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ASEAN and Its 50 Years of Failure in Ending Wars and Genocides
Maung Zarni | Prothom Alo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
16 Jul 2023 – The gulf between the impact of ASEAN in Myanmar affairs and the spins – “centrality” “cohesion” “inclusive dialogue” blah blah blah – is jaw dropping.
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Why Is the West Bank Under Assault by Settlers and Netanyahu Government?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 – While the media focus has been on ‘the judiciary overhaul’ confrontation between antagonistic Jewish factions as to the ‘democratic’ character of Israel, the unifying themes in apartheid Israel remain the further marginalization of the Palestinians in their own homeland.
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How to Avoid WWIII?
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The New York Times recently ran an article on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up named Anthropic. Doing so, they created their own AI, named Claude2, which was linked in the article. A friend asked Claude2 how peace could be brought to Ukraine and avoid WWIII. Its thoughts are below.
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International Inertia Follows Israeli Assault on Jenin in the West Bank
Catherine Wilson | IPS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The likelihood of further confrontations remains high following a major Israeli military assault on an impoverished camp of more than 23,500 Palestinian refugees in Jenin in the occupied West Bank earlier this month.
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The U.K. Government Is Very Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide
Joe Mullin | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
26 Jul 2023 – The U.K. Parliament is pushing the Online Safety Bill, which will undermine the privacy of people around the world; now at the final stage. It gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, destroying end-to-end encryption. No amendments have been accepted.
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Storm Clouds Gathering: NATO in the Perilous Black Sea
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – In an ominous development, Kiev is suggesting the continuation of the collapsed Black Sea Grain Deal without Russia’s participation and with apparent NATO protection.
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New Files Reveal MKUltra’s Terrifying Reach: Ethnic Bioweapons, Mind Control and Disturbing Experiments
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
25 Jul 2023 – Renowned anthropologist Orisanmi Burton exposes a dark chapter in CIA history. Classified Agency files obtained through Freedom of Information reveal ties between the infamous MKULTRA program and nightmarish experiments on prisoners of color in the United States.
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The International Community Must Stand Up to Myanmar’s Junta
Heidi Hautala | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
22 Jul 2023 – With authoritarianism on the rise in much of our world, the struggle of the Myanmar people is the struggle of all who cherish democracy and justice.
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Just Asking Questions
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Media Impartiality
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Dozens of Nations Express Interest in Joining an Expanded BRICS
Saurav Sarkar | Globetrotter News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
25 Jul 2023 – 45 countries have expressed interest in joining the Global South bloc ahead of a summit scheduled for 22-24 Aug 2023 in South Africa. Current members are Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. 22 countries submitted their formal applications.
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Free Speech Denied 25 Years Ago: Free Speech Trial
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Big Island, Hawaii’s History: Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 1998 – Albertini presented Choi with an estimated 5-foot-by-8-foot check made out to the District Court for the amount of $100. At the top of the check was written, “free speech denied” and “no lie can live forever.”
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UN Chief Proclaims ‘Era of Global Boiling:’ July Hottest Month Ever
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
27 Jul 2023 – New data released today showed that July is the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. “We can still stop the worst,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres insisted. “But to do so we must turn a year of burning heat into a year of burning ambition.”
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Outlaw Superpower: United States Refuses to Play by the World’s Rules
Rebecca Gordon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
25 Jul 2023 – Here Are Three Ways
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22 Organizations Using Digital Technology to Build a More Peaceful, Just World
Taylor O’Connor | Everyday Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
For those of you new to the term PeaceTech, it basically means the use of digital technology in any efforts to build peace and/or justice.
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Opera Buffa in Ukraine
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
“How would President Biden react if China had established a base in Tijuana, Mexico, and met there with all the left-leaning governments of South America? That’s how Putin would be expected to react to the meeting earlier this month of all the NATO chiefs in Vilnius, close to the Russian border.”
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(Italiano) Il fattore Impero: il pezzo mancante nella narrazione della guerra in Ucraina
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Narrazioni in concorrenza della guerra in Ucraina: il fattore impero come pezzo mancante.
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US Admits to Pushing Ukraine into a Fight It Can’t Win
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
28 Jul 2023 – A US “windfall” in Ukraine comes at an unfathomable cost.
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Reflections on ‘Political Capitalism’
Lola Seaton | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Jul-Aug 2023 – The debate is an attempt to grapple with a succession of unprecedented crises—and the distinctive political reactions they elicited—in the heartlands of the capitalist system.
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Niger Coup Leader Joins Long Line of U.S.-trained Mutineers
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
27 Jul 2023 – Brig. Gen. Moussa Salaou Barmou, who trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, helped oust Niger’s democratically elected president.
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Will the Small States of Oceania Be Able to Maintain Their Independence in the Face of a New China-USA Cold War?
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
23 Jul 2023 – The ‘friends to all, enemies to none’ strategy is living its last days as the US and China press the island nations to take sides.
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‘Pax’ Americana? Really?
Liu Rui | Global Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
US Democrats and Republicans scream about the ‘threat’ of Russia and China. Meanwhile, the US military has weapons pointed at the entire world–and beyond.
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American Anthropological Association Endorses Resolution Boycotting Israeli Apartheid
Anthroboycott | TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 — The AAA, representing thousands of anthropologists and scholars, has passed a historic resolution in support of Palestinians, pledging to boycott Israeli academic institutions that are complicit in maintaining Israel’s oppressive apartheid system.
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The War on Julian Assange
Lowkey interviews Stella Assange | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Lowkey catches up with legal expert and human rights defender Stella Assange to talk about her battle to free her husband Julian, the world’s most famous political prisoner.
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Impact of Religion in Gandhi’s Philosophy on Nonviolence
Thando Gwinji | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Religion is often a trigger to conflicts. It is a double-edged sword that can both encourage and/or discourage world change, and can facilitate both violent and peaceful activism. Leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, and Mother Teresa, have tried to put this into practice.
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The City of Nine Gates
Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarmā dāsa) | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
29 Jul 2023 – This paper was originally presented at ‘Toward a Science of Consciousness,’ an international conference attended by leading scientists, physicians, philosophers, and other scholars, and hosted by the University of Arizona in Tucson. An allegory from the Srimad-Bhagavatam sheds light on the mind/body connection.
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Covid’s Origins and the Death of Trust
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
20 Jul 2023 – Public releases the Proximal Origin documents. What they show, and why they’re historic.
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Fukushima Water Release Fears: Fish with 180 Times over Legal Limit of Radioactive Cesium Caught
Gavin Blair | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 – Black rockfish caught close to disaster-hit nuclear power station is one of dozens caught in the past year above the legal safety limit.
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Alert! New ‘Redesigned GMOs’ Being Forced on Farmers and Consumers
Julian Rose | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 – In the corridors of politico-industrial power in Washington and in the hallowed bastion of the European Commission in Brussels, the same dark plans are being pushed forward: to alter the genetic code of life to make humans and nature patentable and controllable by the techno-industrial god of insentient progress.
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Nonviolent Journalism: New Book Offers Pathbreaking Alternatives to Mainstream Media’s Embedded Militarism
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
22 Jul 2023 – Is there Nonviolent Journalism? Of course! But we live in a perverted militarist culture where nobody questions the concept of War Reporting and most would probably respond to “nonviolent journalism” with a: What?
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The Most Embarrassing “Facebook Files” Revelation? The Press, Exposed as Censors
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The most embarrassing revelation of the “Facebook Files” released by the House Judiciary Chair yesterday involves the news media. They show that the press is part of the censorship establishment, but that’s not the worst part.
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The Profiteers of Armageddon
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
30 Jul 2023 – Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex
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Sinéad O’Connor, Fiery and Uncompromising Singer, Dead at 56
Keith Harris | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
26 Jul 2023 – Sinéad O’Connor, the fiery Irish singer-songwriter whose striking voice made her a pop superstar while her bold public stances on child abuse, war, and the Catholic Church made her a controversial figure, has died today in London. Her most successful recording was Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ (on TMS Music Video of the Week). RIP
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Coronavirus/COVID Pandemic: New Doubts, Revelations by US Congress
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
18 Jul 2023 – Communications between officials and scientists who wrote the key paper promoting a natural origin for Covid-19 show doubts, interference, politicized science, and more.
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(Italiano) Studi di pace: ispirazione, obiettivi, conseguimenti
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
La pace piace ai cuori, gli studi al cervello. Sono necessari entrambi, anzi indispensabili. ma altrettanto indispensabile è una connessione valida fra cervello e cuore. Ed è ben questo, in essenza, ciò di cui trattano gli studi e la prassi di pace.
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Eliciting Patterns of Global Consensus via Tensional Integrity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
18 Jul 2023 – Interweaving Agreement and Disagreement Coherently with Force-Directed Layout Tensegrity – Much is made of the need for consensus in global affairs, most notably in a major crisis such as climate change. Efforts are made for a consensus, as is evident in the current initiative of the World Health Organization…
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If Everybody’s Going to Join NATO, Then Why Have the United Nations?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
20 Jul 2023 – Since the year 2000, NATO used its military might to destroy several states, such as Afghanistan (2001) and Libya (2011), shattering societies with its aggressive alliance, and end the status of Yugoslavia (1999) as a unified state. It is difficult, given this record, to sustain that NATO is a ‘defensive alliance’.
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Haitians Protest UN Occupation and Pending Foreign “Intervention”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – The US and Canada argue for a multilateral military intervention in Haiti, possibly led by Rwanda, to support the puppet regime they installed. They are using “gang violence” as the excuse, but there are actually more gang killings in Jamaica or El Salvador.
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In Sicily, Top of the Mountain, Watching the New Barbarians
Pepe Escobar | TheAltWorld – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
18 Jul 2023 – NATO, already humiliated in Afghanistan, is now being demilitarized, a process running in parallel to the state of the economy prevailing amongst all NATOstan members. War? Against a nuclear, hypersonic superpower? Give us a – Thucydides – break.
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Takeaways from the UN Special Rapporteur Report on Guantanamo
Scott Roehm | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
On 26 Jun 2023–the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture–,the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism released the final report of her technical visit to the Guantanamo detention facility. It covers the rights of victims of terrorism, the rights of detainees at Guantánamo, and the rights of former detainees–with a fair amount of detail.
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Argentina’s Yuan Lifeline Is Sign of Brinkmanship between China, US
Natalie Alcoba | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Buenos Aires has been looking for ways to safeguard its dwindling dollar reserves and has found a willing partner in Beijing.
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Tony Bennett, Master Jazz Vocalist, Dies at 96
Chris Morris | Variety – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Bennett had a professional career spanning eight decades. Winner of 18 Grammy Awards (with 36 total nominations), and a Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award recipient in 2001, he also garnered two Emmy Awards and was a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2005 and a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master in 2006. RIP
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UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine: Israel Has Turned All of Palestine into ‘An Open-Air Prison’ to Further Annexation Plans
Jeff Wright | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
16 Jul 2023 – Francesca Albanese’s June report to the UN Human Rights Council says Israel uses physical, bureaucratic, military, and surveillance means to “de-Palestinianize” the occupied territory, threatening “the existence of the Palestinians as a people.”
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Facing Climate Change as One World
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – When it comes to climate change, one word has me totally perplexed: “we.” A transcendent “we” grabbing control over the planet’s rising temperature.
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Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Recent news reports noted Russian jets “harassing” MQ-9 Reaper US drones over Syria. What was not reported was that the Russians are operating at the request of the Syrian government whereas the US drones are operating illegally, aiding theft of oil. The US acts like an international mafia boss, assassinating people and stealing other countries’ oil.
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The Dynamics of War Insanity: NATO’s Ukraine Roulette
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – Ultimately, NATO must be recognized not only as a criminal organization, a blustering vestige of a moribund Western imperialism, but as a mortal danger to the survival of civilization on Earth. NATO is on the wrong side of history.
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The Real History of the War in Ukraine
Jeffrey D. Sachs | The Kennedy Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – A Chronology of Events and Case for Diplomacy – The public urgently need to know the true history of the war in Ukraine. Unfortunately, US mainstream media have become mere mouthpieces of the government, repeating Joe Biden’s lies and hiding history from the public.
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Want to See How Foreign Policy Should Be Crafted? Look to Vietnam
Amiad Horowitz | People's World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Vietnam used to be one of the poorest and most diplomatically isolated countries in the world, but those days are gone. The neoliberal, capitalist world has been bogged down in decades of unending war. The Socialist Republic of Vietnam offers the world a different model of foreign policy.
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US Cluster Munitions Supply to Ukraine Will Harm Civilians the Most
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – Millions of people have been affected by the use of cluster munitions in countries like Laos, Vietnam, Cambodia, Afghanistan and Iraq, even years after the invasions and occupations by the USA. The same plight awaits Ukrainian civilians in the current East European war zone.
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Extreme Heat Is Ramping Up All Over the World. So Are Solutions.
Claire Elise Thompson | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – From Seville to Phoenix, city governments and community-based organizations are trying new strategies to protect residents from deadly heat.
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Why the Ukraine Conflict Will Unravel NATO and Biden
Radhika Desai | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – The US has only military might to offer allies. So, Biden’s impending military failure in Ukraine is likely to prove the effective undoing of NATO. If the US cannot ensure military victory, its utility to Europe can only be limited. And if Biden’s has failed in this intermediate Russian stage, it can hardly go onto its final, Chinese one.
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As Russia Exits Grain Deal, Which Countries Will Be Affected?
Hanna Duggal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Almost 33 million metric tonnes of grain were exported since the Black Sea Grain Initiative was brokered a year ago.
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Latin America again Refuses to Fall in Line with the Collective West
Nick Corbishley | Naked Capital - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Another attempt by the Collective West to isolate Russia from the rest of the world — or the “Jungle,” as the EU’s chief “diplomat” Josep Borrell calls it — fails spectacularly.
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Luanda Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto Faces Fresh Charges Despite Amnesty from Papal Visit
Matei Rosca | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – The source of the Luanda Leaks and of another exposé that rocked the global soccer industry faces 377 new charges and the prospect of another trial, despite an anticipated amnesty.
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World Hunger and the War in Ukraine
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
The current food crisis is a price crisis, not a supply crisis. The end of the Black Sea Grain Initiative by Russia is not the leading cause of hunger in the world. Rather, it is the financial speculation in food markets the main culprit.
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Thousands of Authors Urge AI Companies to Stop Using Their Works without Permission
Chloe Veltman | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Thousands of writers have signed a letter asking artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI and Meta to stop using their work without permission or compensation. But protecting writers from the negative impacts of these technologies is not an easy proposition.
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Arming Taiwan Is an Insane Provocation
John V. Walsh | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – As Washington applies the neocon Wolfowitz Doctrine to East Asia, Taiwan becomes a “powder keg” by U.S. weaponry. The provocations must stop and Biden should instead take up China’s offer of peaceful coexistence.
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NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – The unfulfilled goals and objectives from last year’s meeting in Madrid loom over the Atlantic military alliance. When the membership meets in Vilnius this week, normalizing failure might best describe the most that can be accomplished.
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Bullying Escalates: US Nuclear Submarine Docks in Cuban Territory
Alejandra Garcia | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – Just days before Cuba marked two years since the July 11 riots, a nuclear-powered US submarine crossed Cuban waters and docked at the illegal base of Guantanamo. From July 5-8 it remained in that Cuban territory usurped and illegally occupied by Washington 121 years ago.
→ read full articleThe US-Nordic Summit: NATO Expansion, Confusion and Repetition
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – It is extremely important to think of alternatives to the ongoing NATO militarism, re-think its triumphalistic, provocative expansion, and refer to words and concepts cancelled from the Western discourse: peace, cooperation, common security, reconciliation, media diversity.
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Learning from History, if We Dare
Gary M. Feinman | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
Our blinders and misconceptions about the past constrain the knowledge that we have to plan for a better future. Societies don’t get much out of living memory because the longer-term ramifications from recent decisions generally remain unsettled.
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The Great Chessboard: China’s Economic Rise and the Collapse of the USA
Mike Whitney | Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – The One Chart That Explains Everything
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Christmas in July
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
Black Humor–Tragicomedy
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British Intelligence in the Dock for CIA Torture
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
11 Jul 2023 – Recent developments raise the prospect that British intelligence agents could finally face justice for their little-known role in the CIA’s global torture program.
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Has Hunter Biden’s Decadent Lifestyle Become a Metaphor for U.S. Society?
Robert Bridge | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – When cocaine was found in the White House, observers immediately linked it to the US president’s infamous son. Hunter Biden, currently US’ most infamous drug abuser, appeared on the White House balcony, looking sweaty and nervous.
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The Weaponization of Human Rights at the Human Rights Council
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – Alas, the Human Rights Council has become predominantly a platform for those who engage in war-mongering and incitement to hatred. Notwithstanding the clear language of Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, many states practice flagrant Russophobia, Sinophobia and other phobias. Article 20 stipulates:
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The UK-Rwanda Pact to Keep Migrants from Crossing the English Channel
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – The UK is spearheading a European drive to outsource migrants to Rwanda.
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A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
“Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came.”
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Salaam (Music Video of the Week)
Alka Yagnik | T-Series – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
From the movie Umrao Jaan – Music by Anu Malik
(Please click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy)
Humanity in Hypnotic Thrall to a Techno-Industrial God
Julian Rose | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – As long as enough people buy into it for long enough, the slavery exercise will be irreversible.
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Competing with the Dollar: BRICS Launches Game-Changing Gold-Backed Currency
Jeff | Crypto News Flash - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – BRICS nations unveil a gold-backed digital currency that could challenge the US Dollar in global payments. It aims to enhance financial sovereignty, reduce reliance on existing monetary systems, and provide an alternative means of conducting global trade and accumulating reserves.
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Listening to Oppenheimer, Seven Decades Later
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – A mere 55 years after his death, the U.S. government has restored J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance, which the Atomic Energy Commission had taken away from him in 1954, declaring him to be not simply a communist but, in all likelihood, a Soviet spy.
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Executive Pay: A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?
Sam Pizzigati | Inequality – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – Pay levels for top U.S. corporate execs have lost any connection to organizational rationality.
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Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine Is a Grave Mistake
Adam Zikri | War Prevention Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – The War Prevention Initiative condemns the US decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. They kill and maim civilians indiscriminately after the war, contaminating land for decades after they are used. They do not win wars and will only hurt current and future generations of Ukrainians.
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Greenwald: Ex-Spies Run Censorship Operations for Tech Giants
Brenda Baletti | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – On a recent episode of his show ‘System Update,’ journalist Glenn Greenwald explained how the ‘censorship-industrial complex’ merges corporate media, big tech and the security state to crack down on dissent.
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Science Activism Is Surging – Which Marks a Culture Shift among Scientists
Scott Frickel and Fernando Tormos-Aponte | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
6 Jul 2023 – India: Hundreds of scientists protested government restriction of access to Western science theories, including Darwin’s. Mexico: Scientists participated in a research strike to protest a law that would threaten basic research. Norway: Three scientists were arrested for protesting the nation’s slow-moving climate policy.
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NATO Is a Warfare Alliance, Not a Force for Global Peace or Stability
Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd | CODEPINK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – CODEPINK’s Statement on 2023 NATO Summit
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Pierangelo Pirak | Vimeo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
The Neuroscience, Physics, and Philosophy of Freedom in a Universe of Fixed Laws
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Gitmo’s Permanent Chains
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
7 Jul 2023 – Now comes yet another little-noted UN Report on the continuing excesses and inhumanity at Guantánamo Bay, the post-9/11 US military prison that only two decades ago set the standard for war crimes.
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The Orca Uprising: Whales Are Ramming Boats–but Are They Inspired by Revenge, Grief or Memory?
Emma Beddington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
11 Jul 2023 – A pod in the strait of Gibraltar has sunk three boats and damaged dozens of others, and their story has captivated the world. What explains this unprecedented behaviour?
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Analysing EU Foreign Policy on Russia before the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
Rob May | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
28 Jun 2023 – A change in power image resulting from militarisation would restrain Europe’s normative impulses and introduce greater cognitive flexibility to policymaking.
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The Federal Debt Trap: Issues and Possible Solutions
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – The US achieved its greatest-ever infrastructure campaign in the Great Depression. We can do that again with the same machinery: off-budget financing through a government-owned financial institution. It is good to have viable alternatives when, as in the 1930s, politicians are compelled to seek them out.
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Fear and Loathing on Air Force One
Seymour M. Hersh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
15 Jul 2023 – A silly fear that signals the Democratic Party’s panic about the 2024 Presidential election: Trump could be the Republican nominee and will select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate. The duo will then sweep to a huge victory over Joe Biden and take down many of the party’s House and Senate candidates.
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US’ Top Competition Watchdog Opens Investigation into ChatGPT Maker
Dan Milmo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – FTC makes move on claims OpenAI has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk.
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The Magaverse
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – Or is it Megaverse?
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Extremist Ideology in Europe: ‘Leave Everyone Behind’ (Except Us)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – A glance at the European political map would show how far the extremist ideology has been installed in European countries–those who still wave the French Revolution’s flag of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.”
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Jenin Raid Is Over–Palestinians Are Left to Cope with the Trauma
Virginia Pietromarchi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – Palestinians sift through the wreckage of their destroyed homes and of their damaged psyches. In Palestine, there’s no PTSD. Trauma is chronic and enduring.
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From ICC to ‘Sportswashing’: West’s Self-Serving Narratives Must Be Combated
Ramzy Baroud | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – The denunciation of the ICC came two days after the court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes. The speed with which the case against him was lodged, discussed, and followed by concrete action raised questions about the integrity, balance and political agenda of the Western-inclined court.
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Palestinian Hope: Present and Future
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – The past 30 hours, Israeli occupation and apartheid forces invaded the city of Jenin including the Jenin Refugee camp. They bulldozed streets and electricity and water infrastructure. They prevented ambulances and attacked he press. Thousands of people were forced to leave their homes. A second ethnic cleansing for them.
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(Italiano) 11 settembre: Chi è stato? E perché importa al movimento pacifista
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
Johan Galtung mi presentò a Graeme a un simposio TRANSCEND nel 2011 in North Carolina. L’11 settembre non era nell’agenda formale, ma emerse in conversazioni laterali con l’approssimarsi del 10° anniversario. Galtung ha sempre promosso un dialogo aperto su argomenti provocanti, tenendo testa a una propensione delle istituzioni accademiche e delle maggiori piattaforme mediatiche ad ignorare opinioni dissenzienti sul 11.09 passandole per infatuate teorie cospiratorie.
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‘A Real Massacre’: Israel’s Attack on Palestinians in Jenin
Arwa Ibrahim | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – Israel’s bloody incursion against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank continues with growing calls for the protection of civilians and fears the tense situation could explode into another devastating war. Israeli forces kill at least nine Palestinians as major military operation continues in the Jenin refugee camp.
→ read full article(Italiano) Vertice NATO di Vilnius: 30 anni di provocazioni di conflitti
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Luglio 2023 – Il prossimo vertice NATO avrà luogo a Vilnius, Lituania, il 11-12 luglio 2023, quasi esattamente 26 anni dopo (8-9 luglio 1997) quello tenutosi a Madrid, che confermò ”L’atto di Fondazione di Mutui Rapporti, Cooperazione e Sicurezza fra la NATO e la Federazione Russa”.
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IAEA Endorses Japan’s Release of Treated Water from Fukushima Plant
Eric Johnston | The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Jul 2023 – The International Atomic Energy Agency gave an essential endorsement today of a controversial plan by Japan to release treated water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the Pacific, paving the way for it to be released this summer.
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(Italiano) Innovazione spaziale da Parigi a Torino
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Luglio 2023 – Dal 19 al 25 giugno 2023 si è svolta a Parigi una importante esposizione: il Salone Internazionale dell’Aeronautica e dello Spazio. Il Salone di Parigi ha registrato la presenza di 130.000 professionsti (43% dall’estero) e 170.000 visitatori del grande pubblico; 322 delegazioni ufficiali, 1850 giornalisti accreditati.
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(Français) Haïti : la solution volée
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
6 juillet 2023 – Il y a deux ans, était assassiné le président haïtien, Jovenel Moïse. L’ONU développe ces dernières semaines une offensive diplomatique pour appuyer l’envoi d’une force internationale sur place. La communauté internationale s’obstine à passer à côté de la solution avancée par une grande partie de la société civile haïtienne.
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Dispelling the Myths about Palestinian Refugees — in Jenin and Beyond
Anne Irfan | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – With Israel’s Jenin invasion sparking a new round of misinformation, here are the truths behind five hasbara tropes on Palestinian refugees.
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Declassified Files Expose British Role in NATO’s Gladio Terror Armies
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine?
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Conditions for Guantanamo Detainees Are Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading, UN Investigator Says
Edith M. Lederer | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
26 Jun 2023 – The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay said today the 30 men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.”
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Authors File a Lawsuit against OpenAI for Unlawfully ‘Ingesting’ Their Books
Ella Creamer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay allege that their books, which are copyrighted, were ‘used to train’ ChatGPT because the Chatbot generated ‘very accurate summaries’ of the works.
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In Bid to Compete with Twitter, Zuckerberg Launches Social Media App That ‘Collects All Your Data and Follows You Everywhere’
Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
7 Jul 2023 – One day after a federal judge barred Biden administration officials and agencies from communicating with social media about censoring content, Mark Zuckerberg launched Threads — Meta’s new social media platform to compete with Twitter.
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UN Forcefully Hits at US Blockade of Cuba and Prison in Guantanamo
W.T. Whitney Jr. | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – The United Nations put forth a denunciation that carries unusual force because of its legal authority and practical experience in Cuba. Internal criticism of U.S. policies on Cuba is brushed aside due to the low priority Washington officials assign to Cuban affairs.
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