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The Fishing Revolution and the Origins of Capitalism
Ian Angus | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
The Fishing Revolution is a rarely explored, yet critical, event in the evolution of capitalism. Ian Angus elaborates on this revolution in the global marketplace and its role as a cornerstone of imperialism, colonialism, and capitalism in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.
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Savage Capitalism
Noam Chomsky and David Barsamian | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – From Climate Change to Bank Failures to Wars
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The Fear of AI Is Overblown—and Here’s Why
Bappa Sinha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – The unprecedented popularity of ChatGPT has turbocharged the AI hype machine. We are being bombarded daily by news articles announcing humankind’s greatest invention—Artificial Intelligence (AI).
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The World Bank and the BRICS Bank Have New Leaders and Different Outlooks
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – Joe Biden announced the nomination of Ajay Banga to be the next head of the World Bank. Banga will come from the world of international corporations. Dilma Rousseff, meanwhile, comes to the BRICS Bank with a different resume.
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The Nord Stream Ghost Ship
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – The false details in the CIA’s cover story.
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Africa ‘All Out,’ 54-0, against Joining Biden’s Proxy War on Russia
Walt Zlotow | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
4 Apr 2023 – Unsurprisingly, not one of Africa’s 54 countries has joined US sanctions against Russia. Many are neutral; some are supporting Russia’s war to prevent NATO’s eastward expansion to Russia’s borders.
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(Português) Brasil: Lava-Jato, Essa Desconhecida
Leneide Duarte-Plon e Leonardo Boff | RED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
2 abril 2023 -Publicamos este texto-pesquisa que revela o escondido da Lava-Jato e mantido escondido pela grande imprensa empresarial e conservadora do Brasil. Foi preciso que pesquisadores estrangeiros pusessem esse escondido à luz e assim refutar tantas afirmações de jornalistas nacionais que não se comprometem com a verdade dos fatos mas servem aos interesses do grande sistema nacional e norte-americano.
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Why EU Strategic Autonomy Apart from the U.S. Is Currently Impossible
James W. Carden | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
30 Mar 2023 – With Paris distracted by a populist revolt, Washington is exercising a kind of hegemony on the continent not seen since President Reagan. A politically stable France and German buy-in are the two foundational prerequisites for strategic autonomy to succeed. And as of this writing, there is neither.
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The Banality of Biden’s ‘Exceptional’ Elite Advisers
Ray McGovern | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Mar 2023 – Sophomores running U.S. foreign policy live in a dream world on the verge of a war with both Russia and China. It is scary that Biden is out of it as his advisers are oblivious to the tectonic-change implications of Russia-China entente. Blinded by US “exceptionalism,” they have to learn the hard way.
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(Français) Guerre en Ukraine : pourquoi les pays émergents ne s’alignent pas sur l’Occident
François Polet | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
21 mars 2023 – Les pays occidentaux ont les plus grandes peines à entraîner les pays émergents dans la logique des sanctions contre la Russie. Cette perte d’influence s’enracine pour une bonne part dans l’unilatéralisme et le double standard dont les Occidentaux, États-Unis en tête, ont fait preuve dans des dossiers importants aux yeux des pays du Sud global.
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The Sword of Damocles over Western Europe: Follow the Trail of Blood and Oil (Part 2)
Cynthia Chung | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
An Introduction to the ‘Shah of Shahs’, ‘King of Kings’
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Dollar Sign as Questionable Map of Capitalism?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
Exploring the Malleability of a Fundamental Symbol for Society
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The Iinternational Criminal Court’s Selective Prosecution
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
29 Mar 2023 – The ICC’s double standard in the treatment of Ukraine and Palestine is largely due to political coercion by the U.S., which isn’t even a party to the court’s Rome Statute.
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(Français) Nouvelles du Front de la Guerre Economique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
19 mars 2023 – Le soutien américain et l’escalade de la guerre d’Ukraine sont au cœur de la politique de l’administration Biden et de ses stratèges NEOCON qui tentent de maintenir l’hégémonie américaine sur le monde entier. L’Ukraine est un pion dans la stratégie d’attaque contre la Russie considérée comme le principal ennemi de cette hégémonie avec la Chine.
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News from the Front of the Economic War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
19 Mar 2023 – The US support and escalation of the Ukraine War is central to the politics of the Biden administration and its NEOCON strategists trying to maintain US hegemony. Ukraine is a pawn in the strategy of attacking Russia that is considered the principal enemy of that hegemony along with China.
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UN Security Council Won’t Probe Nord Stream Bombing
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
28 Mar 2023 – The UNSC voted yesterday against a Russian effort to get an independent investigation into the bombings of the Nord Stream pipelines. The only members that voted in favor of the resolution were Russia, China and Brazil. The remaining 12 members abstained from the vote–including the US, the likely culprit of the attacks. Politics as usual.
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The EU’s Digital Trade Rules: Undermining European Policy to Rein in Big Tech
Deborah James | CEPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Mar 2023 – This report shows how Big Tech companies are working to constrain the ability of EU democratic bodies to regulate their activities in the public interest through “trade” agreements, which are binding and permanent.
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(Italiano) Il potere dei senza potere
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Marzo 2023 – 1. Václav Havel 2. Capitini 3. Bobbio 4. Gandhi 5. Gene Sharp 6. Democrazia 7. Vite nella verità 8. Václav Havel 9. Per chiudere la pagina
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Reconciling Saudi Arabia and Iran: The Significance of the China Effort
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
22 Mar 2023 – It would be wrong to view the restoration of relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran as something that happened suddenly.
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2,000 Years of Kindness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
From Marcus Aurelius to Einstein, poets and philosophers on the deepest wellspring of our humanity.
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God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
An inquiry into the eternal enchantment of why the world exists.
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“Facing Clear Evidence of Peril” in a Country of Lies
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
28 Mar 2023 – Perhaps silence is the best response to the endless cavalcade of official lies that is United States history. The Internet and digital technology have allowed those lies to increase exponentially in number and frequency with the result that people’s minds have become like 7-Eleven stores, open 24/7 for snack-crap “news.”
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US Occupiers Lash Out as Syria War Draws to an End
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
U.S. Is Stirring Up Syrian Cauldron -> Washington is worried about a peace between Damascus and its estranged Arab neighbors–as well as Turkey–that is marginalizing the U.S. and its allies, the “collective West”.
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Quantum Physics and Spirituality: The Relationship between Quantum Mechanics and the Vedas
Alex Ferrari | Next Level Soul - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
At first glance, Quantum mechanics and the Vedas seem to be two unrelated fields of study, with the former being a branch of physics that deals with the behavior of matter and energy at a very small scale and the latter being a collection of ancient texts that form the basis of Hinduism and contain information on a wide range of topics, including philosophy, religion, and culture.
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Burying Key Evidence, New OPCW Report Covers up Douma’s Unsolved Deaths
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Mar 2023 – After censoring experts who found that the victims in Douma could not have been killed by chlorine gas, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons continues the cover-up and baselessly accuses the Syrian government.
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The Lingering Effects of Iraq War Lies
Stephen Zunes | The Progressive Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Mar 2023 – The conflict was a textbook case of rewriting history to cover up war crimes.
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China and Brazil Deal a Blow to US Dollar-powered Bullying
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
1 Apr 2023 – Ditching the American currency in trade will diminish Washington’s ability to impose its will.
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How EU Leaders Destroyed Relations with Russia – and Denied Their Citizens Access to Reliable Cheap Energy
Tyler Kay | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
2 Apr 2023 – The West destroyed over a half-century of cooperation in the energy sector and hasn’t any affordable prospects in sight.
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2023 Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize Awarded to John Williams Ntwali and Kambale Musavuli
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
29 Mar 2023 – The Prize for Democracy and Peace is awarded to people who work for democracy, peace, and freedom in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.
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(Italiano) L’Ucraina, la guerra con la cavalleria e il formaggio della cornacchia
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
27 Marzo 2023 – Ho già indicato il risultato delle mie riflessioni sulla guerra tra l’Ucraina e la Russia. Ma di fronte alla insufficienza delle analisi che vedo in giro, qui voglio mettere in piedi il discorso da subito, iniziandolo dal suo punto centrale. Quel discorso che nei mass media e in molta gente parte invece da un altro punto, quello più immediato, più soggettivo, più emotivo; e che con ciò vuole precostituire il ragionamento.
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White House Says It Opposes a Ceasefire in Ukraine
Dave DeCamp | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – The White House has come out against a ceasefire in Ukraine ahead of Chinese President Xi Jinping’s trip to Moscow to potentially mediate between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his counterpart in Kyiv.
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Russia and China Summit: The Reconfiguration of World Power
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The three-day Moscow summit signals China and Russia’s commitment to each other and the vision of a new multipolar world.
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The Iraq War 20 Years Ago: No Shame. No Lessons Learned. No Arrest Order on NATO State Leaders.
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – Like other wars and interventions, this was no “mistake”. It was an unavoidable consequence of Western MIRE – Militarism, Imperialism, Racism, Exceptionalism. The West has learned nothing. Militarism is now its main cohesive force into its manifest destiny: Decline and fall.
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The U.S. Cover-Up
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The Biden Administration continues to conceal its responsibility for the destruction of the Nord Stream pipelines.
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Why the West Should Consider Some of Putin’s Claims
Dana E. Abizaid | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
This type of white hat vs. black hat narrative makes for good copy and confirms western stereotypes. If peace is going to prevail, a more nuanced examination of Russia’s response to US political and military meddling in Ukraine is needed, including a more honest analysis of NATO expansion eastward and a sober look at the threat that far-right Ukrainian militias pose for Europe.
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Cynthia Chung | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
It all started in 1872, with Nasir al-Din Shah having granted to the British Baron Julius de Reuter, rights to Iran’s entire economic estate. Reuter not only controlled Iran’s industry, farming, and rail transportation, but also held the right to issue currency and to set up a national bank, called the Imperial Bank of Persia, which was under direct British control.
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The Fabulist Arrogance of US Power
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The U.S. reserves for itself the right to commit crimes all over the world. Yet it also refuses to participate in any war crimes prosecution and even passed a law giving itself the right to invade the International Criminal Court at the Hague should a North American or an ally face justice.
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China Releases Position Paper on Ukraine Crisis Solution
Xinhua | China Daily - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
24 Feb 2023 – China today released a paper stating its position on the political settlement of the Ukraine crisis, saying dialogue and negotiation are the only viable solution. The following is the full text.
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The Mafia: BP Stole £15 Billion of Iraqi Oil after British/West Invasion
Matt Kennard | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – Shell, the other U.K. “super-major” oil company, also re-entered Iraq in 2009 after an invasion in 2003 that was widely denounced at the time as a war-for-oil on the part of the U.S. and U.K.
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The ‘Vampiric’ Draining and Poisoning of Lifeblood: Water
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
21 Mar 2023 – Shockingly, the human suicidal war on Nature not only continues unabated but is also set to become even more virulent. Be reminded that groundwater accounts for 99% of all liquid freshwater on Earth.
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A Highway to Peace or a Highway to Hell?
William J. Astore | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
The Vast Power of the US Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex – In Apr 1953 Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the five-star general who led the D-Day, gave a powerful speech known as the “Cross of Iron” address. Ike warned of the cost humanity would pay if Cold War competition led to a world dominated by wars and weaponry that couldn’t be reined in.
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My Plagiarised Work Was Used to Justify the War on Iraq
Ibrahim al-Marashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
21 Mar 2023 – Imagine it is February 5, 2003. The US secretary of state is speaking in front of the United Nations, holding your work in his hands, as he calls for a war on another sovereign nation. How would you feel? Well, it happened to me, and I felt shocked.
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G7 vs BRICS — Off to the Races
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – BRICS Surpasses G7 in PPP-Adjusted Global GDP – An economist digging below the surface of an IMF report found something that should shock the Western bloc out of any false confidence in its unsurpassed global economic clout.
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U.S. War for Oil Turned 20!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Fascism?! What?!
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Russia Calls for U.N. Investigation of Nord Stream Attack, as Hersh Accuses White House of False Flag
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
25 Mar 2023 – Moscow claims Germany, Denmark, and Sweden are engaged in a U.S.-backed cover-up, as the war to control the narrative — and the evidence — intensifies.
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The World’s Largest CBDC Trial: A Preview of the Elite’s Cashless Vision for You
Nick Giambruno | International Man - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – The eNaira is Africa’s first central bank digital currency (CBDC). Central bankers, academics, politicians and elites from over 100 countries have closely followed the eNaira. They used Nigeria—Africa’s largest country by population and economy—as a trial balloon to test their nefarious plans to eliminate cash in North America, Europe, and beyond.
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Bordeaux City Hall Set on Fire amid Nationwide Protests against French Pension Changes
Kim Willsher | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – Largely peaceful protests are marred by outbreaks of violence as unions claim 3.5 million turned out, while authorities put number at just over 1 million.
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The ‘Pernicious Evil’ of Racism, Discrimination, Hatred, Inequality
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – Three-quarters of a century ago, the world adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, emphasising that all human beings are born equal in dignity and rights. The 2023 theme of its 75th anniversary focuses on the urgency of combating racism and racial discrimination.
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People Can Win
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
25 Mar 2023 – We’ve been trained to think that endless rule by tiny minorities of really horrible people is the natural order of things, but that turns out to be just another lie.
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How Does GPT4 Work and How Can You Start Using It in ChatGPT?
Mohammed Haddad | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Launched on 14 Mar 2023, GPT-4 is the successor to GPT-3 and is the technology behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT. All you need to know about this technology–gone viral.
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Iraq Plus 20 (Part 2): From Iraq into the Abyss?
Dennis Kucinich | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – In Part 1, I detailed the careful lies to ignite the war on Iraq. The US military attack on Iraq commenced on March 20, 2023, after a highly structured domestic and international media campaign of misinformation and disinformation, by the Bush Administration, which succeeded in getting major media and Congressional support.
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Hersh: US Bombed Nord Stream to Prolong the Ukraine Proxy War
Aaron Maté interviews Seymour Hersh | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – Seymour Hersh joins Aaron Maté to discuss his report on how the Biden administration bombed the Nord Stream gas pipelines, a vital Russian-German infrastructure project and a key off-ramp to peace in Ukraine.
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U.S. Act of War against the European Union: Biden Ordered the Terror Attack against Nord Stream
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – High Treason against the People of Europe
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Aaron Maté at UN: OPCW Cover-up Denies Justice to Douma Victims
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
25 Mar 2023 – At the United Nations, Aaron Maté debunks the OPCW’s latest attempts to whitewash the cover-up of its investigation into the alleged April 2018 chemical attack in Douma, Syria.
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The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
A largehearted invitation to “stand on the precipice between the known and the unknown, without fear, without anxiety, but instead with awe and wonder at this strange and beautiful cosmos we find ourselves in.”
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Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rule[r]s of the Game
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Bail In, Bail Out, or “Socialism for the Rich”?
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US Banks Want Socialism for Themselves–and Capitalism for Everyone Else
Robert Reich | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – When banks like Silicon Valley Bank collapse, money floods to bigger ones like JPMorgan. Clients know they’re ‘too big to fail.’
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Magnificent Russian Music (Music Video of the Week)
Zevnikov | Youth Symphony Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Astonishing, Marvelous, Exquisite
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Endless Wars: US Escalation to the East
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
20 Mar 2023 – Unable to prevent the “decline” with political and economic tools, the U.S. and its allies are increasingly resorting to military ones. This includes the “landmark agreement with Australia and Britain,” announced by President Biden.
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How to Survive Hopelessness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
“You can expect good and bad luck, but good or bad judgment is your prerogative.”
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‘Outright Hatred’ towards Muslims, Has Risen to ‘Epidemic Proportions’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – “Terrorism and violent extremism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization, or ethnic group.”
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The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
On10 March Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest in the country, collapsed. This was the second largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, following Washington Mutual in 2008. Despite its size, SVB was not a “systemically important financial institution” as defined in the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires insolvent SIFIs to “bail in” the money of their creditors to recapitalize themselves.
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Food Inglorious Food: Children’s Health Defense Attack on Food Summit
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
5 Mar 2023 – Yesterday Dr. Meryl Nass–with assistance, comments and summaries by Alexis Baden-Mayer–convened a magnificent, important 7-hour Attack on Food Symposium + Solutions to Fight Back
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Haiti: “The Truth Speaks for Itself”
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
With a defunded health care system, Haiti is once again confronting a cholera epidemic. Food insecurity threatens 5 million people, including 2.4 million children, in a country of 12 million. Government-supported paramilitary groups continue to terrorize opposition neighborhoods, with kidnappings at an all time high. These crises have their roots in the 2004 coup and the subsequent imposition of foreign occupation, coordinated through the UN.
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What Follows US Hegemony
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Rebirth of the Dream of Global Peace and Mutual Respect – The USA remains a powerful country, but it has not come to terms with the immense changes taking place in the world order.
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Forever Wars vs. Armageddon
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The call for the U.S. to end military involvements is often made in order to advocate for new wars against more powerful countries. It appears that the only choices are forever wars or the end of the world.
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Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order
A. B. Abrams | Clarity Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Atrocity fabrication, the invention and reporting of atrocities committed by an adversary, has a long history in propaganda and power politics as an effective means of moving public opinion. It provides pretext for hostile measures against targets, transforming wars of aggression into wars of liberation of the oppressed.
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The Saudi-Iran Détente and Its Regional Implications
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
12 Mar 2023 – What the normalisation between two regional powers means and does not mean.
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A Sane Voice amidst the Madness
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – Former Australian PM Paul Keating has eviscerated Australia’s deal to buy nuclear submarines from the U.K. and U.S., saying there is no Chinese threat to defend against, despite the war hysteria stirring in Australia.
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Frankfurt Undermines Human Rights by Canceling a Concert by Roger Waters
Katie Halper and Vijay Prashad | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Roger Waters will take his “This Is Not a Drill” tour to Europe. But on 24 Feb, Frankfurt’s city council cancelled the concert for “persistent anti-Israel behavior” calling Waters an antisemite. In response, Peter Gabriel, Julie Christie, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sarandon, Alia Shawkat, Glenn Greenwald and others signed a petition calling on the German government to uncancel the concert.
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Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
9 Mar 2023 – This is a qualitatively new phase of world history with significant global changes since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, which can be seen in a new phase of imperialism. We hope to stimulate debate and discussion in our broader Battle of Ideas against toxic social philosophies that seek to suffocate rational thought about our world.
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Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
13 Mar 2023 – FORBES Has a New List of the World’s Richest People
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Why the Banking System Is Breaking Up
Michael Hudson | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The collapses of the Silvergate and Silicon Valley Banks are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse is the rising temperature of interest rates. Most media reports reflect a prayer that the bank runs will be localized, as if there is no context or environmental cause.
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The US/UK Submarine Deal Crosses Nuclear Red Lines with Australia
Prabir Purkayastha | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – If submarine nuclear reactor technology and weapons-grade (highly enriched) uranium are shared with Australia, it is a breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which Australia is a signatory as a non-nuclear power. Even the supplying of such nuclear reactors by the U.S. and the UK would constitute a breach of the NPT.
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G20, the Ukraine War, and the Global Economic Crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
18 Mar 2023 – United States and Its Allies Accused of Hampering Progress within the Global South
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Peace Conference: A World without Militarism
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Sat, 25 Mar: 9am to 5pm, University of London, In-person & Online, Free Entry
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The Pentagon’s B-Movie: Looking Closely at the Sep 2001 Attacks
Edward Curtin and Graeme MacQueen | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – Graeme MacQueen: The Indispensable 9/11 Writer’s Latest Book – Leftists, no matter what they say in their defense, bear great moral responsibility for the so-called War on Terror, the Patriot Act, the invasion of Iraq, the deaths of Muslims, etc., all of which emanate from the insider attacks of September 11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks.
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Lovers’ Kiss…
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
7 Mar 2023 – Joke? No Joke
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(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Não é um argumento especista se digo que a violência contra outros animais deve ser combatida por causa das consequências para humanos?
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An Open Call for Genocide in Palestine
Jafar M Ramini | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Theodore Herzl, founder of Zionism, in his 1895 vision of a Jewish State in Palestine: “We shall have to spirit the penniless population across the border … while denying it any employment in our country…Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” (Source: Theodore Herzl Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895) “It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples … If the Arabs leave it, the country will become wide and spacious for us. The only solution is a Land of Israel … without Arabs.”
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(Italiano) Antifascismo e Costituzione
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
16 Marzo 2023 – Appunti scritti dopo l’assemblea antifascista del 6 marzo, nel tentativo di concentrare intorno ad alcuni valori programmatici anche la nostra attività di cultura positiva della pace.
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WCPA’s Two Track Strategy for Earth Federation Government or a ‘New UN’
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
16 Mar 2023 – Einstein noted the absence of enforceable world law in the UN Charter. Bully nations violate international law with impunity as leaders responsible for world crimes, especially from the UN Security Council (U.S., Russia, China, UK, France) are untouchable, never held accountable, even by the ICC or the ICJ.
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Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
“Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”
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Huwara Reels after Night of Settler Terror under Israeli Army’s Watch
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Palestinians in the West Bank town were left to deal with burned-out buildings and cars after hundreds of settlers ran riot while soldiers protected them.
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16 Mar 1968: The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam by US Invading Forces
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
“The obsolete pretensions of sovereign prerogative and military necessity had better be challenged soon if life on earth is to survive,” — Richard Falk
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Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode, Le Déserteur, composed by Boris Vian in 1954. The exquisite artwork is by Xiaonan. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway.
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China’s Great Leap in the Middle East
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
14 Mar 2023 – What Beijing just sponsored and got done, putting two millennia of diplomatic craft to work, is an exquisite example of what can be accomplished once this imperative is fully realized.
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Will Humans Become an Extension of Their Machines? ChatGPT May Have Irrevocable Consequences for Learning and Decision-Making
Dr. Mathew Maavak | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
13 Mar 2023 – We already rely on digital crutches in numerous aspects of our lives – will we delegate even our essential faculties to AI?
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A Donbas Diary: Looking Back at the Early Stages of the Conflict in Ukraine
Fergie Chambers | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – It is evening in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, one of NATO’s easternmost members. I am waiting at the edge of Izvor Park in the city center to meet with a young friend who has fled Ukraine. In the backdrop of the park is the Palace of the Parliament, the brutalist architectural crown jewel of the Ceaușescu era, and the heaviest building on earth.
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AI Robots Invade the Classroom — So What?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – As long as the system of artificial education focuses on “teaching to the test” by insisting on reducing individual intelligence to a number and belittling the potential of each student, we have a problem. AI isn’t the cause; it helps expose it.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Recognizing an Unconscious Collective Need for Disastrous Cathartic Experience
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‘They Were Burning Our House with Kids Inside–the Army Didn’t Let Us Through’
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
2 Mar 2023 – Children trapped by settlers. A mutilated pet. Checkpoints blocking aid. A Palestinian family recounts the horrifying night of the Huwara pogrom.
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Does It Take a War?
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – There is an inevitable gap between what a president tells us about a war—even a proxy war—and the reality on the ground. It is true today as Joe Biden struggles for public support for the war in Ukraine, and it was true six decades ago as Jack Kennedy struggled to understand the war he chose to pursue in South Vietnam.
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In Bulldozing Israeli Democracy, Netanyahu Could Become the BDS Movement’s Greatest Ally
Daniel Boguslaw | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
5 Mar 2023 – Capital is beginning to flee Israel in the wake of the prime minister’s judicial overhaul.
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Message from Dr Vandana Shiva for Holi and Women’s Day
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – Women of the world are the primary guardians and custodians of biodiversity and life. They are holding and protecting the ancient and precious knowledge on how to use and preserve biodiversity for healthy food, healthy communities and healthy environments.
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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report about Biden deliberately blowing up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline but corporate mainstream media have ignored the Pulitzer Prize reporter’s bombshell. In the US, only four mentions were found among the 20 most influential publications.
→ read full articleWhy Do 800 Mothers a Day – 1 Every 2 Minutes– Die from Preventable Causes?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
7 Mar 2023 – The answer is that there are alarming setbacks for maternal health care and, in many cases, even a total lack of maternity services, which threaten to further raise the number of these tragic preventable deaths one million or more a year by 2030.
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Holi: The Colours of Biodiversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – This year, International Women’s Day falls on the same day of Holi, the festival of colours, joy and diversity: 8 March. On this day, millions of people take to the streets to celebrate the coming of spring by throwing coloured powders.
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The Disturbing Groupthink over the War in Ukraine
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen asserted that U.S. support for Ukraine “is motivated, first and foremost, by a moral duty to come to the aid of a people under attack.” Why this supposed moral duty does not apply to the Palestinians or disappears when the U.S. wages offensive wars and campaigns of mass slaughter throughout the world?
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US Occupation of Syria Will Continue
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
6 Mar 2023 – According to eyewitness accounts, as recently as 27 Feb US troops transported at least 34 tankers filled with stolen Syrian oil through the illegal Al-Mahmoudiya border crossing to their bases in Iraq.
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