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BRICS New Development Bank De-Dollarizing, Adding Members
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

The BRICS bloc’s New Development Bank, an alternative to the US-dominated World Bank, is de-dollarizing its loans, promoting local currencies, and adding new members: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, and Zimbabwe.

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Bubba the Bullet
Monte Wolverton | Cagle Cartoons - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

Be Responsible!

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Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

8 Jun 2023 – “We trusted the government not to screw us,” said Edward Snowden. “But they did. We trusted the tech companies not to take advantage of us. But they did. That is going to happen again, because that is the nature of power.”

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France Is Reportedly Making a Principled Stand against NATO’s Expansion to Asia
Andrew Korybko | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

7 Jun 2023 – The Financial Times cited eight sources who revealed that France is preventing the opening of NATO’s liaison office in Japan. Macron’s position is predicated on his assessment of France’s national interests.

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Quitting Time
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

30 May 2023 – AI Times

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56 Years of Israeli Occupation: Explaining the Palestinian ‘Naksa’
Yumna Patel | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

5 Jun 2023 – Today Palestinians mark 56 years of Israeli military occupation. When Palestinians commemorate the Naksa, it is not only loss of life and land but also the military occupation that strips them of their rights to life, freedom, dignity and self-determination.

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As US Considers Reoccupying Haiti, History Shows Occupation Is the Root Problem
Danny Shaw | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

6 Jun 2023 – The tragedy unfolding in Haiti is a direct result of over a century of U.S. political, military and economic coercion.

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Freedom in Diversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

1 Jun 2023 – Now is the time to reject the industrial agriculture model, a model that came from and behaves like war. Industrial agriculture is destroying life on Earth, the role of women in food and farming, our health, and the health of the planet.

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The U.S. Military in Hawaii: The Dark Side of Paradise!
Jim Albertini | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

2 Jun 2023 – The Hawaiian Islands are viewed as the Paradise in the Pacific–image promoted by the tourist industry. But Hawaii has a very different dark side as one of the most militarized places in the world and a long history of illegal U.S. occupation.

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Of the Sahel and the Merchants of Death
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

2 Jun 2023 – There is a trafficking web across the Sahel spanning 6.000 kilometres–from Atlantic Ocean to Red Sea–home to more than 300 million people in 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal. 

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Use of ChatGPT to Clarify Possibility of Dialogue of Higher Quality
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

Implications for “Yes” and “No” Campaigns on Controversial Issues

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The High Costs of Military Air Shows
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

A Short History: Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for our Amusement

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Putin, South Africa, and the International Criminal Court
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

31 May 2023 – The Upcoming BRICS Meetings in South Africa – The West has deployed the International Criminal Court in the US/NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.

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U.S. Empire Named Most Murderous Killing Machine in History
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

30 May 2023 – New Study Finds U.S. Responsible for Nearly 300 Million Deaths—and Counting

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Blinken Dismisses Calls for a Ceasefire–Says US Must Build Up Ukraine’s Military
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

2 Jun 2023 – The US will focus on arming Ukraine and not on a negotiated settlement: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out a plan to massively expand Kiev’s military before talks begin.

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(Italiano) Etica nella Ricerca negli Atenei Torinesi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

“Quando ragioniamo di etica della ricerca pensiamo alla sua libertà, al suo pluralismo, a un’etica che non risponde a una qualsivoglia morale ma ai valori costituzionali del nostro Paese”.

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(Français) L’Hypocrisie des Sanctions Économiques
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

Les sanctions économiques sont-elles une violation des droits de l’Homme ?

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Another Look at the U.S. Financial Transactions Tax That Could Eliminate Need for All Others
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

2 Jun 2023 – A small financial transactions tax could correct a number of maladies in the US economic system, from the federal debt crisis to the widening wealth divide to the rampant financialization of the economy, while eliminating taxes on income and sales.

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The Vassalage at Heart of the G7
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

1 Jun 2023 – Resurrecting the Concept of the Triad – Following the end of the Second World War, the United States built an international system that was premised on the subordination and integration of Japan and Europe.

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The Hypocrisy of Economic Sanctions
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

1 Jun 2023 – Are economic sanctions a violation of human rights?

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What’s Your Sign
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

26 May 2023 – Say, what?

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Saudi Arabia Set to Join BRICS’ New Development Bank
Ahmed Adel | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

31 May 2023 – The ties between the BRICS bank and Saudi Arabia signals an advancement in the de-dollarisation of the global economy. This week, Saudi Arabia held talks to join BRICS’ New Development Bank as its ninth member, a decision not only economic but also political.

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USA: Disconnecting War from Its Consequences
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

31 May 2023 – Twenty-two years ago, Congress put sanity up for a vote. It lost in the House, 420-1 and in the Senate, 98-0. Barbara Lee’s was the lone vote against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force resolution. Militarism keeps expanding. If there’s a problem out there, option one is to kill it quickly. Problem solved!

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The Polarities of Democracy from Conception to Execution
Bill Benet, PhD | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

Abstract: People around the globe have embraced democracy to bring about positive social change to address our environmental, economic, and militaristic challenges. Yet, there is no agreement on a definition of democracy that can guide social change efforts. The polarities of democracy present a unifying theory of democracy to guide healthy, sustainable, and just social change efforts.

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Climate Carnage: Things Can Only Get Worse
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

29 May 2023 – Please stop repeating all this softened wording, such as climate change, climate-related hazards, climate crisis, or extreme weather events… And just call it what it really is: climate carnage. 

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Fossil Fuels, Tipping Points, and a Viable Solution
Steve Hoffman | Freedom Socialist Party - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

Jun 2023 – A condemnation of the capitalist overuse of fossil fuels–and a solution.

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The Slow Ethnic Cleansing of Ein Samiya’s Bedouin Community
Mariam Barghouti | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

31 May 2023 – Israeli settlers and military systematically made life unbearable for the Bedouin community living in the West Bank’s Ein Samiya region. On May 22 they were forced to leave their lands and were displaced for the fourth time since 1969.

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Judge Finds Australian War Hero to Be a War Criminal
Graham Hryce | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

2 Jun 2023 – Canberra’s most-decorated living soldier loses the “defamation case of the century” over alleged murder of Afghan civilians.

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The Accounting Crisis
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

29 May 2023 – Sigh!

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“Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody’s Finished if It Takes Place,” Says Noam Chomsky
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

26 May 2023 – “Major world powers need to shift from confrontation to accommodation soon; otherwise, we’ll go off the precipice together.”

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The Wars We Don’t (Care to) See
David Barsamian and Norman Solomon | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

Aggression Made Easy

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Experts Urge Action to Mitigate ‘Risk of Extinction from AI’
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

30 May 2023 – It “should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” says a new statement signed by dozens of artificial intelligence critics and boosters.

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The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions: Event Summary
Francisco Rodríguez and Mark Weisbrot | Center for Economic and Policy Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

23 May 2023 – On 19 May, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) brought together leading experts in the study of economic sanctions to help to answer a critical, but often-ignored, question: What are the human consequences of US economic sanctions?

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How a Tour of Russia Showed Me That Propaganda Perverts Reality in the Minds of US Citizens
Scott Ritter | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

‘Waging Peace’: My month-long tour of the country was an eye-opening experience, and so was the hostility that met me back home in the US.

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African Unity and the New Cold War
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

Imperialism extends its destabilization efforts against China and Russia across the continent. This year’s 60th anniversary of the Organization of African Unity occurs at an important point in international relations. Africa and its people were essential in the rise of western colonialism due to the Atlantic Slave Trade, 15th to 19th century.

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Coherence of Sustainable Development Goals through Artificial Intelligence
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

Elaboration of Strategic Sonnets as Memorable 14-Fold Modes of Aesthetic Presentation

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

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

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Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in China
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

24 May 2023 – Eritrea can chart an exciting new development path through mutually respectful collaboration with China.

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G7 Owes the Poor $13 Trillion in Unmet Pledges. Meanwhile…
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

The G7 countries owe low- and middle-income countries US$ 13.3 trillion in unpaid aid and funding for climate action when one billion people risk cholera because of the reduction and non-payment of committed assistance.

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Can the Global South Build a New World Information and Communication Order?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

It is remarkable how the media in a few countries are able to set the record on matters around the world. The European and North American countries enjoy a near-global monopoly over information; their media houses vested with a credibility and authority inherited from colonial times plus their command of the neocolonialist structure of our times.

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(Italiano) Munizioni
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

Con il comunicato stampa del 3 maggio 2023 la Commissione Europea riunita a Bruxelles annuncia l’adozione di una nuova legge che consentirà ai Paesi dell’Unione di produrre rapidamente una quantità crescente di munizioni e di missili.

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ChatGPT Imagines a World Where Power Structures Are Reversed
Joe Martino | The Pulse – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

If our current ideas of a society were truly suspended, what type of world would we envision?

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Another Regrettable Incident
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

15 May 2023 – Meanwhile, in the US of A

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Tina Turner, Queen of Rock & Roll, Dead at 83
Brittany Spanos and David Browne | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

24 May 2023 – Legendary Singer “Died Peacefully” Today in Switzerland after a Long Illness

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

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

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Why Is the African Union Absent in Sudan?
Tafi Mhaka | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

25 May 2023 – In Sudan, ‘African solutions to African problems’ is proving to be a hollow mantra.

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CIA Front Company Extends Intrusive Surveillance Operations in Lithuania under Pretext of New Cold War
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

22 May 2023 – Creation of Orwellian surveillance apparatus belies claim that the U.S. is upholding democracy in the face of Russian authoritarianism.

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Global South Aims to Fix the UN
Ramzy Baroud | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

23 May 2023 – Calls to reform the Security Council have been made many times in the past, but Beijing’s position is particularly important in both language and timing.

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What’s the Use of William Blake?
Stephen F. Eisenman | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

26 May 2023 – What’s the use of William Blake? Or for that matter, of any art and literature in an age of climate change, proxy wars, nuclear threat, pandemic, rise of fascism? Rather than study long dead poets or painters, shouldn’t we focus on the emergency?

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Rearmament & Europe’s Welfare
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

17 May 2023 – Farewell to the Welfare State? Not Just Yet. Let’s see how Europeans respond when they are told their peace dividend is to be spent on the machinery of war — when it’s “howitzers instead of hospitals” now, as a New York Times article puts it.

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Japan’s Fukushima Water Release Plan Falls Short of Full G7 Support
KBS World/Global Times/Pacnews | Islands Business – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

18 Apr 2023 – Japan failed to secure unanimous support from the G7 for its release of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean due to Germany’s opposition.

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1st Trimester 2023: Shell Profited US$ 9.6 BILLION or US$ 106 MILLION/day
Lisa Göldner | Greenpeace Germany – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

Shell is raking it in whilst linked to unlawful activities and extreme weather wreaks havoc across the world. They’re literally profiting off people’s pain. Please can you sign our urgent petition calling on fossil criminals like Shell to stop their climate-wrecking activities and pay for the damage they have caused?

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Why Are We [USA] in Ukraine?
Benjamin Schwarz and Christopher Layne | Harper’s Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

June 2023 Issue – The armed camps of NATO and the Russian Federation menace each other across a new Iron Curtain. Unlike the long twilight that characterized the Cold War, the current confrontation is running decidedly hot. As former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and former secretary of defense Robert Gates acknowledge approvingly, the United States is fighting a proxy war with Russia.

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A Short Tale of a Tree, a Bottle of Oil, and a Moroccan Wedding Party
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

12 May 2023 – A much needed break amidst so many alarming news, with a brief story of a tree, a bottle of liquid gold, and a wedding gift.

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

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

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New Rules of Engagement: How Palestinians Defeated Netanyahu and Redefined ‘Unity’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

17 May 2023 – It is the unity of those resisting on the ground, from Gaza to Nablus, and from Jenin to Sheikh Jarrah, that matters most.

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China, India, and the Emerging New World Order
Michael T. Klare | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

What was once the North American century is now potentially the century of the G-3: China, India, and the US.

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Digital Privacy Legislation Is Civil Rights Legislation
Paige Collings and Adam Schwartz | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

18 May 2023 – Our personal data and the ways private companies harvest and monetize it plays an increasingly powerful role in modern life. Corporate databases are vast, interconnected, and opaque. The movement and use of our data is difficult to understand, let alone trace.

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(Italiano) Tolstoj: la Guerra e la Pace
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

18 Maggio 2023 – Questa mia relazione consiste solo in appunti modesti su un grande ampio tema, la guerra e la pace, visto nell’opera e nella persona di Lev Tolstoj. Questa lettura, fatta alla luce degli avvenimenti in corso nel 2023, porta la coscienza a concludere: l’umanità deve mettere al bando l’omicidio statale come l’omicidio privato.

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75 Years of Israeli Violence against Palestinians
Sam Carliner | Left Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

14 May 2023 – 75 years since the Nakba, it is increasingly clear that Israel is a violent occupier of the Palestinian people. In the last three quarters of a century, it has also served the interests of U.S. imperialism and trained and aided other capitalist states in methods of violence and repression.

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Give the Defense Innovation Unit a Slice of Ukraine Funds
Maj. Gen. John Ferrari (ret.) and Charles Rahr | Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

16 May 2023 – Calls to make Ukraine a laboratory and a testing ground for U.S. weapons and platforms are the right ones. Ukraine presents a tremendous opportunity for the Pentagon, industry, and our allies to learn how our weapons fare under real-world, high-intensity combat. But Ukraine should also be an accelerator, speeding up technologies with military applications.

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Post-9/11 US Armed Conflicts Killed over 4.5 Million–Estimates
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

15 May 2023 – Death Outlives War: “The US government has a significant obligation to invest in humanitarian assistance and reconstruction in post-9/11 war zones,” said a new report.

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US Empire of Debt Headed for Collapse
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

15 May 2023 – To paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and geoeconomic order is dying and the new one is being born at breakneck speed. It’s no wonder “socialism with Chinese characteristics” spooks the Hegemon creditor oligarchy to the point they are even risking a Hot War.

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Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Search for Meaning: Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT, 30 Years before ChatGPT
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

“We read excitedly of the latest chemical, computational, or quantum theory of mind, and then ask, ‘Is that all there is to it?’”

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China and the Axis of the Sanctioned
Juan Cole | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

16 May 2023 – How U.S. Divide-and-Rule Strategy in the Middle East Backfired

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Got Titers? New Test Makes It Easy, Inexpensive to Find Out if You’re Immune to 11 Infectious Diseases
Brian S. Hooker | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

15 May 2023 – ImmunoProfile®, a new at-home test kit available online, simultaneously measures antibody titers for 11 infectious diseases, allowing individuals to determine quickly and inexpensively if they already have immunity to the diseases.

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Escaping Debt Slavery: Ethiopia, Africa, and the IMF
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

17 May 2023 – In 1987, at the Organization for African Unity, Thomas Sankara said, “Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa.” Ethiopia might actually be better off if the US keeps the IMF from signing off on its latest loan request.

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The Ukraine Refugee Question
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

19 May 2023 – Ukraine’s neighbors push for Zelensky to pursue peace as millions of displaced people flow into Europe.

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Ukraine’s ‘Press Freedom’ Score Increases Despite Martial Law, Banned Media
Bryce Greene | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting FAIR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

9 May 2023 – Now you know why Ukraine is fighting for “our values” – meaning something terrible has happened to those “our values.”

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Hiroshima’s Nuclear Lesson: The G7 Must Push for Peace in Ukraine
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

18 May 2023 – President Joe Biden is attending this year’s G7 summit, with Russia’s war in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons there at the top of the agenda. The G7 comprises Japan, Italy, Canada, France, the US, the UK, and Germany.

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Stepping over the Border, onto Planet Earth
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

17 May 2023 – “. . . we belong to the Earth rather than to a nation . . .” These words stick in my heart like a wedding ring. At the same time, I feel surrounded by a cynical “realism”: Don’t be a fool. A marriage like that isn’t possible. Be grateful you’re a US citizen. Arm yourself! We’re being invaded.

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Squeezed by the Shorts: Time to Ban Short Selling?
Ellen Brown | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

17 May 2023 – Short sellers have made a killing in the recent banking crisis, scalping $14.3 billion from bank stock owners just in March of this year. Short sellers “borrow” stock they don’t own and immediately sell it, driving the price down. Then they buy it back at the lower price, return the stock, and pocket the difference.

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To Meet EV Demand, Industry Turns to Technology Long Deemed Hazardous
Rebecca Tan, Dera Menra Sijabat and Joshua Irwandi | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

10 May 2023 – Indonesia is richly endowed with nickel, but refining this crucial mineral poses a daunting environmental challenge.

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A Certain Form of Thieving: The US Banksters Strike Again
Binoy Kampmark | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

10 May 2023 – It looks like 2008 all over again. Economic and financial mismanagement feature in scorching, consuming brilliance. The culpable, bungling banksters, have returned with their customary, venal incompetence. In the customary script, they habitually seek the role of the public purse to socialise their losses. Along the way, they will avoid richly deserved prison sentences, lie low, and return to repeat their sins.

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Ilhan Omar Voted to Withdraw from Somalia, but She’s No Anti-Imperialist
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

10 May 2023 – Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is not the progressive she is thought to be. She follows US policy regarding her native Somalia and has connections there that compromise her actions. True anti-imperialist politics are needed to counteract the US interference that has devastated the country.

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The Way
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

How ‘The Way’ Continues to Inspire Over a Decade after Its Release – Emilio Estevez co-stars with his father Martin Sheen. It is about a father’s pilgrimage on the Camiño de Santiago following his son’s death.

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The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

“Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.”

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A Historic Defeat of Imperialism: Arab League Readmits Syria
Dave DeCamp | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

10 May 2023 – On Sunday [7 May], the Arab League voted to readmit Syria, marking a significant step in Damascus’ efforts to normalize relations with regional countries. Assad Could Attend an Arab League Summit in Saudi Arabia Later This Month

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War for Profit: A Very Short History
Brad Wolf | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

8 May 2023 – As they did over a century ago ahead of WW I, the Merchants of Death thrive behind a veil of duplicity and slick media campaigns. Wherever they go, suffering and death, war crimes and atrocities, profits, and stock buybacks follow.

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As Arab States Seek Peace, US Insists That Syrians Suffer
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

14 May 2023 – After the Arab League re-admits Syria, Washington threatens new sanctions to prevent reconstruction.

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Unceasing Human Attacks on the Source of 80% of Food, 98% of Oxygen
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

10 May 2023 – Plants are the source of 80% of all food, and as much as 98% of all oxygen. Logically, human beings would do anything to protect this essential source of life. But do they? Not at all. Rather the whole contrary.

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

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

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Senate Report: Nearly 700 Former High-Ranking Pentagon and Other Government Officials Now Work at the Top 20 Defense Contractors
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

12 May 2023 – Ideally, Warren’s report would precipitate a much larger congressional investigation of the military-industrial complex modeled after the 1934 Nye Committee hearings.

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

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

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

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

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Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex: The Top 50 Organizations to Know
Matt Taibbi, et al. | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

10 May 2023 – The Citizen’s Starter Kit to Understanding the New Global Information Cartel

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Can African Farmers Still Feed the World?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

8 May 2023 – In 2016, Africa had 60-65% of the world’s uncultivated arable land and 10% of renewable freshwater resources. According to the AU, African farmers could feed the world. Is it still the case?

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Sudan Talks Held in Saudi Arabia Reveal Underlying Crisis of Governance
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

11 May 2023 – Jedda negotiations illustrate the role of Washington and its allies in the Gulf Region.

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Report Unpacks Dangers of Emerging Military Tech from AI Nukes to Killer Robots
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

“While the media and the U.S. Congress have devoted much attention to the purported benefits of exploiting cutting-edge technologies for military use, far less has been said about the risks involved.”

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Boyfriend Trouble
Maria Salmon | Reader’s Digest – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

A teenager brings her new boyfriend home to meet her parents.

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The Army We Don’t See
Andrea Mazzarino | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

9 May 2023 – The Private Soldiers Who Fight in North America’s Name

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NATO’s Stealthy Expansion into Asia-Pacific Can Blow up Region
Alex Lo | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

8 May 2023 – A proxy war in Ukraine is not enough for NATO’s Jens Stoltenberg, who clearly thinks his mandate extends to containing China in its own backyard.

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Artificial Emotional Intelligence and Its Human Implications
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

There is currently no lack of references to the major future impacts of artificial intelligence on global civilization at every level. Some of these are anticipated with concern, especially with warnings of how AI is likely to be misused to undermine valued social processes and employment, whether deliberately or inadvertently.

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Sudan: The New Geopolitical Battlefield between East and West?
Matthew Ehret | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

2 May 2023 – The potential outbreak of a civil war sparked by a factional fight within Sudan’s military government poses a destabilization threat beyond the nation’s borders – into Africa, West Asia, and the emerging multipolar order. This suits the West just fine.

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China, the Peacemaker? PODCAST
Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

3 May 2023 – Historian Alfred W. McCoy discusses China’s rapid economic and political rise and how Beijing is well positioned to broker an end to the war in Ukraine. PODCAST

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Updates on the Economic War and the Political Crisis
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

1 May 2023 – The trip to China this month by Brazilian President Lula was marked by the installation of former Pres. of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, to preside over the New Development Bank of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa).

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How to Ignore Israel’s Apartheid: Learn from Ursula Von Der Leyen
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

2 May 2023 – The EU boss should be ashamed about her use of anti-Palestinian racist tropes. She won’t be.

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Scientists Say They’ve Finally Solved Stephen Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox
Jackie Appel | Popular Mechanics - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

5 May 2023 – The paradox states that information can neither be emitted from a black hole or preserved inside forever. But the laws of quantum physics dictate that information cannot be destroyed.

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(Français) Mises À Jour Sur La Guerre Économique Et La Crise Politique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

1 mai 2023 – Les événements récents ont des effets profonds sur les sujets de mes blogs précedents : NOUVELLES DU FRONT DE LA GUERRE ÉCONOMIQUE et L’ANALYSE EST SIMPLE ; C’EST ECONOMIQUE.

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A Tribute to Daniel Ellsberg
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

1 May 2023 – The Inspiration for My Psychological Study of Moral Heroism and the Courageous Personality

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