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How to Own Your Weakness: Alan Watts on the Confucian Concept of Jen and the Dangers of Self-Righteousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
A great tragedy of our time, this epoch of self-righteousness, is the zeal with which people would rather feel right than understand — the situation, the context, the motives and vulnerabilities behind the actions, the basic fact of the other.
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Prof. Johan Galtung (Born 24 Oct 1930)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
The ‘Father of Peace Studies’ celebrates his 93rd birthday. At 24, he was jailed for 6 months as a Conscientious Objector in Norway. In jail he wrote, with Arne Næss, his first book: Gandhi’s Political Ethics. Today he has contributed more than 170 books; over 1500 papers, articles and book chapters; and over 500 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service on peace and conflict studies, mediation, and related issues. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR JOHAN!
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(Italiano) Questione arabo-ebraica in Palestina
M. K. Gandhi | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Ottobre 2023 – Un articolo che Gandhi scrisse per il giornale «The Harijan» e pubblicato il 26 novembre 1938, quanto mai attuale in questi giorni e quanto mai non compreso, allora, purtroppo.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 3: Israeli Defense Minister Orders Full Siege of Gaza “No Power, No Food, No Gas”
Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau | TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
9 Oct 2023 – Fighting between Israel and Palestinian resistance factions, led by Hamas in Gaza, continued into their third day today, as Israel declared a complete siege of Gaza.
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CNN Interview Cuts Through Pro-Israel Propaganda on Gaza
Fareed Zakaria | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Palestinian National Initiative leader Mustafa Barghouti discusses the Israeli-Palestinian conflict with CNN’s Fareed Zakaria. Barghouti argues that Hamas’ attack on Israel was a response to the Israeli occupation, and that Palestinians, like Ukrainians, are fighting for their freedom.
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Hell Is Not Predestined
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
11 Oct 2023 – Humanity’s cancer in Israel and Palestine: Missiles fly, hell makes global headlines, thousands die, many of them (oh God, of course) children. Israeli Defense Minister declares: “We are fighting human animals and we act accordingly. . . . We are imposing a complete siege on Gaza; no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel. Everything will be closed.”
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European Leaders Pledge Support for Israel, Condemn Hamas and Halt Palestinian Aid
Fatima Al-Kassab | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
9 Oct 2023 – Landmark buildings around Europe, including 10 Downing Street in London and the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, have lit up with the Israeli flag — and some cities have seen pro-Palestinian protests — as governments across the continent convened emergency meetings to respond to the conflict in Israel and Gaza.
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“Little Prince” Author Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, the Sahara Desert, and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
In Dec1940, two years before he created ‘The Little Prince’ and four years before he disappeared over the Bay of Biscay, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry began writing ‘Letter to a Hostage’ while waiting in Portugal for admission into the USA.
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Conservative Jones and the Mystery of the Recalcitrant Democrats
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
9 Oct 2023 This Modern World
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Haiti – Neocolonial Intervention, Grass Roots Resistance
Stephen Sefton | Kawsachun News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
7 Oct 2023 – From the 2004 coup d’état against President Jean Bertrand Aristide until 2017, Haiti was occupied militarily by US and Canadian troops and by the MINUSTAH, always under the clear direction of the governments of the USA, Canada and France.
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India’s Case against Arundhati Roy Is a Big Red Flag for Free Speech
Karin Deutsch Karlekar | MSNBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – In the absence of free expression, other freedoms are quick to die.
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History of the Gaza Strip
Maha Nassar | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – Why the History of the Densely Populated Enclave Is Key to Understanding the Current Conflict
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What Is the White Phosphorus That Israel Is Accused of Using in Gaza?
Areesha Lodhi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Human Rights Watch says the Israeli military recently used white phosphorus munitions in Lebanon and Gaza. This wax-like, toxic substance burns at temperatures high enough to melt metal.
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(Italiano) Ultimo atto di una tragedia: Chi semina vento raccoglie tempesta
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Ottobre 2023 – Il brutale attacco terroristico di Hamas contro civili israeliani suscita orrore e non può che essere condannato senza se e senza ma. Per capire, non certo per giustificare, proviamo a riassumere i dati salienti, partendo dai fatti degli ultimi giorni, ma allargando lo sguardo ad un contesto più ampio che aiuti, per quanto possibile, a decifrarli.
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US Military to Move a Carrier Strike Group in Support of Israel
Tara Copp | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023 – US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said today the USS Gerald R. Ford carrier strike group will sail to the Eastern Mediterranean to assist Israel. The Navy’s newest and most advanced aircraft carrier, its 5,000 sailors, deck of warplanes, cruisers and destroyers represent a show of force ready to respond to anything.
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No Power, Water or Fuel to Gaza Until Hostages Freed, Says Israel Minister
Bethan McKernan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – US secretary of state lands in Tel Aviv after fifth night of bombardment and preparations for ground invasion.
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Enough!
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
7 Oct 2023 – Mother Palestine
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The Savagery of the War against the Palestinian People
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Who knows how many Palestinian civilians will be killed by the time this report is published? Among the bodies that cannot be taken to a hospital or a morgue, because there will be no petrol or electricity, will be large numbers of children that will have hidden in their homes listening to the sounds of the Israeli F-16 bombers coming closer and closer.
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How the Fossil Fuel Industry Came to Love Climate Change
Gloria Guillo | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023 – Does the Threat of Climate Change Misdirect the Anti-War Movement?
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(Italiano) Immoral Code: militarizzazione delle tecnologie informatiche e rischi nucleari
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Immoral Code è una video-indagine in cui viene chiesto ad alcun* rappresentanti della società civile di esprimere il loro parere su situazioni in cui è, o potrebbe essere considerato moralmente e socialmente accettabile uccidere altri esseri umani.
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Propaganda Blitz: How Mainstream Media Is Pushing Fake Palestine Stories
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – After Hamas launched a surprise attack, Israeli Defense Forces responded with airstrikes, leveling Gazan buildings. The violence claimed the lives of more than 2,500 people but Western media have much greater sympathy with Israeli dead than Palestinian ones and have played their usual role as spokespersons for IDF.
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Contrarian Analysis as a Means of Avoiding Intelligence Failure
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
Vulnerability of Mainstream Narrative from Suppression of Alternative Perspectives
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The October 7th Catastrophe. Why Did It Happen?
Hillel Schenker | The Times of Israel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Maybe the US, EU, Arab League and others will realize that they have to intervene to stop the bloodletting and to arrive at a resolution based on the 2002 Arab Peace Initiative and the establishment of a Palestinian state alongside Israel.
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A Single Morning That May Change the Middle East Forever!
Mansoor Durrani | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
7 Oct 2023 – After 70 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine; after 50 years of Arab-Israeli Yom Kuppar War; and after 9 months of “low intensity” Israeli violence that killed over 250 Palestinian civilians in the first 9 months of 2023, something unprecedented happened around 6:00 a.m. local time today!
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Nobel Peace Prize 2023 Is Not about Nobel’s Will
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023 – This year’s award again violates Nobel’s Will grossly, totally aligned with US/NATO interests. One must wonder how far the Committee can continue to deviate from its legal mandate without being investigated.
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Netanyahu Shows Map of ‘New Middle East’—without Palestine—to UN General Assembly
Brett Wilkins | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
22 Sep 2023 – Speaking to a largely empty chamber, Netanyahu made clear with his little map what normalization really seeks: eliminating Palestine from the region and legitimizing greater Israel, all with the blessing of Arab regimes.
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Avoiding World War III
Eric Herter | Peace & Planet News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
AI’s Thoughts on Peace – Can artificial intelligence communicate wisdom that has been ignored when it comes from the peace movement?
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The IMF and World Bank Talk “Good Governance” but Walk with Corrupt Governments
Patrick Bond | Bretton Woods Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
There is a deeper reason for sustained corruption: Neoliberal ideology.
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The Half-Truth of Western Political Realism: A Buddhist Critique
William J. Long, Ph.D. | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
31 Aug 2023 – This paper provides a Buddhist critique of Western political realism and argues that the failure to appreciate the full extent of interdependence and our root nature is the ultimate source of all conflicts.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
In occasione del Centenario dell’Aeronautica Militare, infatti, era stata organizzata una manifestazione aerea che prevedeva la partecipazione di moltissimi velivoli, e un gran finale con lo spettacolo della Pattuglia Acrobatica Nazionale organizzato dall’Aero Club Torino.
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US Weapons to Ukraine Sold through Back Door to Terrorists
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
4 Oct 2023 – According to former Ukrainian Defense Ministry informants, the Foundation to Battle Injustice identified which NATO weapons are being resold by the Ukrainian government and revealed the scale and routes to resell Western weapons on the black market.
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A Maidan 2.0 ‘Color Revolution’ Looms in Georgia
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
6 Oct 2023 – The arrest of US regime change operatives in Tbilisi suggests a coup against Georgia’s government could be in the works. As Ukraine’s counteroffensive fails, the West appears eager to open a new front in its proxy war.
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Al-Aqsa Flood
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023 – We have 15 million native Palestinians, 8 million of us are refugees or displaced people (2/3rd of Gaza’s 2.2 million are refugees). Israel cannot be allowed to get away with stealing lands and resources and setting up a racist apartheid regime. Even besieged, starving, blockaded people in Gaza manage to break through their prison walls.
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Emerging Science: The True Precipitating Cause of Alzheimer’s May Be Much Simpler Than Previously Believed
Ben Bartee | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
5 Oct 2023 – The mainstream medical community has long held that the buildup of amyloid and tau proteins in the brain is the precipitating cause of Alzheimer’s disease, but the true cause may be much simpler and, critically, much more simply prevented/treated.
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‘It’s like 1948’: Israel Cleanses Vast West Bank Region of Nearly All Palestinians
Oren Ziv | Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
In mere months, entire Palestinian communities between Ramallah and Jericho have been chased out by settler violence and state policies — paving the way for a total Israeli takeover of thousands of acres of land.
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Billionaires Try to Shrink World’s Population
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
3 Sep 2023 – Is Worldwide Depopulation Part of the Billionaires’ “Great Reset?” Secret Gathering Sponsored by Bill Gates, 2009 Meeting of “The Good Club”
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Palestinians Have a Legal Right to Armed Resistance against Israeli Colonialism
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
8 Oct 2023 – International law clearly shows that the Palestinian people have a legal right to armed struggle against Israeli colonialism, just as South Africans did against Apartheid. Gaza suffers under an illegal Israeli blockade that even a former British prime minister recognized to be a “prison camp”. We look over the evidence.
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(Français) Pas de Paix Avec la Culture de Guerre
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
2 octobre 2023 – La culture de la guerre semble plus forte que jamais. Pour illustrer cela, un jour avant la Journée internationale de la paix, l’ouverture des Nations Unies a été donnée au président ukrainien Zelensky pour appeler à une guerre totale contre la Russie, même au risque de déclencher une Troisième Guerre mondiale.
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Doctors, Scientists Cry Foul after Nobel Prize Awarded to mRNA COVID Vaccine Team
John-Michael Dumais | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
2 Oct 2023 – Scientists and doctors had harsh criticism for the Norwegian Nobel Committee as it today awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to a pair of biochemists for developing “effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.”
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No Peace with the Culture of War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
2 Oct 2023 – The culture of war seems stronger than ever. Illustrating this, one day preceding the International Day of Peace, the opening of the United Nations was given to Ukraine president Zelensky to call for all-out war against Russia, even at the risk of launching a Third World War.
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Why Japan Should Stop Its Fukushima Nuclear Wastewater Ocean Release
Tatsujiro Suzuki | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
On 24 Aug 2023 TEPCO started discharging so-called “treated” and “diluted” water from Fukushima into the Pacific Ocean. This is not the end of controversy but the beginning of a long-lasting struggle where science meets politics and lack of public trust both inside and outside Japan.
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“The Great Taking”: How They Can Own It All
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
3 Oct 2023 – The derivatives bubble exceeds one quadrillion dollars. The GDP of the world is $105 trillion, or 10% of one quadrillion; the collective wealth of the world is $360 trillion. The bubble looks ready to pop. We need to design an alternative financial system that is equitable and sustainable.
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The Geometry of Grief: A Mathematician on How Fractals Can Help Us Fathom Loss and Reorient to the Ongoingness of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
To live at all, however long or short, is an unbidden bargain to lose everything you hold precious: every love and every life, including your own. Loss is the price of life–a price not merely worth paying but beyond questions of worth and why.
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Zionist Settlers Have a Very Effective System for Forcing Palestinians Out of Their Homes
Avishay Mohar | Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
Herding sheep into others’ fields, preventing access to water, blocking roads, killing animals and breaking into homes in the middle of the night – these and other tactics are part of the daily terror perpetrated by Israeli settlers in Palestinian villages.
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Brazil’s Supreme Court Upholds Indigenous Rights to Reclaim Land
Lyric Aquino | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
25 Sep 2023 – The ruling puts up additional road blocks for the mining, logging, and cattle industries.
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(Italiano) Gli Usa stanno passando all’Europa la patata bollente della guerra in Ucraina
Paolo Ferrero | Il Fatto Quotidiano – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
E’ infatti del tutto evidente che di fronte al fallimento della controffensiva militare ucraina le classi dirigenti statunitensi – che già erano divise prima – stanno maturando l’idea che la guerra ucraina non meriti più tutto lo sforzo finanziario fatto sino ad ora.
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The United States Has Its Fingerprints All Over the Chaos in Haiti
Branko Marcetic | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
3 Oct 2023 – The ongoing turmoil in Haiti has been exacerbated by US meddling. There’s a very good chance that the foreign intervention announced yesterday by the United Nations will make things worse.
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The German Banker and British Lord Who Wrote the ‘Capitalist Magna Carta’
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard | Declassified UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
4 Oct 2023 – In this excerpt from their book, Silent Coup, the authors go to the sources of a key legal mechanism used by multinational corporations to override governments around the world.
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Spot the Mistakes!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Oct 2023
2 Oct 2023 – Rainy Day Fun Game
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A Year of U.S. Lying about Nord Stream
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
26 Sep 2023 – The Biden administration has acknowledged neither its responsibility for the pipeline bombing nor the purpose of the sabotage.
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Dying for Inches in Ukraine
Caitlin Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
30 Sep 2023 – That weapons systems are being tested on human bodies to the immense benefit of war profiteers over a completely avoidable and provoked war is nightmarishly depraved.
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The Big Business of War–a Clandestine Arms Market in Ukraine
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
25 Sep 2023 – US Congress has allocated 43 billion to the security of Ukraine for direct military purposes. The New York Times calls it “a clandestine arms market” in Ukraine as billions of dollars were pocketed by high-ranking officials in Kyiv; the government had to fire the Minister of Defence and all six deputy Defence Ministers for corruption.
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The AI Conundrum: The Peace Movement’s Next Big Challenge
Tom Valovic | Mass Peace Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
15 Sep 2023 – It’s hard to watch or read the news these days without bumping into the latest breathless glorification of artificial intelligence. For those of us who believe that some sort of technocratic takeover of many government functions is underway, this trend is deeply concerning.
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Denmark’s Prime Minister Frederiksen Knows Nothing about Ukraine, Conflict Understanding and Peace–She Wants War
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
22 Sep 2023 – The brief presentation of her views on Ukraine’s situation testifies to an ignorance – conscious, unconscious or opportunistic – that is not easily reconciled with State leadership in general and war participation in particular.
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The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
It is an ongoing mystery: What makes you and your childhood self the same person. Across a lifetime of physiological and psychological change, some center holds.
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Ralph Schoenman: Unsung Hero of Progressive Thought and Action (RIP)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
30 Sep 2023 – Ralph Schoenman is a member of a trinity of forgotten heroes of US progressive politics, airbrushed from collective memory by mainstream media and even infrequently notice by online, independent publications. The other two are Tony Russo and David Ray Griffin.
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Waiting for an Apocalypse
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
Finding Hope Living Outside the Box
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Father of the Nation: Mahatma Gandhi’s Granddaughter Remembers Her Heroic Ancestor on the Anniversary of His Birth
Tara Gandhi-Bhattacharjee | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
2 Oct 2023 – Gandhi’s desire for harmony with nature and the environment remains significant with the current focus on climate action and sustainability.
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Torture at Guantanamo
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
25 Sep 2023 – I Was the only U.S. Official Imprisoned over the Torture Program — because I Opposed and Blew the Whistle on It
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Atom and Identity: Bridging Eastern Philosophy and Western Science to Illuminate Consciousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
The Atom and the Doctrine of Identity: Quantum Pioneer Erwin Schrödinger on Bridging Eastern Philosophy and Western Science to Illuminate Consciousness
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Menendez Bribery Scandal: Egypt versus Ethiopia
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
27 Sep 2023 – U.S. federal investigators caught New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez and his wife Nadine with $180,000 worth of gold bars, $550,000 in cash, plus furniture and a $60,000 Mercedes Benz that they didn’t pay for.
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Venezuela to Launch China-Backed Anti-Poverty Program
Andreína Chávez Alava | Venezuelanalysis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
21 Sep 2023 – The Social Equality and Happiness Mission will adapt the Chinese experience to the Caribbean country’s reality to alleviate poverty and inequality.
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US House Rejects Cluster-Bomb Ban
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
27 Sep 2023 – Bipartisan House Amendment to Ban US Cluster Bomb Exports Fails – Democrats and Republicans turned down the chance to stop the export of weapons that harm and kill civilians long after military campaigns are over.
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Revealed: Israeli Cyber Firms Have Developed an ‘Insane’ New Spyware Tool–No Defense Exists
Omer Benjakob | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
14 Sep 2023 – A Haaretz investigation reveals that Israeli cyber companies developed technology that exploits the advertising system to monitor civilians, hack into their phones and computers, and spy on them. This is a terrifying capability against which no defense currently exists.
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Scientists Just Proved That ‘Monster’ Black Hole M87 Is Spinning–Confirming Einstein’s Relativity Yet Again
Ben Turner | Live Science - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
28 Sep 2023 – Astronomers have spotted two huge jets fired off by the ‘monster’ black hole M87 wobbling on an 11-year cycle, proving for the first time that black holes spin.
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Top Brazilian Court Rules in Favor of Indigenous Rights
Saurav Sarkar | Globetrotter News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
25 Sep 2023 – Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled in favor of Indigenous claims to land occupied before 1988. The case had been brought by “agribusiness-backed lawmakers.” The court ruled against the lawmakers and for Indigenous groups.
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The Real Message from the BRICS Summit
Prince Michael of Liechtenstein | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Oct 2023
28 Sep 2023 – Between 22-25 Aug, the BRICS – a loose association of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – held a summit in Johannesburg where some 30 other developing nations were invited to participate.
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How to Think about the Ukraine War after 18 Months
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Sep 2023 -This text addresses various aspects of the global political setting that has crystallized since the Russian attack of 5 Feb 2022 on Ukraine. The repudiation of diplomacy as an alternative to war, despite the costs and dangers of continuing the Ukraine War, are quite striking.
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BRICS+: Experts Explain What the Strategic Entry of Six New Nations Means for Bloc
Yusra Asif | Al Arabiya/BRICS Info Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
19 Sep 2023 – Why these six countries? One of the prominent goals of BRICS is to enhance cross-border trade among member nations to boost the group economically and reduce the bloc’s reliance on the US dollar.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Reframing Cognitive Implication in Nature and Natural Disasters – Emphasis is increasingly given to the problematic “disconnect” from “nature” and to how this might be recognized and remedied.
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How Can We Understand the Passage of Time?
Deborah Barsky and Jan Ritch-Frel | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Recent scientific findings and research in the fields of human origins and biology have reached a key threshold: with increasing accuracy, this body of knowledge can tell the complete human evolutionary story that began 7 million years ago and spans to modernity.
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Amnesty International Pushes Regime Change in Eritrea with Dubious, Unverifiable Report
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – Amnesty’s new report accusing Eritrea’s government of gruesome war crimes relies heavily on anonymous testimony, grainy satellite images, and zero field investigation. It is the latest salvo in the West’s campaign to topple the country’s independent government.
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Leaders of World’s Biggest Polluting Countries Skipping UN Climate Summit
Oliver Milman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Sep 2023 – Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York today.
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Agreement Boosts Academic Mobility Across BRICS Borders
University World News | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
22 Sep 2023 – BRICS countries, a grouping of emerging economies, agreed to facilitate the recognition of academic qualifications among members to ensure the mobility of skilled professionals, academics and students.
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Veganic Farming: How My Tiny Plot Produced 5,000 Pounds of Food without Using Manure
Jimmy Videle | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
19 Sep 2023 – Veganic farming is the growing, gardening, cultivation, and production of food and fiber crops with a minimal amount of exploitation of animal and plant species. Veganic methods use no animal products, byproducts or any other animal-originated matter.
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Comparing Galtung’s Theory of Conflict Resolution with Freud’s Psychoanalytical Theory
Prof. Antonino Drago | CIC-Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Abstract: The present paper compares Galtung’s theory of conflict resolution with Freud’s psychoanalytical theory. The basic notions of this comparison are the “adjunction” and the transference. Freud’s description of the inner conflict resolution is first interpreted by the adjunction of one person (Analyst) to the patient.
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Collaboration, Not Confrontation
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Peoples Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
24 Sep 2023 – Since a defeat of one side or the other is simply not possible, the only way forward is through a diplomatic settlement. The alternative, put simply, is collective suicide as both sides move up the escalation ladder until it is too late.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
18 Sep 2023 in the US of A
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Australian Parliamentarians Speak Outside DOJ after Assange Talks
Consortium News | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – A delegation of six Australian members of Parliament are in Washington this week lobbying for the release of Julian Assange.
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The Real Reasons the Derna Dam in Libya Broke
Mnar Adley | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
21 Sep 2023 – Here’s how this deadly disaster has everything to do with the Obama administration and NATO’s 2011 “humanitarian intervention” to overthrow Muammar Qadaffi. The US and NATO bombed Libya into a failed state with open-air slave markets. Before, Libya was the most successful country in Africa.
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Empowering Populism Worldwide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Modern Populism: Weaponizing for Power and Influence, by Deepak Tripathi (2023) – Foreword by Richard Falk
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Judge Rules 9/11 Defendant Unfit for Trial after CIA Torture Made Him Psychotic
AP | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
22 Sep 2023 – A military judge at Guantánamo Bay has ruled a 9/11 defendant incompetent to stand trial after a military medical panel found that the man’s sustained abuse in CIA custody years earlier had rendered him lastingly psychotic.
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Hoax: UK Intelligence Spun 2013 Syria Chemical Attack, Leaked Docs Show
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
19 Sep 2023 – US officials suppressed assessments that Al Qaeda’s Syrian wing had an “advanced” sarin production cell as the US blamed the Assad government for a 2013 chemical weapons attack. Leaked documents show a shadowy British intelligence contractor helped sell the story that Assad was responsible – and nearly triggered Western intervention.
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Consciousness and the Nature of the Universe: Panpsychism in the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
Coined in the sixteenth century by the Italian philosopher and proto-scientist Francesco Patrizi, whose work inspired Galileo, panpsychism is the idea that all matter is endowed with the capacity for subjective experience of immaterial quality — the sort of experience we call, in its expression familiar to us, consciousness.
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(Italiano) Guerre perpetue degli Stati Uniti d’America
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
20 Settembre 2023 – Guerre perpetue… Il complesso militar-industriale ha bisogno di nemici. Senza di loro avvizzirebbe. Non possiamo sbarazzare il mondo di queste pazzesche armi antiumane prima che tutto ciò che vale nel nostro magnifico mondo venga ridotto a ceneri radioattive? Non possiamo sgombrare il mondo dall’istituzione della guerra?
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Real Savings
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Sep 2023
A Suggestion…
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G-7 and BRICS Visions of the Future: Coercive Geopolitics or Multilateral Cooperation?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
17 Sep 2023 – A modified version of this post was published in CounterPunch on 8 Sep 2023, which itself is a reconfigured version appearing earlier on TMS (Transcend Media Service) on 4 Sep. Neither version considers the relevance of the Delhi meeting of the G-20, which represents a weaker and somewhat overlapping grouping compared to either G-7 or BRICS.
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Beyond Climate Colonialism and Food Imperialism to Earth Democracy and Food Freedom
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – Mother Earth is a sacred, self organized living being. She creates and sustains life. Through her biosphere and her complex ecological processes, she regulates her water systems, her nutrition cycles, and her climate system.
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Libya Climate Crisis Linked to Pentagon-NATO Intervention of 2011
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
13 Sep 2023 – Western foreign policy has destroyed the capacity of Libya and the Kingdom of Morocco to coordinate relief efforts amid the worsening effects of climate change.
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BRICS: The Quest for a Just Multi-Polar World (video)
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – The BRICS Summit that concluded on 24 Aug 2023 in Johannesburg is a significant milestone in the journey towards a multi-polar world.
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How to Live in Light: A Blind Hero of the French Resistance on Seeing the Heart of Life and Contacting the Oneness of Being
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
“To see takes time, like to have a friend takes time,” Georgia O’Keeffe wrote as she contemplated the art of seeing just before the Little Prince sighed his timeless sigh: “What is essential is invisible to the eye.”
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War/No More Trouble (Music Video of the Week)
Bono et al. | Playing for Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
This song around the world features musicians who have seen and overcome conflict and hatred with love and perseverance. We don’t need more trouble, what we need is love. The spirit of Bob Marley always lives on.
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Fernando Botero Angulo, Painter and Sculptor (19 Apr 1932 – 15 Sep 2023)
Nick Caistor | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Colombian painter and sculptor of voluminous figures that grace city centres the world over including Paris, Madrid and London. RIP
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Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
4 Sep 2023 – Much has been made of the simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, part of the security detail in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
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‘War Is Good for Business,’ Declares Executive at London’s Global Arms Fair
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
15 Sep 2023 – “Deals done at DSEI will cause misery across the world, causing global instability, and devastate people’s lives,” one peace activist lamented. Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine and the West’s scramble to arm Ukrainian homeland defenders have been a bonanza for arms-makers.
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What to Expect from the G77+China Summit in Cuba
Alejandra Garcia | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
14 Sep 2023 – Tomorrow the G77+China Summit will kick off in Havana, Cuba, with the attendance of heads of state and government from more than 100 nations.
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What Every Child Should Know about Marx’s Theory of Value
Michael A. Lebowitz | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
September 2023 – The law of value works in mysterious ways. For some Marxists, it underlies everything we need to know about capitalism. But, just as Karl Marx claimed he was not a Marxist, so too might he have said, “that’s not my law of value.”
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
Ad Nauseam…
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Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
14 Sep 2023 – ‘Climatic Warfare’ Has Been Excluded from the Agenda on Climate Change
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Of Civil Disobedience
Makhtar Diouf | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Sep 2023
This is a citizen’s right. A right of defiance, of distrust towards a State and its institutions when we are convinced that our rights are being violated.
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