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(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
3 fev 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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Sanctions Imposed by US and Allies Hamper Relief and Rescue Work in Earthquake-Devastated Syria
Defend Democracy Press | Delphi Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent demanded that the US and its allies lift their siege and sanctions on Syria so that rescue and relief work can proceed after the devastation of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake yesterday. Over 5,000 people have been reported dead so far and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria.
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The Ukraine War in the Light of the UN Charter
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – Whether or not the West considers NATO’s expansion a provocation, what is crucial is how NATO expansion is perceived by those who feel threatened by it. In this context we must remember that article 2(4) of the UN Charter prohibits not only the use of force but also the threat of the use of force.
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The New Geopolitics
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Horizons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Winter 2023 – Understanding the forces that are refiguring the international ‘system’ and what outcomes we can imagine.
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On the History of the Black Power Movement in the USA
Mark Whitaker | CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Wallace: “Mr. Carmichael, if you had the chance to stand up in front of the white community and say to them, ‘Understand me, white man,’ what would you say?” Carmichael: “I would say, ‘Understand yourself, white man. You are the savages. Yes, it is you who have always been uncivilized. Civilize yourself.'”
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Poverty amid Plenty
Liz Theoharis | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – A World Fragmented by Inequality
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The US Is Legitimizing Jewish Terrorism against Palestinians
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – There is one line at the very end of the State Department’s statement that is particularly cynical: “We look to both sides not to take steps that actually make things worse.” This comment is noteworthy because Blinken did make one proposal that will make things far worse and will without doubt bring about more violence.
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White House-Linked Venture Capital Fund Boasts China War Would Be Great for Business
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – A representative from America’s Frontier Fund said that a “kinetic event” in the Pacific would be very good for its bottom line.
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Mechanistic and Non-mechanistic Science
The Hieronimus Show | Vedic Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Thompson defines the soul (jivatma) as a “distinct quanta of consciousness”, and argues convincingly that this basic principle of life cannot logically arise from matter. He affirms the need for intelligence in some of nature’s more intricate designs.
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Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism
Ashley Gjovik | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck.
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U.S. Hypocrisy on War Crimes Is a Gift to Putin
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – The failure to prosecute American officials and other powerful nations for war crimes has created a jurisdictional mess.
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Three New Books by Former Soldiers That the US Military Doesn’t Want You to Read
Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023 – Several new memoirs from disillusioned military veterans reflect on the horrors of war. They’re essential tools for challenging US empire.
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Can Europe Survive This Moment?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of the number of deaths caused by warfare during the last 100 years is heading for a new war.
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Russia-Ukraine Lessons to Boost US Electronic Warfare, Sen. Reed Says
Colin Demarest | C4ISRNET - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2023 – “We are in a tremendously dynamic situation,” said Sen. Jack Reed, “where technology is changing rapidly, techniques are changing rapidly.”
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The Leopard’s Tale: U.S. Weapons Makers on a Marketing Spree
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – When western Europe depleted its armory by shipping everything to Ukraine to get blown up by the Russians, it created a huge market opportunity for the U.S. weapons industry due to a concerted media and political humbug campaign to trap the world as a purchaser of U.S. armaments. In fiscal 2022, U.S. weapons sales increased 48.8 percent. War is good business, and blood-soaked war profiteers are making out like the mafiosi they are.
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Antony Blinken Plays the ‘Two Sides Game’: Getting Netanyahu/Israel off the Hook
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
31 Jan 2023 – Antony Blinken is the most lightweight Secretary of State, a fitting complement to the overweight Mike Pompeo. Together they could do a late night TV comedy routine on the ‘arrogance of decline’ when it comes to US foreign policy in the Trump/Biden years.
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The Doomsday Clock: Deceptive and Rather an Indicator of US Foreign Policies
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
26 Jan 2023 – Like the Nobel Prizes, the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atom Scientists attracts enormous media attention. It simplifies a very complex issue into a time measure: How close is the world to global catastrophe?
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Ukraine: Rethinking Global Security–Saving Humanity and Planet Earth
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Saving Humanity and Planet Earth (SHAPE) is an initiative to address the multiple crises that have brought us to the brink of the precipice. This, our second webinar to be held on 22/23 February 2023, draws lessons from the Ukraine war and sets new pathways to global security.
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WATCH: Swedish Prosecutors Destroyed Assange Documents
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – A 35-minute interview with Stefania Maurizi. Swedish prosecutors destroyed copies of email correspondence related to the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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‘Obscene’: Exxon Posts Record $56 Billion in Profits — But Keeps Gouging Consumers
Brett Wilkins | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – ExxonMobil on Tuesday [31 Jan] joined other U.S. oil companies in reporting record 2022 earnings amid rising gas prices, sparking renewed calls by consumer and climate advocates for a Big Oil windfall profits tax.
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Revealed: Sweden Destroyed a Substantial Part of Its Documents on Julian Assange
Stefania Maurizi | Il Fato Quotidiano - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – Almost six years after the British Crown Prosecution Service destroyed key emails, the Swedish Prosecution Authority also destroyed a large part of the documentation–as Assange’s life hangs in the balance.
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Ilhan Omar Is Not Mama Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – The new Speaker of the House announced he will remove Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. The attack from Republicans has given her image a boost, but her record shows the credibility is not deserved.
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Missing Links in Textbook History: Indigenous Peoples
Jim Mamer | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – By the time I started high school I had come to see the world in Manichaean terms, full of good guys and bad guys. We, North Americans, were the good guys, often presented as settlers defending our families against hostile Indians. It was dangerously easy to accept the notion that history is pretty simple.
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Nobel Peace Prize Watch: Watchdog Suspends Screening of Nobel Peace Prize Candidates
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – After 15 years studying the award’s intention, finding out who should have received the NPP over 120 years, and who are the most suitable recipients in our time, we have concluded that the Committee does not contribute for elimination of wars; rather, it takes sides.
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How US Marines Are Being Reshaped for China ‘Threat’
Jonathan Marcus | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – The US military commitment to the Pacific was underlined in a White House meeting between the leaders of the US and Japan. But behind the scenes, this renewed focus on Asia has sparked a fierce debate within one of its most fabled military forces.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Nobel Peace Prize Watch avslutter sine årlige anbefalinger til Nobelkomiteen
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
6. februar 2023 – Etter ti år har vi i år besluttet å ikke publisere vår årlige anbefaling til Nobelkomiteen, en liste over de som er både nominert og kvalifisert til å motta Nobels fredspris. Så lenge Den norske Nobelkomite fortsetter å sabotere Nobels intensjon om fred ved global nedrustning har vårt arbeid med å få frem gode kandidater ingen hensikt opplyse.
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Shell Makes ‘Obscene’ $40bn Profit—Highest Ever
Alex Lawson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – Sunak government under pressure after gas prices fuel ‘outrageous’ doubling of profits at Anglo-Dutch group
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Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – Palestinian journalists pay a heavy price for carrying out their mission of spreading the truth about the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Their work is critical not only to balanced media coverage but to the very cause of justice and freedom in Palestine. However, the harm inflicted on Palestinian journalists is not only physical and material. They are also constantly exposed to a very subtle but equally dangerous threat: the constant delegitimization of their work.
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A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”
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Ukraine—The Inevitable War
Chay Bowes | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023 – Why negotiate a diplomatic settlement and adhere to the Minsk agreement when there is so much money in war?
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How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the US Patent System
Rebecca Robbins | The New York Times/Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The monopoly is about to end.
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US House Republicans Vote to Remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee
Lexie Schapitl | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – House Republicans have voted to remove Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, citing past controversial comments she made about Israel and concerns over her objectivity.
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Twitter Files & the Death of Russiagate (Matt Taibbi, Chris Hedges, John Kiriakou)
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – Matt Taibbi joins CN Live! to discuss the implications of his Twitter Files revelations, including his latest on Hamilton 68 and its fatal blow to the Russiagate narrative. With Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou.
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Earth Constitution: Only A Democratic World Federal Government Is Realistic
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – The Constitution for the Federation of Earth (aka Earth Constitution) is a blueprint for an emerging democratic world federal government — an Earth Federation movement led by the World Constitution & Parliament Association to replace the United Nations system stymied with its obsolete and fatally flawed Charter.
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The Analysis Is Simple; It Is Economic
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
For a Profound Analysis of Our Political Situation, the Answer Is Simple: It Is Economic
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Inside the Fight to Save the Peruvian Amazon from Big Oil
Josh Fox | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – The survival of the world’s biggest rainforest is critical to the survival of life on Earth. The fossil fuel industry is hell-bent on drilling in it.
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Roger Waters Questioned in Depth about Ukraine, Russia, Israel, U.S.
Berliner Zeitung | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – Roger Waters can rightly claim to be the mastermind behind Pink Floyd. He came up with the concept of and wrote all the lyrics for the masterpiece “The Dark Side of the Moon”. A musical genius turned activist.
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(Français) L’Analyse Est Simple ; C’est Economique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 févr. 2023 – Pour une analyse approfondie de notre situation politique, la réponse est simple : c’est économique.
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Why Bonnie Raitt’s “Just Like That” Is a Song for the Ages
Harvey Wasserman | Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – In an era when cruelty and greed run rampant, human kindness is at an ultimate premium. Of all the emotions our species finds in desperately short supply, compassion and empathy top the list.
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Ukraine’s Tank Problem
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – This is an ever-broadening war of the West against Russia with Ukraine an experimental proxy convinced it will win. Efforts to limit the deepening conflict continue to be seen as the quailing sentiments of appeasers, the wobbly types who find democracy a less than lovable thing.
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This 22-Year-Old Is Trying to Save Us from ChatGPT before It Changes Writing Forever
Greg Rosalsky and Emma Peaslee | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
18 Jan 2023 – While many were nursing hangovers on New Year’s Day, 22-year-old Edward Tian was working feverishly on a new app to combat misuse of a powerful, new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT. The technology is both awesome — and terrifying.
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Poland Says It’s Ready to Send F-16s to Ukraine in Coordination with NATO
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – Biden said “No” when asked if the US would send F-16s to Ukraine. To send F-16s, Poland needs the approval of the US under export rules. The Netherlands also showed a willingness to do the same, with the Dutch saying they would have an “open mind” if asked.
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(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 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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The Pentagon’s Perpetual Crisis Machine
Jacob Hornberger | The Future of Freedom Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
26 Jan 2023 – When the Pentagon crossed Russia’s “red line” by threatening to absorb Ukraine into NATO, the Pentagon achieved what it wanted — the continuation of its old Cold War racket, except that the Reds were coming to get us. But they’re doing their best to gin up a crisis with China over Taiwan, which will enable them to exclaim, “See, you need us to protect you from both Russia and the Chinese Reds.”
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Germany Risks Forgetting Its History
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
31 Jan 2023 – Two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, under heavy pressure from Washington, announced that Germany would send 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine breaking the self-imposed constraints on the military’s role in German foreign policy in place since the end of WWII.
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Planetary Impalement by Stakeholder Capitalism?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
“Stake” as a Strategic Metaphor Promoted by the World Economic Forum
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(Italiano) Memoria della com-passione
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
27 Gennaio 2023 – Nel giorno in cui si fa giusta e meditata memoria della Shoah, è giusto esprimere solidarietà al popolo ebraico, nel clima di un discorso franco e sincero.
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(Français) Amilcar Cabral : l’anticolonialisme comme « patrimoine commun à l’humanité »
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
20 janvier 2023 – Il y a 50 ans, le 20 janvier 1973, sous l’instigation de la dictature portugaise, était assassiné Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973), l’une des principales figures des luttes anticolonialistes. Il mourrait quelques mois seulement avant l’indépendance de la Guinée-Bissau et du Cap-Vert.
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How [Much] Are You Today?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – Gone are those times when catastrophes were measured in terms of human suffering. Now, with an exception: Ukrainians victims of the Russian invasion, everything is calculated in just money.
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A Responsibility to Wonder: Pioneering Neuroscientist Charles Scott Sherrington on the Spirituality of Nature
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
“We have, because human, an inalienable prerogative of responsibility which we cannot devolve…not… even upon the stars. We can share it only with each other.”
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The World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization Are Elevating Themselves above the World’s Governments
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
15 Jan 2023 – “In the last three years, the common people’s exclusion from what is still sold as a democratic process has reached a pinnacle.” — Peter Koenig, former senior economist for the World Bank and the World Health Organization
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The Nightmare of NATO Equipment Being Sent to Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The West’s recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations, and rebukes the WWII history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin. Today the White House decided that it would send about 30 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, a political cover for Germany that decided to ship 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Kiev.
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Remembering Robert Parry, Who Died 5 Yrs Ago Today
Nat Parry | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
27 Jan 2023 – The founder of Consortium News died five years ago today. Robert Parry had an illustrious career as an investigative reporter for the Associated Press, Newsweek and PBS Frontline, best-known for his revelations in the Iran Contra scandal and the October Surprise.
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Burkina Faso Ejects French Troops
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
On 18 Jan 2023, the government of Burkina Faso made a decision to ask the French military to depart from the country. France entered the Sahel region in 2013. The ejection of France does not mean that there will be no NATO countries in the region. Both the US and UK have a large footprint from Morocco to Niger.
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Josip Broz Tito and Che Guevara Speak
Srećko Horvat | The Internationalist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
In 1959, Yugoslav President Josip Broz Tito received the members of the Cuba Goodwill Mission led by Dr. Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara. The historic Tito-Che conversation contextualized in the history of the Non-Aligned Movement and Yugoslavia-Cuba relations.
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Big Tech to US Congress: Listen to Taylor Swift and Go after Ticketmaster, Not Us
Ryan Grim | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – Lobbyists for tech giants asked US Congress to focus less on Facebook, Google, and Amazon. Congress was happy to oblige.
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As Bulletin of Atomic Scientists Announce Doomsday Clock at 90 Seconds to Midnight, They Unknowingly Push the Dial Even Closer
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
28 Jan 2023 – On January 24, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded by Einstein, Oppenheimer and scientists who worked on the Manhattan Project, unveiled the 2023 Doomsday Clock, now at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been. This year, they cite new nuclear threats from the Ukraine war, the climate crisis and pandemics.
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Children of the COVID!
Matt Orfalea and Matt Taibbi | TK Mashup – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – The video reminds us of the insane media scaremongering about children and COVID and how the pandemic was reported not as a collective problem, but a horror movie to be passively experienced, a media approach we see in a variety of issues from fake news to “sonic weapons,” conditioning frightened audiences to endorse extreme solutions and outsource thinking to authorities.
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The Belmarsh Tribunals Demand Justice for Julian Assange
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – The US government’s impulse to control information and manipulate public opinion to support war is deeply ingrained. The past twenty years ‘War on Terror’ is no exception. Sophisticated PR campaigns, a compliant mass media and the Pentagon’s pervasive propaganda machine all work together.
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Russia Moves to End European Treaties
Defend Democracy Press | Delphi Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – President Vladimir Putin asked the Russian lawmakers today to adopt a law that would formally end the country’s participation in 21 treaties and charters related to the Council of Europe.
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Why US-China Trade Is on Track to Break Records despite All the Politics
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The real needs of global economics trump political scaremongering – for the time being.
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‘Doomsday Clock’ Moves to 90 Seconds to Midnight as Nuclear Threat Rises
Katharine Jackson | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – Today the “Doomsday Clock,” created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, moved its “time” to 90 seconds to midnight, 10 seconds closer than the past three years, to illustrate how threats of nuclear war, disease and climate volatility have been exacerbated, putting humanity at greater risk of annihilation.
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Look at How the 1% Are Doing Right Now, and Tell Me the System Isn’t Rigged
Nesrine Malik | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
23 Jan 2023 – The world’s super-rich have amassed so much wealth since the pandemic that even a Tory minister can see something is amiss.
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Nonviolence as the Only Way
Maria Giovanna Farina | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
29 Jan 2023 – Nonviolence seems distant and agonizing in a historical situation where only Pope Francis makes appeals for peace. Nonviolence seems to have become an empty word and this cannot, must not, be accepted. I must point out the “amnesia” of those who forget history and the wars that have bloodied it.
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Can You Smell What the Year of the Rabbit Is Cooking?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The New Silk Roads, or BRI, as well as the integration efforts of BRICS+, the SCO and the EAEU will be on the forefront of Chinese policy.
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Jeffrey Sachs Highlights from Athens Democracy Forum
Jeffrey Sachs | Bryan Van Norden – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Some highlights from Jeffrey Sachs’s comments at the 2022 Athens Democracy Forum session on “A Decade of Democracy: China and Russia.” Prof. Sachs is Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
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Just Thinking: The Meaning of Our Words
JoAnn McAllister, Ph.D. | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
We string words together and intend for others to ‘get it,’ but how they are understood is up to readers whether colleagues, collaborators, or antagonists. The challenges can arise even among collaborative groups. Some strategies to increase understanding are suggested here.
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Alberto Portugheis 80th Birthday Concert (Music Video of the Week)
Alberto Portugheis | Pyanek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Pianist, pedagogue, peace activist and TRANSCEND Member Alberto Portugheis celebrates his 80 years performing Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin at St John’s Church, London. His life is shared between music and his organization, HUFUD, whose mission is the Abolition of Militarism. Recorded on 11 Jun 2021.
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Tribunal in Washington Calls on President Biden to End Prosecution of Julian Assange and to Defend Rights of Journalists and Whistleblowers
Chris Garaffa | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – Nearly 13 years after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released the video Collateral Murder, over 150 people packed the same room in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.–just two blocks from the White House–for the Belmarsh Tribunal. Co-chaired by Amy Goodman and Srećko Horvat, it brought together whistleblowers, activists, lawyers in support of Assange.
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SOUTHCOM Chief Aims to Increase Imperialist Plunder of Latin America’s Resources
Luigi Morris | Left Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
26 Jan 2023 – U.S. Southern Command Chief Laura Richardson has expressed interest in lithium and other natural resources in South America. It shows the country’s commitment to corporate profits at the expense of workers, Indigenous people, and the environment.
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Spot the Mistakes
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Our Rainy Day Fun Game–Whoopsie!
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When Journalists Act as State Propagandists
Peter Oborne | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
18 Jan 2023 – In advance of the invasion of Iraq 20 years ago, the UK media parroted government lies and became a part of the state’s propaganda machine. An inquiry into British reporting of the Iraq war is well past due.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Nominations 2023 – Deadline 31 January
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Nobel Peace Prize Watch will encourage all with nomination rights to nominate a candidate within the original intention of Alfred Nobel for peace by global demilitarization and those who have worked to «reduce or abolish standing armies.»
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Conjoining the Incommensurables at the WEF Davos Forum of 2023
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Freudian Economics Underlying Stakeholder Capitalism
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Lifting the Curtain: Barbara Walters
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – This post is a departure from my usual focus on current political concerns. It attempts a mini-exploration of the public/private interface of a news and entertainment celebrity, especially known for her ability to go ‘persona,’ and even enter intimate terrain with some of the most famous political leaders of our time.
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USA 2023: 34 Mass Shootings in First Three Weeks (1.5 carnages/day)
Paul LeBlanc | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
23 Jan 2023 – At least 10 people are dead and 10 injured after a mass shooting in Monterey Park, California, on Saturday 21 Jan night. BREAKING NEWS: Shooting Leaves at Least 12 Injured in Louisiana on Sunday 22 Jan 2023.
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(Italiano) Immanuel Wallerstein su sinistra e destra globali
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Crisi, appunto. La via d’uscita è un discorso nuovo, meno materiale, più spirituale; qualcosa per cui vivere, non solo da. In questo momento Wallerstein vede il capitalismo in crisi senza rimedio–di cui non sono così sicuro–e anche l’egemonia americana in crisi senza rimedio–una visione che condivido–, come la caduta di un impero per il quale i locali le élite erano solite uccidere e governare; ora deve fare la maggior parte degli omicidi da solo.
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The Secretive Legal Weapon That Fossil Fuel Interests Use against Climate-Conscious Countries
Lois Parshley | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – Investor-state dispute settlements increasingly allow oil and gas investors to sue countries over their climate policies.
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U.S. Mercenaries in Ukraine Are Fighting Each Other in Court
Peter Maass | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – Amid accusations of fraud and sexual misconduct, the U.S. military vets founders of the high-profile Mozart Group are waging a personal war back home.
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Solving the Debt Crisis the North American Way
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – Our forefathers turned their debts into currency. That Constitutional approach could work today.
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Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – The package will include more Bradley armored vehicles and for the first time, Stryker armored vehicles.
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Promoting Falsehoods and Marginalizing Truth-Tellers
Nolan Higdon and Mickey Huff | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – WaPo’s Revelations about Russiagate Reporting Failures Typify Legacy Media Failures
→ read full articleLand of the Fee, Home of the Depraved
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
10 Jan 2023 – Who is in charge?
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The WEF and WHO – Are They Running a Death Cult? A WHO/Pharma Controlled Worldwide Tyrannical “Health System”
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
10 Jan 2023 – Let us never let an abject power-hungry non-elected criminal like Klaus Schwab, with his roots in the Third Reich, and his NGO, the World Economic Forum, dominate humanity. May sheer solidarity, togetherness of thought and will power, overcome the pathological objectives of the psychopaths’ wish for power and money dominance.
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US Installs New Nukes in Europe: As Destructive as 83 Hiroshima Bombs
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – As if the 100 billion dollars that the United States has so far provided to Ukraine in both weapons and aid were not enough, the US has now started to install in Europe its brand new, more destructive nuclear warheads.
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Empire by Invitation
Samar Al-Bulushi | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – African leaders are asking for more U.S. counterterrorism support. They should be careful what they wish for.
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(Italiano) In mezzo all’internet delle cose
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
18 Gennaio 2023 – Quali implicazioni nel vivere in ‘smart cities’, immersi nelle onde, in mezzo all’’internet delle cose’?
→ read full articleAll Quiet (Panic) on the Western Front–The Davos Freak Show
Pepe Escobar | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – How to Monetize the Whole World – The mainstream media spinning non-stop for a week all the “news” to extol new declinations of The Great Reset, re-baptized The Great Narrative, framed as a benign offer by “stakeholder capitalism”.
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Climate Change
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – The World Economic Forum has been discussing world problems for just about as long as ExxonMobil has been lying about climate change. Greenland just had its hottest decade in 1,000 years and that its massive ice sheet is rapidly melting, causing more sea level rise. Catastrophic climate disruption is here, and disruptors like Greta Thunberg are clearly not the ones who should be arrested.
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Moderna Wants to Quadruple the Price of Its Covid-19 Vaccine as Hundreds Die per Day
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
18 Jan 2023 – With the US federal government’s stock of vaccines for residents running out, Moderna now plans to raise the cost of its vaccine from $26 to up to $130 in a decision that understandably has North Americans pissed.
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Peru’s Natural Resources: CIA-linked US Ambassador Meets with Mining and Energy Ministers to Talk ‘Investments’
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – Peru has large reserves of copper, gold, zinc, silver, lead, iron, and natural gas. After a coup overthrew left-wing President Pedro Castillo on 7 Dec 2022, the US ambassador, CIA veteran Lisa Kenna, met with mining and energy ministers to discuss “investments”. Europe is importing Peruvian LNG to replace Russian energy.
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Want to Be a True Feminist Ally? Learn from These Men
Julie Bindel | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
A new generation of pro-feminist men is defying stereotypes and combating sexist violence. This battle is not about hating men but about ensuring the rights of women, and I am seeing more men join the fight. That all men who identify as anti-sexist stand up and be counted.
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Japan Reenlists as Washington’s Spear-Carrier
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – It is always the same when Japanese premiers travel to Washington to summit [submit?] at the White House. Nothing seems to happen and nobody pays much attention even when important things happen, when we should all pay attention.
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Time for Action is Now: What Will Happen after the ICJ Delegitimizes Israel’s Occupation of Palestine
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – The ICJ’s opinion is very important, but without meaningful action, a legal opinion alone will not reverse the sinister reality on the ground in Palestine, especially when this reality is bankrolled, supported and sustained by Washington and Israel’s other western allies.
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Macron Wants to Double French Military Spending
David William | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – Armaments: France wants to increase military spending to 400 billion.
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‘Jaw-Dropping’ Evidence Syngenta Knew Its Paraquat Weedkiller Could Cause Parkinson’s
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
19 Jan 2023 – Internal documents show Swiss chemical giant Syngenta and Chevron USA for decades covered up research showing long-term exposure to the weedkiller Paraquat could cause Parkinson’s disease, investigative journalist Carey Gillam shows.
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Covid-19 Drugmakers Pressured Twitter to Censor Activists Pushing for Generic Vaccine
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
16 Jan 2023 – The social media pressure campaign was just a part of the pharmaceutical industry’s successful lobbying blitz to retain patents — and make obscene record profits.
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The Tragic Miracle of Consciousness: John Steinbeck on the True Meaning and Purpose of Hope
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
“Hope is a diagnostic human trait and this simple cortex symptom seems to be a prime factor in our inspection of our universe.”
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What Price “Defense”?
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – Going Down the Military Drain– US Costly, Dysfunctional Approach to Security Is Making Us Ever Less Safe
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New US Nuclear Weapons on European Soil: A Violation of the Non-Proliferation Treaty
Tica Font | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – The US has begun to replace its nuclear weapons on European soil with more modern ones. It is replacing the B61-3, B61-4 and B61-7 thermonuclear bombs with the B61-12, which has become the main US and NATO air-launched nuclear weapon.
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