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(Italiano) “La pace è l’unica vittoria di cui abbiamo bisogno” e non ha bisogno di armi
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
5 Marzo 2023 – Scriveva nei giorni scorsi il Financial Times che “le azioni delle aziende del settore della difesa sono salite negli ultimi mesi, perché gli investitori scommettono sulle promesse di un aumento della spesa militare da parte dei governi occidentali per aiutare lo sforzo bellico dell’Ucraina contro la Russia”.
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Against the Cult of Originality: Emerson on the True Nature of Genius
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
The best things in life we don’t choose — they choose us. A great love, a great calling, a great illumination — they happen unto us, like light falling upon that which is lit. We have given a name to these unbidden greatnesses — genius, from the Latin for “spirit,” denoting the spirit of a universe we can only submit to but cannot govern.
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My Fifty Years with Dan Ellsberg
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – I think it best that I begin with the end. On March 6, I and dozens of Dan’s friends and fellow activists received a two-page notice that he had been diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer and was refusing chemotherapy because the prognosis, even with chemo, was dire. He will be ninety-two in April.
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Seismic Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Isolates US
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 – The Chinese-brokered diplomatic deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran not only opens the way for resolution of region-wide conflicts, but foils U.S. Mideast divide-and-rule designs based on Saudi-Iranian enmity. The success of the normalization and its effect on the Middle East remains to be seen. But it is a start that few thought they’d ever see as long as the U.S. stood in the way.
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Segregation of Roma Children in Schools: A Challenge for Slovakia
Katarina Spisak | Euroviews Impact - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
According to a survey published in 2021 by the Fundamental Rights Agency, between half and two-thirds of Roma children attend segregated schools in Slovakia. It is the largest number among 10 countries surveyed.
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US Shoots Itself in the Foot in Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – In Africa as in the rest of the world, US machinations undermine its goals and bring other nations together as they seek to protect themselves from a desperate empire. The US can’t seem to understand that the rest of the world, including Africa, doesn’t like to be pushed around.
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The “Snipers’ Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine
Ivan Katchanovski, Ph.D. | University of Otawa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Abstract: The massacre of almost 50 Maidan protesters on 20 Feb 2014 was a turning point in Ukrainian politics and a tipping point in the conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine. This mass killing of the protesters and the mass shooting of the police that preceded it led to the overthrow of the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych and gave a start to a civil war in Donbas in Eastern Ukraine, Russian military intervention in Crimea and Donbas, and an international conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine.
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CIA and Mossad-linked Surveillance System Quietly Being Installed throughout the US
Whitney Webb | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023 – Under the guise of stopping mass shootings, a surveillance system backed by top Mossad, CIA and FBI officials is being installed in schools, houses of worship, and other civilian locations throughout the country, much of it thanks to the recent donation of an “anonymous philanthropist.”
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Twitter Files: My Statement to the US Congress
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
9 Mar 2023 – “Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files” for the House Judiciary Committee. We release a “Twitter Files Statement to Congress” for the record. It contains some surprises. My opening:
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Prisoners Donating Organs to Get Time off Raises Thorny Ethical Questions
Austin Sarat | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
In January 2023 two Democratic representatives, Judith Garcia and Carlos Gonzalez, proposed a bill that would offer prisoners in Massachusetts a new way to win reduction in their sentences: by donating their bone marrow or vital organs.
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La Grande Sortie
Bruce K. Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
The collapsing US military/economic empire is making Washington/NATO even more dangerous. The USA could not beat the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese or the Taliban but thinks it can take on China-Russia-Iran… a sign of psychopathology for sure.
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From the Gulf of Tonkin to the Baltic Sea
Seymour M. Hersh | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
22 Feb 2023 – The secret and incomplete history of US-Norway collaboration in covert operations.
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Wildlife Is Much More than a Safari. And It Is at Highest Risk of Extinction
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – Wildlife is indeed far much more than a safari or an ‘exotic’ ornament: as many as four billion people –or an entire half the whole world’s population– rely on wild species for income, food, medicines and wood fuel for cooking.
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Sleepwalking to Armageddon: World Divides over the Ukraine War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – As the US, NATO and Russia escalate the war in the Ukraine, the risk increases for a global nuclear war that could destroy most life on the planet, corresponding to the mythical battle of Armageddon mentioned in the Bible.
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Quoth the Vultures “Evermore”
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
It was an intentional genocidal war waged to torture, kill, and maim as many Vietnamese as possible and to use North American boys to do the killing and suffer the consequences. Its Phoenix Program, the CIA’s assassination and torture operation, became the template for Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, CIA black sites, hybrid wars, terrorist actions, etc. up to today.
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Ukraine: The Tunnel at the End of the Light
Robert Freeman | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – The U.S. abused its providential anointment as the exceptional nation. That abuse has been recognized, called out and is now being acted against by most of the other nations of the world.
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The Vital Difference between Work and Labor: Lewis Hyde on Sustaining the Creative Spirit
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
“The gifts of the inner world must be accepted as gifts in the outer world if they are to retain their vitality.”
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The Scale of El Salvador’s New Prison Is Difficult to Comprehend
León Krauze | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, unveiled his latest project: a massive, “first-world” prison, the largest penitentiary in the world, with a capacity for 40,000 inmates.
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Munich Security Conference: “Intensifying Authoritarian Revisionism”
Renee Parsons | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – MSC 2023 Attracts Historic Number of US Congressional Attendees – It is ironic that the Munich Security Conference is set in the site of Adolf Hitler’s return in 1920. Home to the Munich Putsch of 1923, Munich became the location from which the Workers Socialist Nazi party grew into a mass movement and political force throughout Germany.
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Evil Empire: House Overwhelmingly Approves Resolution to Maintain Syria Sanctions after Earthquake
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – The resolution received 51 cosponsors. It passed in a vote of 414-2. Only Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted against the measure.
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(Italiano) Verso un nazionalismo «cosmopolita»?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
3 Marzo 2023 – «Il nazionalismo è la modalità dominante di legittimazione politica e soggettività collettiva dell’era moderna». «Lo Stato-nazione è la realtà politica dominante del nostro tempo». Nonostante questa realtà, fino al 2020 nessuno studio accademico ha affrontato il tema del cambiamento climatico dalla prospettiva delle teorie sul nazionalismo.
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Kiev Flooding Black Markets with NATO-Sourced Weapons
Drago Bosnic | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
2 Mar 2023 – It has been at least 1,5 years since the West intensified weapons shipments to Ukraine. Ever since, black markets have been flooded with Western-made arms and munitions, some of which running out from NATO stocks. There’s fierce competition among Kiev institutions for the right to control the arms smuggling business.
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Where We’re Going
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
Scared Yet?…
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Twitter Files—GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
Global Engagement Center: North Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise themselves, as government agencies and subcontractors undertake a massive digital blacklisting project.
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(Français) Somnambules vers Armageddon : Le Monde se Divise Sur l’Ukraine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 mars 2023 – Alors que les États-Unis, l’OTAN et la Russie intensifient la guerre en Ukraine, le risque augmente d’une guerre nucléaire mondiale qui pourrait détruire la plupart des vies sur la planète, correspondant à la mythique bataille d’Armageddon dans la Bible qui marque la fin du monde.
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West Is Out of Touch with Rest of World Politically, EU-Funded Study Admits
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – A study by the elite EU-funded European Council on Foreign Relations found the West is out of touch politically with the rest of the world. Most people in China, India, and Türkiye see Russia as an important ally, and they want multipolarity, not continued “American global supremacy”.
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China’s Turn
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – The U.S. Hyper-Financialized Economic System Is No Match for China’s Government-Directed Investment Model–Regrettably, China’s Explosive Growth Is Pushing a Desperate Washington Closer to War
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Belarus Court Sentences Nobel Peace Laureate Ales Bialiatski to 10 Years
Yuras Karmanau | AP/The Philadelphia Enquirer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – Belarus authorities arrested Bialiatski and two of his associates after massive protests over a 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko a new term in office.
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Battle for the Earth
Fred Hageneder | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
6 Mar 2023 – An accurately researched [10-part] account of the effort by industry to cover up the impact of fossil fuels to the environment and public health and to manipulate public opinion. The networks behind this and the truth between big media influence and so called conspiracy theories–and those who truly benefit from them.
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China Meets American Hegemony Head-On
Timur Fomenko | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
23 Feb 2023 – In a rare scathing essay, Beijing’s foreign ministry has blasted Washington’s continued attempts at world domination.
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The Deafening Silence of Intellectuals in the Face of Growing Global Armed Conflicts
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – Intellectuals do not have a monopoly on culture, values or truth, much less on the meanings attributed to any one of these “domains of the spirit.” But intellectuals should not shrink from denouncing what they see as destructive of culture, values and truth, notably when it is carried out in the name of these “domains of spirit.”
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Activist Dan Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower, Has Terminal Cancer
Daniel Ellsberg | Twitter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
2 Mar 2023 – I wrote this letter recently to my friends in the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements. I see it’s being circulated, so I’ve decided to share it here. For all of you working on these issues, thank you, and please keep going! — Dan
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‘Ticking Time Bombs’ for the Most Defenceless: The Children (I)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – Today, there are more children in need of desperate humanitarian assistance than at any other time since World War II.
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‘Ticking Time Bombs’ for the Most Defenceless: The Children (II)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – While the world’s biggest powers and their giant private corporations continue to attach high priority to their military –and commercial– dominance, both of them being shockingly profitable, entire generations are being lost to deadly armed conflicts, devastating climate catastrophes, diseases, hunger and more imposed impoverishment.
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Provocation of “Unprovoked Aggression” by Varieties of Encroachment
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Challenge of Insensitivity to Collective Historical Amnesia – Expression of alternative perspectives on the USA/NATO-Russia-Ukraine armed conflict has been limited–and actively suppressed as “disinformation” whenever possible. Those articulating such perspectives have been discredited and personally condemned, if not actively sanctioned in some manner.
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Malcolm X: His Struggle Continues
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago, on 21 Feb 1965, standing at the podium before a crowd in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. His wife Betty Shabazz, pregnant with twins, and his four daughters were in the ballroom looking on.
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Ukraine: 1 Year of War on Top of 30 Years of Conflict Escalation
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – The Only Re-Armament Needed Is Intellectual and Moral – on All Sides – Beyond Russia, NATO/EU policies will prove morally wrong, unrealistic, dangerous and self-destructive.
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China Report Excoriates ‘US Hegemony’, War Crimes, CIA Coups, 400 Foreign Interventions
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – China’s Foreign Ministry published a lengthy report condemning “US hegemony” and its crimes around the world, including wars with millions of victims, coups and “regime change” against elected leaders, and 400 foreign military interventions.
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Can Public Comments Penetrate FDA’s Illusory Parallel Universe?
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
On 26 Jan 2023, the 178th Meeting of Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee met to pretend to have a process before unanimously “voting” to authorize a simplified annual Covid shot in order to not confuse the public.
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The Ukraine War Viewed from the Global South
Krishen Mehta | ACURA American Committee for US Russia Accord – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – In October 2022, about eight months after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the University of Cambridge harmonized surveys that asked the inhabitants of 137 countries about their views of the West, Russia, and China: different perspectives.
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Lessons from Majid Khan’s Release from Guantánamo
David Rosen | The Progressive Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – An interview with the attorney for the former al Qaeda operative, who testified to the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ and more torture at the prison camp.
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Who Really Started the Ukraine Wars?
Ted Snider | The Libertarian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – The Four Interrelated Wars in Ukraine
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Seymour Hersh on “How the US Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline”: Exclusive TV Interview
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help from Norway. “The fear was Europe would walk away from the war,” he says.
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From South Africa to Israel, the Three Pillars of Apartheid
Na’eem Jeenah | Orient XXI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
How does a South African and former anti-apartheid activist feel about visiting Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories? Classification of the population, freedom of choice of residence and movement, importance of security: based on the three central drivers of separation, Israeli apartheid is worse than South Africa’s.
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The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is so Little Anti-War Protest in the United States
Joan Roelofs | Clarity Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
How Military Spending Infests Civil Society Sectors: The Trillion Dollar Silencer investigates the astounding lack of popular protest at the death and destruction that the military industrial complex is inflicting on people, nations, and the environment, and its budget-draining costs.
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US Admits Chinese Balloon Was off Course–It Shot down a $12 Balloon in $2M Missile Attack
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
19 Feb 2023 – US officials acknowledged the Chinese balloon they shot down on 4 Feb had likely been blown off course by unexpected weather. The US Air Force later spent $2 million using missiles to blow up what appeared to be a $12 hobbyist balloon.
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(Français) Austérité, déréglementation : La Banque mondiale et le FMI ont-ils changé ?
Renaud Vivien | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
21 février 2023 – La crise du covid-19 a démontré la nécessité de renforcer les services publics et la protection sociale. Pour autant, a-t-elle servi de leçon à la Banque mondiale et au Fonds monétaire international (FMI) ? Est-ce que ces deux institutions ont cessé de conditionner leurs prêts à la mise en œuvre de politiques d’austérité budgétaire et de déréglementation ? C’est ce que semblent indiquer certaines déclarations récentes de la directrice du FMI [1]. Reflètent-elles pour autant la réalité ?
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Free Thought and Official Propaganda
Bertrand Russell | Project Gutenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Delivered at South Place Institute on 24 Mar 1922 by the Hon. Bertrand Russell, M.A., F.R.S.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Right!
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AI and ChatGPT: Yet another Assault on Democratic Governance?
Tom Valovic | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
We must understand that democracy is morphing with more technocratic systems of governance that lack full oversight and a clear understanding of their social and political impacts.
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How to Be with Each Other’s Suffering: Elie Wiesel on the Antidote to Our Paralysis in the Face of World-Overwhelm
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
“I believe if people talk, and they talk sincerely, with the same respect that one owes to a close friend or to God, something will come out of that, something good. I would call it presence.”
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(Italiano) Ambiente e Guerra
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
20 Febbraio 2023 – Nei mesi scorsi mi sono lasciata prendere dal desiderio di condividere con dei giovani alcune emozioni e riflessioni, sul tema ambiente e guerra, che provo di fronte a immagini e ai discorsi bellici che ormai da un anno accompagnano le nostre giornate, mescolandosi alle pubblicità, alle cronache cittadine, ai dibattiti politici.
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How Can the Peace Movement Be More Effective?
Tom Valovic | Massachusetts Peace Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
I’m probably not your typical peace activist. As a former research analyst, educator, and political journalist looking at the movement with a fresh pair of eyes, I wanted to share some thoughts about how the peace movement considered as a whole might become more effective.
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Totalized Censorship
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
20 Feb 2023 – Content warning, canceling, de-platforming, denying access: The fate of Sy Hersh’s Democracy Now! interview on YouTube is the latest indication of how much rougher press suppression is in this new media era.
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The Case for Diplomacy in Ukraine
Katrina vanden Heuvel and James W. Carden | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – As 2023 unfolds, we fear that US policy will continue to be characterized by both mission creep and the absence of any sort of diplomatic engagement with Russia. Throughout the course of the war, the Biden administration has slowly, steadily, even stealthily increased US involvement.
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What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
25 Feb 2023 – “Bail-ins:” the provision allowing Systemically Important Financial Institutions (basically the biggest banks) to bail in or expropriate their creditors’ money in the event of insolvency. So how big is the risk to your deposit account? From Bailouts to Bail-Ins.
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The Theft of Harun Abu Aram’s Body, Home, and Life
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – Harun was born into, paralyzed, and killed by Israel’s colonial system. The struggle to dismantle it begins in the cave where he spent his final years.
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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – Hersh, the journalist who broke the stories of the My Lai Massacre, the CIA spying program and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, reports that U.S. Navy divers attached C4 explosive charges to the pipeline and President Biden himself ordered its destruction, an operation that began planning long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite this, corporate media have overwhelmingly ignored the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter’s bombshell.
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Story Killers (Part 1): In the Age of False News–A Journalist, a Murder, and the Pursuit of an Unfinished Investigation in India
Phineas Rueckert | Forbidden Stories/Story Killers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
In 2017, journalist Gauri Lankesh was assassinated in Bangalore days before she planned to publish an article about disinformation. Over five years later, Forbidden Stories pursued Lankesh’s work on fake news and explored new leads in her murder case.
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Saint Valentine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – A whimsical poem to celebrate the love legacy of Saint Valentine, written by Marianne Moore 63 years ago, published in The New Yorker on 13 Feb 1960, dedicated by me to all of us who love poetry and dare to love love on Valentine’s Day 2023.
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Israeli Security Forces Carry Out Massacre in Jenin, Palestine
Richard Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have vowed to make it easier for Israelis to carry guns. Ben-Gvir: “I want weapons on the streets, I want Israeli citizens to be able to protect themselves.” It follows the Zionist narrative of demonizing the victim and sanctifying the aggressor [remember Hitler & Nazism?].
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(Castellano) Comunicación y Paz–Homenaje a Johan Galtung: Call for Papers CIC 28
Joan Pedro-Carañana y Ángel Carrasco-Campos | Universidad Complutense de Madrid – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
En homenaje a la trayectoria y aportaciones de Johan Galtung, la revista Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación (CIC) hace una llamada a contribuciones para su número 28, que incluirá un monográfico sobre “Comunicación y paz”, enfocado a difundir investigaciones y aportaciones teóricas centradas en el papel de la producción social de comunicación, tanto en la reproducción de los conflictos sociales como en la promoción de los procesos de paz.
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Story Killers (Part 2): “Team Jorge”–In the Heart of a Global Disinformation Machine
Cécile Andrzejewski | Forbidden Stories/Story Killers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – In Part 2 of the “Story Killers” project, the Forbidden Stories consortium investigated an ultra-secret Israeli company involved in manipulating elections and hacking African politicians. We took an unprecedented dive into a world where troll armies, cyber espionage and influencers are intertwined.
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Biden’s Misplaced Optimism: 2023 State of the Union Address
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
18 Feb 2023 – The national situation is far too deeply challenged for us to be content with presidential bromides. What is most needed are policies and practices that embody compassion, and are dedicated with the fullness of being to responding to the imperatives of human security at all levels of social interaction.
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Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – As Somalia struggled to hold its first real national elections since the country collapsed in 1991, the US and its allies pushed separatism and undermined democracy so as to militarily dominate the country and plunder its resources.
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Inside the Iron Cage
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – I would prefer not to relay the following very strange story given to me by a fellow sociologist, but I feel obligated. I don’t know what to make of the whole thing. Below you will find the manuscript he handed me. I realize you are getting this third hand, but there’s nothing I can do about that. I don’t know his friend. So here it is.
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Barcelona Mayor Cuts City’s Ties with Israel over ‘Crime of Apartheid’
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau yesterday announced her city is cutting ties with Israel and ending its symbolic 25-year-old “twin cities” relationship with Tel Aviv over the Israeli government’s violent anti-Palestinian policies. “We cannot be silent,” said Colau.
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How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
A simple perspective shift that reorients the roots of being. Hermann Hesse believed that trees are our greatest spiritual teachers. Walt Whitman cherished them as paragons of authenticity amid a world of mere appearances.
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Nord Stream: What Hersh Got Wrong
Mike Whitney | Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – There’s something not-quite-right about Sy Hersh’s report on the destruction of Nord Stream 2. There are a number of inconsistencies in the piece that lead me to believe that Hersh was less interested in presenting ‘the unvarnished truth’ than relaying a version of events that advance a particular agenda.
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Over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)
Ella Autti | World Dignity University Workshop – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – The First World Dignity University Initiative Workshop, “For People and the Planet: Learning for a Future of Dignity,” has been hosted online on 9 Dec 2022.
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Cuba Is Not a State Sponsor of Terrorism
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Cuba, with 11 million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the USA for over six decades. Despite this, Cuba’s people have been able to transcend the indignities of hunger, ill health and illiteracy, social plagues that still troubles much of the world.
→ read full article‘Hate Speech Loads the Gun, Misinformation Pulls the Trigger’ – And It Is Profitable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
17 Feb 2023 – In this world of wars, massive weapons production, sales and use; of sharpening inequalities and deadly climate emergencies, hate speech and its inhumane impact is being amplified at ‘unprecedented scale’ by new technologies.
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Ukraine, Rethinking Global Security—Webinar
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar, et al. | SHAPE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Our second webinar on 23 Feb 2023 draws lessons from the Ukraine war and sets new pathways to global security. An initiative to address the multiple crises that brought us to the brink of the precipice. Doomsday Clock: 90 seconds to midnight.
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Brazil: Pres. Lula Knows How to Fight the Far Right. We Should Listen.
Craig Johnson | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – Brazilian president Lula da Silva knows the dangers of the far right all too well, and during his visit to the US last week he laid out exactly how to defeat such reactionaries: not by striving for a false unity but by confronting the foes of democracy head-on.
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ChatGPT: Boon for the Lazy Learner
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – Launched on 30 Nov 2022 by OpenAI, ChatGPT is open to the curious, the lazy and the opportunistic. In January, the Manchester Evening News reported that a student asked the bot to put together a 2,000-word essay on social policy. Within 20 minutes, the work was done.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gli scienziati sono in affanno? Ai confini tra scienza, politica e società
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
10 Febbraio 2023 – Come anticipato nell’articolo Le crescenti incertezze della scienza, gli scienziati sono in affanno perché sempre più spesso alla scienza viene chiesto di fornire risposte chiare e univoche su questioni sanitarie o socio-ambientali, in contesti di per sé ad elevata complessità e incertezza, e in cui è urgente prendere decisioni o predisporre politiche regolatorie.
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‘Cleansing’ Palestinians from Palestine
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Israel’s new extremist regime — the most anti-Palestinian in history — seems to be aiming at incorporating all of the occupied Palestinian territories into Israel.
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Zelensky Signs Agreement with JP Morgan on Ukraine’s Reconstruction
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – Bankers from JP Morgan Chase visited Ukraine last week and signed a memorandum of understanding with President Volodymyr Zelensky and plan to help raise private capital for a new fund for Ukraine’s reconstruction.
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Valentines for 2023
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Sigh!
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Einstein & Freud Agree: Ending War Requires World Government
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – A new form of global governance will be needed to end war between nations according to Einstein and Freud in their 1932 exchange of letters. They describe a governing system consistent with what world federalists describe as world government.
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Media: Objectivity and Its Discontents
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – It is one thing for reporters and editors to abandon the principle of objectivity as they hurl their hatchets at those who provoke their prejudices—Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, whomever. It is another for the retired coots now posing as the profession’s wise men to elevate these derelictions to the principle of there-are-no-principles. How far down the crater of corruption are those running US media’s newsrooms going to cascade?
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‘Finally’ The Lancet Acknowledges Natural Immunity Superior to mRNA COVID Vaccines
Brenda Baletti Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Immunity acquired from past COVID-19 infection provides strong, lasting protection against severe outcomes from the illness at a level “as high if not higher” than that provided by mRNA vaccines, according to a study published Thursday [16 Feb] in The Lancet.
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Exile and Mama
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – A post about exile and my mama in a series of posts I will start weekly on positive role models. This is post 1.
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Alone and Unafraid: How to Prepare to Fight and Win the Next War
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Ernest “Nest” Cage | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – A near-peer conflict between the U.S. and China will be a nightmare in real life. Just how scary it might be is dependent on what is done now. Man is not perfect and is a reliable creature of habit, so we must prepare to win today.
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The New York Times Is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if all were reversed and Russia had put troops and weapons in Mexico and Canada that the United States would respond forcefully.
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The Moral and Intellectual Disconnect between the Memories of Shoah and Today’s Jewish State
Maung Zarni | Islamic Renaissance Front – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – Every time I hear about the Shoah or the Nazi genocide of the Jews, I can’t help but make a sad and rage-filled link between it and the present day Israel – the officially Jewish State with echoes of the ideology that served as the foundation of Nazi Germany.
→ read full articleOutraged again!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Meanwhile, in the USA
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – The food industry continues to intensively use toxic chemicals in their products, some of them provoking heart diseases and death. Trans fat is just one of them, adding to contaminating fertilisers, pesticides, microplastics and a long etcetera.
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TRANSCEND Members February Birthdays
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
We at TRANSCEND Media Service wish our distinguished members a HAPPY BIRTHDAY with many returns. We take this opportunity to thank them for all their contributions to the world and to TMS. Bless your lives!
* Richard E. Rubenstein 24 Feb 1938 –> 85 years
* Antonio C. S. Rosa, 8 Feb 1946 –> 77 years
The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver’s Racial Justice Movement
Trevor Aaronson | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – Mickey Windecker encouraged violence, accused activist leaders of being police cooperators, and tried to draw demonstrators into elaborate stings.
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The Atlantic Realists
Felix Rösch | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Attempting to broaden our understanding of international relations but failing to classify the theoretical schools to which key actors belong. The role of German-speaking scholars forced by Fascism to emigrate from Central Europe in 1920s/30s vis-à-vis North American scholarship should not be underestimated.
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Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
“If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall; this is the physics of vulnerability.”
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Royal Commission of Inquiry: Investigating War Crimes in the Hawaiian Islands
Dr. Keanu Sai | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – The RCI was established by Proclamation of the Hawaiian Kingdom Council of Regency in 2019, yet there has been no coverage in either the mainstream or alternative media. Most people are not aware that the Hawaiian Islands have been under a prolonged and illegal occupation by the USA since 17 Jan 1893.
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Hi-Tech Military Weapons Breed New Danger
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – New Report Unpacks Dangers of Emerging Military Tech: AI Nukes, Killer Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Hypersonic Missiles, Cyber Battles
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Lift Sanctions against Syria to Lessen Sufferings from the Earthquake
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
The International Movement for a Just World urges the North American, British, Australian, Canadian, Swiss and some European Union and Arab League governments to lift the unjust, immoral sanctions against Syria in order to lessen the immense sufferings of the people caused by the massive earthquake of 6 Feb 2023.
→ read full articleHow the USA Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2022 – The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now.
→ read full article(Italiano) Le incertezze crescenti della scienza
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Febbraio 2023 – Nell’ambito della rassegna di ‘Biennale Tecnologia’ organizzata dal Politecnico di Torino a novembre del 2022 una nota studiosa americana, Naomi Oreskes, ha tenuto una lezione dal titolo “Perché fidarsi della scienza?”. Nella locandina di presentazione dell’evento si leggeva:
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Decommission US Land-Based Nuclear Missiles NOW!
Leonard Eiger | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – There has not been any international outcry over the launch of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile that would carry a thermonuclear warhead. No discussion anywhere by the news media about the test and its implications regarding control of the proliferation of nuclear weapons and disarmament.
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US-Laid Trap for Russia Has Trapped West Instead
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – A month before the Feb. 24, 2022 Russian invasion, CN wrote that the U.S. was laying a trap to lure Russia into an economic, information and proxy war. All three have failed for the U.S.
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For Palestine, Justice Is Not a Question of Law
M Muhannad Ayyash | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2023 – As we work towards Palestinian liberation, we should not forget that international law is itself a form of imperial violence.
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