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Latin America again Refuses to Fall in Line with the Collective West
Nick Corbishley | Naked Capital - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
21 Jul 2023 – Another attempt by the Collective West to isolate Russia from the rest of the world — or the “Jungle,” as the EU’s chief “diplomat” Josep Borrell calls it — fails spectacularly.
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Luanda Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto Faces Fresh Charges Despite Amnesty from Papal Visit
Matei Rosca | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – The source of the Luanda Leaks and of another exposé that rocked the global soccer industry faces 377 new charges and the prospect of another trial, despite an anticipated amnesty.
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World Hunger and the War in Ukraine
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
The current food crisis is a price crisis, not a supply crisis. The end of the Black Sea Grain Initiative by Russia is not the leading cause of hunger in the world. Rather, it is the financial speculation in food markets the main culprit.
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Arming Taiwan Is an Insane Provocation
John V. Walsh | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – As Washington applies the neocon Wolfowitz Doctrine to East Asia, Taiwan becomes a “powder keg” by U.S. weaponry. The provocations must stop and Biden should instead take up China’s offer of peaceful coexistence.
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Thousands of Authors Urge AI Companies to Stop Using Their Works without Permission
Chloe Veltman | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Thousands of writers have signed a letter asking artificial intelligence companies like OpenAI and Meta to stop using their work without permission or compensation. But protecting writers from the negative impacts of these technologies is not an easy proposition.
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NATO Summit, a Theater of the Absurd
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – The unfulfilled goals and objectives from last year’s meeting in Madrid loom over the Atlantic military alliance. When the membership meets in Vilnius this week, normalizing failure might best describe the most that can be accomplished.
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Bullying Escalates: US Nuclear Submarine Docks in Cuban Territory
Alejandra Garcia | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – Just days before Cuba marked two years since the July 11 riots, a nuclear-powered US submarine crossed Cuban waters and docked at the illegal base of Guantanamo. From July 5-8 it remained in that Cuban territory usurped and illegally occupied by Washington 121 years ago.
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The US-Nordic Summit: NATO Expansion, Confusion and Repetition
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – It is extremely important to think of alternatives to the ongoing NATO militarism, re-think its triumphalistic, provocative expansion, and refer to words and concepts cancelled from the Western discourse: peace, cooperation, common security, reconciliation, media diversity.
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The Great Chessboard: China’s Economic Rise and the Collapse of the USA
Mike Whitney | Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – The One Chart That Explains Everything
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Learning from History, if We Dare
Gary M. Feinman | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
Our blinders and misconceptions about the past constrain the knowledge that we have to plan for a better future. Societies don’t get much out of living memory because the longer-term ramifications from recent decisions generally remain unsettled.
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Christmas in July
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
Black Humor–Tragicomedy
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British Intelligence in the Dock for CIA Torture
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
11 Jul 2023 – Recent developments raise the prospect that British intelligence agents could finally face justice for their little-known role in the CIA’s global torture program.
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The Weaponization of Human Rights at the Human Rights Council
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – Alas, the Human Rights Council has become predominantly a platform for those who engage in war-mongering and incitement to hatred. Notwithstanding the clear language of Article 20 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, many states practice flagrant Russophobia, Sinophobia and other phobias. Article 20 stipulates:
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Has Hunter Biden’s Decadent Lifestyle Become a Metaphor for U.S. Society?
Robert Bridge | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – When cocaine was found in the White House, observers immediately linked it to the US president’s infamous son. Hunter Biden, currently US’ most infamous drug abuser, appeared on the White House balcony, looking sweaty and nervous.
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A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
“Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything came.”
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The UK-Rwanda Pact to Keep Migrants from Crossing the English Channel
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – The UK is spearheading a European drive to outsource migrants to Rwanda.
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Salaam (Music Video of the Week)
Alka Yagnik | T-Series – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
From the movie Umrao Jaan – Music by Anu Malik
(Please click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy)
Humanity in Hypnotic Thrall to a Techno-Industrial God
Julian Rose | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – As long as enough people buy into it for long enough, the slavery exercise will be irreversible.
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Competing with the Dollar: BRICS Launches Game-Changing Gold-Backed Currency
Jeff | Crypto News Flash - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – BRICS nations unveil a gold-backed digital currency that could challenge the US Dollar in global payments. It aims to enhance financial sovereignty, reduce reliance on existing monetary systems, and provide an alternative means of conducting global trade and accumulating reserves.
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Listening to Oppenheimer, Seven Decades Later
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – A mere 55 years after his death, the U.S. government has restored J. Robert Oppenheimer’s security clearance, which the Atomic Energy Commission had taken away from him in 1954, declaring him to be not simply a communist but, in all likelihood, a Soviet spy.
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Executive Pay: A Good Year’s Pay for a Good Day’s Work?
Sam Pizzigati | Inequality – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – Pay levels for top U.S. corporate execs have lost any connection to organizational rationality.
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Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine Is a Grave Mistake
Adam Zikri | War Prevention Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – The War Prevention Initiative condemns the US decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine. They kill and maim civilians indiscriminately after the war, contaminating land for decades after they are used. They do not win wars and will only hurt current and future generations of Ukrainians.
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Greenwald: Ex-Spies Run Censorship Operations for Tech Giants
Brenda Baletti | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – On a recent episode of his show ‘System Update,’ journalist Glenn Greenwald explained how the ‘censorship-industrial complex’ merges corporate media, big tech and the security state to crack down on dissent.
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Science Activism Is Surging – Which Marks a Culture Shift among Scientists
Scott Frickel and Fernando Tormos-Aponte | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
6 Jul 2023 – India: Hundreds of scientists protested government restriction of access to Western science theories, including Darwin’s. Mexico: Scientists participated in a research strike to protest a law that would threaten basic research. Norway: Three scientists were arrested for protesting the nation’s slow-moving climate policy.
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NATO Is a Warfare Alliance, Not a Force for Global Peace or Stability
Medea Benjamin and Marcy Winograd | CODEPINK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – CODEPINK’s Statement on 2023 NATO Summit
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Pierangelo Pirak | Vimeo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
The Neuroscience, Physics, and Philosophy of Freedom in a Universe of Fixed Laws
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Gitmo’s Permanent Chains
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
7 Jul 2023 – Now comes yet another little-noted UN Report on the continuing excesses and inhumanity at Guantánamo Bay, the post-9/11 US military prison that only two decades ago set the standard for war crimes.
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The Orca Uprising: Whales Are Ramming Boats–but Are They Inspired by Revenge, Grief or Memory?
Emma Beddington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
11 Jul 2023 – A pod in the strait of Gibraltar has sunk three boats and damaged dozens of others, and their story has captivated the world. What explains this unprecedented behaviour?
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Analysing EU Foreign Policy on Russia before the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine
Rob May | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
28 Jun 2023 – A change in power image resulting from militarisation would restrain Europe’s normative impulses and introduce greater cognitive flexibility to policymaking.
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The Federal Debt Trap: Issues and Possible Solutions
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
14 Jul 2023 – The US achieved its greatest-ever infrastructure campaign in the Great Depression. We can do that again with the same machinery: off-budget financing through a government-owned financial institution. It is good to have viable alternatives when, as in the 1930s, politicians are compelled to seek them out.
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Fear and Loathing on Air Force One
Seymour M. Hersh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
15 Jul 2023 – A silly fear that signals the Democratic Party’s panic about the 2024 Presidential election: Trump could be the Republican nominee and will select Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as his running mate. The duo will then sweep to a huge victory over Joe Biden and take down many of the party’s House and Senate candidates.
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US’ Top Competition Watchdog Opens Investigation into ChatGPT Maker
Dan Milmo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
13 Jul 2023 – FTC makes move on claims OpenAI has run afoul of consumer protection laws by putting personal reputations and data at risk.
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The Magaverse
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – Or is it Megaverse?
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Jenin Raid Is Over–Palestinians Are Left to Cope with the Trauma
Virginia Pietromarchi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – Palestinians sift through the wreckage of their destroyed homes and of their damaged psyches. In Palestine, there’s no PTSD. Trauma is chronic and enduring.
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Extremist Ideology in Europe: ‘Leave Everyone Behind’ (Except Us)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – A glance at the European political map would show how far the extremist ideology has been installed in European countries–those who still wave the French Revolution’s flag of “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.”
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From ICC to ‘Sportswashing’: West’s Self-Serving Narratives Must Be Combated
Ramzy Baroud | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – The denunciation of the ICC came two days after the court issued an arrest warrant for Vladimir Putin for alleged war crimes. The speed with which the case against him was lodged, discussed, and followed by concrete action raised questions about the integrity, balance and political agenda of the Western-inclined court.
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Palestinian Hope: Present and Future
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – The past 30 hours, Israeli occupation and apartheid forces invaded the city of Jenin including the Jenin Refugee camp. They bulldozed streets and electricity and water infrastructure. They prevented ambulances and attacked he press. Thousands of people were forced to leave their homes. A second ethnic cleansing for them.
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(Italiano) 11 settembre: Chi è stato? E perché importa al movimento pacifista
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
Johan Galtung mi presentò a Graeme a un simposio TRANSCEND nel 2011 in North Carolina. L’11 settembre non era nell’agenda formale, ma emerse in conversazioni laterali con l’approssimarsi del 10° anniversario. Galtung ha sempre promosso un dialogo aperto su argomenti provocanti, tenendo testa a una propensione delle istituzioni accademiche e delle maggiori piattaforme mediatiche ad ignorare opinioni dissenzienti sul 11.09 passandole per infatuate teorie cospiratorie.
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‘A Real Massacre’: Israel’s Attack on Palestinians in Jenin
Arwa Ibrahim | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
3 Jul 2023 – Israel’s bloody incursion against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank continues with growing calls for the protection of civilians and fears the tense situation could explode into another devastating war. Israeli forces kill at least nine Palestinians as major military operation continues in the Jenin refugee camp.
→ read full article(Italiano) Vertice NATO di Vilnius: 30 anni di provocazioni di conflitti
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Luglio 2023 – Il prossimo vertice NATO avrà luogo a Vilnius, Lituania, il 11-12 luglio 2023, quasi esattamente 26 anni dopo (8-9 luglio 1997) quello tenutosi a Madrid, che confermò ”L’atto di Fondazione di Mutui Rapporti, Cooperazione e Sicurezza fra la NATO e la Federazione Russa”.
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IAEA Endorses Japan’s Release of Treated Water from Fukushima Plant
Eric Johnston | The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Jul 2023 – The International Atomic Energy Agency gave an essential endorsement today of a controversial plan by Japan to release treated water from the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant into the Pacific, paving the way for it to be released this summer.
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(Français) Haïti : la solution volée
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
6 juillet 2023 – Il y a deux ans, était assassiné le président haïtien, Jovenel Moïse. L’ONU développe ces dernières semaines une offensive diplomatique pour appuyer l’envoi d’une force internationale sur place. La communauté internationale s’obstine à passer à côté de la solution avancée par une grande partie de la société civile haïtienne.
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(Italiano) Innovazione spaziale da Parigi a Torino
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Luglio 2023 – Dal 19 al 25 giugno 2023 si è svolta a Parigi una importante esposizione: il Salone Internazionale dell’Aeronautica e dello Spazio. Il Salone di Parigi ha registrato la presenza di 130.000 professionsti (43% dall’estero) e 170.000 visitatori del grande pubblico; 322 delegazioni ufficiali, 1850 giornalisti accreditati.
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Dispelling the Myths about Palestinian Refugees — in Jenin and Beyond
Anne Irfan | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
9 Jul 2023 – With Israel’s Jenin invasion sparking a new round of misinformation, here are the truths behind five hasbara tropes on Palestinian refugees.
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Declassified Files Expose British Role in NATO’s Gladio Terror Armies
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
Newly declassified British files shed disturbing light on the origins and internal workings of Operation Gladio, a covert NATO plot deploying fascist terror militias across Italy. Have spies in London applied these lessons in Ukraine?
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Conditions for Guantanamo Detainees Are Cruel, Inhuman and Degrading, UN Investigator Says
Edith M. Lederer | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
26 Jun 2023 – The first U.N. independent investigator to visit the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay said today the 30 men held there are subject “to ongoing cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment under international law.”
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Authors File a Lawsuit against OpenAI for Unlawfully ‘Ingesting’ Their Books
Ella Creamer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay allege that their books, which are copyrighted, were ‘used to train’ ChatGPT because the Chatbot generated ‘very accurate summaries’ of the works.
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In Bid to Compete with Twitter, Zuckerberg Launches Social Media App That ‘Collects All Your Data and Follows You Everywhere’
Brenda Baletti, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
7 Jul 2023 – One day after a federal judge barred Biden administration officials and agencies from communicating with social media about censoring content, Mark Zuckerberg launched Threads — Meta’s new social media platform to compete with Twitter.
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UN Forcefully Hits at US Blockade of Cuba and Prison in Guantanamo
W.T. Whitney Jr. | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – The United Nations put forth a denunciation that carries unusual force because of its legal authority and practical experience in Cuba. Internal criticism of U.S. policies on Cuba is brushed aside due to the low priority Washington officials assign to Cuban affairs.
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The Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as Prayer for Presence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
How to grow “absorbed into the being or existence of the universe.”
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How a Notorious Georgia Army School Became America’s Training Ground for Global Torture
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – The School of the Americas (now known as Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation or WHINSEC), where around 84,000 Latin American soldiers and police officers have been taught how to kill, torture and how to stamp out political activists.
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Hollywood Actress Katerina Pavelek Died through Assisted Suicide Due to COVID-19 Vaccine Injuries
Dr. William Makis MD | COVID Intel/Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
23 Jun 2023 – Slovakian Model and Hollywood Actress Katerina Pavelek Ended Her Life at an Assisted Suicide Clinic in Basel, Switzerland on 1 Jun 2023 at the age of 41 Due to COVID-19 Vaccine Booster Injuries (ME, CFS, ALS) [Pegasos Swiss Association, Basel]
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Israel’s Bloodcurdling ‘Poison Policy’ to Replace Palestinians with Jewish Settlers
Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4 Jul 2023 – A shocking document last September revealed that, during the 1948 Nakba, Zionist militias engaged in a wide-ranging chemical and biological warfare campaign to expel indigenous Palestinian communities from their lands, slow the advance of intervening Arab armies, and poison citizens of neighboring states.
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Somalia: The Lawless Frontier
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
5 Jul 2023 – A UN “peacekeeping” mission continues operations in Somalia.
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Sudan: A Failed Mediation Process
Meg-Ann Lenoble | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – The two generals had jointly orchestrated the Oct 2021 coup, leading to the fall of the civilian government of Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, thus leading them both to the governance of Sudan. Allies in the past, how can we explain this reversal?
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Dr. Denis Rancourt: Covid Injections Have Killed 13 Million People Worldwide
Rhoda Wilson | The Exposé - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
26 Jun 2023 – Dr. Denis Rancourt’s research has shown that the vaccination campaign in India caused the deaths of 3.7 million fragile residents. And, “in Western countries, we quantified the average all-ages rate of death to be 1 death for every 2,000 injections, to increase exponentially with age … We estimated that the vaccines had killed 13 million worldwide,” he said.
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Mr Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
4th JULY 2023 – HAPPY 4th!
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The Not-So-Discreet U.S. Campaign to Pressure Brazil’s Foreign Policy
Pedro Marin | Revista Opera/Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
Machiavelli has been exhaustively remembered these days, in the context of the Wagner Group mutiny in Russia, for his classic lessons on the use of mercenaries. It is also worth recalling the Florentine’s words about certain types of “allies”: “These arms may be useful and good in themselves, but for him who calls them in they are always disadvantageous; for losing, one is undone, and winning, one is their captive.”
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Afghanistan: Civil War among the Taliban?
Ozair Khan | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – Prominent Taliban figures have criticized the ban on girls’ education, including Abdul Salam Hanafi, the Taliban’s deputy prime minister, who said: “We can only develop the country with high-standard educational institutions. …”
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NATO’s Scorched Earth in Ukraine
Tony Kevin | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
The forthcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius, Lithuania on July 11-12 infected by a strange policy fatalism. The West seems content to let Zelensky go on wasting Ukraine’s increasingly scarce military-age men in a process described as NATO’s assisted suicide of the Ukrainian nation.
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The Facts about Neo-Colonialism
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
6 Jul 2023 – Developing countries have forked out over $4.2tn in interest payments alone since 1980–a direct cash transfer to big banks in New York and London. Think of all the profits that BP extracts from Nigeria’s oil reserves, for example, or that Anglo-American pulls out of South Africa’s gold mines.
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Is Fukushima Wastewater Release Safe? What the Science Says
Bianca Nogrady | Nature – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
Radiation in the water will be diluted to almost-background levels, but some researchers are not sure this will be sufficient to mitigate the risks.
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Mainstream Media Colludes with U.S. Government to Conceal Source of Syria’s Heartbreaking Humanitarian Crisis
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
30 Jun 2023 – Illegal U.S. bombing raids, brutal economic sanctions, and BRAZEN THEFT BY U.S. FORCES OF 66,000 BARRELS OF SYRIAN OIL PER DAY (80% of its total output) have visited a biblical-scale tragedy upon the Syrian people that has battered them virtually back to the stone age.
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How So Many Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Nukes
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
7 Jul 2023 – Social psychosis is widespread. The insouciant acceptance and support of psychotic rulers who promote first-strike nuclear war is very common; it is the United States’ nuclear policy. I recently wrote an article about the dangers of the fourteen U.S. Trident submarines.
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Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
30 Jun 2023 – Without historical context, buried by corporate media, it’s impossible to understand Ukraine. Historians will tell the story. But the Establishment hits back at journalists who try to tell it now. The way to prevent understanding of the Ukraine war is to suppress its history. A cartoon version says the conflict began in February 2022 when Vladimir Putin woke up one morning and decided to invade Ukraine…
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SCO: Eurasian Leaders Focus on Common Goals and Sidestep Disagreements
Amb. Kanwal Sibal | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jul 2023
6 Jul 2023 – The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation’s latest joint declaration is a level-headed take on challenges facing the world.
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Huge Increase in Transnational Crime in Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – How come that in a world where technology is able to detect an ant in a jungle, the traffickers of death continue to carry out their lucrative criminal activities everywhere and in all fields, from weapons to prostitution, enslavement and drugs to deadly fake medicines, through oil, gas and poisoned food.
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Report Shows How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
30 Jun 2023 – Wealthy donors have long funded think tanks that produce research of interest to them. The weapons industry is a major contributor to these idea factories; a report from the Quincy Institute demonstrates just how much influence war profiteers have on the US national discourse.
→ read full articleHuman Suffering Worsens in DRC, the Heart of Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
28 Jun 2023 – A million more Congolese people have been displaced to satisfy the resource hunger of the industrialized world.
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PETA Demands U.S. Army Ban ‘Classified’ Weapon-Wounding Tests on Dogs, Others
Elena Waldman | PETA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
The U.S. Army is now explicitly permitting formerly banned laboratory experiments involving the wounding of dogs, cats, marine animals, and primates using weapons.
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U.S. Depleted Uranium to Make Ukraine War Dirtier
John LaForge | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
30 Jun 2023 – The Biden administration is expected to supply Ukraine with highly controversial depleted-uranium munitions which are to be fired from the Abrams battle tanks the U.S. is sending to Kyiv.
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Fairytale (Music Video of the Week)
Alexander Rybak | Eurovision – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
LIVE | Grand Final | Eurovision 2009
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Asia-Pacific NATO: Fanning the Flames of War (SHAPE Webinar)
Richard Falk, Joseph Camilleri and Chandra Muzaffar | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
“I encourage attendance at this webinar on July 4 or 5, depending on time zone, devoted to encroachment of NATO on Asia-Pacific security, with excellent speakers.”
— Richard Falk
The “Korean Solution” for Europe
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
26 Jun 2023 – Create a “Military Demarcation Line” in the EU, Put Ukraine under the Tutelage of Poland
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U.S. Intelligence Agencies Advance Disinformation about Chinese Spy Base in Cuba…
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
… to Gain Support for Cruel Embargo Costing Cubans $455 Million per Month – After having lied about WMDs, Russiagate, chemical weapons in Syria and so much more, the U.S. is now advancing the lie that Cuba is hosting a Chinese spy base.
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Why Is Europe the Epicenter of World Wars?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
1 Jul 2023 – Europe was the epicenter of World Wars I and II, and now it threatens, with its war in the Ukraine, to kindle World War III.
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Portion Control
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
For the second year in a row, Mr. Fish came on top for Best Editorial Cartoon at the Los Angeles Press Club annual awards gala on 25 Jun 2023.
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“The Doomsday Machine”: Confessions of Daniel Ellsberg, Former Nuclear War Planner
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
1 Jul 2023 – As we remember Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, who died in June, we look at how he was also a lifelong anti-nuclear activist, stemming from his time working as a nuclear planner for the U.S. government.
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Military Initiative by Australia, UK and USA (AUKUS) Is Another Major Step in Prospective War on China
Murray Horton | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
29 Jun 2023 – Peace groups in all three nations need to rally against provocative alliance that is a pivotal component of [nuclear?] war planning.
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The Bolshevik Color Revolution of 1917 and Prigozhin’s 2023 Gambit: Trotsky, Russell, and the War on Civilization
Matthew Ehret | The Last American Vagabond – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – Now, I don’t know if the events catalyzed by Prigozhin’s are part of a ‘game within a game’ to flush out fifth columnists and provide a headfake to western strategists… OR if this was an authentic coup. But there are historical processes at play which too few recognize and which President Putin understands very well.
→ read full articleIt’s Time to Stop the ‘Insect Apocalypse’
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
28 Jun 2023 – I was reading about the looming demise of bumble bees thanks to human greed and ignorance and started thinking about the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. We ‘should’ have eaten from it!
→ read full article(Français) Pourquoi L’europe Est-Elle L’epicentre Des Guerres Mondiales ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
1 juillet 2023 – L’Europe était l’épicentre des guerres mondiales I et II, et maintenant elle menace, avec sa guerre en Ukraine, de déclencher la troisième guerre mondiale.
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The Talented Mr. Fish
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – For the second year in a row, Mr. Fish comes out on top for “Best Editorial Cartoon.”
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The Psychology of Truth-Tellers: Inspired by Dan Ellsberg
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
This is a revision of an earlier piece on “The Psychology of Veridos™ (Seekers of Truth and Justice) being repurposed as a tribute to Dan Ellsberg.
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Director ‘Mismanagement’ Enabled Isabel dos Santos to Illegally Divert Millions, Dutch Court Finds
Fergus Shiel and Karlijn Kuijpers | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
19 Jun 2023 – The daughter of Angola’s former authoritarian president siphoned 52.6 million euros from Angola’s state oil company into a business she controlled.
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Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard | Waterstones – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
“Silent Coup is investigative journalism at its best, charting the rise of corporate power after World War II, where the freedoms fought for were redefined.”
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Practicing Peace: Conflict Management in Southeast Asia and South America
Sarwar J. Minar | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
25 Jun 2023 – With the rise of China and its increasing influence in various regions of the world, many scholars, academicians, and policy makers wonder how the transition of great power influence will affect regional peace and conflict dynamics, particularly in Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America.
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Corporate Profits Were Biggest Driver of Inflation in Europe, IMF Admits
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – Rising corporate profits have caused 45% of inflation in Europe, compared to 40% for rising import prices and just 15% for workers’ wages, according to research by IMF economists.
→ read full articleSea Monsters Threaten the World with Their Tridents
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jul 2023
The obsession with the alleged marvels of technology and naming them after ancient Greek and Roman gods are fixations of elite technologues who have lost what Spengler called “living inner religiousness” but wish to show they know the classical names even though they miss the meaning of these myths.
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(Italiano) La teoria di Sigmund Freud e l’applicazione della teoria di Galtung sulla soluzione dei conflitti
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
20 Giugno 2023 – Come applicare l’A-B-C della teoria di Johan Galtung della soluzione non violenta dei conflitti. Il caso della teoria di Sigmund Freud sulla psicanalisi.
→ read full articleMigration: Europe’s Complicity in Massive Human Rights Violations
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
19 Jun 2023 – The massive drowning of hundreds of migrants close to Greece shores on 14 June is just a new chapter in Europe’s long series of continued violations of all international human rights laws.
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The Great Reset Is Almost Here – Are You Prepared?
Brandon Smith | Birch Gold Group - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
Imagine a world in which everything we know about the economy is upended. A world fully digital within a cashless society where monetary interactions are replaced by CBDCs, tracked and traced, nothing being private unless you are a criminal in a black market.
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Interactive Polyhedral Configuration of Preoccupations
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
26 Jun 2023 – Use of Force-directed Layout to Explore Coherence of Contrasting Memorability – Frequent reference is made to complexity as it is increasingly perceived to be characteristic of challenges of governance.
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Daniel Ellsberg: A U.S. Hero
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
25 Jun 2023 – If democracy survives the digital age with its scary newly appreciated AI dimensions, it will be thanks to brave whistleblowers starting with Ellsberg and continuing with Edward Snowden, Julian Assange, and Jack Teixeira, individuals currently hounded as criminals by the U.S. government.
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(Italiano) Dar retta al ‘grido accorato’ di Cornel West
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
La reazione di Biden all’attacco russo all’Ucraina non è stata di quelle che cercano quanto prima una tregua e un compromesso diplomatico. Ha optato piuttosto per armamento e assistenza tali da sostenere una guerra protratta in Ucraina come dimostrazione del la rinascita della NATO a guida USA, a quanto pare non tanto motivata per la difesa dell’Ucraina ma per un incontenibile interesse ad umiliare Putin e sconfiggere la Russia. E non solo.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
12 Jun 2023 – Artificial Intelligence
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US Still Nowhere with the Chinese
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
20 Jun 2023 – The bitter truth is that the leaders of Biden’s foreign policy are too paralyzed by the ideology of American primacy to come up with a single, solitary new thought as to how to address other great powers as we enter an historically new era.
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Dystopian Nightmare: 10 Unbelievable Things That Will Happen Soon if We Don’t Stop the March of Tyranny and the Enslavement of Humanity
Mike Adams | Natural News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
16 Jun 2023 – You see the march of tyranny in the COVID lockdowns, vaccine propaganda, government-sponsored censorship and banking/finance restrictions on what you’re allowed to do with your own money. And it’s going to get
worse if we don’t stop it.
Why Julian Assange Must Be Freed
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
24 Jun 2023 – I have a confession to make. Once, like a lot of journalists, I didn’t like Julian Assange. It wasn’t just that WikiLeaks was breaking one huge story after another. He had fab hair. He wore skinny jeans. He even modeled at fashion week! What can I say? I was jealous.
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Xi Meets Blinken, Calling on US to Translate Statements to Actions
Chen Qingqing and Zhao Juecheng | Global Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
19 Jun 2023 – Chinese President Xi Jinping met with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing today, calling on the US to adopt a rational and pragmatic attitude to respect China’s legitimate rights and interests. Major-country competition does not represent the trend of the times.
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