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US Troops in Somalia Rise to 900, House Votes Not to Withdraw
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
3 May 2023 – The presence of US troops in Somalia helps the Islamist insurgency Al Shabaab recruit, exacerbating the very violence they claim to be fighting. But the House has voted down a resolution to withdraw.
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Raw Materials or Sacred Beings? Lithium Extraction in Bolivia Puts Two Worldviews into Tension
Mario Orospe Hernández | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – A rapid escalation of lithium extraction in the Bolivian Andes conflicts with the beliefs of Indigenous communities who call the region home.
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What China Is Really Playing at in Ukraine
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
30 Apr 2023 – Beijing is fully aware the NATO proxy war against Russia in Ukraine is the un-dissociable double of the U.S. war against its Belt and Road Initiative.
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Shock Doctrine: Industry Exploiting Ukraine War for Liquefied Natural Gas Expansion
Olivia Rosane | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – In an investigation targeting the “shock doctrine” practices of the gas industry, Greenpeace is calling on policymakers in both the U.S. and EU to move away from expanding LNG infrastructure before it’s too late.
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Desecration of yet another Ahmadi Mosque in Pakistan
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
JUST is of course aware that some Muslims are opposed to Ahmadis and certain aspects of their teachings which are incongruent with fundamental Islamic beliefs. But that does not give them a right to vandalise places of worship used by the Ahmadis. Disputes of this sort should be resolved through peaceful means.
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Key Nations Don’t Want to Follow the US on Russia, China Policies
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
30 Apr 2023 – Leaked intelligence assessments detail how Brazil, Pakistan, India, and other countries don’t want to follow Biden.
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Quick Quiz: Mapping Militarism 2023
David Swanson | World Beyond War – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – A picture can be worth a couple of trillion dollars–when it’s of military spending. A new ‘Mapping Militarism 2023’ is available. You can pick a map and zoom in and out, click on a country to get details, move the slider back to see earlier years, switch to list-view and get the information in text form, or click “source” to see the origins of the data and exactly what it means.
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How Facebook and Instagram Became Marketplaces for Child Sex Trafficking
Katie McQue and Mei-Ling McNamara | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – Our two-year investigation suggests that the tech giant Meta is struggling to prevent criminals from using its platforms to buy and sell children for sex.
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Noam Chomsky Speaks on What ChatGPT Is Really Good For
C.J. Polychroniou and Noam Chomsky | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
3 May 2023 – The subset of artificial intelligence known as Large Language Models can’t tell us anything about human language learning, but it excels at misleading the uninformed.
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Of Africa and the Magic Formula of the Italian Taxi Driver
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – Africa is the continent that has contributed the least (just 2 to 3%) to the causes of the current climate emergencies while bearing the brunt of 82% of the devastating consequences.
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As US Grip on Middle East Slips, Peace Breaks Out
Robert Inlakesh | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
2 May 2023 – Washington’s poor decision-making is starting to catch up with it, as nations choose to pursue peace without US interference.
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Jeffrey Sachs on China’s “Historic” Push for Multipolar World to End U.S. Domination
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – China is taking an assertive role in world affairs, helping restoration of relations between Iran and Saudi Arabia, offering a 12-point peace plan for Ukraine, and strengthening its relationships with European and Latin American powers. Last week, China continued its diplomatic outreach by offering to hold talks between Israel and Palestine.
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Chilean President Plans to Nationalize Lithium Industry
Gabriel Boric | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – The initiative, which will be sent to Congress later this year, is designed to boost the economy of the nation, which has some of the world’s largest reserves of the high-demand metal.
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Geoffrey Roberts – Why Putin Went to War
Brave New Europe - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
4 May 2023 – I have spoken with the British historian Geoffrey Roberts about an article he recently published in the Journal of Military and Strategic Studies under the title “Now or Never: The Immediate Origins of Putin’s Preventive War on Ukraine”.
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You Are Reading This Thanks to Semiconductors
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – On 7 Oct 2022, the US government implemented export controls to hinder the development of China’s semiconductor industry. ‘The whole point is to kneecap China’s AI and HPC efforts’. The next day, China’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said:
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Taiwan—A Pawn for U.S. War on China
Sara Flounders | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. Surrounding China with military bases, nuclear weapons and military vessels is a highly dangerous provocation. U.S. wars are for corporate profit.
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US Corporations Cash in on Ukraine’s Oil and Gas
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
28 Apr 2023 – As Ukraine sells off public assets in a privatization spree, US fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Halliburton are in talks to run its oil and gas industry, and the IMF imposes the Washington Consensus.
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Paradoxes of Durable Peace, Heaven and a Sustainable Lifestyle
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
24 Apr 2023 – Mysterious Dynamics Fundamental to Hopeful Anticipation of Enduring Viability – There is a widespread familiarity with the aspiration to “peace in our times”. Some form of equivalent is anticipated by many in the afterlife — a “heavenly peace”. The condition may well be imaginatively associated to some degree with holidays and retirement.
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Microplastics Invading the Male Reproductive System
Huanjia Zhang | Environmental Health News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – The authors of a new pilot study that found microplastics in human testis and semen called for more data and research to determine how the tiny particles affect the male reproductive system. It builds on evidence that male fertility is at risk from environmental toxics.
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500 Australians Join World’s First COVID Vaccine Injury Class Action Lawsuit
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – Dr. Melissa McCann raised more than $110,000 to crowdfund the case, which accuses the Australian government of negligence related to the approval and monitoring of COVID-19 vaccines.
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US War Crimes in the War on Terror
Melvin A. Goodman | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
The mainstream media are increasing their attention to war crimes and the 20th anniversary of the Iraq War, but there has been no attempt to link the issues. The war itself could be labeled a war crime or a “crime against the peace,” which was the charge against Germany introduced at the Nuremberg Trials in 1945 and 1946.
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The American Dream
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Ditto!
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Now Europeans Learn What Climate Extremes Are All About
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Apologies to those Western politicians and media who continue to say that Ukraine’s brutal proxy war stands behind whatever catastrophes, disasters or crises that occur in the Planet. Scientific evidence confirms that much earlier than that war Europe, like many other regions, was already walking closer to the edge of extreme weather consequences.
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What Can “the Invisibles” Do to Make Wars Stop?
Victoria Barceló | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
It is said that in a war everyone loses, but that is not true at all. There are those who make huge profits from the death and suffering of other human beings, of men, women and children like us: the Elites
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Bombshell Filing: 9/11 Hijackers Were CIA Recruits
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
18 Apr 2023 – At least two 9/11 hijackers had been recruited into a joint CIA-Saudi intelligence operation that was covered up at the highest level, according to an explosive new court filing.
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Media Briefing: U.S. Liquefied Gas Flooding Europe
Tim Donaghy | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
27 Apr 2023 – The oil and gas industry has moved quickly to take advantage of the US terror attack on the Russian Nordstream 2 pipeline. In 2022, shipments of liquefied natural gas from the US were redirected to Europe to replace Nordstream 2 and secure supplies for the European winter. The industry has also secured financing and begun construction on numerous LNG terminals on both sides of the Atlantic designed to operate permanently.
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Big Tech Companies Are More Powerful Than Nation-States
Tom Valovic | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – They are already richer than many countries, and the rise of AI looks set to increase their influence.
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How the War on Crypto Triggered a Banking Crisis
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
29 Apr 2023 – Facts & Info – Expert Analysis
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Western Media’s Peculiar Incuriosity about Nord Stream
Jonathan Cook | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
26 Apr 2023 – Seymour Hersh’s investigation is filled with details that could be checked — and verified or rebutted — if anyone wished to do so.
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Facebook Censors Journalist Seymour Hersh’s Report on Nord Stream Pipeline Attack
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Facebook censored a report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany, forcing users to instead read a website funded and partially owned by NATO member Norway.
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Young People from the U.S. Travel to Cuba and Break the Siege
Manolo de los Santos and Kate Gonzales | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
It’s a very hot and crowded Tuesday morning in the Yoruba Cultural Center in Havana. Yet, 150 young organizers from the U.S. listen attentively to two leaders of the cultural movement in Cuba before submitting their questions—on climate change, on housing, on fighting racism, about hope in the future—before time is up.
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A World of Violence
Eduardo Galeano | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
30 Apr 2023 – On Women Who Refused to Live in Silence and Be Consigned to Oblivion – Passages excerpted from Eduardo Galeano’s book ‘Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History,’ just out in paperback.
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(Italiano) Come opporre una resistenza efficace all’élite tecnocratica?
Robert Burrowes | Come Don Chisciotte – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
21 Aprile 2023 – Come ampiamente documentato, sotto le mentite spoglie della narrativa “virus”/”vaccino”, l’Elite Globale sta attuando cambiamenti profondi e a lungo pianificati in 200 aree della vita umana.
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All Roads Are Leading toward an International CBDC in a Cashless World
Bill Willers | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
26 Apr 2023 – The idea of government “of, by and for the people” has become a sick joke. Federal/corporate power dominates a fearful public from which it has effectively separated itself. Elected representatives consort with lobbyists flush with cash.
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The Nord Stream Pipeline Explosions: Cold War vs. “Common Sense” Perspectives
Stephen Ingle | MAPA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
14 Apr 2023 – “Common sense” dictates that we work with the rest of the world to address climate catastrophe and the hair-trigger threat of nuclear annihilation. We’re in this together. As citizens of empire and advocates for peace, we have a unique opportunity to make a difference.
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Home of the Brave
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
Terms and conditions may apply…
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World Hunger Doubles
IPS | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
29 Apr 2023 – Some 345 million people are acutely food insecure worldwide, more than twice as many as before the covid-19 pandemic, said a new report by the UN World Food Programme.
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Report on the Censorship-Industrial Complex
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
25 Apr 2023 – Introduction to a series of features about the new global speech-policing bureaucracy, uncovered in the Twitter Files and beyond.
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The Toxic Legacy of U.S. Foreign Policy in Puerto Rico
Monisha Ríos, Ph.D. | Foreign Policy In Focus - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
23 Apr 2023 – The women of Vieques, an island off the east coast of Puerto Rico, have been on the front lines of the generations-long struggle for peace and justice to end the havoc wrought by U.S. foreign policy on their island, in their homes, and on their bodies.
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Dostoyevsky on Animal Rights and the Deepest Meaning of Human Love
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
“Treasure this ecstasy; however absurd people may think it.”
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The Lifeblood of Democracy
Andy Lee Roth | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
20 Apr 2023 – Two cornerstones of democracy—freedom of expression and freedom of information—are under concerted attack, in the United States and around the world. Journalists are on the front lines of battles to defend the right to freedom of expression.
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Syria Comes in from the Cold
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 May 2023
24 Apr 2023 – After the Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, another diplomatic coup is unfolding in the Middle East. This one is orchestrated by the Russians.
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Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Dear friends & readers, this week’s TMS Weekly Digest is incomplete because my computer decided to give up on me. I had to come to Amsterdam to configure a new one with Malvin, our webmaster. Next week I will publish all materials submitted this week.
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Economic System in Islam Compared with Capitalism and Socialism
Abdul Husain Muhammad | World Organization for Islamic Services – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Abstract: This paper covers some popular Islamic Economic topics in a short and lucid style for those who want to know the basic Islamic concepts of economy. The topic, the economic system in Islam, might cause astonishment among Muslims who received Western style education.
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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now so Huge and Permanent That a Coastal Ecosystem Is Thriving on It
Ivana Kottasová | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
18 Apr 2023 – Scientists found thriving communities of coastal creatures living on plastic debris in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch — a 620,000 square mile swirl of trash in the ocean between California and Hawaii.
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‘Spreading Faster than Ever’: Bangladesh’s Tea Pickers Have World’s Highest Rate of Leprosy
Thaslima Begum and Kaamil Ahmed | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Despite the WHO declaring it eliminated in 1998, thousands of tea pickers have caught the disease.
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More Unanswered Red Flags Regarding Jack Teixeira and the Pentagon Leaks
Larry C Johnson | SONAR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
16 Apr 2023 – Former military and intelligence professionals voiced doubts about the allegations that he removed TOP SECRET documents and posted them to a gamer chat. They agree that something is not right and the media account does not make sense… I remain skeptical of the narrative and hope by raising these questions that some journalists will try to get to the ground truth.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
19 Apr 2023 – As many as 45 African countries in Sub-Saharan Africa have been further squeezed as funding shrinks to lowest ever levels; a portion of the so-called aid goes back to the rich donor countries. See what happens.
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Peru’s Coup-Plotting Congress Has 6% Approval, 91% Disapproval (but Full US Backing)
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
17 Apr 2023 – Peru’s coup-plotting, right-wing-controlled congress has 6% approval and 91% disapproval. Unelected leader Dina Boluarte has 15% approval and 78% disapproval. But they have the full support of the US, Canada, and foreign mining corporations.
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Begging?!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
What is wrong with this scene?
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Our Tech Overlords Offer another Climate Solution without Sacrifice
Kurt Cobb | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
17 Apr 2023 – My expectations are never disappointed when I read that the solutions to problems created by technology are in more technology. It will solve our problems without us having to make any substantial change in our way of life. We cannot wait for our tech overlords to solve our problems; their kind of thinking only perpetuates them.
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US/EU/NATO Meet with Somaliland Secessionists
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
19 Apr 2023 – As Somaliland forces continue to fire on Somali nationalists, US/EU/NATO officials held a joint call with secessionist Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi.
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Leaks Spelling the End for Ukraine
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
17 Apr 2023 – Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington.
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New World (Dis)Order…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Haves vs Have Nots
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Gen. Wesley Clark’s 2007 Pivotal Revelations about US ‘Future’ Wars
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Objective: Take out 7 countries in 5 years: Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Iran.
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(Dutch) Wij worden politiek, economisch, medisch en technologisch vermorzeld door de “Grote Reset” van de Elite
Robert J. Burrowes | The Love Factory - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Sinds het begin van de menselijke beschaving, 5000 jaar geleden, zijn gewone mensen zoals u en ik verwikkeld in een eindeloze strijd tegen de pogingen van elites, lokaal, nationaal, internationaal of wereldwijd, om volledige controle over ons en de middelen om ons heen te krijgen.
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The IMF Has Just Unveiled a New Global Currency Known as the “Universal Monetary Unit” That Is Supposed to Revolutionize the World Economy
Michael Snyder | The Economic Collapse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023 – A new global currency just launched, but 99 percent of the global population has no idea. The “Universal Monetary Unit”, also known as “Unicoin”, is an “international central bank digital currency” that has been designed to work in conjunction with all existing national currencies.
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Cognitive Navigation of the Elements as Indicative Strategic Metaphors
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
14 Apr 2023 – Engagement via Technomimicry with Global Entanglement of Earth, Air, Fire and Water – Much is made of the possibility of being a part of community and of society more generally. Hence the many references to participation.
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The Bombing of Nord Stream — This Act of War against Europe Requires Congressional Investigation
Dennis Kucinich | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – President Biden’s own statements predicting the end of Nord Stream , preliminary to the devastating attack on its infrastructure, point to the necessity of determining whether or not the president was speaking from his singularly informed position of the Chief Executive, as Hersh indicated.
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BRICS: A New Leader’s Big Banking Opportunity to Improve Global Development
Marco Fernandes | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
12 Apr 2023 – Will the New Development Bank and the Contingent Reserve Arrangement be able to fulfill their original mission with the arrival of the new bank president Dilma Rousseff?
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Loneliness and Rachel
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
10 Apr 2023 – On this day, Rachel Corrie’s Birthday, I reflected on her message which mentions loneliness (see message below). In my 65 years on this earth I talked to more than 120,000 people and I continue to find difficulty understanding connectivity and loneliness.
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Can You Fight for Climate Justice Without Being Antiwar?
Teddy Ogborn | CodePink – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
14 Apr 2023 – Can organizations sincerely say they are leading the climate justice fight without also being unapologetically antiwar? Short answer – no. Here’s why: The US military is the planet’s largest single emitter of greenhouse gasses and consumer of oil,…
→ read full articleSuperbugs among Top 10 Threats to Whole Cycle of Life
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – Research after research, scientists renew their alerts of the dangers of human-driven ‘superbugs’ – bacterias and pathogens that do not respond to antimicrobials, increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness and death.
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US Hit by ‘Worst Leak of Secret Documents since Edward Snowden’
Roland Oliphant | RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
10 Apr 2023 – More than 100 classified items relating to Ukraine, China, the Middle East, the Pacific and terrorism published on social media.
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Who Is Jack Teixeira, the Man Arrested over Pentagon Files Leak?
Peter Beaumont | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023 – Jack Teixeira, the 21-year-old air national guardsman suspect in the leak of classified intelligence documents is youthful looking, like his teenage friends in the online group where the documents were leaked. Today the FBI arrested Teixeira and were searching his home.
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(Français) Brésil : La « malédiction de l’or » en territoire Yanomani–une tragédie préméditée
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
3 avril 2023 – Riches en ressources minérales, les terres indigènes du Brésil, malgré les protections légales, sont soumises à une pression intense. Les mineurs illégaux, en quête d’or, ont multiplié les incursions, les exactions contre les communautés et les atteintes à l’environnement, dans une dynamique qui rappelle les pires heures de la conquête coloniale.
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U.S. Hypocrisy toward the World Is another Way of Saying, ‘Don’t Do as We Do, Do as We Say’
David Starr | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – The U.S./NATO alliance’s ulterior motives have been evident, for those who care to directly look at the situation and to directly understand it.
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Lichens and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
We Are Lichens on a Grand Scale
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If the U.S. Can’t Boss the World, It Will Spitefully Destroy It
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023 – Unable to accept the reality of a growing multipolar world order, U.S. elites are willing to risk nuclear war.
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All Roads Lead to Beijing
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
15 Apr 2023 – This is the tale of two pilgrims following the road that really matters in the young 21st century; one coming from NATOstan and another one from BRICS. Let’s start with Le Petit Roi, Emmanuel Macron.
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Daniel Ellsberg Has Foiled Those Who Want Him Confined to the Past
Norman Solomon | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – In just a few words — “those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future” — George Orwell summed up why narratives about history can be crucial.
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Every 11th Has Its 13th Hour: Time to Dismantle Monroe Doctrine Politics
Michelle Ellner | CODEPINK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
The Monroe Doctrine is condemned to failure because people’s determination to be free will always prevail. Why not turn to a policy of mutual cooperation, of U.S. respect for Latin American and Caribbean internal affairs? Why not convince rather than coerce, collaborate rather than take advantage?
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The Risk of ChatGPT
Ricardo Baeza Weinmann | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
12 Apr 2023 – Would anyone ask a talented actor not only to act and talk like a skilled surgeon in a convincing manner, but then allow him to take a scalpel and operate on him? It would seem stupid, wouldn’t it? Well, that is precisely what many are doing with ChatGPT.
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Pausing AI Developments Isn’t Enough–We Need to Shut It All Down
Eliezer Yudkowsky | TIME - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
29 Mar 2023 – An open letter published today calls for “all AI labs to immediately pause for at least 6 months the training of AI systems more powerful than GPT-4.” I refrained from signing because I think the letter is understating the seriousness of the situation and asking for too little to solve it.
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BRICS Bank De-dollarizing, New Chief Dilma Rousseff Says
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
16 Apr 2023 – The new chief of the BRICS bloc’s New Development Bank, Brazil’s leftist ex-President Dilma Rousseff, revealed they are gradually moving away from the US dollar, promising at least 30% of loans in local currencies of members.
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Suspension of Curiosity Leads to Serious Adverse Events
Heather Heying | Natural Selections – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
11 Apr 2023 – Analysis of and Excerpt from Celia Farber’s Book on the History of AIDS
→ read full articleAmbiguous Geopolitical Fault Lines Endanger World Peace
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
The idea of ‘geopolitical fault lines’ is not well established in the practice or theory of international relations, but their existence is profoundly relevant to the maintenance of peace and security because of the failure of international law to set consistently respected limits on the behavior of political actors, granting them impunity for acting beyond the limits of the law.
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An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of the Art of Connection
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
“We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for friendship.”
→ read full articleThe Cobalt Gold Rush and the East Palestine Train Disaster
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023 – Holidays in my childhood were spent at my grandparents’ farm in Plain Grove, Pennsylvania, 35 miles from East Palestine, Ohio. I have therefore taken a keen interest in the toxic chemical disaster in East Palestine on 3 Feb. The official narrative doesn’t seem to add up. Something else must have been going on, but what?
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Macron Says Europe Shouldn’t Follow the US into a Confrontation with China
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
9 Apr 2023 – French President Emmanuel Macron said today that Europe should not follow the US and risk a confrontation with China over Taiwan as he returned from Beijing, where he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Macron wants ‘strategic autonomy’ for Europe.
→ read full articlePlanet Garbage
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
4 Apr 2023 – Straight to the point: the current system of voracious money-making production and the induced over-consumption patterns have turned Planet Earth into a giant garbage dump. And straight to the facts:
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Israel Attacks Al-Aqsa Two Nights in a Row, Beating Worshipers at Holy Site
Mariam Barghouti | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – Israeli forces conducted violent raids on the Al Aqsa Mosque compound two nights in a row, beating worshipers and forcing Palestinians out of the holy site in order to make way for Jewish pilgrims on Passover.
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Northrop, Lockheed, Raytheon Team up on Navy’s E-XX ‘Doomsday’ Plane
Stephen Losey | C4ISRNET - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
3 Apr 2023 – Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works, and Raytheon Intelligence and Space are teaming up to bid on the Navy’s next command-and-control aircraft, to be used if a nuclear war breaks out. The “E-XX” would replace the Navy’s fleet of 16 E-6B Mercury aircraft.
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Follow the Trail of Blood and Oil (Part 3)
Cynthia Chung | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
Why Iran’s Development of Nuclear Energy Will Create Stability and Prosperity in the Middle East
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Democracy at Risk for Jews in Israel, Bare Survival for Palestinians
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – Israeli police violence at the Al-Aqsa Mosque directed at Palestinian worshipers in the midst of Ramadan on the nights of April 5 and 6 is a serious violation of international arrangements in Jerusalem to protect Muslim holy sites, none more sacred than Al-Aqsa.
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History of US-NATO Military Campaigns (1991-2023)
Jean Toschi Marazzani Visconti | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
1 Apr 2023 – Speech presented to the Conference, “Is our future NATO?” organized by Abbasso la Guerra Group. “The US/NATO forces have cleared corruption as a weapon of war, and wherever they have intervened to establish democracy they have left only instability and misery.”
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Human Destiny in Ukraine
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – To scale the pinnacles of corporate, political or military power in the United States requires certain rigid deficiencies of character, specifically the absence of compassion, decency and humanity. In their personal lives, powerful individuals may possess these qualities, but as an elite class, they lack them utterly.
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Any Ukraine Peace Talks Should Be about ‘New World Order’ – Lavrov
AFP | The Moscow Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – Moscow wants any Ukraine peace talks to focus on creating a “new world order,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said today on a visit to Turkey, which has retained ties with both Moscow and Kyiv. Lavrov was there for talks with his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu.
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The Answer to ‘Full Spectrum Dominance’
Roger McKenzie | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
31 Mar 2023 – The United States is interested in safeguarding the profits of monopoly capital, which carries politicians around in its pockets like loose change. It demands that the world bow down to its wills and whims. A failure to do so is met with the full force of the international military-industrial-media complex it controls.
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The Republican Martyr
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
Right!
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Khoya Hain – The Beginning (Music Video of the Week)
Prabhas & Tamannaah | Zee Music Company – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
“The music is melodious and cinematography is breathtaking.”
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Vatican Renounces Euro-supremacist “Doctrine of Discovery”
Richard Becker | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – Five centuries later, the Vatican issued an announcement on 30 Mar repudiating the “Doctrine of Discovery,” which said that all lands not occupied by “Christians” passed to the European conquerors when they were “discovered,” and their inhabitants enslaved.
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How to Bear Your Loneliness: Grounding Wisdom from the Great Buddhist Teacher Pema Chödrön
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
“We are cheating ourselves when we run away from the ambiguity of loneliness.”
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Face 2 Face with Kathy Kelly
David Andersson | Face 2 Face Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – We speak with TRANSCEND Member Kathy Kelly about the situation of young women in Afghanistan. Since 2021 she has been assisting young Afghans to resettle in safer havens. She co-coordinates the BanKillerDrones.org campaign and is planning the 2023 Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal.
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The Plight of a Woman Who Questioned Vaccine Safety in Malaysia
Simay Bayatli | TrialSiteNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – TrialSite is following the controversial issue of vaccinating children against COVID-19, as well as the medical community’s perspective on this topic.
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The Passing of Benjamin Ferencz (11 Mar 1920 – 7 Apr 2023) RIP
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
Easter 2023 (9 Apr) was marked by the passing of a remarkable man–Benjamin Ferencz. He died on 7 Apr at the age of 103. Ben was the last living Nuremberg WWII war crimes prosecutor. I met him in 1972.
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War Criminals & Military Aggressors Who Occupy Seats in the UN Security Council
Thalif Deen | IPS/Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
3 Apr 2023 – On 1st Apr, a post-Ukraine Russia started presiding over the UNSC in a month-long presidency. But Russia is not the first or the only country—accused of war crimes or charged with violating the UN charter—to be either a member or preside over the most powerful body in the UN.
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US Uses Rusesabagina’s Release to Whitewash Its Decades of Support for the Kagame Regime
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – Paul Rusesabagina is free after being kidnapped and taken to Rwanda in 2020. The US claims credit for pressuring Rwanda to release him, hoping to distract the world from its decades of support for President Paul Kagame and his human rights crimes in Rwanda and neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.
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Belmarsh Warden Blocks Assange from Meeting with Reporters Sans Frontières
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
4 Apr 2023 – The warden of the Belmarsh Prison blocked representatives of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) from visiting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, despite previously agreeing to grant access.
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – Israeli apartheid police brutality beat Palestinian worshipers inside the sacred al Aqua mosque during Ramadan.
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