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Magical Discourse Contrasting Human and AI Identity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
Being a Wave or Being Apart from a Quantum Perspective
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Law & War: A Comparison of Vietnam and Palestine/Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
26 Aug 2023 – The text below is my foreword to an exceptionally valuable comparison of conflicts: Vietnam and Arab-Israeli.
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Japan Releases Nuclear Wastewater into the Pacific. How Worried Should We Be?
Lesley M.M. Blume | National Geographic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
24 Aug 2023 – The plan to gradually discharge more than a million tons of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has started–deeply dividing nations and scientists.
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Neoliberalism Kills People (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | a/political – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
Featuring Mai Khalil and Valeria Kurbatova (Lyrics below)
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BRICS Leaders Call for Democratic Economic Order in the Interest of the Majority
Abdul Rahman | People's Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
23 Aug 2023 – Amid a membership expansion, leaders of the bloc spoke out against sanctions, conditions on sovereign credit and dollar hegemony on the first and second days of the summit.
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(Italiano) Mobilitazione per la guerra con la Cina: falchi USA prendono di mira “Code Pink”
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
22 Agosto 2023 – Per gli attivisti antiguerra, la mobilitazione per la guerra con la Cina e i preparativi per una guerra di primo rango hanno un aspetto letteralmente da incubo, in cui si osserva come fisicamente o moralmente paralizzati l’approssimarsi passo passo di una situazione minacciosa finché è troppo tardi per evitare un prevedibile disastro.
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Disaster Capitalists Are Circling Maui like Buzzards
Guthrie Scrimgeour | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
24 Aug 2023 – Before the embers were even cold in Lāhainā, Maui, survivors of the wildfires started reporting cold calls from land speculators hoping to scoop up Hawaiian properties at bargain prices — proving once again that capitalists never let a good crisis go to waste.
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(Italiano) Pacificazione: il contributo spirituale
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
Ovviamente, le organizzazioni religiose possono avere un ruolo positivo nel creare possibilità di dialogo e una comprensione di posizioni opposte. Però, com’è stato detto, il vento soffia dove vuole e spiritualmente non è limitato ai gruppi religiosi organizzati. Di fatto, in alcuni paesi ci sono in aumento persone che dicono “Sono spirituale ma non religioso”.
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The Climate Dice are Loaded. Now, a New Frontier?
James Hansen, Makiko Sato and Reto Ruedy | Columbia University - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
Suspicion that we are headed into climate territory not seen in the past million years is fueled by the large Earth’s Energy Imbalance. EEI is the proximate cause of global warming: as long as more energy comes in than goes out, we must expect global warming to continue.
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Dostoyevsky on Animal Rights and the Deepest Meaning of Human Love
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
Love every leaf… Love the animals, the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you have perceived it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day, and you will come at last to love the world with an all-embracing love.
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Six Tropes to Look Out for in Western Media’s Distorted Palestine/Israel Coverage
Lara-Nour Walton | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
Do Palestinians deserve to be free? “A complex and controversial issue,” says ChatGPT. Do Israelis deserve to be free? “Yes, like all people.,” affirms the AI gadget. “If you’re not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” — Malcolm X
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BRICS Summit Disappointments
Pepe Escobar, George Galloway, et al. | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
25 Aug 2023 – The BRICS summit in Johannesburg that ended yesterday took on six new members but in other ways failed to live up to its billing.
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Humanity Imperiled
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
27 Aug 2023 – The Path to Disaster
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Action McNews: 2123
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 – Unwelcome Future
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From Iran to the US: Our History of Coups Has Come Home to Roost
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
24 Aug 2023 – 19 Aug marked the 70th anniversary of the overthrow of Mohammad Mosaddegh, the first democratically-elected prime minister of Iran, in a coup d’état orchestrated by the US and UK, launching decades of coups, assassinations and “regime change” worldwide. Meanwhile, Donald Trump and his 18 co-conspirators are arrested for attempted coup against the US electoral system.
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(Italiano) Un sistema di pace e sicurezza per il futuro
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
I contribuenti mondiali danno alle proprie difese militari 2.240 miliardi di dollari (USA) annualmente, massimo storico, oltre 600 volte il bilancio regulare dell’ONU e tre volte il valore degli scambi commerciali complessivi fra Cina e USA. Tali sono le priorità perverse dei nostri governi; i cinque paesi che ci spendono di più sono: USA 39% del totale, Cina 13%, Russia 3,9%, India 3,6%, Arabia Saudita 3,1%.
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(Italiano) L’Ucraina e il pericolo di guerra nucleare
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
La guerra in Ucraina è da sempre una guerra per procura fra NATO e Russia, benché combattuta su suolo ucraino e comporti gran sofferenze per gli ucraini. La guerra sta diventando sempre più un confronto diretto fra Russia e Stati Uniti, entrambe potenze con armamenti nucleari.
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Spain’s 2023 Women’s Soccer World Cup Belongs to Players
Mark Ogden | ESPN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
20 Aug 2023 – Jorge Vilda will never forget the night he guided Spain to a first-ever Women’s World Cup title. He was booed when he held the trophy with barely a pat on the back from his players, but he was a world champion; maybe not for his players, but the World Cup is a response to every condemnation.
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Quran Desecration and Freedom of Expression
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
The harder efforts are made to stop this highly objectionable behavior by Islamophobic and right-wing extremists groups, the greater is their temptation to persist in such action. In the short-term what these groups seek is public recognition and media attention, not power or authority.
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Liberia Has Suffered 20 Years of ‘Negative Peace’–It’s Time for Change
Robtel Neajai Pailey and Aaron Weah | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – Since the conflicts ended on 18 Aug 2003, Liberia has only seen what peace studies pioneer Johan Galtung called “negative peace” – the absence of direct physical violence. What Liberia should strive for is “positive peace”, which involves building values, customs and institutions that create and sustain peaceful societies.
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The Day after Roswell
Col. Philip J. Corso | Dateline NBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
Eyewitness Testimony–1947 UFO Crash–US Army Recovers Alien Technology
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Ahmed Isam | Chaos Communication Camp 2023 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
Sudan Civic Map is a Counter-Militarisation project, a political statement that challenges the dominant narrative of the Sudan conflict. By foregrounding the experiences of civilian-led movements, the project aims to shift the focus from military-centric news towards the humanitarian efforts of these actors. The project asserts the importance of non-combatant actors, subverting the conventional portrayal of the conflict as a two-party war.
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Amid ‘Staggering’ Ukrainian Toll and Souring US Polls, Biden Seeks Billions More for War
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 – As Ukraine faces “staggering” losses and US public mood shifts, the Biden administration seeks billions more to prolong the war.
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The Nuclear Apple
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
9 Aug 2023 – How do we turn 26 Sep — declared by the UN to be (I kid you not) the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons — into a reality? Or does the human future have nothing to do with “us”? Are we just spectators of our own lives, stuck in the world our leaders continue to bequeath us?
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Cannon Fodder for the Empire
Samir Saul and Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
20 Aug 2023 – The US dreams of a unipolar world and of global hegemony. It intervenes everywhere to support dictatorships, provoke coups d’état, encourage rebellions and finance opposition. Let’s recall some of their major feats since the end of WWII that will help us understand the Ukrainian tragedy.
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What’s Happening in Niger Is Far from a Typical Coup
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
16 Aug 2023 – Rather than send troops in response to the coup, France and the U.S. seem to favor a “Rwanda” type solution applied in Mozambique earlier this year. Only this time ECOWAS would apply force.
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How to Say Goodbye: An Illustrated Field Guide to Accompanying a Loved One at the End of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
To comprehend the luckiness of death is to comprehend life itself. When a loved one is dying and we get to be by their side, it is a double luckiness — lucky that we got to have the love at all, and lucky, which is not everyone’s luck, that we get to say goodbye.
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The Race to Save the World’s DNA
Matthew Hutson | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
9 Aug 2023 – A scientific rescue mission aims to analyze every plant, animal, and fungus before it’s too late.
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How the US and France Created a Niger Mess for Themselves
M. K. Bhadrakumar | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
19 Aug 2023 – Neo-colonial powers have become entangled in a diplomatic and military impasse borne from a fundamental lack of understanding.
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World Sliding toward WW3 as More Warhawks Grab Power in Washington DC
Drago Bosnic | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
11 Aug 2023 – Their style has always been preying on the weak, as they focus on bringing “freedom and democracy” to those unable to retaliate or defend themselves. Direct attacks are preceded by economic warfare (sanctions) and “isolation” by the so-called “international community” (read USA).
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Western Media Glorify TPLF Mob Violence against Eritrean Festivals
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
19 Aug 2023 – This summer, violent mobs associated with the US-backed Tigray People’s Liberation Front assaulted Eritrean festivals across the US and Europe. Western media is now spinning the targeted mob violence as legitimate protest against Eritrea’s government.
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US: Summer of the Hawks
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – Wishful thinking is still the rule among Biden’s foreign policy team, as the slaughter in Ukraine continues.
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga | TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
21-27 August 2023
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Cuba’s Worsening Food Crisis Means US Blockade Must End Now, Not Later
W.T. Whitney Jr. | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
“It is time for all of us, in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, to intensify the struggle against the U.S. blockade and mobilize international cooperation with the island that dared to conquer its independence and sovereignty against the most powerful and genocidal empire in the history of mankind.” — Frei Betto
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A Photo Is Worth a Million Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
–> What Is Right in This Pic?
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Top 5 U.S. Weapons Contractors Made US$196B in 2022
Connor Echols | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – Half of the world’s 20 biggest arms makers are based in the US, according to a new ranking from Defense News.
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Assange Be Wary: The Dangers of a US Plea Deal
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – In the proceedings against Julian Assange, the US Imperium has shown its vengeful impulses. Given the 17 charges he faces from the US Espionage Act of 1917, any sentence is bound to be hefty. Were he to be extradited to the US, Assange will disappear into a carceral, life-ending dystopia.
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The US Will Strengthen Its Occupation of Syria, while Plundering Oil Resources
Steven Sahiounie interviews Prof. Glenn Diesen | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
11 Aug 2023 – The main reason behind the US invasion and occupation of Syria, now lasting eight years, was to prevent Syrians from accessing their own oil wells–and steal it. Due to US sanctions, Syria can’t buy energy products, having a chronic shortage of gasoline, diesel and almost no electricity.
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China’s Diplomatic Evolution: A Potential Ally for Palestinians’ Quest for Justice
Ramzy Baroud | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
16 Aug 2023 – It is feasible for China to continue playing an important role in mediating Middle East conflicts. Even before Beijing successfully managed to achieve reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran last April, Chinese diplomacy has shown exceptional maturity.
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How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
April M. Short | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – Many people are already investing themselves in the local peace economy as they divest from the economy of war.
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The US Is Caught in a Dilemma with Niger
Scott Ritter | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 – Washington can’t sever relations with the post-coup government lest it lose the basis for its military presence in the African country.
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Mr. Blue and the CIA
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 – Some time ago on a Sunday evening when my wife and I had just sat down to dinner, our phone rang. Since I didn’t recognize the phone number and it was dinnertime, I hesitated to answer it, but for some chance reason I did. The voice on the other end was agitated, intense, and asked for me.
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From Chi-Town Bagman to ECOWAS Chairman: Meet the Former Money Launderer Leading the Push to Invade Niger
Kit Klarenberg and Alexander Rubinstein | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
5 Aug 2023 – Since the overthrow of Niger’s US-friendly government, the chair of the ECOWAS block and Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu, has threatened an invasion of their neighbor. Before, Tinubu spent years laundering millions for heroin dealers in Chicago, and has since been ensnared in numerous corruption scandals. Luckily for the West elites, compromised figures like Tinubu are still on hand to do their dirty work for them.
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Nigerian Senate Rejects President Bola Tinubu’s Demand to Send Troops to Invade Niger
Ibrahim Garba Shuaibu | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
6 Aug 2023 – The head of the Nigerian Senate said Sat [5 Aug] that the chamber rejected military force to reinstate the ousted President of Niger. They also pleaded with the head of ECOWAS, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, to embrace diplomacy in handling the toppling of the Niger government.
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Innovative Regional Dialogue: Iran, Iraq, and Six Gulf Countries
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – The regional dialogue scheduled for Sep 2023 is a notable breakthrough, by diplomatic initiatives, to replace tensions with stability in the Middle East, and in the process gaining political independence from U.S./Israel hegemony. This development also reflects the increased involvement of China in the region.
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Niger: A Coup against French Control and Dominance
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
9 Aug 2023 – One of the reasons why ECOWAS has changed its stance is because of strong opposition to any military intervention from some of its member states. Mali and Burkina Faso have made it explicitly clear that they would view military intervention as a “declaration of war” against the people of Niger and would defend the newly installed military junta.
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Niger – The Liberation from “Independence”
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Thousands demonstrate in the streets of the capital of Niger. They do not want an ECOWAS-Economic Community of West African States intervention as it stands for western influence. ECOWAS, France, the EU, USA and other western governments may be thinking they are domineering over the sovereignty of other nations.
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Taliban’s Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions about What US Was Doing All Along
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
4 Aug 2023 – The Taliban government in Afghanistan, which produced 90% of the world’s heroin, has drastically reduced opium cultivation across the country; up to 99% in some provinces. This raises questions about the seriousness of U.S. drug eradication efforts in the country over the past 20 years of occupation.
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Hawaii: Maui’s Deadly Wildfires Burn Through Lahaina
Mojtaba Sadegh | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – It’s a Reminder of the Growing Risk to Communities That Once Seemed Safe
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War by Other Means: Short Selling JPMorgan
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
10 Aug 2023 – As was said of Lehman Brothers fifteen years earlier, the targeted banks did not fall; they were pushed. One blogger shows how even JPMorgan Chase, the US largest bank, could be pushed — not perhaps by local short-sellers, but by China. And that is another good reason not to provoke the Chinese Dragon into “war by other means.”
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Rabia Iclal Turan | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – There is a ‘strong case’ for prohibition of such acts that ‘serve no possible constructive purpose,’ says Richard Falk.
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Kuznick’s Essential Companion to the Oppenheimer Movie
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
4 Aug 2023 – In this interview, Peter, who also teaches a film course on “Oliver Stone’s America,” gives an essential analysis of Chris Nolan’s Oppenheimer. He commends the film in many respects, and then criticizes the exclusion of important historical facts, which he proceeds to supplement in great depth and detail.
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Can We Measure Inequality without Tallying the Wealth of the Wealthiest?
Sam Pizzigati | Inequality - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
31 Jul 2023 – Hundreds of prestigious economists don’t think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.
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USA No Longer the “Lone” Superpower
Chalmers Johnson | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
13 Aug 2023 – Coming to Terms with China
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US Cluster Munitions Will Bring More Pain and Death to Donbass Civilians, but Washington Doesn’t Care
Eva Bartlett | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
1 Aug 2023 – Kiev will use its newly received weapons to target residential areas, just as it has for the past nine years.
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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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New Investigation Exposes a Stomach-Churning Practice to Make Your Bacon
Kenny Torrella | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
5 Aug 2023 – The pork industry’s forced cannibalism, explained. Why they feed feces and raw intestines to pigs.
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Indictment Talking Points
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – GOP Indictment Talking Points
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How U.S. News Coverage of the Wars in Yemen and Ukraine Reveals a Bias in Recording Civilian Harm
Esther Brito Ruiz and Jeff Bachman | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
3 Aug 2023 – War entails suffering. How and how often that suffering is reported on in the U.S., however, is not evenhanded. Take, for example, the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in March 2015 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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US Response to Russia-China Naval Patrol Exposes Glaring Hypocrisy
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Washington believes it has a divine right to send its warships wherever it wants, but when ‘rivals’ do the same it’s deemed a threat
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Chocolates and a Chat: A Peaceful Response to Quran Burnings in Sweden
Nils Adler | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Muslims present at the burnings refuse to be provoked as they hand out chocolates and seek dialogue with onlookers.
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The United Nations’ New Agenda for Peace
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
3 Aug 2023 – The UN report–apart from identifying the conflict between the unipolar and multipolar worlds, and showing concern over the metastasizing weapons industry–throws moral scaffolding over hard realities it can’t directly confront.
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Syrian Civilians Struggle between Deadly Israeli Air Strikes and Equally Deadly US Sanctions
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Israeli airstrikes on Syria have become routine and deadly.
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Malu ‘Aina in Search of Volunteers
Jim Albertini and Antonio C. S. Rosa | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
10 Aug 2023 – Founded in 1979, Malu ‘Aina is an all-volunteer non-profit peace farm in Hawaii. We are looking for a farm torch carrier, someone to take on the volunteer farm coordination that Jim Albertini has done for over 40 years. (Read the special note from the TMS Editor, a former volunteer.)
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“Little Women” Author Louisa May Alcott on the Creative Rewards of Being Single
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
“Liberty is a better husband than love.”
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Literature as Peace Work: Eyes on Kashmira Sheth’s ‘Keeping Corner’
Jocelyn Wright | The Beacon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – Johan Galtung, the founder of Peace and Conflict Studies, conceptualized peace and I adopt his views here. In Peace by Peaceful Means, he sees peace as a perpetual process, and an “acceptable and sustainable outcome,” which is satisfying the basic needs of survival, wellbeing, identity/meaning, freedom, and ecological balance via harmonious and associative means.
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Do People Change?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
11 Aug 2023 – Because there is so much personal anguish, unhappiness, and human mental and physical suffering in the world, many people often wonder how they might personally change to find happiness, contentment, or some elusive something.
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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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Africa in Rebellion: Is a Second Anti-Colonial Liberation on the Horizon?
Denis Rogatyuk | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – After a series of coups, one country after the other is moving to expel the traces of former empires.
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A Corporate Takeover of the UN Must Be Stopped
Harris Gleckman | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
3 Aug 2023 – The UN’s vision for the future involves giving corporate executives crucial say in decisions. That is too dangerous to be allowed.
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Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates and Silicon Valley behind Push for ‘Farming without Farmers, Food without Farms’
Brenda Baletti Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
2 Aug 2023 – On this episode of Russell Brand’s “Stay Free,” TRANSCEND member, scholar, environmental activist and food sovereignty advocate Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., discusses food fascism, the power of “philanthropy,” digital enslavement and how people can free themselves from this system.
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Russia-Africa Summit Held Amid Worsening Global Security Situation
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
2 Aug 2023 – African Union member-states put forward their peace plan for ending the conflict in Ukraine and received a positive response from Moscow.
→ read full articleSecond-order Dialogue and Higher Order Discourse for the Future
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
Potential Implications of Second-order Cybernetics and Higher-order Communication Possibilities — Second-order cybernetics is a form in which “the role of the observer is appreciated and acknowledged rather than disguised, as had become traditional in western science”.
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USA: How to Hide and Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths
Bryce Greene | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
1 Aug 2023 – A ‘Costs of War’ study estimates that the USA’s 9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia and Syria with 40–60 million people displaced from their homes. “Pax Americana”
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A Brief Neocolonial History of the Five UN Security Council Permanent Members
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
1 Aug 2023 – Understanding the actions and justifications behind territorial colonial behavior by the UN Security Council since 1945.
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Enough of the Blaming Game: Let’s for Once Try Talking to Each Other
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
25 Jul 2023 – In the UN Human Rights Council, the blaming game is known as “naming and shaming”, as if the States “naming” possessed a higher moral authority over the “named;” as if blaming could contribute to dialogue and compromise.
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The Dialectics of History: Aggression Produces a Reaction of Solidarity
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
1 Aug 2023 – History is dialectical, as described by Hegel, Marx and Engels. We see this in our times as three policies of aggression have led to the increased solidarity of those who have been attacked.
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Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
Kashmir Hill | NYT/Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
6 Aug 2023 – Porsha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully accused as a result of facial recognition technology.
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The Violent Lies of Israel’s President
Yuli Novak | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
When members of the US Congress applaud falsehoods about Israel being a vibrant democracy, they are aiding and abetting further oppression of Palestinians.
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The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
1 Aug 2023 – Western media never stop warning us of China: it menaces Taiwan, threatens its neighbors and shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and sticks military bases on Cuba. It spies on us by the most devious means, through TikTok, Huawei 5G, and weather balloons, and ensnares Africa with debt traps.
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U.S. Leaders Are Split on China Policy
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
3 Aug 2023 – The U.S. bipolar approach to China: It aims to constrain China’s economic, political, and military development because it has become U.S.’ chief economic competitor—thus, enemy. However, U.S. also seeks to secure the many benefits of its companies doing business in China. “Decoupling” or “de-risking”?
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Palestine: Unsettling Israeli Settlers Severely Damaging the USA
Dan Lieberman | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: “There have been 570 attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in the first six months of 2023; three attacks a day.” 2010-2019: 3,000 settler attacks, 22 Palestinians killed, 1,258 injured.
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(Français) La Dialectique de L’histoire : L’agression Produit Une Réaction de Solidarité
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
1 août 2023 – L’histoire est dialectique, comme l’ont décrit Hegel, Marx et Engels. Nous le voyons à notre époque alors que trois politiques d’agression ont conduit à une solidarité accrue de ceux qui ont été attaqués.
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1999 NATO/CIA False Flag Operation at Račak Set Precedent for Similar Operations in Syria and Ukraine
Olga Peterson | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
Designed to Create a Pretext for Military Intervention
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What’s So Important about the San Francisco Promise?
Roger Kotila and Suchismita Pattanaik | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
The global crisis of climate change must be dealt with effectively, yet the superpowers USA, Russia and China are making it worse with their wars and threats of war. What about the UN? To save our world, a review of the UN Charter is necessary to open doors to the changes urgently needed.
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Nobel Peace Prize 2024: Too Fast and Premature, IPB!
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – It was sad, indeed, to see even the venerable International Peace Bureau, in a 4 Aug press release, once again undermining the peace legacy of Alfred Nobel. Both came to life in the 1890s, emanating from the same sources.
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How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
“Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul,” Walt Whitman wrote in the preface to Leaves of Grass. “I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood.”
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A Vital Atlantic Ocean System Could Collapse Sooner Than Previously Thought
Siri Chilukuri | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
26 Jul 2023 – Climate change is slowing down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a key ocean “conveyer belt.” New research finds it could collapse completely by 2060.
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Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
I was curious about the urge to extradite him to the US, where he is not a citizen, for more harsh punishment. Anticipating extradition, activists are discussing plans for massive protests.
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Why You Need to Know the Difference Between Race and Ethnicity in Hawaii
Jonathan Okamura | Honolulu Civil Beat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
Ethnicity matters in Hawaii because it yields explanations about how our society operates that race does not. Ethnicity can also enable us to address more significant problems and issues, such as persisting ethnic inequality and injustice in Hawaii.
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The Causes of Hunger Are Manipulation of Food Prices and Corporate Land Grabbing
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
31 Jul 2023 – Headline: “Russia starves the world, Italy’s Meloni confirms it.” The accusation that Russia is starving Africa by blocking Ukrainian grain shipments, falls in the face that all of the grain from Ukraine went to EU countries, not to poorer nations, to which only 2 ships out of 87 were sent.
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Militarization of AI Has Severe Implications for Global Security and Warfare
Tshilidzi Marwala | United Nations University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
24 Jul 2023 – As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, the need for effective governance mechanisms to manage its use and mitigate potential hazards grows.
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Hear the Hibakusha… before It’s Too Late!
Leonard Eiger | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
6 Aug 2023 – Seventy-eight years ago, on 6 Aug 1945, a United States warplane dropped an atomic bomb, which detonated over the city of Hiroshima, Japan early in the morning. Testimony of Tokie Mizuno, Hibakusha of Hiroshima (Recorded in 2010).
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Sinéad O’Connor Always Knew That Black Lives Mattered
John Nichols | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The singer, who died on 26 Jul 2023, made an unforgettable protest song about the police killings of black people 30 years before the murder of George Floyd.
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X Marks the Spot
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
31 Jul 2023 – X ex Twitter
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Requiem for NATO’s Nightmare
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The dysfunction of the Atlantic military alliance over Ukrainian membership was just the most public manifestation of the debacle that was the Vilnius summit.
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Oceans Hit Hottest Average Temperature Ever Recorded, Endangering Ecosystems on Which We Depend
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
5 Aug 2023 – The world’s oceans hit an average temperature of 20.96°C (69.728°F ) this week, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. It is the highest average ocean temperature ever recorded.
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Central Europe’s Arms Makers Scramble for Workers as Ukraine Boosts Business
Michael Kahn, Robert Muller and Karol Badohal | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
2 Aug 2023 – From building apartments for new employees to offering retired workers free canteen meals to share their expertise, Central Europe’s arms manufacturers are scrambling for new ways to cope with the biggest boom since the end of the Cold War.
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Israeli Court Orders Eviction of Bedouin Village for New Predominantly Jewish Neighborhood
Nati Yefet | Haaretz/PAJU - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
31 Jul 2023 – The illegal and immoral eviction of a Bedouin village to make way for a Jewish neighborhood is a prime example of ethnic cleansing given a legal framework via an apartheid system based on institutional discrimination against non-Jewish populations.
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Pertinent Concerns about Artificial Intelligence (AI): Friend or Foe?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
31 Jul 2023 – Intelligence or… what? What are AI possibilities, vis-a-vis its human counterpart? A new human master? You be the judge.
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