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‘Zombie’ Viruses Are Thawing in Melting Permafrost Because of Climate Change
Michael Birnbaum and Ellen Francis | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

2 Dec 2022 – Ancient viruses are locked in Russia’s permafrost. We may soon get a peek.

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This Planet Is Drying Up–and These Are the Consequences
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

1 Dec 2022 – Drought is one of the ‘most destructive’ natural disasters in terms of loss of life arising from wide-scale crop failure, wildfires and water stress. Droughts devastate farmland, destroy livelihoods and cause untold suffering.

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Plurality of Information Can Prevent War
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

29 Nov 2022 – In the world we observe a multiplicity of media but no pluralism; all refer to the same sources which convey the same vision of the facts. If the facts exist in a unique way, the way we perceive them is multiple. UNESCO has highlighted “information imperialism:” Imposing a single perception and denying all the others.

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Nationalism and Migration in Relation to Peace
Johan Galtung | Univ. of Antwerp – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Johan Galtung at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) on 21 Apr 2016 – “His work has a unique imprint on many scholarly disciplines; it is a combination of systematic scientific inquiry and a Gandhian ethics of peaceful means and harmony.”

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Top Antitrust Expert: We Need a New Approach to Giant Tech Firms like Google
Lynn Parramore | Institute for New Economic Thinking – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

28 Nov 2022 – Economist Cristina Caffarra, a leader in competition and antitrust, warns that ever-expanding tech giants raise concerns about the extent of their power.

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Stop and Smell the Apocalypse
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

23 Nov 2022 – In the eyes of the beholder…

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The Racists Return to Kindergarten
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

30 Nov 2022 – Damn those Marxists! You know their game, right? No doubt they’re in favor of dropping charges against Julian Assange, who (as all real Americans know) deserves 175 years in prison for exposing — with the help of the New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País — embarrassing realities about U.S. foreign policy.

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Home (Music Video of the Week)
David Byrne | Talking Heads – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

From the movie This Must Be the Place (2011) starring Sean Penn

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Qatar’s World Cup Is a Lavish Exercise in Sportswashing
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

1 Dec 2022 – Qatar’s treatment of foreign workers is a consequence of colonialism: The “kafala” system was the migrant labor governance structure put in place initially by British colonizers to preserve their own interests.

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10 Suggestions for Lula, New President of Brazil
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

28 Nov 2022 – Dear President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, when I visited you in prison on 30 Aug 2018, in the brief time that the visit lasted, I experienced a whirlwind of ideas and emotions that remain as vivid today as they were then.

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Who Benefits from Persistent Hunger?
Prof. George Kent | World Nutrition – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

I am writing this because an article of mine on ‘The Benefits of World Hunger’ was unclear. Some readers have taken it to mean I advocate having more hunger in the world. That was not my intention. I have been pushing for reduction of hunger for decades. I am writing this to explain my views relating to who benefits from hunger.

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Bad News: Headlines Are Indeed Getting more Negative and Angrier
David Rozado, Ruth Hughes and Jamin Halberstadt | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

27 Nov 2022 – New research shows that right-leaning media outlets tend to be more negative and angry. But the left peddles fear, too.

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Postpone Enforcement of CPTPP
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

29 Nov 2022 – A postponement of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership is necessary because it impinges on our sovereignty and affects the ability of Malaysia to protect its workers and people. If a dispute arouse, a decision by an international arbitration panel would be final; our local courts would have no say.

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Prepare for a New World Order
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

1 Dec 2022 – The culture of war is so firmly established in the modern state that it will take a revolutionary change in global governance to move to a culture of peace. To understand the nature of revolutionary change, I turn to that old expert, Karl Marx.

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NATO Narratives and Corporate Media Are Leading to ‘Doorstep of Doom’
Robin Andersen | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

1 Dec 2022 – Corporate media are failing democracy and to disclose our current, stark choice between war, life and the planet. They shout for more war in loud voices. They censor and poison public discourse and position North Americans as targets of propaganda—the denizens of empire—instead of citizen participants in a democracy.

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Be It Resolved: Don’t Trust Mainstream Media
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

1 Dec 2022 – My Opening Remarks for the Munk Debates in Toronto Tonight

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How Joe Biden Suckered Europe
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

29 Nov 2022 – Europe is lost for answers. Boxed in, the EU is failing the test of the war in Ukraine.

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Unequal Mercy
Helen Benedict | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

4 Dec 2022 – The West’s Approach to Refugees – Almost anyone would agree that war is horrifying and peaceful countries should do their best to help its victims.

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World Cup in Qatar Is “Deadliest Major Sporting Event” in History, Built on a Decade of Forced Labor
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

21 Nov 2022 – A look into Qatar’s labor and human rights record. Minky Worden, of Human Rights Watch, describes how millions of poor migrant workers have faced deadly, forced labor conditions on the $2 billion infrastructure. By one count, 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since 2010, when it was awarded the hosting of the games.

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Did the World Make Progress on Climate Change? Here’s What Was Decided at CP27
Nathan Rott et al. | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

20 Nov 2022 – Contentious climate negotiations ended in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, as negotiators from around the world finalized a modest deal to help control global warming and pay for the costs of a hotter Earth.

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Sanctions: Another Form of War on Designated Enemies
Kathleen Malley-Morrison | MAPA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

18 Nov 2022 – Both the UN and illegal US sanctions have had disastrous effects on millions of people, effects that violate both the UN charter and the UDHR. Research in 69 countries showed that sanctions lowered infant weight and increased the likelihood of death before age three.

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The US Is Determined to Drive a Wedge between Ethiopia and Eritrea
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

23 Nov 2022 – Thanks to the 21 Nov US-imposed sanctions,  Eritrea has been excluded from the SWIFT system along with Russia, Iran, and North Korea.  Now American Enterprise Institute fanatic Michael Rubin wants it on the US list of state sponsored terrorists along with Cuba, North Korea, and Syria—triggering sanctions that penalize persons and countries trading with Eritrea. 

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73% of the World’s Population Did Not Call for Russian Reparations to Ukraine
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

On 14 Nov 2022, the UNGA passed a resolution (A/ES-11/L.6) calling for Russia to pay war reparations to Ukraine. The majority of the world’s countries simply did not support this resolution:
99 NOT VOTING IN FAVOR (AGAINST, ABSTENTION or NOT VOTING)
93 IN FAVOR

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Crimes against the Innocent Child
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

21 Nov 2022 – In addition to the reported brutalities, many more crimes against children continue amidst worldwide impunity. The following are just some tragic examples.

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Heal the World (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson | RAM's F.M. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

Ukraine and Russia –> Peace Not War 2022

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Indigenous People Push Back Against US ‘Thanksgiving Mythology’
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

24 Nov 2022 – “We will not stop telling the truth about the Thanksgiving story and what happened to our ancestors,” says Kisha James, whose grandfather founded the National Day of Mourning in 1970.

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Every Child Has a Right to Realize the Human Potential
Yasmine Sherif | ECW - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

20 Nov 2022 – Racism and discrimination against children on the basis of their ethnicity, language and religion remain widespread in many countries. Statement by Yasmine Sherif, Director of ‘ECW-Education Cannot Wait’

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Zelensky Trapped by Moscow and Washington
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

22 Nov 2022 – The balance of power on the Ukrainian battlefield and the tragic episode of the G20 in Bali mark the first time the West has failed to impose its worldview on the rest of the planet. The USA has already begun secret negotiations with Russia to let go of Ukraine and blame solely Volodymyr Zelensky. As in Afghanistan, the awakening will be brutal.

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Interpol Arrest Warrant Issued for Angolan Billionaire Isabel dos Santos
Fergus Shiel and Micael Pereira | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

19 Nov 2022 – The daughter of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos was the subject of the ICIJ 2020 Luanda Leaks investigation. Sources say the warrant relates to allegedly corrupt dealings exposed.

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Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces Are Defending Their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism
Eva Bartlett | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

19 Nov 2022 – Western Media Inverted Reality, Lauding Nazis and Demonizing Defenders: The U.S. is widely understood to be a key instigator behind conflict in Ukraine that has pitted brother against brother.

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A Thanksgiving Reminder
Daniel Medina | TK Editorial Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

24 Nov 2022 – Happy Thanksgiving, sucker…

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The U.S. Military Pledged to Remove Unexploded Bombs from This Island–Native Hawaiians Are Still Waiting
Rob Perez | Honolulu Star-Advertiser/ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

26 Nov 2022 – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is leading the remediation effort, has been plagued by shoddy work and multiple regulatory disputes, according to an investigation by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica.

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Georgian Legion Carries Out ISIS-Style Executions in Ukraine—with Covert U.S. Support
Evan Reif  | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

23 Nov 2022 – U.S. has a long history of subcontracting dirty counterinsurgency operations to brutal proxy forces–the Georgian Legion, which stands out among the many right-wing militias of Ukraine, is but the latest.

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Israel Has Jailed 50,000 Palestinian Children since 1967, and the Number of Detentions Is Growing Rapidly: Report
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

23 Nov 2022 – The Palestinian Commission on Detainees and Ex-Detainees released a report for World Children’s Day on the routine Israeli arrest and jailing of minors, saying that Palestinian children are not secure from being constantly targeted by Israeli security forces.

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Their Children Struggled with Addiction—Now They’re Fighting against the War on Drugs
Troy Farah | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

26 Nov 2022 – A growing number of parents see the war on drugs as an abject failure that harmed their kids.

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(Italiano) Il risveglio arabo-musulmano e USA/Israele
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

Il risveglio arabo è contro la violenza e la corruzione a favore della democrazia, della crescita e dell’occupazione, e contro il dominio USA-Israele. Ma credere che l’Islam tolleri il secolarismo imposto è incredibilmente ingenuo. C’è un risveglio musulmano. Tuttavia, ci sono molti islam, come ci sono i cristiani e gli ebraismi. Come reagiscono USA-Israele e quale sarebbe una reazione positiva alla loro reazione?

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What Does the EU Parliament’s Designation of Russia as a ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’ Mean?
Rachel Marsden | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

24 Nov 2022 – The European Parliament’s non-binding resolution is a PR effort rooted in political agenda.

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While Crypto Bro Scammed Clients, Reporters Scammed Readers
Ari Paul | FAIR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

19 Nov 2022 – Before Bankman-Fried’s transition from financial genius to possible financial criminal, he received little scrutiny in the media.

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Biden Sides with Trump in Killing Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

27 Nov 2022 – Events in the U.S. and in Israel indicate that the Biden administration has decided to drop all notion of reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action-JCPOA. Biden will hold to Trump’s position when he pulled the U.S. out of the pact in 2018. 

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Black ‘Fraud-Days’ and the Shocking Cost of Staying Fashionable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

25 Nov 2022 – Please take a quick look at this short report before rushing to shop on a Black Friday, Christmas sales and all those long chains of big discounts and wholesales; most of them are fake, as often denounced by consumers organisations, which report that the business usually inflates prices before launching such deals. 

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The COVID Pandemic Farce Served as a Trial Balloon for the New World Order
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò | LifeSiteNews – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

22 Nov 2022 – Viganò’s Address to Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International – “There can be no neutrality, because when there is a clash between two armies, those who choose not to fight are also making a choice that affects the outcome of the battle.”

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(Italiano) Elezioni israeliane 2022: una vittoria per i “coloni” colonialisti o per la lotta di Liberazione Palestinese?
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Non c’è dubbio che le elezioni israeliane 2022 del 1°novembre [U.S..] saranno d’importanza durevole. I mesi e gli anni a venire riveleranno se Israele consolida il suo status di stato coloniale di coloni o se la lotta palestinese aumenta la sua resistenza al dominio israeliano rafforzata da un crescente movimento di solidarietà globale.

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Don’t Be Fooled: Climate Disasters Are Highly Lucrative
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

17 Nov 2022 – Companies involved in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, the nuclear warheads, have been supported by over 150 big banks by lending them money or underwriting bonds, according to ICAN’s ‘Don’t Bank on the Bomb’ report.

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Behaviors to Avoid at the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup
Reflect Your Respect | Twitter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

A FIFA spokesperson told Reuters that the poster is not an official 2022 World Cup document. It was made by a Qatari citizen group called “Reflect Your Respect.”

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Biden Travels East in Clouds of Mistrust
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

20 Nov 2022 – U.S. Joe Biden and Chinese Xi Jinping met for more than three hours at the G20 conference Nov 14-15 in Indonesia. China “is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and… the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to advance that objective,” Biden wrote in the U.S. Defense Strategy in Oct, a document focused on China and Russia as “threats” to U.S. hegemony.

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Imagining Partnership of the SDG Goals as Phases of the Cross
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Correspondence between cognitive internalization and collective strategic articulation.

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The U.S. Has Seen At Least 601 Mass Shootings This Year Alone
Ashley Ahn | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

20 Nov 2022 – In 2022 the US has seen at least 601 mass shootings, an average of 13 shootings a week according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident where at least four people are shot or killed. The year 2021 saw 690 mass shootings, 2020 had 610, and 2019 had 417.

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In Praise of Toilets
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

14 Nov 2022 – Some billionaires, in particular in the Gulf oil-producing kingdoms, pose their buttocks on a solid-gold toilet around solid-gold faucets. The other side of the coin shows a shocking, different picture: 4 billion people –or about half of the world’s population– still live without access to a safe toilet and other sanitation facilities.

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Russia, India, China, Iran: The Quad That Really Matters
Pepe Escobar | PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – Southeast Asia is right at the center of international relations for a week with three consecutive summits: ASEAN in Phnom Penh, the G20 in Bali, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Bangkok.

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Western Allies Look to Ukraine as a Testing Ground for Weapons
Lara Jakes | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – Delta is one example of how Ukraine has become a testing ground for state-of-the-art weapons and information systems, and new ways to use them, that Western political officials and military commanders predict could shape warfare for generations to come.

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World Cup Stadium Workers ‘Had Their Money Stolen and Lives Ruined’, Says Rights Group
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

10 Nov 2022 – Report on conditions in Qatar alleges labour abuses are widespread and calls on FIFA to set up compensation fund.

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It’s Not Just Coca-Cola: Corporations Have Co-Opted the UN Climate Talks
Kate Yoder | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – COP27 is covered with logos. But that’s just the start of companies’ influence. The event is brought to you by the largest plastic producer in the world, Coca-Cola.

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The Stage Is Set for US Combat Troops in Ukraine
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

11 Nov 2022 – If US forces join the fighting, the calculus for winning could change dramatically, but the strategic objectives would remain the same. No nation can be expected to live at peace when a gun is pointed at its head. That is why Putin opposed NATO membership for Ukraine, and that is why the current war is being fought.

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Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

“All you have is what you are, and what you give.”

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Lost and Damaged: The UN’s COP27 Climate Summit
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

17 Nov 2022 – An estimated 30,000 people from around the world have descended on this Red Sea resort on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. The summit is hosted by Egypt, a dictatorship propped up by billions of dollars annually in military aid from the United States.

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Betrayal All the Way Down (Part 1)
Diane Perlman | TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Whether we deal with our experience of betrayal consciously or unconsciously will make all of the difference. It is critical that we take an enlightened approach to get it right. Here I attempt a comprehensive, coherent and constructive analysis towards intentional, wisely designed strategies and processes, informed by social science, conflict analysis, psychology and history.

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Shatter Alley
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

I snuggle behind the wheel
and see
shards of glass
scattered across
the seat of my car.

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Hawai’i: The Very First U.S. Regime Change
Jon D. Olsen | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – Illegitimate overthrow of Polynesian Queen Lili’uokalani of Hawai’i in 1893 marked beginning of more than a century of American regime-change operations.

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Qatar: World Champion Human Rights Violators
Daniel Medina | TK Editorial Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Bloodied Trophy…

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College Degrees Help Incarcerated People Take the Next Step to Freedom
M. Yayah Sandi | Prison Journalism Project - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – At East Jersey State Prison prior to 2013 the only rehabilitative program available was a high school equivalency diploma. The Prison Journalism Project trains incarcerated writers to become journalists and publishes their stories.

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Corporate Weapons Heaven Is a Hell on Earth
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

17 Nov 2022 – A Hall of Shame of U.S. Weapons Sales

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(Italiano) Cambiamento climatico: facciamo finta
Anthony Judge | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Perché dobbiamo fare qualcosa per il cambiamento climatico dopo la COP27?

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Jeffrey Sachs on World Peace, US Wars, NATO, and the Costs
Jeffrey Sachs | InvestoPads - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

12 Nov 2022 – Hegemonic USA Is Causing a Horrific Financial Crisis

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A World Cup Stained with Blood and Bribery
Aram Aharonian | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

14 Nov 2022 – Qatar is a Soccer World Cup tainted by blood and corruption. The spread of these facts preoccupies the FIFA leadership which, less than 20 days before the start, asked the teams to focus on soccer and not on “sermons” on morality, dragging soccer “into ideological or political battles that exist”.

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Eat Me
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Help Yourself…

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Attempt to Try Russian Leaders for War Crimes Is Part of the West’s Weaponization of the ICC
Robin Philpot | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

14 Nov 2022 – International Criminal Court continues to serve as a “battering ram for U.S. and NATO policy,” as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it.

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US Nuclear Forces Chief: ‘The Big One Is Coming’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

6 Nov 2022 – The commander that oversees US nuclear forces delivered an ominous warning at a naval conference last week by calling the war in Ukraine a “warmup” for the “big one” that is to come. [Having fun yet?]

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Climate Change — Let’s Just Pretend
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

Why Do We Need to Do Anything Following COP27?

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TRANSCEND Members November Birthdays
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

We at TRANSCEND Media Service wish our distinguished members VANDANA SHIVA and RICHARD FALK a HAPPY BIRTHDAY with many returns. We take this opportunity to thank them for all their contributions to the world–and to TMS. Bless your lives!

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Urging Peace with Russia, Top US General Challenges DC’s Proxy War
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

12 Nov 2022 – A series of leaks, including a call for diplomacy from Gen. Mark Milley, show that some US officials are ready for a settlement in Ukraine. While US “diplomats” oppose diplomacy, White House officials would not be disclosing that Milley, the nation’s highest military officer, is challenging their stance if he were alone.

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Energy Bills in Europe Are 90% Higher Than Last Year
Irina Slav | Oilprice - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

8 Nov 2022 – Electricity and gas prices are soaring across Europe, with bills close to double from last year in most European capitals, according to new data from the Household Energy Price Index—a monthly tracker of energy prices for households across 33 European capitals, including the 27 EU member states and several non-members.

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What Is Missing from the Climate Debate
Dr. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

7 Nov 2022 – “The destabilisation of the Earth’s climate systems is the consequence of violating the ecological processes and cycles of the earth, violating the Rights of the Earth, Rights of Indigenous People, and the Rights of Future Generations. — Dr. Vandana Shiva

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Hands off Haiti!!—No Military Intervention!!
Richard S. Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

12 Nov 2022 – The United States and Canada have delivered military machinery to Haiti under the suspicious title of “security equipment”; this “security equipment” includes armored and tactical vehicles to be used to strengthen the police to fight “criminal gangs.” It is reported that, by October 28, Haiti will receive additional delivery of military machinery.

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American-Born Canadian Professor Attacked by Mainstream Media for Opposing NATO Narrative on Ukraine
Aidan Jonah | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

6 Nov 2022 – A highly regarded Russia specialist in Canada, Prof. Michael Carley at the Univ. of Montreal, has refused to support the NATO narrative on the Ukraine conflict and has since been subjected to a vicious smear campaign. The “Carley Affair” can act as a warning of what to expect as the U.S. harbors more Ukrainian refugees.

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Market Lords, Much more than a War, behind World’s Food Crisis
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

11 Nov 2022 – While grain exports continue to flow to world’s markets, and Turkey-brokered agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resume cereals and fertilisers shipments from both countries, food prices are still skyrocketing. How come? “In each of the three global food crises studied, financial speculation has caused steep increases in prices, making food inaccessible to hundreds of millions of people.”

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What to Expect from Netanyahu & Religious Zionism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

A Preliminary Appraisal

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Germany: Is the Chancellor Betraying the US Emperor? The New Germany-China “Connection”
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

9 Nov 2022 – Before Olaf Scholz and Ursula von der Leyen, two Germans, were chosen to economically destroy Europe, they were indeed vetted for months by the neoliberal hegemons in Washington and the Pentagon/NATO.

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(Italiano) Non c’è pace senza giustizia. Ma non c’è giustizia senza pace
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

La violenza ha più forme: è bellica, armata, omicida, invasiva; ma c’è anche la violenza strutturale, incarnata nelle strutture economiche e sociali; e c’è anche, più profonda, la violenza culturale, quando è insediata nelle menti, nelle tradizioni onorate, nelle teorie, nelle antropologie che riconoscono fatale e insuperabile la violenza in tutte le sue forme. La violenza bellica è la più visibile, fragorosa e dolorosa

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U.S. Government Quietly Declassifies Post-9/11 Interview with Bush and Cheney
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

10 Nov 2022 – One of the most striking aspects of the interview conducted in 2004 is the apparent absence of even a glimmer of self-awareness by Bush about the significance of the death and destruction he was unleashing with his global war. He comes off as almost childishly simplistic in his insights and analysis.

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More Investment, Less Interference: How China Is Moving into ‘Washington’s Latin Hemisphere’
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

10 Nov 2022 – After decades [centuries?] of abuse by the U.S., some Latin American countries seem to find Beijing’s approach attractive.

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Will the U.S. War-for-Profit Capitalist System Lead to Nuclear Annihilation?
Leonard Goodman | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

9 Nov 2022 – The US continues to fan the flames of nuclear conflict with massive investments in the war department. How long can this last? A cancer on Earth.

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‘So Irresponsible’: US Condemned for Warning Australia against Joining Anti-Nuclear Treaty
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

9 Nov 2022 – Blackmail: The U.S. Embassy in Canberra warned Australian officials that the government’s decision to adopt an “abstain” position regarding the treaty—after five years of opposing it—would obstruct Australia’s reliance on American nuclear forces in case of a nuclear attack on the country.

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Fairytale (Music Video of the Week)
Alexander Rybak | Eurovision – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

Alexander Rybak represented Norway in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest and won the grand finale.

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Who Knew: We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

10 Nov 2022 – My title comes from a song sung by soldiers as they marched to hell in the trenches of World War I. We’re all lucky to still be here. If we continue to celebrate past wars and the soldiers who fought them in a sly homage to the greatness of war, we are doomed.

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Largesse: US Air Force Seeks the Aircraft Equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife
Stephen Losey | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

7 Nov 2022 – Preparing for a potential fight against China, weighing limited budgets and fleets, and looking for more capabilities from existing aircraft: if a C-130 can act as bomber, a bomber can serve as a cargo plane, the argument goes. Toys for the boys.

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(Italiano) Scienziati in affanno? Ai confini tra scienza, società e policy
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

La parola ‘affanno’ nel suo duplice significato – letterale e metaforico – mi sembra molto adatta a ispirare non solo il mondo scientifico – ma la società tutta, a mettere in atto un personale e collettivo satyagraha.

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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.

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Glaring Western Hypocrisy on Human Rights in Africa: Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

2 Nov 2022 – The US and EU are complicit in the Rwandan and Ugandan incursions into the DRC, as well as in their support of their TPLF proxies against Ethiopia. On a positive note, however, Ethiopians, Eritreans, Congolese, Rwandans, and Ugandans are speaking out about the West’s hypocrisy and interference and building PanAfrican ties.

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Putin Skewers US Ineptitude
Ray McGovern | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

1 Nov 2022 – Speaking on Oct. 27 at Valdai, Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned the sanity of those who would “spoil relations with China at the same time they are supplying billions-worth of weapons to Ukraine in a fight against Russia.” It turns out they come from the same stock of white-privileged, exceptional, ivy-mantled “Best and Brightest” that brought us Vietnam–this time brought by President Joe Biden.

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Human Rights Hypocrisy
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

1 Nov 2022 – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the great documents of history. With that in mind, it is especially ironic and unfortunate when human rights is used by the culture of war as part of its weaponry.

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Fyodor Dostoyevsky (11 Nov 1821 – 9 Feb 1881)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas. His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. In his time, he was also renowned for his activity as a journalist.

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Data Journalism: Why Usability Is More Than ‘Nice to Have’
Antonia Sanke interviews Christina Elmer | Deutsche Welle - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

31 Oct 2022 – Christina Elmer is professor of Digital and Data Journalism at TU Dortmund University and a renowned data journalist in Germany. Why do media outlets need data journalism? She shares her expertise on how to become a data journalist and the future of digital media.

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Leon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.

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Top 5 Worst Things That Far-Right Netanyahu Could Do as Prime Minister
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

… to Israeli Democracy and Palestinian Society

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(Français) Hypocrisie à Propos des Droits Humains
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

La Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme est l’un des grands documents de l’histoire. Dans cet esprit, il est particulièrement ironique et malheureux que les droits de l’Homme soient utilisés par la culture de la guerre comme faisant partie de son armement.

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Unapologetic about Arguing for Peace
Ivana Nikolić Hughes | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

1 Nov 2022 – The lack of calls for peace in the mainstream is just the beginning of the problem. As some leaders like Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, Antonio Guterres and Noam Chomsky have called for peace, they’ve been quickly labeled as Putin apologists or worse. The Progressive Caucus in Congress sent a letter to President Biden urging a diplomatic solution, only to withdraw it a day later. When did peace become a bad word, a dirty word?

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Kremlin Says Talks on Ukraine Should First Be Held with US
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

30 Oct 2022 – Russian officials have repeatedly stated they’re open to talks with the US, but the Biden administration has no interest in diplomacy–quite the opposite.

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The Truth about Cargill: The Most Evil Company
Lee Camp | Behind the Headlines - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

2 Nov 2022 – The agricultural conglomerate, Cargill Inc., is the largest privately-held corporation in the U.S. by a large margin, and the current price increases in the food market are driving their profits higher. Camp exposes their corrupt practices that are leading to such high returns.

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Space Invaders, Continued
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

The Strange Case of the Brain-Eating Space Aliens

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Ukraine on Fire
Oliver Stone | GlobalTreePictures - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan Massacre helped oust President Yanukovych with Russia painted as the perpetrator. Oliver Stone interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yanukovych and others exposing the role the U.S. played in destabilizing the region. Watch the full documentary below.

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