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Facing Climate Change as One World
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2023

19 Jul 2023 – When it comes to climate change, one word has me totally perplexed: “we.” A transcendent “we” grabbing control over the planet’s rising temperature.

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No Aloha in Reaper Drones Now Based in Hawaii
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2023

17 Jul 2023 – Recent news reports noted Russian jets “harassing” MQ-9 Reaper US drones over Syria. What was not reported was that the Russians are operating at the request of the Syrian government whereas the US drones are operating illegally, aiding theft of oil. The US acts like an international mafia boss, assassinating people and stealing other countries’ oil.

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There Are Very Few Good Films about War—“20 Days in Mariupol” Is an Exception
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jul 2023

Feature war films and documentaries, from The Sands of Iwo Jima to Saving Private Ryan, are war pornography that romanticize those wielding the instruments of death, justify the unjustifiable, pay homage to the war machine, entice naïve youngsters into becoming cannon fodder, and distort the public’s perception of war. Those who return and attempt to speak the truth are alienated and ignored.

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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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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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The Dissolution of NATO May Be the Only Way to Prevent WWIII
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jul 2023

11 Jul 2023 – 10 Reasons Why NATO Ought to Be Disbanded – Its dissolution may be the only way to prevent wider war and to stop the US and the world from being plunged into the abyss of a wider, cataclysmic war.

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Christmas in July
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jul 2023

Black Humor–Tragicomedy

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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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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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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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Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jul 2023

9 Jul 2023 – The failure by journalists to mount a campaign to free Julian Assange, or expose the vicious smear campaign against him, is one more catastrophic and self-defeating blunder by the news media.

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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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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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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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Human 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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They Lied about Afghanistan. They Lied about Iraq. And They Are Lying about Ukraine.
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

2 Jul 2023 – The U.S. public has been conned, once again, into pouring billions into another endless war. The war industry, not Putin, is our most dangerous enemy.

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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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The Work of Happiness
May Sarton – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

May Sarton, who has written so movingly about Unhappiness and Its Cure, explores in this poem “The Work of Happiness.” (Collected Poems: 1930–1993 public library)

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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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It’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!

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Hot Off the Press
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023

In view of an escalation in the number of wars, small and large, short and long, and general social violence in the world, HUFUD feels the urgent need to summon up all Peace, Human Rights, anti-war and anti-military organizations, worldwide, to the two-day INTERNATIONAL SUMMIT FOR WORLD PEACE in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 25th and 26th November 2023.

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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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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.

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Sea 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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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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Sea Birds’ Last Refuges: 4G and 5G Radiation Sickness from the Cell Towers
Arthur Firstenberg | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023

22 Jun 2023 – All over the Earth, birds — symbols of freedom and joy — have been disappearing, and unless we stop killing them, they will never more enliven our skies and imaginations.

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Biden Would Need His Pound of Flesh from Assange
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023

21 Jun 2023 – The U.S. president would not likely move on the case without some face-saving measure to ward off pressure from the C.I.A. and his own party.

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Tragedy vs. Statistic
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023

22 Jun 2023 – The way the media talks about the Titian vs. how they talk about the hundreds of migrants who drowned are night and day. It reminds me a lot of how the media talked about Ukrainian refugees vs. middle eastern refugees.

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The FBI Groomed a 16-Year-Old with Brain Development Issues to Become a ‘Terrorist’
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023

15 Jun 2023 – An undercover FBI agent befriended the teenager online. When he turned 18, he was arrested for supporting ISIS. The only “terrorist” the boy was ever in contact with was the FBI agent.

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A History of Ceasefires & Peace in Ukraine
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023

14 Jun 2023 – Negotiations, ceasefires, armistices and peace agreements are as old as wars themselves. Every war ends with some version of one of them. To stop the killing in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, people of conscience must do everything they can to make negotiations for a ceasefire become a reality.

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The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023

17 Jun 2023 – Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime. Julian may be imprisoned for journalism, but he won’t be the only one.

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Rest in Peace Daniel Ellsberg
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023

16 Jun 2023 – One of US’ most courageous men, who took on the most powerful government in the world to expose its lies about the Vietnam war, has died at 92. 

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Dr. Cornel West Announces He Is Running for U.S. President
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

5 Jun 2023 – Dr. Cornel West, in his first interview since deciding to enter the U.S. presidential race, explains why he is a candidate.

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Is the UAE in Control in Somalia?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

7 Jun 2023 – Many Somalis think that the United Arab Emirates is now as much or more in charge in Somalia than the Somali government.

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Rehearsed Lives and Planned History
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

“Certain lies are too big to fail, for if they did and entered the official histories as truths, they would be preserved, not to be forgotten. Then society could deal with their implications.”

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Requiem for Our Species
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

11 Jun 2023 – The effects of the climate crisis intrude with increasing regularity into our lives and yet we do not act. We are as paralyzed as past civilizations were when facing catastrophic destruction.

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UK: Julian Assange Dangerously Close to Extradition Following High Court Rejection of Appeal
RSF/Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

8 Jun 2023 – RSF is deeply concerned by the UK High Court’s rejection of the WikiLeaks publisher’s appeal, bringing him close to being extradited to the US where he could face life in prison for publishing leaked classified documents in 2010. 

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BRICS New Development Bank De-Dollarizing, Adding Members
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

The BRICS bloc’s New Development Bank, an alternative to the US-dominated World Bank, is de-dollarizing its loans, promoting local currencies, and adding new members: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, and Zimbabwe.

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Bubba the Bullet
Monte Wolverton | Cagle Cartoons - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

Be Responsible!

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You Sure You Want to Eat That Sentient Being?
Robert Scheer & Peter Singer - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Jun 2023

Peter Singer’s classic work on animal welfare, remastered for the modern age, remains a timeless source of the lessons he has passionately conveyed for the past 50 years.

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The U.S. Military in Hawaii: The Dark Side of Paradise!
Jim Albertini | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

2 Jun 2023 – The Hawaiian Islands are viewed as the Paradise in the Pacific–image promoted by the tourist industry. But Hawaii has a very different dark side as one of the most militarized places in the world and a long history of illegal U.S. occupation.

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Putin, South Africa, and the International Criminal Court
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

31 May 2023 – The Upcoming BRICS Meetings in South Africa – The West has deployed the International Criminal Court in the US/NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.

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U.S. Empire Named Most Murderous Killing Machine in History
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

30 May 2023 – New Study Finds U.S. Responsible for Nearly 300 Million Deaths—and Counting

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USA: Disconnecting War from Its Consequences
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

31 May 2023 – Twenty-two years ago, Congress put sanity up for a vote. It lost in the House, 420-1 and in the Senate, 98-0. Barbara Lee’s was the lone vote against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force resolution. Militarism keeps expanding. If there’s a problem out there, option one is to kill it quickly. Problem solved!

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The Democratic Party’s Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

28 May 2023 – Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.

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The Threat of Para-state Power Called International Banking
Partido Humanista de Chile/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

Banking is the main accumulator of resources and the real power behind formal power. It has become the most powerful sector of Big Capital, being an area of the economy that produces nothing and should have only an instrumental role.

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Fossil Fuels, Tipping Points, and a Viable Solution
Steve Hoffman | Freedom Socialist Party - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

Jun 2023 – A condemnation of the capitalist overuse of fossil fuels–and a solution.

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Judge Finds Australian War Hero to Be a War Criminal
Graham Hryce | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

2 Jun 2023 – Canberra’s most-decorated living soldier loses the “defamation case of the century” over alleged murder of Afghan civilians.

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“Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody’s Finished if It Takes Place,” Says Noam Chomsky
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

26 May 2023 – “Major world powers need to shift from confrontation to accommodation soon; otherwise, we’ll go off the precipice together.”

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How a Tour of Russia Showed Me That Propaganda Perverts Reality in the Minds of US Citizens
Scott Ritter | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

‘Waging Peace’: My month-long tour of the country was an eye-opening experience, and so was the hostility that met me back home in the US.

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Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in China
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

24 May 2023 – Eritrea can chart an exciting new development path through mutually respectful collaboration with China.

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ChatGPT Imagines a World Where Power Structures Are Reversed
Joe Martino | The Pulse – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

If our current ideas of a society were truly suspended, what type of world would we envision?

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Reflections on the G7 Summit in Hiroshima
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

27 May 2023 – Following is a series of thoughts and reactions to the G7 Summit in Hiroshima. Now is a time to share positive, balanced solutions to help prevent the grim possibilities of a future world war; these thoughts and actions are offered in that spirit.

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Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

21 May 2023 – We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti, use you forgetty.” The adults had no idea what they meant.  Many still do not.

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CIA Front Company Extends Intrusive Surveillance Operations in Lithuania under Pretext of New Cold War
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

22 May 2023 – Creation of Orwellian surveillance apparatus belies claim that the U.S. is upholding democracy in the face of Russian authoritarianism.

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Global South Aims to Fix the UN
Ramzy Baroud | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

23 May 2023 – Calls to reform the Security Council have been made many times in the past, but Beijing’s position is particularly important in both language and timing.

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Digital Privacy Legislation Is Civil Rights Legislation
Paige Collings and Adam Schwartz | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

18 May 2023 – Our personal data and the ways private companies harvest and monetize it plays an increasingly powerful role in modern life. Corporate databases are vast, interconnected, and opaque. The movement and use of our data is difficult to understand, let alone trace.

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Escaping Debt Slavery: Ethiopia, Africa, and the IMF
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

17 May 2023 – In 1987, at the Organization for African Unity, Thomas Sankara said, “Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa.” Ethiopia might actually be better off if the US keeps the IMF from signing off on its latest loan request.

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Ukraine’s ‘Press Freedom’ Score Increases Despite Martial Law, Banned Media
Bryce Greene | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting FAIR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

9 May 2023 – Now you know why Ukraine is fighting for “our values” – meaning something terrible has happened to those “our values.”

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Hmm…
Curtis Spangler - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

Really?

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Stepping over the Border, onto Planet Earth
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

17 May 2023 – “. . . we belong to the Earth rather than to a nation . . .” These words stick in my heart like a wedding ring. At the same time, I feel surrounded by a cynical “realism”: Don’t be a fool. A marriage like that isn’t possible. Be grateful you’re a US citizen. Arm yourself! We’re being invaded.

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Ilhan Omar Voted to Withdraw from Somalia, but She’s No Anti-Imperialist
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

10 May 2023 – Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is not the progressive she is thought to be. She follows US policy regarding her native Somalia and has connections there that compromise her actions. True anti-imperialist politics are needed to counteract the US interference that has devastated the country.

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The Normative Current
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Klaus Schlichtmann - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

13 May 2023 – Dr. Klaus Schlichtmann [Short-Listed for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022] on a Natural and Continued Flow towards Rebuilding World Peace

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Senate Report: Nearly 700 Former High-Ranking Pentagon and Other Government Officials Now Work at the Top 20 Defense Contractors
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

12 May 2023 – Ideally, Warren’s report would precipitate a much larger congressional investigation of the military-industrial complex modeled after the 1934 Nye Committee hearings.

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There Is No Escape from Telling
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

A new Dark Age is closing upon us, as Max Weber noted more than a century ago when he described the people who run our societies and educational institutions as “specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”

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China, the Peacemaker? PODCAST
Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

3 May 2023 – Historian Alfred W. McCoy discusses China’s rapid economic and political rise and how Beijing is well positioned to broker an end to the war in Ukraine. PODCAST

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Killing Our Way to the Truth
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

War is minimally questioned — taken for granted — in the mainstream consciousness, or what I would call the consensus groupthink, which is quietly structured into mainstream reporting. Conflict between nations instantly summons the possibility of war; that’s just the way it is, no matter the certainty of “collateral damage.”

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Nobody for President Campaign
Curtis Spangler - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

‘None of the above’ should be a valid choice on voter ballots. The ‘Birthday Party’ provided an easy, cost-effective way to restore political balance

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Shock Doctrine: Industry Exploiting Ukraine War for Liquefied Natural Gas Expansion
Olivia Rosane | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

28 Apr 2023 – In an investigation targeting the “shock doctrine” practices of the gas industry, Greenpeace is calling on policymakers in both the U.S. and EU to move away from expanding LNG infrastructure before it’s too late.

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As US Grip on Middle East Slips, Peace Breaks Out
Robert Inlakesh | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

2 May 2023 – Washington’s poor decision-making is starting to catch up with it, as nations choose to pursue peace without US interference.

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Chilean President Plans to Nationalize Lithium Industry
Gabriel Boric | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

28 Apr 2023 – The initiative, which will be sent to Congress later this year, is designed to boost the economy of the nation, which has some of the world’s largest reserves of the high-demand metal.

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WWIII on the Installment Plan
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

4 May 2023 – The Invention of a Wartime Presidency to Save the Biden Administration

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Calling for the Immediate Release of Julian Assange on World Press Freedom Day
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

4 May 2023 – Talk I Gave in New York City at a Rally for Julian Assange – “This legal lynching marks the official beginning of corporate totalitarianism.”

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Taiwan—A Pawn for U.S. War on China
Sara Flounders | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

27 Apr 2023 – While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. Surrounding China with military bases, nuclear weapons and military vessels is a highly dangerous provocation. U.S. wars are for corporate profit. 

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US Corporations Cash in on Ukraine’s Oil and Gas
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

28 Apr 2023 – As Ukraine sells off public assets in a privatization spree, US fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Halliburton are in talks to run its oil and gas industry, and the IMF imposes the Washington Consensus.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

Despite a family actively opposed to his candidacy, despite all the media lies about him, and despite the oddsmakers giving him little chance, RFK, Jr. is entering the race.  It is an act of supreme moral courage.  Like his father in ’68, he is the only candidate who can heal this nation’s great divide. 

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The Enemy from Within
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

1 May 2023 – The US war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China.

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Western Media’s Peculiar Incuriosity about Nord Stream
Jonathan Cook | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

26 Apr 2023 – Seymour Hersh’s investigation is filled with details that could be checked ­— and verified or rebutted — if anyone wished to do so.

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Facebook Censors Journalist Seymour Hersh’s Report on Nord Stream Pipeline Attack
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

25 Apr 2023 – Facebook censored a report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany, forcing users to instead read a website funded and partially owned by NATO member Norway.

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(Italiano) Come opporre una resistenza efficace all’élite tecnocratica?
Robert Burrowes | Come Don Chisciotte – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

21 Aprile 2023 – Come ampiamente documentato, sotto le mentite spoglie della narrativa “virus”/”vaccino”, l’Elite Globale sta attuando cambiamenti profondi e a lungo pianificati in 200 aree della vita umana.

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Syria Comes in from the Cold
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

24 Apr 2023 – After the Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, another diplomatic coup is unfolding in the Middle East. This one is orchestrated by the Russians.

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Peru’s Coup-Plotting Congress Has 6% Approval, 91% Disapproval (but Full US Backing)
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

17 Apr 2023 – Peru’s coup-plotting, right-wing-controlled congress has 6% approval and 91% disapproval. Unelected leader Dina Boluarte has 15% approval and 78% disapproval. But they have the full support of the US, Canada, and foreign mining corporations.

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The Perpetual War Alarm
Brian Martin - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

There is an alarm in Australia about a Chinese military threat. This is a typical feature of the war system.

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Our Tech Overlords Offer another Climate Solution without Sacrifice
Kurt Cobb | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

17 Apr 2023 – My expectations are never disappointed when I read that the solutions to problems created by technology are in more technology. It will solve our problems without us having to make any substantial change in our way of life. We cannot wait for our tech overlords to solve our problems; their kind of thinking only perpetuates them.

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US/EU/NATO Meet with Somaliland Secessionists
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

19 Apr 2023 – As Somaliland forces continue to fire on Somali nationalists, US/EU/NATO officials held a joint call with secessionist Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi.

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Leaks Spelling the End for Ukraine
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

17 Apr 2023 – Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation  about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington.

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Denmark Refusing to Engage on Nord Stream Probe
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

17 Apr 2023 – Denmark has rejected all contact regarding the investigation, the Russian ambassador has warned. US Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh claimed in February that Washington had orchestrated the sabotage with help also from Norway.

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(Dutch) Wij worden politiek, economisch, medisch en technologisch vermorzeld door de “Grote Reset” van de Elite
Robert J. Burrowes | The Love Factory - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

Sinds het begin van de menselijke beschaving, 5000 jaar geleden, zijn gewone mensen zoals u en ik verwikkeld in een eindeloze strijd tegen de pogingen van elites, lokaal, nationaal, internationaal of wereldwijd, om volledige controle over ons en de middelen om ons heen te krijgen.

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(Français) Brésil : La « malédiction de l’or » en territoire Yanomani–une tragédie préméditée
Laurent Delcourt  | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

3 avril 2023 – Riches en ressources minérales, les terres indigènes du Brésil, malgré les protections légales, sont soumises à une pression intense. Les mineurs illégaux, en quête d’or, ont multiplié les incursions, les exactions contre les communautés et les atteintes à l’environnement, dans une dynamique qui rappelle les pires heures de la conquête coloniale.

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U.S. Hypocrisy toward the World Is another Way of Saying, ‘Don’t Do as We Do, Do as We Say’
David Starr | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

7 Apr 2023 – The U.S./NATO alliance’s ulterior motives have been evident, for those who care to directly look at the situation and to directly understand it.

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The Cup of Life – La Copa de la Vida (Music Video of the Week)
Ricky Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

Official Song Soccer World Cup France 1998 – Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin opens the Festival de Viña del Mar 2014 in Chile in a big way.

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If the U.S. Can’t Boss the World, It Will Spitefully Destroy It
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

13 Apr 2023 – Unable to accept the reality of a growing multipolar world order, U.S. elites are willing to risk nuclear war.

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Ukraine a ‘Non-Existent Country’ Financially – Orban
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

14 Apr 2023 – The conflict will end as soon as the West stops giving money to Kiev, the Hungarian PM has insisted.

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Policing the Elite’s Technocracy: How Do We Resist This Effectively?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

14 Apr 2023 – As has been carefully documented, under cover of the ‘virus’/‘vaccine’ narrative, the Global Elite is implementing long-planned and profound changes to 200 areas of human life. Hence, our persistence in presenting the information, while listening well when appropriate, is crucial to mobilizing the resistance we need to succeed.

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BRICS Bank De-dollarizing, New Chief Dilma Rousseff Says
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

16 Apr 2023 – The new chief of the BRICS bloc’s New Development Bank, Brazil’s leftist ex-President Dilma Rousseff, revealed they are gradually moving away from the US dollar, promising at least 30% of loans in local currencies of members.

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The Republican Martyr
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Apr 2023

Right!

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The Passing of Benjamin Ferencz (11 Mar 1920 – 7 Apr 2023) RIP
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Apr 2023

Easter 2023 (9 Apr) was marked by the passing of a remarkable man–Benjamin Ferencz. He died on 7 Apr at the age of 103. Ben was the last living Nuremberg WWII war crimes prosecutor. I met him in 1972.

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