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The Elite’s War on Free Thought
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
24 Jun 2023 – Address at Free Speech Event in London, with Russell Brand and Michael Shellenberger
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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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AUKUS: Part of a Multi-Pronged Strategy to Preserve US Regional Dominance
Dr. Joseph Camilleri | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
23 Jun 2023 – SHAPE is hosting a major international webinar, ‘An Asia-Pacific NATO–Fanning the Flames of War’ on 4-5 Jul 2023 with Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar, Jeffrey Sachs, and other expert speakers.
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Mediterranean Migrant Shipwreck Reveals Cost of Cruel European Asylum Policies
Sasha Abramsky | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
23 Jun 2023 – Eighty-one people have been confirmed dead, but roughly 500 more likely drowned when the ship sank, locked below decks.
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Permanent Apartheid in Palestine: This Is Why Israel Wants to Reactivate E1 Plan
Ramzy Baroud | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
16 Jun 2023 – The Israeli government is at it again, actively discussing the construction of thousands of illegal settlement units as part of a massive settlement expansion scheme known as E1.
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Success! Fin Whaling in Iceland Is Suspended after Officials Say Hunts Are Unlawful
Danny Groves | Whale and Dolphin Conservation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
20 Jun 2023 – The Icelandic government has suspended all fin whaling with immediate effect. The decision follows the release of a report yesterday by its own Food and Veterinary Authority.
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As AI Starts to Monopolize Online Searches, Will State Propaganda Become the Only Information Available?
Joseph Mercola | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
23 Jun 2023 | One of the most important strategies to prepare yourself against government-endorsed weaponized narratives lies with community, with meeting like-minded people that share your views and complement your skills, according to investigative journalist James Corbett.
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The Convenient Myth of “Humane” Wars
Norman Solomon | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
5 Jun 2023 – How the U.S. hides the human toll of its military machine.
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Far-Right Extremist Ideology Spreading like an Oil Spill in Europe
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
22 Jun 2023 – The abuse of human rights has sharply increased with the steady rise of the right and far-right parties in the wealthy industrialised countries, whose extremist ideology is now spreading faster than ever in Europe.
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Why Are Archaeologists Unable to Find Evidence for a Ruling Class of the Indus Civilization?
Adam S. Green | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
What we can learn from an ancient egalitarian civilization in the Indus Valley.
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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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The Art of Human Connection: Pioneering Psychologist and Philosopher William James on the Most Important Attitude for Relationships
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
To be human is to continually mistake our frames of reference for reality itself. “Neither the whole of truth nor the whole of good is revealed to any single observer.”
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A Titanic Disparity in How the World Responds to Maritime Disasters: Center vs. Periphery
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
22 Jun 2023 – Titan and Adriana are two vessels recently lost at sea. The five men who lost their lives on the Titan have been getting wall-to-wall coverage in the media worldwide. Meanwhile, the estimated 700 who died when the Adriana sank off the coast of Greece, mostly women and children, have been essentially forgotten.
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The Del Monte Deaths: Shocking Claims of Violence at Pineapple Plantation
Edwin Okoth, Matthew Chapman and Emily Dugan | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
21 Jun 2023 – Security guards working for the multinational food company Del Monte in Kenya have been accused of killing and brutally assaulting local villagers suspected of trespassing on its farm.
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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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(Français) Frantz Fanon et Amilcar Cabral : Anticolonialisme et Recodification Décoloniale
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
13 juin 2023 – Les théories décoloniales prétendent dépasser l’anticolonialisme. Mais, plutôt que d’un dépassement, il s’agit d’un recodage de pensées – dont celles de Frantz Fanon et d’Amilcar Cabral – autrement plus complexes, radicales et actuelles.
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Israeli Occupation: How Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and Dell Enable Surveillance and Control in Palestine
Jessica Buxbaum | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Jun 2023
23 Jun 2023 – Technology has become integral to our modern lives, but for Palestinians, Big Tech has also become another way Israel enacts control. Multinational tech companies facilitate Israel’s human rights violations.
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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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Polyhedral Configuration of 384 Governance-relevant Yi Jing Transformations
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
Experimental Interactive Mapping of 64 6-Linked Hexagrams Using Force-Directed Layout Introduction 17 Jun 2023 – The experimental configurations presented here follow from a previous exercise in adapting the remarkable articulation of the commentary on the 64 conditions interrelated in the traditional Chinese Yi Jing (Richard Wilhelm, The I Ching or Book of Changes, 1967). That […]
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How Exxon Captured a Country Without Firing a Shot
Amy Westervelt | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
18 Jun 2023 – Guyana is poised to become Exxon’s top global oil producer. Where the company ends and the government begins is increasingly unclear.
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The Lib Owners
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
5 Jun 2023 – Meanwhile, in the U.S. of A.
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(Italiano) Dichiarazione di Vienna per la Pace
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
11 Giugno 2023 – La società civile internazionale con la Dichiarazione di Vienna per la Pace: “Servono negoziati che possano rafforzare la logica della Pace invece dell’illogica della guerra”.
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Haiti: Stop the Destruction of a Nation
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
6 Jun 2023 – What’s going on in Haiti today–with all historical context. It is truly a disaster and atrocity on a massive scale.
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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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US Tells Another Bedtime Story to Scare Away Normal Relations with China and Cuba
Manolo De Los Santos and Kate Gonzales | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
9 Jun 2023 – Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that China has plans to set up a “spy base” in Cuba to “eavesdrop” on the United States and “identify potential strike targets.”
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Why Is U.S. Media Blind to Washington’s War Atrocities?
Norman Solomon | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
15 Jun 2023 – Nationalism masquerading as journalism covers war in darkness telling us for whom the bell tolls. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the U.S. media were all-hands-on-deck with empathetic, poignant reporting via TV, radio, print, and online outlets. But when U.S. missiles and bombs hit population centers over the previous two decades, the human tragedies rarely got anything more than short shrift in the U.S. media.
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How Torture, Deception and Inaction Underpin the UAE’s Thriving Sex Trafficking Industry
Maggie Michael | ICIJ - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
12 Jun 2023 – An underground network of suspected sex traffickers has taken refuge in the wealthy Gulf nation. The U.S. State Department says efforts to identify and protect victims have fallen short.
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On Today’s Explosive Coronavirus Story
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
13 Jun 2023 – As months-long joint investigation goes public, some additional details and context.
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Emergence of a New Non-Alignment
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
15 Jun 2023 – A new mood of defiance in the Global South has generated bewilderment in the capitals of the Triad (USA, EU, Japan), where officials are struggling to answer why governments in the Global South have not accepted the Western view of the conflict in Ukraine in its efforts to ‘weaken Russia’.
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ICAN: Global Spending on Nuclear Arsenals Increased in 2022 for Third Year in a Row
Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
15 Jun 2023 – In 2022 the nuclear-weapon states spent five thousand dollars more per minute on their nuclear arsenals than in 2021: US$ 157 664 (or € 149 938).
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Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92
Harrison Smith and Patricia Sullivan | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
16 Jun 2023 – Leaker of the top-secret history of the Vietnam War that enraged the Nixon administration–serving as the catalyst for White House-directed burglaries and “dirty tricks” that snowballed into the Watergate scandal–died today in California. He was 92. Rest in Peace Daniel Ellsberg.
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Multiple Articles–U.S. Air Warfare Report
Stephen Losey | Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
19 Jun 2023 – News from the Source of War and Destruction
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The Hegemon Will Go Full Hybrid War Against BRICS+
Pepe Escobar | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
The Hybrid War 2.0 against the Global South has not even started. Swing states, you have all been warned.
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The Fifth Estate
Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
Designed with three purposes in mind. First: a coherent overview of US foreign policies covering the wars, military interventions and major doctrines over 245 years. Each entry draws on the work of experts, summarizing major developments, analyzing causes and contexts, and providing links to additional information and resources. The second one…
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Provocative NATO Undermines Security of the Nordic Region
Jan Oberg | Global Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
NATO has had the time since 1949 to make peace. We know now that it can’t. Joining it is a gift to militarism and future warfare instead of the much-needed and eminently possible peace with human security.
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A New Refutation of Time: Borges on the Most Paradoxical Dimension of Existence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
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Partners in Doomsday
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
17 Jun 2023 – As Ukraine begins a counter-offensive and Biden’s hawks look on, new rhetoric out of Russia points to a revival of the nuclear threat.
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Guess Who Is the Worst Enemy of the Oceans (and Everywhere Else)?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – Oceans produce 50% of the Planet’s oxygen while absorbing 30% of carbon dioxide produced by humans, buffering the impacts of global warming. The bad news is that, with 90% of big fish populations depleted and 50% of coral reefs destroyed, human beings are taking more than can be replenished by the oceans.
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(Italiano) Alcune note sulla teoria dell’Evoluzione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
31 Maggio 2023 – Si fa un gran parlare di evoluzione e pace; avendoci lavorato su di tanto in tanto, ecco alcune note sulla teoria dell’evoluzione.
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Leaks Reveal FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users and Obtain Their Info
Aaron Maté | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.
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Over 800 Million Trees Felled to Feed Appetite for Beef from Brazil
Andrew Wasley, et al. | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – More than 800 million trees have been cut down in the Amazon rainforest in just six years to feed the world’s appetite for Brazilian beef, despite the climate crisis. A data-driven investigation by TBIJ, the Guardian, Repórter Brasil and Forbidden Stories shows systematic and vast forest loss linked to cattle farming.
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‘We’re the Dirty Little Secret Nobody Wants to Talk About,’ Says Man Injured by COVID Vaccine
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – Injured by the COVID19 vaccine–that his employer forced him to get–Stephen Wenger is now unable to work full-time and is facing more than $70,000 in medical bills: exclusive interview.
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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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“Just War” and Just War Theory
Vladislav B. Sotirović | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
4 Jun 2023 – A most disputed topic in regard to wars is the idea of a Just War–a war founded on justice, caused and conducted in the name of humanity such as self-defense or protection of minority groups.
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In China, German Lawmaker Calls for End to Sanctions, an ‘Instrument of War’ (That Backfires on Europe)
Sevim Dağdelen | Geopolitical Economy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
The following is a speech that Sevim Dağdelen, a member of the German Bundestag, delivered at the Shanghai International Studies University in China on 5 Jun 2023. Dağdelen is the coordinator for the Left Party parliamentary group on the Bundestag’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and spokeswoman for international politics. She visited China to promote peace and cooperation.
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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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I Came Out to My MIT Classmates as a “Conspiracy Theorist”
Madhava Setty | An Insult to Intuition - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – I decided to drop some truth-bombs at my college reunion last week. Here’s what happened…
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US Anti-tank Weapons Shipped to Kiev Now in Hands of Mexican Gangs
PressTV | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
5 Jun 2023 – A video footage broadcast in a Mexican news report has shown a Mexican gang member carrying a US-made Javelin anti-tank missile launcher, thousands of which were shipped to Ukraine for use against Russian forces.
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Bridging the Gap between Peacebuilders and Environmentalists
Tia Savarese | Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – Conflict, environmental threats and disasters, climate change, and food insecurity are often separate issues with different solutions. However, they are directly related and it is essential to remove the divisions to create common solutions.
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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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France Is Reportedly Making a Principled Stand against NATO’s Expansion to Asia
Andrew Korybko | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – The Financial Times cited eight sources who revealed that France is preventing the opening of NATO’s liaison office in Japan. Macron’s position is predicated on his assessment of France’s national interests.
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Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023 – “We trusted the government not to screw us,” said Edward Snowden. “But they did. We trusted the tech companies not to take advantage of us. But they did. That is going to happen again, because that is the nature of power.”
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Quitting Time
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
30 May 2023 – AI Times
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56 Years of Israeli Occupation: Explaining the Palestinian ‘Naksa’
Yumna Patel | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
5 Jun 2023 – Today Palestinians mark 56 years of Israeli military occupation. When Palestinians commemorate the Naksa, it is not only loss of life and land but also the military occupation that strips them of their rights to life, freedom, dignity and self-determination.
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As US Considers Reoccupying Haiti, History Shows Occupation Is the Root Problem
Danny Shaw | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
6 Jun 2023 – The tragedy unfolding in Haiti is a direct result of over a century of U.S. political, military and economic coercion.
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Freedom in Diversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Now is the time to reject the industrial agriculture model, a model that came from and behaves like war. Industrial agriculture is destroying life on Earth, the role of women in food and farming, our health, and the health of the planet.
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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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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – There is a trafficking web across the Sahel spanning 6.000 kilometres–from Atlantic Ocean to Red Sea–home to more than 300 million people in 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Implications for “Yes” and “No” Campaigns on Controversial Issues
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The High Costs of Military Air Shows
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
A Short History: Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for our Amusement
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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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Blinken Dismisses Calls for a Ceasefire–Says US Must Build Up Ukraine’s Military
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – The US will focus on arming Ukraine and not on a negotiated settlement: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out a plan to massively expand Kiev’s military before talks begin.
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(Italiano) Etica nella Ricerca negli Atenei Torinesi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
“Quando ragioniamo di etica della ricerca pensiamo alla sua libertà, al suo pluralismo, a un’etica che non risponde a una qualsivoglia morale ma ai valori costituzionali del nostro Paese”.
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(Français) L’Hypocrisie des Sanctions Économiques
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Les sanctions économiques sont-elles une violation des droits de l’Homme ?
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Another Look at the U.S. Financial Transactions Tax That Could Eliminate Need for All Others
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – A small financial transactions tax could correct a number of maladies in the US economic system, from the federal debt crisis to the widening wealth divide to the rampant financialization of the economy, while eliminating taxes on income and sales.
→ read full articleThe Vassalage at Heart of the G7
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Resurrecting the Concept of the Triad – Following the end of the Second World War, the United States built an international system that was premised on the subordination and integration of Japan and Europe.
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The Hypocrisy of Economic Sanctions
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Are economic sanctions a violation of human rights?
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What’s Your Sign
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
26 May 2023 – Say, what?
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Saudi Arabia Set to Join BRICS’ New Development Bank
Ahmed Adel | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
31 May 2023 – The ties between the BRICS bank and Saudi Arabia signals an advancement in the de-dollarisation of the global economy. This week, Saudi Arabia held talks to join BRICS’ New Development Bank as its ninth member, a decision not only economic but also political.
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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 Polarities of Democracy from Conception to Execution
Bill Benet, PhD | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Abstract: People around the globe have embraced democracy to bring about positive social change to address our environmental, economic, and militaristic challenges. Yet, there is no agreement on a definition of democracy that can guide social change efforts. The polarities of democracy present a unifying theory of democracy to guide healthy, sustainable, and just social change efforts.
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Climate Carnage: Things Can Only Get Worse
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – Please stop repeating all this softened wording, such as climate change, climate-related hazards, climate crisis, or extreme weather events… And just call it what it really is: climate carnage.
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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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The Slow Ethnic Cleansing of Ein Samiya’s Bedouin Community
Mariam Barghouti | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
31 May 2023 – Israeli settlers and military systematically made life unbearable for the Bedouin community living in the West Bank’s Ein Samiya region. On May 22 they were forced to leave their lands and were displaced for the fourth time since 1969.
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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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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – Sigh!
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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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The Wars We Don’t (Care to) See
David Barsamian and Norman Solomon | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Aggression Made Easy
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Experts Urge Action to Mitigate ‘Risk of Extinction from AI’
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
30 May 2023 – It “should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” says a new statement signed by dozens of artificial intelligence critics and boosters.
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The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions: Event Summary
Francisco Rodríguez and Mark Weisbrot | Center for Economic and Policy Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
23 May 2023 – On 19 May, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) brought together leading experts in the study of economic sanctions to help to answer a critical, but often-ignored, question: What are the human consequences of US economic sanctions?
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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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African Unity and the New Cold War
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Imperialism extends its destabilization efforts against China and Russia across the continent. This year’s 60th anniversary of the Organization of African Unity occurs at an important point in international relations. Africa and its people were essential in the rise of western colonialism due to the Atlantic Slave Trade, 15th to 19th century.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Elaboration of Strategic Sonnets as Memorable 14-Fold Modes of Aesthetic Presentation
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Assessing Big History at a Time of Global Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
27 May 2023 – To achieve positive forms of change at a time of multiple converging crises imperiling the human species and its natural habitat is the ‘crisis of crises’ facing humanity at this time.
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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.
→ read full articleG7 Owes the Poor $13 Trillion in Unmet Pledges. Meanwhile…
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
The G7 countries owe low- and middle-income countries US$ 13.3 trillion in unpaid aid and funding for climate action when one billion people risk cholera because of the reduction and non-payment of committed assistance.
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Can the Global South Build a New World Information and Communication Order?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
It is remarkable how the media in a few countries are able to set the record on matters around the world. The European and North American countries enjoy a near-global monopoly over information; their media houses vested with a credibility and authority inherited from colonial times plus their command of the neocolonialist structure of our times.
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(Italiano) Munizioni
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Con il comunicato stampa del 3 maggio 2023 la Commissione Europea riunita a Bruxelles annuncia l’adozione di una nuova legge che consentirà ai Paesi dell’Unione di produrre rapidamente una quantità crescente di munizioni e di missili.
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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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Another Regrettable Incident
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
15 May 2023 – Meanwhile, in the US of A
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Tina Turner, Queen of Rock & Roll, Dead at 83
Brittany Spanos and David Browne | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
24 May 2023 – Legendary Singer “Died Peacefully” Today in Switzerland after a Long Illness
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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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Why Is the African Union Absent in Sudan?
Tafi Mhaka | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
25 May 2023 – In Sudan, ‘African solutions to African problems’ is proving to be a hollow mantra.
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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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What’s the Use of William Blake?
Stephen F. Eisenman | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
26 May 2023 – What’s the use of William Blake? Or for that matter, of any art and literature in an age of climate change, proxy wars, nuclear threat, pandemic, rise of fascism? Rather than study long dead poets or painters, shouldn’t we focus on the emergency?
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Rearmament & Europe’s Welfare
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
17 May 2023 – Farewell to the Welfare State? Not Just Yet. Let’s see how Europeans respond when they are told their peace dividend is to be spent on the machinery of war — when it’s “howitzers instead of hospitals” now, as a New York Times article puts it.
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Japan’s Fukushima Water Release Plan Falls Short of Full G7 Support
KBS World/Global Times/Pacnews | Islands Business – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
18 Apr 2023 – Japan failed to secure unanimous support from the G7 for its release of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean due to Germany’s opposition.
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