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Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
31 Oct 2022 – A MintPress study has found that hundreds of former agents of the Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have positions of influence in the biggest tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. The Israeli Defense Forces’ Unit 8200 is infamous for surveilling the indigenous Palestinian population.
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Do No Harm: Compassionate Actions Supporting the Common Good
Wendy Wood, Ph.D. | The Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
As conflict practitioners and peacebuilders, engaging in ways that do not harm others or the planet requires that we are mindful and compassionate; that we use our words wisely and listen deeply; that we are authentic while embracing the ideals of equity and working for the common good; and that all are actions are accompanied with love and joy for the work we do.
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Disinformation, Absolutely
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
1 Nov 2022 – This is what our public discourse has come to. We in the USA have made a nonsense of ourselves. Our troubled republic sounds like an indecipherable cacophony amid which anything we say can be turned to mean other than what we mean. When we come across anyone who thinks differently than we do, we simply call him or her a disseminator of disinformation, a liar, and nothing more need be said.
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Entire World Votes 185 to 2 against Blockade of Cuba—US and Israel Are Rogue States at UN
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
4 Nov 2022 – For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the United States and Israel.
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New U.S. Sanctions Are Designed to Hit Nicaragua’s Poorest Citizens
John Perry | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
4 Nov 2022 – Mainstream media ridiculously claim that Nicaragua is a threat to U.S. national security when it has one of the lowest levels of defense spending in the world.
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More Than Six Decades of Sanctions on Cuba
Louis A. Pérez, Jr. | NACLA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
24 Oct 2022 – The Biden administration’s renewal of sanctions against Cuba reveals the folly of a long failed policy.
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American Horror: POTUS after POTUS Wronged This Old Pakistani Man
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
3 Nov 2022 – Saifullah Paracha, a 75-year-old Pakistani, was released last week (29 October) after 19 years in the dungeons of Guantanamo Bay for no crime. He won’t even get an apology.
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Musk Takes Twitter Helm, Enacts Sweeping Change as Deal Closes
Katie Roof, Ed Hammond and Kurt Wagner | Bloomberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
28 Oct 2022 – Elon Musk wasted no time taking complete control of Twitter Inc. The billionaire appointed himself chief executive officer, dismissed senior management and immediately began reshaping strategy at one of the world’s most influential social media platforms as his $44 billion take-private deal closed.
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Why US Hegemony Is Incompatible with a ‘Rules-Based International Order’
Sam Fraser | Quincy Institute/Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
“It is clear that, going forward, the laudable goal of creating a global order based on international law and mutually agreeable rules of conduct is incompatible with U.S. hegemony — or for that matter, the hypothetical hegemony of any other power. Any state possessing a preponderance of power will, as the U.S. has, reject external restraints on that power. Any “rules-based order” put forward by a hegemon will be wielded in service of hegemony, not the other way around.”
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How Europe Has Navigated Its Energy Crises
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – A multifaceted response from Europe has so far prevented its energy woes from creating widespread social and economic destabilization. But with winter approaching, the crisis is far from over and risks are getting worse.
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India’s GM Mustard and the 30-Year Path to Food Tyranny
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
27 Oct 2022 – A public interest litigation is currently before India’s Supreme Court which challenges the drive to commercialise the growing of genetically modified mustard in India. Yesterday, however, the country’s apex regulatory body – the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee – sanctioned commercialisation of the crop.
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The Fed’s Trading Scandal Broadens into a Scandal with the Mega Banks It “Regulates”
Pam Martens - Russ Martens | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
The president of the St. Louis Fed, James Bullard, gave a private, invitation-only briefing on Oct 14 2022 to clients of Citigroup, which received the largest bailout from the Fed in banking history–a sum of $2.5 trillion in secret loans according to a government audit.
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The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
30 Oct 2022 – The rapid escalation of online censorship, and increasingly offline censorship, cannot be overstated. The silencing tactic that has most commonly provoked attention and debate is the banning of particular posts or individuals by specific social media platforms. But the censorship regime that has been developed, and which is now rapidly escalating, extends far beyond those relatively limited punishments.
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The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset
F. William Engdahl | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab.
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Europe in Its Labyrinth
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – European politicians continue to run in all directions to find a way out of their energy crisis. One of them, the Swiss Environment Minister, asked people to ‘shower together’.
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Space Invaders
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
Sci-Fi?
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Ethiopia Nears Victory in Its Civil War, US Scrambles to Control the Outcome
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
26 Oct 2022 – War between Ethiopia and the TPLF may be coming to an end, but the US is using sanctions to have the final word despite the apparent defeat of its proxy.
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The War in Ukraine: Made in Washington Not Moscow
Mike Whitney | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
No American president would allow a potential adversary to deploy their nuclear missiles to sites along the Mexican-American border. The risks to national security would be far-too great. In fact, Washington would remove those missile sites through force-of-arms without batting an eye. We all know that. So, why isn’t that same standard applied to Russia?
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I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Music Video of the Week)
Song Around The World | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
Featuring over 40 musicians from 13 countries who played several instruments and combined their magnificent voices.
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Diversity Debate Rages as Sunak, a British Indian, Becomes UK PM
Linah Alsaafin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – For the first time in UK’s history, the country has a non-white as its prime minister. At 42, Rishi Sunak, a Hindu, is the youngest prime minister in more than 200 years. The multimillionaire Oxford-educated former hedge fund boss is married to an Indian billionaire’s daughter and some doubt his policies will benefit underrepresented communities.
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How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation around the World
Craig Silverman, Ruth Talbot, Jeff Kao and Anna Klühspies | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
29 Oct 2022 – Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found. The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices on non-English-language websites reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable.
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German Air Chief: F-35 Buy Safe despite Rising Inflation Costs
Vivienne Machi | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – Rising prices for everything have put some of Berlin’s up-arming plans into question. The air force’s multibillion-euro F-35 program, however, is expected to weather inflation-related cost increases intact, according to the service’s chief of staff.
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The Bottomless Pit of War Spending
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022 – The European Union is giving Ukraine €5 billion in exceptional macrofinancial assistance in addition to 9 billion provided by the EU-sponsored fundraising campaign. The US and EU have already donated 100 billion euros in military supplies to Kiev. These huge funds, coming directly and indirectly from our pockets, serve to fuel the war in the heart of Europe.
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(Italiano) Negoziare la pace in Ucraina ADESSO
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
27 Ottobre 2022 – Benché qualcuno consideri difficile o addirittura impossibile per gli ucraini e i russi fare la pace proprio adesso, questo è effettivamente un ottimo momento per negoziati quanto mai necessari al più presto per por termine a questa guerra immensamente distruttiva e sempre più pericolosa: negoziare la pace in Ucraina ADESSO
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Will the Lettuce Outlast All This?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
One third of all plastic waste ends up in soils or freshwater. Most of this plastic disintegrates into particles smaller than five millimetres, known as microplastics, and these break down further into nanoparticles.
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Act!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
If not HERE, WHERE?
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Progressive Democrats Retract Biden Ukraine Letter after Furious Debate
Ed Pilkington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – The chair of the progressive caucus of the US House of Representatives, Pramila Jayapal, has retracted a letter sent by 30 of the members urging Joe Biden to engage in direct talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine following a heated debate within the Democratic party about future strategy over the conflict.
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Everybody Wants to Hop On the BRICS Express
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
28 Oct 2022 – Eurasia is about to get a whole lot larger as countries line up to join the Chinese and Russian-led BRICS and SCO, to the detriment of the West.
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NATO Rehearsed for an Amphibious Assault on Eastern Ukraine Using Ukrainian Naval Bases Acquired in Agreement with the UK
Arnaud Develay | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
26 Oct 2022 – Documents Reveal: Russia felt it had to act in self-defense in special military operation to thwart U.S.-UK-NATO provocations and aggression and save people of the Donbas.
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The ‘War of Terror’ about to Hit Europe
Pepe Escobar | PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – Never underestimate a wounded and decaying Empire collapsing in real time. Imperial functionaries, even in a “diplomatic” capacity, continue to brazenly declare that their exceptionalist control over the world is mandatory. The blowing up of Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2, everybody knows who did it, but the perpetrator cannot be named.
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’24 Hours of Hell’: Israeli Settler Gangs Terrorize Palestinian Town under Army Protection
Yumna Patel | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
14 Oct 2022 – Israeli settlers continued their attack on the Palestinian town of Huwwara in the northern occupied West Bank, vandalizing several storefronts, vehicles and homes–escorted and enabled by the Israeli army that fired live ammunition at Palestinians in the town.
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Palestine/Israel: Australia Hammers Final Nail in US ‘Deal of the Century’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
On 17 Oct 2022, the Australian government announced it is revoking its 2018 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Expectedly, the new decision was strongly criticized by Israel, celebrated by Palestinians, and welcomed by Arab countries. As long as Palestinians continue to resist and fight for their freedom and international solidarity continues to grow around them, the Palestinian cause will remain central to all Arabs and to all conscientious people around the world.
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Strategy to Open the Door for a New UN and for an Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
29 Oct 2022 – The United Nation’s primary job is to end war. It hasn’t worked. It could not prevent the devastating criminal invasion of Iraq by the US, and now it’s Russia against US/Ukraine. To add to the frustrating madness, US/NATO promises a future war against China over Taiwan. The UN needs a world federal constitution.
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Eliciting Potential Patterns of Governance from 16 Sustainable Development Goals
Anthony Judge, Ph.D. | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Interactive Exploration of Goal 17 through a Polyhedral Compound of 16 Tetrahedra in 3D
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The Pentagon Loves First-Person Shooter Video Games
Laura Bartkowiak and Brian J. Sullivan | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
19 Oct 2022 – Video games are the most popular entertainment media on the planet — and one of the American war machine’s most effective propaganda tools.
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Rural Women Work the Hardest, Produce the Most, Eat the Least
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
17 Oct 2022 – Make no mistake. Violence against women has been perpetuated, specially when it comes to those who have already been deprived of their basic human rights, as it is the case of rural women in over two-thirds of the world.
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Chelsea Manning’s Book Further Complicates US Government’s Case against Julian Assange
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
20 Oct 2022 – The US government’s theory of the case against Assange depends upon a narrative that involves Assange recruiting Manning to leak documents to WikiLeaks. Facts have always conflicted with this conspiracy theory, and Manning raises a few of these facts in her new book, README.txt, which further complicates the prosecutors’ case.
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(Italiano) Fermare la guerra in Ucraina, prima che sia troppo tardi!
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
18 Ottobre 2022 – Il tema di come affrontare e fermare la guerra in Ucraina continua a essere molto controverso e divisivo. Anche nel caso che non si dovesse giungere fino a ciò, una vittoria militare non porterebbe alcuna pace, ma porrebbe solo le basi per un prossimo conflitto.
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Call on the Future of Humanity
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
A webinar to build a global community of endorsers to work for a better future for this lonely endangered planet.
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Two New Books Explore Pernicious Impact of U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
17 Oct 2022 – Credibility is low these days for the U.S. government, politicians and the mainstream media. Sorting through news reports for reliable fact and analysis would make George Orwell weep. How ideologies of American exceptionalism and innocence have inoculated public from human suffering meted out in their name.
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U.S. Senate to Give Taiwan $10 Billion in Military Aid
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
17 Oct 2022 – The Senate’s effort comes as tensions are soaring between the US and China whose unprecedented military drills in response to Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan make it clear that more US military support will only make a conflict more likely.
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The Europeans Have Been Nicely Played by the Americans
Amb. MK Bhadrakumar | The Tribune India - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – Two massive terrorist strikes in quick succession misfired spectacularly in the Ukraine war: on Nord Stream gas pipelines and on the Crimean Bridge. Basically, the Biden administration created a contrived energy crisis whose real aim is war profiteering. The Crimean Bridge attack of 8 Oct is much more serious.
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The Parts of Chelsea Manning’s Book Censored by the US Government
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – The US government censored parts of Chelsea Manning’s new book, where she attempted to describe the information she provided to WikiLeaks in 2010. Manning says she wrote README.txt because she had not really been able to tell her story, and this book was a “first draft of history” from her perspective.
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Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it.
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Bordering on Failure: A Tale of Discovering the Three Rules of Conflict
Duncan Autrey, MA | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
How I discovered the Three Rules for Transforming Conflict while working on border conflicts in Ecuador. Poignant lessons about the essential nature of conflict and the existential value of improving our political, social, and environmental discourse. They present a guide to improving collective decision making; teach us to get clear on what the conflict is really about; to include everyone who is involved; and to ensure that the process of transformation is aligned with the desired outcome. Win-Lose processes are dividing us, impeding our healing and progress.
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Objective Reality: Threat or Menace?
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
10 Oct 2022 – Soap Opera USA
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16 Life-Learnings from 16 Years of The Marginalian
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022 – The Marginalian was born as a plain-text newsletter to seven friends on October 23, 2006, under the outgrown name Brain Pickings. Reflections on keeping the soul intact and alive and worthy of itself.
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(Italiano) Iran: L’evoluzione dei simboli della protesta
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Sempre più spesso, i temi simbolici delle proteste si stanno spostando dall’attenzione alle restrizioni imposte alle donne alla natura stessa del regime clericale. L’ayatollah Khamenei è anziano e non sta bene. Non c’è un ovvio sostituto in caso di sua morte. La situazione in Iran merita di essere osservata da vicino.
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The Last Temptation of Things
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – Let me tell you a story about a haunted house and all the thoughts it evoked in me. Do we believe we can save ourselves by saving things? Or do our saved possessions come to possess their saviors?
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: la scalata verso l’oblio
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Washington non solo ha mobilitato il mondo per denunciare l’aggressione della Russia, ma ha fornito armi avanzate in grandi quantità agli ucraini per resistere all’attacco russo, e ha fatto tutto il possibile all’ONU e altrove per costruire una coalizione punitiva ostile alla Russia, accompagnando il tutto con una serie di sanzioni e la demonizzazione di Putin. Questa prospettiva di propaganda di Stato è stata fedelmente veicolata da un filtro mediatico occidentale autocensurante.
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Getting to Yes: What U.S. Africa Command Doesn’t Want You to Know
Nick Turse | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022 – What’s the U.S. military doing in Africa? It’s an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, straight-jacketed in secrecy, and hogtied by red tape. Or at least it would be if it were up to the Pentagon.
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55% of Humanity Does Not Reject the Accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
21 Oct 2022 – just as with previous UNGA votes condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the Western press, with maximum duplicity, continues to treat the 12 Oct vote as an resounding world condemnation of Russia, when in fact it is proof of the world majority’s refusal to condemn Russian actions in Ukraine.
→ read full articleGeo-engineering Oversight Agency for Thermal Stabilization — GOATS
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – Geoengineering proposals for mitigating climate change continue to proliferate without being tested. It is time to select and assess the most promising ideas according to efficacy, cost, all aspects of risk and, importantly, their rate of mitigation.
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(Português) Eleições no Brasil: Tensão na reta final. E o day after?
Jean Marc von der Weid | Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
15 outubro 2022 – Texto analítico de Jean Marc com os vários cenários possíveis face à eleição no dia 30 de outubro e nos tempos subsequentes. Vale estar atentos, pois se trata de nossa sobrevivência como nação civilizada e sem os ódios e mentiras que marcaram o governo atual. — L. Boff
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(Italiano) Va’ a dire agli affamati che i loro alimenti li si stanno buttando nei rifiuti!
Baher Kamal | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Questi sono fatti, non supposizioni: circa 1.300 milioni di tonnellate di alimenti vanno sprecati e persi… ogni singolo anno, l’equivalente di oltre una tonnellata per ciascuno del miliardo di affamati, molti dei quali sono quelli che li hanno prodotti.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
3 Oct 2022 – This Modern World
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Our Shared Addiction to Empire
Patrick Lawrence | Scheerpost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
If the Columbus myth has been thoroughly discounted, what is it that causes us to continue closing the banks, stopping the mail, and marching in parades on a Monday around October 12 each year?
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Tulsi Gabbard Dares to Challenge Washington’s War Machine
Tony Cox | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – Tulsi Gabbard’s rapid transformation from rising Democratic star to demonized outcast–culminating this week with her decision to leave the party–has exposed the one thing on which every powerful person in Washington agree: war is good. The former presidential candidate has shown that opposing regime-change policies is the one taboo that the ruling class will not tolerate.
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Millions of Girls Abused in the Name of Fake, Toxic Masculinity
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – A common feature to religions – including the monotheistic ones – is that groups of males have self-proclaimed themselves as the source for interpreting the “Word of God,” shaping them, and spreading them among the peoples of good faith.
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Africa, the Looted Continent
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
10 Oct 2022 – Africa. The birthplace of “Homo Sapiens.” The land of plenty. The home of over 1.3 billion humans, with 500 million plus living in extreme poverty, continues to be looted. It is a sort of graveyard for half of the world’s victims of terror and the land with the highest suicide rate on Earth. Why?
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Pipelines v. USA
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.
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The Flaws and Fantasies of the New Biden Doctrine
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
14 Oct 2022 – United States President Joe Biden’s newly released National Security Strategy is an amalgam of his predecessors’ doctrines. It is ambitious–and delusional–about America’s role in the world.
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Big Tech: Not Only Market but Also Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers
Cecilia Rikap | Institute for New Economic Thinking - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
How do we regulate an information utility?
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Will Saudi Leadership of OPEC Clash with U.S. Strategic Partnership?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Reevaluating US Relations with Saudi Arabia after OPEC+ Oil Production Cut
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The Thin Red Line: NATO Can’t Afford to Lose Kabul and Kiev
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Russia will not allow the Empire to control Ukraine, whatever it takes. That’s intrinsically linked to the future of the Greater Eurasia Partnership.
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The Non-West Coalesces
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – Nations representing more than 80 percent of the global population and a like percentage of global gross domestic product are perfectly capable of seeing the Biden administration’s pointed provocations and do not approve.
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(Português) Animais Devem Existir para Nos Servir?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Reduzir animais a uma finalidade de consumo não anula capacidades dissociadas do consumo. Apesar de haver uma resistência de reconhecimento, esses animais, embora inaturais, manifestam características de sujeitos.
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Israel Authorizes Military to Kill Palestinians with Drones in West Bank
Marjorie Cohn | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
15 Oct 2022 – Commanders of the Israeli Occupying Forces have been authorized to use armed drones to kill Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Journalists who report the truth about Israel’s crimes incur the risk of being fired or even assassinated. Neither Israel nor the U.S. government and its corporate media will tolerate any criticism of the illegal Israeli occupation.
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Biden Administration Wants Kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab to “Suffer like Julian Assange,” according to UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights
Ed Rampell | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington’s onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela.
→ read full articleThe Fatal Attraction of the City
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
3 Oct 2022 – While cities are seen as a symbol of glamour and comfort for a number of their residents, over one billion people continue to live in overcrowded settlements with inadequate housing. And their number is rising every single day.
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How Private Interests and the Banking Dynasties Control Washington
Shane Quinn | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – The strongest branch of the Federal Reserve is the New York Federal Reserve Bank, which fell under the control of 8 long-established banking families. Only 4 of these dynasties hail from largely American backgrounds, which are Goldman Sachs, the Rockefellers, Lehman Brothers and Kuhn Loeb. The other 4 are the Rothschilds in Paris and London, the Warburgs from Germany, the Lazards from France and Israel Moses Sieff from Britain.
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Death by Nationalism?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – The irresolvable dilemma facing Western leaders is that this is a no-win situation. How can they militarily defeat Russia, when it possesses 6,000 nuclear warheads and its military doctrine explicitly states that it will use them before it will accept an existential military defeat? If a nuclear war happens, everyone on the planet is no more than a deportee.
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Open Letter to UNSG Antonio Guterres: The 2022 Nobel War Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
6 Oct 2022 – Nobel´s prize should each year serve to remind the nations of the world of the urgent need for demilitarization and for taking the UN Charter obligations very seriously. Unfortunately, the Norwegian award committee is betraying Nobel´s trust, breaking the law and deliberately acting in bad faith.
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Optimism of the Will
David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
And the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Pipeline Terror Is the 9/11 of the Raging Twenties
Pepe Escobar | PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – There’s no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address on the Return of the Baby Bears – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – on 30 Sep as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties.
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Iranian and Turkish Moves to Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization Raise Its Profile
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
7 Out 2022 – While far from being an alliance, the SCO is increasingly utilized for managing Eurasian affairs without traditional Western mechanisms and organizations.
→ read full articleGo and Tell the Hungry That Their Food Is Being Thrown in the Garbage
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – These are facts, not guesses: about 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted and lost… every single year, the equivalent of one ton per each of the one billion hungry people, many of them are those who produced the food.
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Deforestation 101: Everything You Need to Know
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Deforestation is the clearing of forested land with the purpose of converting it to be used for something other than forest, including the raising of livestock, agriculture, mining, development or other non-forest uses.
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The Military Industrial Media Complex Wants You to Be More Media (I)Literate!
Nolan Higdon | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – A true media literacy education empowers students to be autonomous and sophisticated media users, who ask their own questions about who controls media messaging and interrogate the power structures behind them. When a student is left dependent on the military industrial complex to analyze content for them, it is not education, it is indoctrination.
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Putin Grants Russian Citizenship to US Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Pjotr Sauer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – Vladimir Putin signed a decree today granting Russian citizenship to the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, 39, a former intelligence contractor who has been living in Russia since 2013 after leaking secret files that revealed vast domestic and international surveillance operations by the NSA.
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The Democratic Party, Now the Leading Party of War
John V. Walsh | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
The prowar mentality among the progressive Dem pols is not limited to Biden’s cruel proxy war to the last Ukrainian. It extends to a second proxy war now being ginned up in Taiwan. When Nancy Pelosi recently visited the island to stir up secessionist sentiment, not a single progressive Democrat in Congress made so much as a peep of protest.
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‘End the War on Journalism and Free Assange’: Thousands Demand Release of WikiLeaks Founder
Kenny Stancil | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
9 Oct 2022 – Supporters of Julian Assange held a massive transatlantic protest yesterday to demand his freedom. In London, thousands formed a giant human chain around Britain’s parliament; in Washington D.C., people gathered outside the Department of Justice demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland end U.S. attempts to extradite Assange.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – The Magician
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I Was Canceled for Criticizing Israel
Katie Halper | The Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – I contributed to The Hill TV’s “Rising” for three years. But one monologue defending Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Palestinians cost me my job.
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Blinken Says Nord Stream Sabotage Is a ‘Tremendous Opportunity’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
2 Oct 2022 – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday [30 Sep] that the attacks on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that connect Russia to Germany offer a “tremendous opportunity” to end Europe’s dependency on Russian energy.
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How Does the Russo-Ukrainian War End?
Timothy Snyder | Thinking about... - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Sometimes you change the subject, and sometimes the subject changes you.
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Religiousness, Spirituality, and IQ: Are They Linked?
Regan Clark | UC Davis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Abstract – Research has revealed a positive correlation between IQ and education, as well as a negative correlation between education and religiosity. However, there is little research linking IQ with religiosity and spirituality. Furthermore, researchers disagree about the operational definitions of religiousness and spirituality and about their relationship to one another.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
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Is This the End of ‘Socialism for the Rich’?
Yanis Varoufakis | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
5 Oct 2022 – Last Thursday [29 Sep], the International Monetary Fund spooked the markets and surprised the commentariat by chiding the U.K. conservative government for fiscal irresponsibility. The shock was palpable. The rebuke for tax cuts that will “increase inequality” is probably not the come-to-Jesus moment it might seem.
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Despite Calls for Diplomacy to End War, US Confirms More Weapons Headed to Ukraine
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – Proponents of a negotiated diplomatic solution to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this week decried the Biden administration’s latest military assistance package for the embattled country, warning that the longer the fight continues, the greater the chance of a catastrophic nuclear war.
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The Myth of Normal”: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
16 Sep 2022 – “The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,” says Maté. “Psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call disease.” He also discusses how the healthcare system has harmfully promoted the “mechanization of birth” and how capitalism has fueled addiction and the rise of youth suicide rates.
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(Português) Até Quando a Crueldade Animal Será Normalizada?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Se olhássemos para a realidade comum dos animais, sem a defensiva da priorização de nossos interesses, o que nos impediria de perceber que a violência é cotidiana e intrinsecamente cruel?
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Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize Winner: “What We Need Today Is Weapons”
Alice Speri | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
“What we need today is weapons, and maybe it’s weird to hear that from a human rights lawyer, but I’ll be very honest with you: I have spent 20 years defending human rights, and now I have no legal instrument which has worked in this situation.”
— Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties, recipient of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Patagonia Partners with Planet Earth
Sohini Dey | The Voice of Fashion - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
American outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia has announced a new ownership. Corporate activism drives sales for the company, which will now transfer all additional profits for climate change initiatives, Yvon Chouinard, who founded Patagonia 50 years ago, announced on 14 Sep 2022.
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Imperialism and Capitalism Are ‘Bleeding the World Dry’: At UN, Nicaragua Calls for Global Rebellion
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
27 Sep 2022 – At the United Nations General Assembly, Nicaragua’s Sandinista government called for a global rebellion against the “imperialist and capitalist system” that is “bleeding the world dry.” Condemning illegal sanctions and war, it urged a new multipolar order.
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An Overview of US Nuclear Weapons and Arms Expenditure
Shane Quinn | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
29 Sep 2022 – By 2012, there were 750 US military bases globally and 1.4 million American troops, figures which are reported through today. Other estimates suggest more than 1,000 military installations abroad but even the Pentagon may not be sure of the exact number.
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The Everlasting Wonder of Being: How a Cold Cosmos Kindles the Glow of Consciousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
How we went from quanta packages to the laughter of children on a summer afternoon.
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A New UN to Prevent the Sacrifice of Europe to the Nuclear Gods
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
The UN is stymied by its fatally flawed Charter. Despite the fact that the original purpose of the UN is to end “the scourge of war,” it has failed time and time again. While the UN has done much good, the world has seen over 250 wars since the Charter was signed.
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An Open Letter to Vladimir Putin from Roger Waters
Roger Waters | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – Recently I have been reading comments on social media, asking why I’ve written to Mrs Olena Zelenska but not to Mr Vladimir Putin. Very good question, I’m glad you asked, here it is.
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Russia Says US “Wrecked” Ukraine Talks, but Peace Is Still Possible
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
25 Sep 2022 – A US official rejects Putin’s claim that NATO sabotaged a “peaceful settlement” with Ukraine early in the war. The threat of US-Russia nuclear conflict is at its highest in decades, economic havoc is spreading, and more Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are being sent off to die. But it is not too late for diplomacy in this perilous moment.
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