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A Year of U.S. Lying about Nord Stream
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
26 Sep 2023 – The Biden administration has acknowledged neither its responsibility for the pipeline bombing nor the purpose of the sabotage.
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Dying for Inches in Ukraine
Caitlin Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
30 Sep 2023 – That weapons systems are being tested on human bodies to the immense benefit of war profiteers over a completely avoidable and provoked war is nightmarishly depraved.
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The Big Business of War–a Clandestine Arms Market in Ukraine
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
25 Sep 2023 – US Congress has allocated 43 billion to the security of Ukraine for direct military purposes. The New York Times calls it “a clandestine arms market” in Ukraine as billions of dollars were pocketed by high-ranking officials in Kyiv; the government had to fire the Minister of Defence and all six deputy Defence Ministers for corruption.
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The AI Conundrum: The Peace Movement’s Next Big Challenge
Tom Valovic | Mass Peace Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
15 Sep 2023 – It’s hard to watch or read the news these days without bumping into the latest breathless glorification of artificial intelligence. For those of us who believe that some sort of technocratic takeover of many government functions is underway, this trend is deeply concerning.
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Denmark’s Prime Minister Frederiksen Knows Nothing about Ukraine, Conflict Understanding and Peace–She Wants War
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
22 Sep 2023 – The brief presentation of her views on Ukraine’s situation testifies to an ignorance – conscious, unconscious or opportunistic – that is not easily reconciled with State leadership in general and war participation in particular.
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The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
It is an ongoing mystery: What makes you and your childhood self the same person. Across a lifetime of physiological and psychological change, some center holds.
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Ralph Schoenman: Unsung Hero of Progressive Thought and Action (RIP)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
30 Sep 2023 – Ralph Schoenman is a member of a trinity of forgotten heroes of US progressive politics, airbrushed from collective memory by mainstream media and even infrequently notice by online, independent publications. The other two are Tony Russo and David Ray Griffin.
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Waiting for an Apocalypse
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
Finding Hope Living Outside the Box
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Father of the Nation: Mahatma Gandhi’s Granddaughter Remembers Her Heroic Ancestor on the Anniversary of His Birth
Tara Gandhi-Bhattacharjee | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
2 Oct 2023 – Gandhi’s desire for harmony with nature and the environment remains significant with the current focus on climate action and sustainability.
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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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Atom and Identity: Bridging Eastern Philosophy and Western Science to Illuminate Consciousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
The Atom and the Doctrine of Identity: Quantum Pioneer Erwin Schrödinger on Bridging Eastern Philosophy and Western Science to Illuminate Consciousness
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Menendez Bribery Scandal: Egypt versus Ethiopia
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
27 Sep 2023 – U.S. federal investigators caught New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine with $180,000 worth of gold bars, $550,000 in cash, plus furniture and a $60,000 Mercedes Benz that they didn’t pay for.
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Venezuela to Launch China-Backed Anti-Poverty Program
Andreína Chávez Alava | Venezuelanalysis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
21 Sep 2023 – The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country’s reality to alleviate poverty and inequality.
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US House Rejects Cluster-Bomb Ban
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
27 Sep 2023 – Bipartisan House Amendment to Ban US Cluster Bomb Exports Fails – Democrats and Republicans turned down the chance to stop the export of weapons that harm and kill civilians long after military campaigns are over.
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Revealed: Israeli Cyber Firms Have Developed an ‘Insane’ New Spyware Tool–No Defense Exists
Omer Benjakob | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
14 Sep 2023 – A Haaretz investigation reveals that Israeli cyber companies developed technology that exploits the advertising system to monitor civilians, hack into their phones and computers, and spy on them. This is a terrifying capability against which no defense currently exists.
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Scientists Just Proved That ‘Monster’ Black Hole M87 Is Spinning–Confirming Einstein’s Relativity Yet Again
Ben Turner | Live Science - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
28 Sep 2023 – Astronomers have spotted two huge jets fired off by the ‘monster’ black hole M87 wobbling on an 11-year cycle, proving for the first time that black holes spin.
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Top Brazilian Court Rules in Favor of Indigenous Rights
Saurav Sarkar | Globetrotter News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
25 Sep 2023 – Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of Indigenous claims to land occupied before 1988. The case had been brought by “agribusiness-backed lawmakers.” The court ruled against the lawmakers and for Indigenous groups.
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The Real Message from the BRICS Summit
Prince Michael of Liechtenstein | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
28 Sep 2023 – Between 22-25 Aug, the BRICS – a loose association of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – held a summit in Johannesburg where some 30 other developing nations were invited to participate.
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How to Think about the Ukraine War after 18 Months
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Sep 2023 -This text addresses various aspects of the global political setting that has crystallized since the Russian attack of 5 Feb 2022 on Ukraine. The repudiation of diplomacy as an alternative to war, despite the costs and dangers of continuing the Ukraine War, are quite striking.
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BRICS+: Experts Explain What the Strategic Entry of Six New Nations Means for Bloc
Yusra Asif | Al Arabiya/BRICS Info Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
19 Sep 2023 – Why these six countries? One of the prominent goals of BRICS is to enhance cross-border trade among member nations to boost the group economically and reduce the bloc’s reliance on the US dollar.
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Being Spoken to Meaningfully by Constructs
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Reframing Cognitive Implication in Nature and Natural Disasters – Emphasis is increasingly given to the problematic “disconnect” from “nature” and to how this might be recognized and remedied.
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How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?
Deborah Barsky and Jan Ritch-Frel | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Recent scientific findings and research in the fields of human origins and biology have reached a key threshold: with increasing accuracy, this body of knowledge can tell the complete human evolutionary story that began 7 million years ago and spans to modernity.
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Amnesty International Pushes Regime Change in Eritrea with Dubious, Unverifiable Report
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – Amnesty’s new report accusing Eritrea’s government of gruesome war crimes relies heavily on anonymous testimony, grainy satellite images, and zero field investigation. It is the latest salvo in the West’s campaign to topple the country’s independent government.
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Leaders of World’s Biggest Polluting Countries Skipping UN Climate Summit
Oliver Milman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Sep 2023 – Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York today.
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Agreement Boosts Academic Mobility Across BRICS Borders
University World News | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
22 Sep 2023 – BRICS countries, a grouping of emerging economies, agreed to facilitate the recognition of academic qualifications among members to ensure the mobility of skilled professionals, academics and students.
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Comparing Galtung’s Theory of Conflict Resolution with Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory
Prof. Antonino Drago | CIC-Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Abstract: The present paper compares Galtung’s theory of conflict resolution with Freud’s psychoanalytical theory. The basic notions of this comparison are the “adjunction” and the transference. Freud’s description of the inner conflict resolution is first interpreted by the adjunction of one person (Analyst) to the patient.
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Veganic Farming: How My Tiny Plot Produced 5,000 Pounds of Food without Using Manure
Jimmy Videle | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
19 Sep 2023 – Veganic farming is the growing, gardening, cultivation, and production of food and fiber crops with a minimal amount of exploitation of animal and plant species. Veganic methods use no animal products, byproducts or any other animal-originated matter.
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Collaboration, Not Confrontation
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Peoples Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
24 Sep 2023 – Since a defeat of one side or the other is simply not possible, the only way forward is through a diplomatic settlement. The alternative, put simply, is collective suicide as both sides move up the escalation ladder until it is too late.
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The Titan
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
18 Sep 2023 in the US of A
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Australian Parliamentarians Speak Outside DOJ after Assange Talks
Consortium News | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – A delegation of six Australian members of Parliament are in Washington this week lobbying for the release of Julian Assange.
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The Real Reasons the Derna Dam in Libya Broke
Mnar Adley | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – Here’s how this deadly disaster has everything to do with the Obama administration and NATO’s 2011 “humanitarian intervention” to overthrow Muammar Qadaffi. The US and NATO bombed Libya into a failed state with open-air slave markets. Before, Libya was the most successful country in Africa.
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Empowering Populism Worldwide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Modern Populism: Weaponizing for Power and Influence, by Deepak Tripathi (2023) – Foreword by Richard Falk
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Hoax: UK Intelligence Spun 2013 Syria Chemical Attack, Leaked Docs Show
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
19 Sep 2023 – US officials suppressed assessments that Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing had an “advanced” sarin production cell as the US blamed the Assad government for a 2013 chemical weapons attack. Leaked documents show a shadowy British intelligence contractor helped sell the story that Assad was responsible – and nearly triggered Western intervention.
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Judge Rules 9/11 Defendant Unfit for Trial after CIA Torture Made Him Psychotic
AP | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
22 Sep 2023 – A military judge at Guantánamo Bay has ruled a 9/11 defendant incompetent to stand trial after a military medical panel found that the man’s sustained abuse in CIA custody years earlier had rendered him lastingly psychotic.
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Consciousness and the Nature of the Universe: Panpsychism in the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Coined in the sixteenth century by the Italian philosopher and proto-scientist Francesco Patrizi, whose work inspired Galileo, panpsychism is the idea that all matter is endowed with the capacity for subjective experience of immaterial quality — the sort of experience we call, in its expression familiar to us, consciousness.
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(Italiano) Guerre perpetue degli Stati Uniti d’America
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Settembre 2023 – Guerre perpetue… Il complesso militar-industriale ha bisogno di nemici. Senza di loro avvizzirebbe. Non possiamo sbarazzare il mondo di queste pazzesche armi antiumane prima che tutto ciò che vale nel nostro magnifico mondo venga ridotto a ceneri radioattive? Non possiamo sgombrare il mondo dall’istituzione della guerra?
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Real Savings
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
A Suggestion…
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G-7 and BRICS Visions of the Future: Coercive Geopolitics or Multilateral Cooperation?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
17 Sep 2023 – A modified version of this post was published in CounterPunch on 8 Sep 2023, which itself is a reconfigured version appearing earlier on TMS (Transcend Media Service) on 4 Sep. Neither version considers the relevance of the Delhi meeting of the G-20, which represents a weaker and somewhat overlapping grouping compared to either G-7 or BRICS.
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Beyond Climate Colonialism and Food Imperialism to Earth Democracy and Food Freedom
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – Mother Earth is a sacred, self organized living being. She creates and sustains life. Through her biosphere and her complex ecological processes, she regulates her water systems, her nutrition cycles, and her climate system.
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Libya Climate Crisis Linked to Pentagon-NATO Intervention of 2011
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
13 Sep 2023 – Western foreign policy has destroyed the capacity of Libya and the Kingdom of Morocco to coordinate relief efforts amid the worsening effects of climate change.
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BRICS: The Quest for a Just Multi-Polar World (video)
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – The BRICS Summit that concluded on 24 Aug 2023 in Johannesburg is a significant milestone in the journey towards a multi-polar world.
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How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote as she contemplated the art of seeing just before the Little Prince sighed his timeless sigh: “What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
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War/No More Trouble (Music Video of the Week)
Bono et al. | Playing for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
This song around the world features musicians who have seen and overcome conflict and hatred with love and perseverance. We don’t need more trouble, what we need is love. The spirit of Bob Marley always lives on.
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Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
4 Sep 2023 – Much has been made of the simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, part of the security detail in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
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Fernando Botero Angulo, Painter and Sculptor (19 Apr 1932 – 15 Sep 2023)
Nick Caistor | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Colombian painter and sculptor of voluminous figures that grace city centres the world over including Paris, Madrid and London. RIP
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‘War Is Good for Business,’ Declares Executive at London’s Global Arms Fair
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
15 Sep 2023 – “Deals done at DSEI will cause misery across the world, causing global instability, and devastate people’s lives,” one peace activist lamented. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the West’s scramble to arm Ukrainian homeland defenders have been a bonanza for arms-makers.
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What to Expect from the G77+China Summit in Cuba
Alejandra Garcia | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
14 Sep 2023 – Tomorrow the G77+China Summit will kick off in Havana, Cuba, with the attendance of heads of state and government from more than 100 nations.
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What Every Child Should Know about Marx’s Theory of Value
Michael A. Lebowitz | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
September 2023 – The law of value works in mysterious ways. For some Marxists, it underlies everything we need to know about capitalism. But, just as Karl Marx claimed he was not a Marxist, so too might he have said, “that’s not my law of value.”
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The Never-Ending Story
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Ad Nauseam…
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Weather Warfare: Beware the US Military’s Climatic Experiments
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
14 Sep 2023 – ‘Climatic Warfare’ Has Been Excluded from the Agenda on Climate Change
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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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Intra-BRICS Trade and Analysis 2023
Chris Devonshire-Ellis and Farzad Ramezani Bonesh | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
4 Sep 2023 – BRICS countries as a total currently includes about 26% of the total global land mass, and about 42% of the world’s population. This basic clout means that BRICS combined efforts in restructuring the global economy and strengthening economic and financial cooperation have been welcomed by many countries – and been viewed with suspicion elsewhere.
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Notes on Complexity: A Buddhist Scientist on the Murmuration of Being
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
The Buddhist scientist Neil Theise endeavors to bridge the mystery out there with the mystery of us, bringing together our three primary instruments of investigating reality: empirical science, philosophy, and metaphysics.
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The Expansion of BRICS: Challenges and Uncertainties
William Daldegan | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
13 Sep 2023 – The negotiations for expansion faced significant pressure from the Chinese. In contrast, Brazil and India resisted and, along with South Africa, negotiated for a stance from Russia and China for a broader UN reform. However, this raises uncertainties about the future of BRICS.
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(Italiano) L’intelligenza artificiale e il suo ‘metabolismo’
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
11 Settembre 2023 – Che cos’è l’intelligenza artificiale (IA)? Tra le numerose definizioni disponibili scelgo quella proposta dal sito dell’Unione Europea:
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A Psychological Evaluation of a Certain Megalomaniacal Narcissistic Paranoid Demagogic Leader from Recent World History
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duluth Reader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
This sometimes charismatic political leader was one of the richest persons in his country yet he was often joked by comedians, regarded as a buffoon, but he impressed his followers at his campaign stops by flying in to his political rallies on a private airplane.
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In Hottest Summer Ever, West Bank Sears from Israeli Water Apartheid
Basel Adraa | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Across the West Bank, Palestinians and Israeli settlers have very different access to water resources — even when they live on the same hill.
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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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In AI Regulation Coverage, Media Let US Lawmakers off the Hook
Julianne Tveten | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
8 Sep 2023 – Corporate Press: ‘US Policymakers would like to place guardrails on artificial intelligence, but, given its novel and evolving nature, they’ll need more time.’ This narrative minimizes their responsibility— excusing, rather than interrogating, regulatory inertia.
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What Makes You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
To face the question of what makes us who we are with courage, lucidity, and fullness of feeling is to face, with all the restlessness and helplessness this stirs in the meaning-hungry soul, the elemental fact of our choicelessness in the conditions that lead to our existence.
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Exploring the Centrality of Nonviolent Communication for Resolution of Conflicts and a Culture of Peace
Vedabhyas Kundu | CIC-Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
It can be an important starting point of analyzing and linking Johan Galtung’s conflict triangle using the Gandhian nonviolent communication. It may also be mentioned that Galtung himself was much influenced by Gandhi.
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‘Occupied by the US’: Wildfires Renew Native Hawaiian Call for Sovereignty
Claire Wang | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – As Disaster Capitalists Descend on Lahaina, Indigenous Hawaiians Fight for Self-Governance
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Belgian Minister Says What Biden Won’t: Israel Is Wiping Entire Palestinian Villages Off the Map
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
3 Sep 2023 – Belgium’s Minister of Development, Caroline Gennez, said in an interview that “Entire villages are being wiped off the map by the Israelis” in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. The Israeli ambassador to Brussels lambasted the remarks as “libel.” To her credit, Ms. Gennez has stood her ground since she is right.
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Media: Bad Faith & Blank Checks
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
4 Sep 2023 – All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere. An excerpt from Lawrence’s new book, ‘Journalists and Their Shadows.’
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Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – The War on Afghanistan Is a Profit-driven “Resource War” – US-NATO forces invaded Afghanistan more than 20 years ago on 7 Oct 2001. It’s been a continuous war marked by US military occupation. In the wake of the withdrawal of US troops, Afghanistan’s assets were confiscated.
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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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Fears of ‘Plantation Disaster Capitalism’ Mount in Wake of Maui Fires
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
“Justice is returning control of public resources like land and water to the people,” wrote one activist. “For too long the strings of Maui and thousands of communities like it have been pulled by forces indifferent to their soul.”
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The Hunt
Balwant (Bill) Bhaneja | The Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Short Fiction
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Depleted Uranium Won’t Bring Peace to Ukraine
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – Militarism is obsolete, for God’s sake. Its technology is out of control. The latest news left me stunned and terror-stricken: “The Biden administration will send munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine, despite the dangers such weapons pose to civilians.”
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New BRICS Bloc Will Democratize World Economy and Global South Future
Pedro Mzileni | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
8 Sep 2023 – The addition of Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Argentina, Egypt, and Iran to the BRICS block is the consolidation of a struggle to end the domination of this planet by Washington. The future of the world is in the Global South.
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(Italiano) Niger: il calvario del colonialismo perenne
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Da allora sono successe molte cose che riguardano il Niger e il modo in cui intendiamo la sua relazione con quel Paese, con la regione del Sahel dell’Africa occidentale, con l’Africa in generale e con la guerra geopolitica di posizione che mette in primo piano la rivalità degli Stati Uniti con Russia e Cina.
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Transparency International’s Covert Agenda: A Pawn in Western Intelligence’s Game
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – Expressing “astonishment,” many compared TINZ’s consultation of high-ranking lobbyists on how to clean up their own industry as akin to “police recruiting gang members to determine new rules on pursuit of fleeing drivers.” Yet, anyone familiar with Transparency International’s history would hardly be surprised.
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Africa Climate Summit Issues Nairobi Declaration
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – Nairobi, Kenya, hosted the Africa Climate Summit which attracted thousands of delegates, investors and observers to discuss the continent’s environmental degradation. The meeting was from Sep 4-8 at the Kenyatta International Convention Center.
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Economic Growth in G7 vs BRICS: A Reality Check
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – We are confronted with a combination of denials and pretenses by the conjoined decline of U.S. capitalism and its global empire (or hegemony). Those declines have become clear to observers within the old capitalist establishment. For example, …
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No Respite for France as a ‘New Africa’ Rises
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – Like dominos, African states are one by one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. Chad, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and now Gabon are saying ‘non’ to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic, and security affairs.
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Direct Energy Weapons Create Forest and Bush Fires, Destroying Entire Cities and Igniting Boats in the Sea
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
DEWs are defined as electromagnetic systems capable of converting chemical or electrical energy to radiated energy, then these energies are fired by laser beams with the speed of light on specific targets. They can produce forces that range from deterrent, to damaging, to destructive.
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‘Peace, War and 9/11’ Honors Late Peace Activist Graeme MacQueen
Jeff Mahoney | The Hamilton Spectator - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – The Westdale cinema is hosting world premiere of “Peace, War and 9/11,” a movie about the late Graeme MacQueen, founder of Centre of Peace Studies at McMaster University and a member of the TRANSCEND Network.
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(Italiano) Spiritualità e pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Agosto 2023 – Il nostro mondo manca chiaramente di qualcosa, anzi molto, nei propri sforzi di conseguire la pace. E fra questo c’è quanto espresso dalla parola “spiritualità”, abusata all’incirca quanto la parola “pace”, proprio perché entrambe incarnano tanti nostri sogni.
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Why We Can’t Have World Peace
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – We can’t have world peace as long as the US government’s foreign policy is to (militarily) conquer the world. Western think tanks refer to this grandiose wet dream to dominate the world as US “exceptionalism” and “hegemony.”
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More Banks to Fail? Not in North Dakota
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – North Dakota has the fastest growing GDP per capita in the country and its banks are thriving, backstopped by the nation’s only state-owned bank.
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The BRICS Summit
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – The BRICS Declaration, a major historic document, is published by media in South Africa, Brazil, China, South Africa, Russia, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, India, Nicaragua, Peru, and Colombia. But in Europe and North America, only alternative media and no major media has published the full text.
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The Hippie Lieutenant
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – One soldier’s unsparing vision of life and combat in the Vietnam War
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Australian Intelligence Agency Funding Research to Merge Human Brain Cells with AI
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
A team of researchers in a Melbourne lab received a $600,000 grant to merge biology with AI. They already demonstrated how 800,000 brain cells in a Petri dish play a game of “Pong.” Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Neuralink has FDA approval to study brain implants in humans since May. They call it transhumanism.
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Niger’s Ordeal of Forever Colonialism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
27 Aug 2023 – A lot has happened since the coup, which affects Niger and how we understand its relation to that country, to the Sahel region, to Africa generally, and to the U.S. rivalry with Russia and China in the foreground. I have taken ‘liberties’ with my answers to address this awareness of the broader context.
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US Extends Science Pact with China: What It Means for Research
Natasha Gilbert and Gemma Conroy | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
25 Aug 2023 – The move is a stop-gap measure, and scientists warn that lack of a full renewal could damage research collaborations.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
When the Cold War ended in 1991, the West, and particularly the United States, found itself at a fork in the road. One road led to peace, justice, cooperation, nuclear disarmament, a revitalized UN, inclusiveness, pluralism, human rights, multilateralism, fair trade, regulated markets, food security, sustainability, and humane governance. The other road led to militarism…
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Clearing the Fog of ‘Unprovoked’ War
Edward Lozansky, Ph.D. | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
9 Aug 2023 – For the record: I was born in Ukraine, studied in Russia, and worked in the USA as a laser fusion researcher and Professor of Mathematics and Physics. I have relatives and friends in all three countries, and for the last 35 years, I have been trying to do my best to make them friends, partners, or even allies. Instead, all three are now at war, even if some call the U.S. war only a war “by proxy.”
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Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Agosto 2023 – Il testo che segue è la mia prefazione a un confronto di conflitti di eccezionale valore: Vietnam e Palestina/Israele. Queste due regioni mi hanno preoccupato per tutta la mia carriera professionale e nel corso della mia vita di cittadino attivista.
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Why Do Many Scientists Oppose Fukushima Radioactive Waste Discharge?
Victoria Bela | South China Morning Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – The release of treated waste water from the nuclear plant has begun, despite concerns from major scientific organisations. IAEA is monitoring the operation but many experts are questioning the amount of data being collected.
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Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of “Deep State” and “Working Class”
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – Today’s theme involves once-embraced liberal terminology re-branded as right-wing and therefore infamous, false, or seditious: DEEP STATE.
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A Roadmap for Peace in Ukraine
Alfred de Zayas | TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – As more and more politicians and scholars recognize that the Ukraine conflict cannot be solved militarily, that there will be no winners but only losers, we should concentrate on stopping the slaughter. This is the only rational policy we can follow. My roadmap for peace is simple.
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(Français) Le Sommet des BRICS
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 sep 2023 – Le fossé mondial entre le Nord et le Sud s’est élargi ce mois-ci lors du sommet des pays BRICS (Brésil, Russie, Inde, Chine et Afrique du Sud) qui a eu lieu à Johannesburg.
→ read full articleMulti-Billion Dollar “Directed Energy Weapons (DEW)” Market, for Military and “Civilian Use” (?). Were DEWs Used in Hawaii?
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – Directed Energy Weapons constitute a $5.3 billion dollar business (2022) slated to increase to $12.9 billon dollars by 2027. This profit-driven military-industrial market is dominated by six “defense contractors” including Raytheon, Northrup Grunman, BAE Systems (plc), Boeing, Lockheed Martin and L3Harris Technologies.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Sempre più si moltiplicano le notizie messe a disposizione su tutti i temi possibili. Sempre più i sistemi di comunicazione presentano al pubblico molteplici versioni dello stesso tema, fornendo come in un caleidoscopio una pluralità di interpretazioni diverse di uno stesso evento.
→ read full articleNumbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Everybody knows that 2 + 2 = 4 since 4 = 2 + 2. They know that excellent thing with certainty but generally fail to appreciate the charming nature of 2 + 2 = 5. Tautologies are usually preferred to choices that seem to contradict the “laws of nature.”
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51 Think Tanks and Thought Leaders in Global Peacebuilding
Taylor O’Connor | Everyday Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
17 Aug 2023 – Certainly, this is not a list of all organizations working for peace. It is however, a great overview of all organizations I know that conduct research on peacebuilding and/or regularly publish reports, guides and other great resources on building peace and associated topics.
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The US Economic War on China
Jeffrey D. Sachs | The New World Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – Now the US is taking aim at China. Starting around 2015, US policy-makers came to view China as a threat rather than a trade partner due to China’s economic success. China’s economic rise really began to alarm US strategists when it announced in 2015 a “Made in China 2025” policy.
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Six Years After Their Darkest Hour, the Rohingya Have Been Abandoned
Raïss Tinmaung | Ottawa Citizen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Aug. 25 marks the sixth anniversary of the last massacre of the Rohingya in Myanmar. Half of their villages were exterminated and 800,000 people fled to Bangladesh. Abandoned by the international community, they remain in the refugee camps and apartheid villages.
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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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Hamsa Naava (Music Video of the Week)
Deepu | T-Series Telugu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
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