined with civilian job training and public advocacy efforts, we might finally see a real challenge to the ongoing militarization of the schools.

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(Português) Vamos ao Encontro de Nossa Destruição?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

2 dez 2022 – A história de ser humano na Terra em grande parte se resume num permanente conflito com o ambiente. Os seres humanos modernos moveram uma verdadeira guerra contra a Terra: no solo, no subsolo, no ar e no mar, sempre na perspectiva de saquear e extrair mais e mais vantagens.

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A Short Introductory Bibliography on Unbounded Organization
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

Concepts of Unbounded Organizing

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The Failure of the Expected Peace and the Suggestion of an Unbounded Way Forward
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

“Expected peace:” the peace expected after WWII. In a few years the UN was founded, human rights redefined to include social rights, colonial empires dissolved and new nation-states welcomed. It was reasonable to believe that human beings were learning how to live together in peace and shared prosperity.

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(Italiano) Elezioni israeliane 2022: una vittoria per i “coloni” colonialisti o per la lotta di Liberazione Palestinese?
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Non c’è dubbio che le elezioni israeliane 2022 del 1°novembre [U.S..] saranno d’importanza durevole. I mesi e gli anni a venire riveleranno se Israele consolida il suo status di stato coloniale di coloni o se la lotta palestinese aumenta la sua resistenza al dominio israeliano rafforzata da un crescente movimento di solidarietà globale.

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Is Fascism Returning? A Reflection on the Centennial of the March on Rome
Hugo Bardi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Collapses are the way the universe gets rid of the old to leave space for the new. It was noted for the first time by the Roman Philosopher Lucius Anneaus Seneca (4 BCE-65 CE) and it is called today the “Seneca Effect.”

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World Cup Stadium Workers ‘Had Their Money Stolen and Lives Ruined’, Says Rights Group
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

10 Nov 2022 – Report on conditions in Qatar alleges labour abuses are widespread and calls on FIFA to set up compensation fund.

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Hands off Haiti!!—No Military Intervention!!
Richard S. Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

12 Nov 2022 – The United States and Canada have delivered military machinery to Haiti under the suspicious title of “security equipment”; this “security equipment” includes armored and tactical vehicles to be used to strengthen the police to fight “criminal gangs.” It is reported that, by October 28, Haiti will receive additional delivery of military machinery.

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What to Expect from Netanyahu & Religious Zionism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

A Preliminary Appraisal

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2022 Israeli Elections: A Victory for Settler Colonialists or for the Palestinian Liberation Struggle?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

There is no doubt that the November 1st Israeli elections will be of lasting significance. The months and years ahead will reveal whether Israel consolidates its status as a settler colonial state or the Palestinian struggle increases its resistance to Israeli rule reinforced by an intensifying global solidarity movement.

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(Português) Passados os tempos sombrios de Bolsonaro, surge o sonho da refundação do Brasil
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

11 nov 2022 – Vivemos os últmos quase 4 anos sob um governo que não amava o povo e coniderava o pais como uma espécie de capitania hereditária familiar. Mas agora, segundo um cântico famoso de Camões nos Lusíadas, o novo tempo “traz serena claridade,esperança de porto e salvamento”. Por isso cabe esperar e sonhar. Eis alguns pontos de nossa positividade.

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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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Who Knew: We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

10 Nov 2022 – My title comes from a song sung by soldiers as they marched to hell in the trenches of World War I. We’re all lucky to still be here. If we continue to celebrate past wars and the soldiers who fought them in a sly homage to the greatness of war, we are doomed.

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