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Hersh: US Bombed Nord Stream to Prolong the Ukraine Proxy War
Aaron Maté interviews Seymour Hersh | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – Seymour Hersh joins Aaron Maté to discuss his report on how the Biden administration bombed the Nord Stream gas pipelines, a vital Russian-German infrastructure project and a key off-ramp to peace in Ukraine.
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U.S. Act of War against the European Union: Biden Ordered the Terror Attack against Nord Stream
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – High Treason against the People of Europe
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Aaron Maté at UN: OPCW Cover-up Denies Justice to Douma Victims
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
25 Mar 2023 – At the United Nations, Aaron Maté debunks the OPCW’s latest attempts to whitewash the cover-up of its investigation into the alleged April 2018 chemical attack in Douma, Syria.
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The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
A largehearted invitation to “stand on the precipice between the known and the unknown, without fear, without anxiety, but instead with awe and wonder at this strange and beautiful cosmos we find ourselves in.”
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Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rule[r]s of the Game
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Bail In, Bail Out, or “Socialism for the Rich”?
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US Banks Want Socialism for Themselves–and Capitalism for Everyone Else
Robert Reich | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – When banks like Silicon Valley Bank collapse, money floods to bigger ones like JPMorgan. Clients know they’re ‘too big to fail.’
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Magnificent Russian Music (Music Video of the Week)
Zevnikov | Youth Symphony Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Astonishing, Marvelous, Exquisite
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How to Survive Hopelessness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
“You can expect good and bad luck, but good or bad judgment is your prerogative.”
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Endless Wars: US Escalation to the East
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
20 Mar 2023 – Unable to prevent the “decline” with political and economic tools, the U.S. and its allies are increasingly resorting to military ones. This includes the “landmark agreement with Australia and Britain,” announced by President Biden.
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‘Outright Hatred’ towards Muslims, Has Risen to ‘Epidemic Proportions’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – “Terrorism and violent extremism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization, or ethnic group.”
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The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
On10 March Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest in the country, collapsed. This was the second largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, following Washington Mutual in 2008. Despite its size, SVB was not a “systemically important financial institution” as defined in the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires insolvent SIFIs to “bail in” the money of their creditors to recapitalize themselves.
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Food Inglorious Food: Children’s Health Defense Attack on Food Summit
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
5 Mar 2023 – Yesterday Dr. Meryl Nass–with assistance, comments and summaries by Alexis Baden-Mayer–convened a magnificent, important 7-hour Attack on Food Symposium + Solutions to Fight Back
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Haiti: “The Truth Speaks for Itself”
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
With a defunded health care system, Haiti is once again confronting a cholera epidemic. Food insecurity threatens 5 million people, including 2.4 million children, in a country of 12 million. Government-supported paramilitary groups continue to terrorize opposition neighborhoods, with kidnappings at an all time high. These crises have their roots in the 2004 coup and the subsequent imposition of foreign occupation, coordinated through the UN.
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Forever Wars vs. Armageddon
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The call for the U.S. to end military involvements is often made in order to advocate for new wars against more powerful countries. It appears that the only choices are forever wars or the end of the world.
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What Follows US Hegemony
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Rebirth of the Dream of Global Peace and Mutual Respect – The USA remains a powerful country, but it has not come to terms with the immense changes taking place in the world order.
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Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order
A. B. Abrams | Clarity Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Atrocity fabrication, the invention and reporting of atrocities committed by an adversary, has a long history in propaganda and power politics as an effective means of moving public opinion. It provides pretext for hostile measures against targets, transforming wars of aggression into wars of liberation of the oppressed.
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The Saudi-Iran Détente and Its Regional Implications
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
12 Mar 2023 – What the normalisation between two regional powers means and does not mean.
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A Sane Voice amidst the Madness
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – Former Australian PM Paul Keating has eviscerated Australia’s deal to buy nuclear submarines from the U.K. and U.S., saying there is no Chinese threat to defend against, despite the war hysteria stirring in Australia.
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Frankfurt Undermines Human Rights by Canceling a Concert by Roger Waters
Katie Halper and Vijay Prashad | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Roger Waters will take his “This Is Not a Drill” tour to Europe. But on 24 Feb, Frankfurt’s city council cancelled the concert for “persistent anti-Israel behavior” calling Waters an antisemite. In response, Peter Gabriel, Julie Christie, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sarandon, Alia Shawkat, Glenn Greenwald and others signed a petition calling on the German government to uncancel the concert.
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Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
9 Mar 2023 – This is a qualitatively new phase of world history with significant global changes since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, which can be seen in a new phase of imperialism. We hope to stimulate debate and discussion in our broader Battle of Ideas against toxic social philosophies that seek to suffocate rational thought about our world.
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Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
13 Mar 2023 – FORBES Has a New List of the World’s Richest People
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Why the Banking System Is Breaking Up
Michael Hudson | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The collapses of the Silvergate and Silicon Valley Banks are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse is the rising temperature of interest rates. Most media reports reflect a prayer that the bank runs will be localized, as if there is no context or environmental cause.
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The US/UK Submarine Deal Crosses Nuclear Red Lines with Australia
Prabir Purkayastha | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – If submarine nuclear reactor technology and weapons-grade (highly enriched) uranium are shared with Australia, it is a breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which Australia is a signatory as a non-nuclear power. Even the supplying of such nuclear reactors by the U.S. and the UK would constitute a breach of the NPT.
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G20, the Ukraine War, and the Global Economic Crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
18 Mar 2023 – United States and Its Allies Accused of Hampering Progress within the Global South
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Peace Conference: A World without Militarism
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Sat, 25 Mar: 9am to 5pm, University of London, In-person & Online, Free Entry
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The Pentagon’s B-Movie: Looking Closely at the Sep 2001 Attacks
Edward Curtin and Graeme MacQueen | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – Graeme MacQueen: The Indispensable 9/11 Writer’s Latest Book – Leftists, no matter what they say in their defense, bear great moral responsibility for the so-called War on Terror, the Patriot Act, the invasion of Iraq, the deaths of Muslims, etc., all of which emanate from the insider attacks of September 11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks.
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Lovers’ Kiss…
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
7 Mar 2023 – Joke? No Joke
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(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Não é um argumento especista se digo que a violência contra outros animais deve ser combatida por causa das consequências para humanos?
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An Open Call for Genocide in Palestine
Jafar M Ramini | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Theodore Herzl, founder of Zionism, in his 1895 vision of a Jewish State in Palestine: “We shall have to spirit the penniless population across the border … while denying it any employment in our country…Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” (Source: Theodore Herzl Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895) “It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples … If the Arabs leave it, the country will become wide and spacious for us. The only solution is a Land of Israel … without Arabs.”
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WCPA’s Two Track Strategy for Earth Federation Government or a ‘New UN’
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
16 Mar 2023 – Einstein noted the absence of enforceable world law in the UN Charter. Bully nations violate international law with impunity as leaders responsible for world crimes, especially from the UN Security Council (U.S., Russia, China, UK, France) are untouchable, never held accountable, even by the ICC or the ICJ.
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(Italiano) Antifascismo e Costituzione
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
16 Marzo 2023 – Appunti scritti dopo l’assemblea antifascista del 6 marzo, nel tentativo di concentrare intorno ad alcuni valori programmatici anche la nostra attività di cultura positiva della pace.
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Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
“Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”
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Huwara Reels after Night of Settler Terror under Israeli Army’s Watch
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Palestinians in the West Bank town were left to deal with burned-out buildings and cars after hundreds of settlers ran riot while soldiers protected them.
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16 Mar 1968: The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam by US Invading Forces
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
“The obsolete pretensions of sovereign prerogative and military necessity had better be challenged soon if life on earth is to survive,” — Richard Falk
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China’s Great Leap in the Middle East
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
14 Mar 2023 – What Beijing just sponsored and got done, putting two millennia of diplomatic craft to work, is an exquisite example of what can be accomplished once this imperative is fully realized.
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Will Humans Become an Extension of Their Machines? ChatGPT May Have Irrevocable Consequences for Learning and Decision-Making
Dr. Mathew Maavak | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
13 Mar 2023 – We already rely on digital crutches in numerous aspects of our lives – will we delegate even our essential faculties to AI?
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Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode, Le Déserteur, composed by Boris Vian in 1954. The exquisite artwork is by Xiaonan. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway.
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A Donbas Diary: Looking Back at the Early Stages of the Conflict in Ukraine
Fergie Chambers | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – It is evening in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, one of NATO’s easternmost members. I am waiting at the edge of Izvor Park in the city center to meet with a young friend who has fled Ukraine. In the backdrop of the park is the Palace of the Parliament, the brutalist architectural crown jewel of the Ceaușescu era, and the heaviest building on earth.
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AI Robots Invade the Classroom — So What?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – As long as the system of artificial education focuses on “teaching to the test” by insisting on reducing individual intelligence to a number and belittling the potential of each student, we have a problem. AI isn’t the cause; it helps expose it.
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Time for a Remedial Global Nuclear War?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Recognizing an Unconscious Collective Need for Disastrous Cathartic Experience
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‘They Were Burning Our House with Kids Inside–the Army Didn’t Let Us Through’
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
2 Mar 2023 – Children trapped by settlers. A mutilated pet. Checkpoints blocking aid. A Palestinian family recounts the horrifying night of the Huwara pogrom.
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Does It Take a War?
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – There is an inevitable gap between what a president tells us about a war—even a proxy war—and the reality on the ground. It is true today as Joe Biden struggles for public support for the war in Ukraine, and it was true six decades ago as Jack Kennedy struggled to understand the war he chose to pursue in South Vietnam.
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In Bulldozing Israeli Democracy, Netanyahu Could Become the BDS Movement’s Greatest Ally
Daniel Boguslaw | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
5 Mar 2023 – Capital is beginning to flee Israel in the wake of the prime minister’s judicial overhaul.
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Message from Dr Vandana Shiva for Holi and Women’s Day
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – Women of the world are the primary guardians and custodians of biodiversity and life. They are holding and protecting the ancient and precious knowledge on how to use and preserve biodiversity for healthy food, healthy communities and healthy environments.
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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report about Biden deliberately blowing up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline but corporate mainstream media have ignored the Pulitzer Prize reporter’s bombshell. In the US, only four mentions were found among the 20 most influential publications.
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Why Do 800 Mothers a Day – 1 Every 2 Minutes– Die from Preventable Causes?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
7 Mar 2023 – The answer is that there are alarming setbacks for maternal health care and, in many cases, even a total lack of maternity services, which threaten to further raise the number of these tragic preventable deaths one million or more a year by 2030.
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Holi: The Colours of Biodiversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – This year, International Women’s Day falls on the same day of Holi, the festival of colours, joy and diversity: 8 March. On this day, millions of people take to the streets to celebrate the coming of spring by throwing coloured powders.
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The Disturbing Groupthink over the War in Ukraine
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen asserted that U.S. support for Ukraine “is motivated, first and foremost, by a moral duty to come to the aid of a people under attack.” Why this supposed moral duty does not apply to the Palestinians or disappears when the U.S. wages offensive wars and campaigns of mass slaughter throughout the world?
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US Occupation of Syria Will Continue
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
6 Mar 2023 – According to eyewitness accounts, as recently as 27 Feb US troops transported at least 34 tankers filled with stolen Syrian oil through the illegal Al-Mahmoudiya border crossing to their bases in Iraq.
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(Italiano) “La pace è l’unica vittoria di cui abbiamo bisogno” e non ha bisogno di armi
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
5 Marzo 2023 – Scriveva nei giorni scorsi il Financial Times che “le azioni delle aziende del settore della difesa sono salite negli ultimi mesi, perché gli investitori scommettono sulle promesse di un aumento della spesa militare da parte dei governi occidentali per aiutare lo sforzo bellico dell’Ucraina contro la Russia”.
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Against the Cult of Originality: Emerson on the True Nature of Genius
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
The best things in life we don’t choose — they choose us. A great love, a great calling, a great illumination — they happen unto us, like light falling upon that which is lit. We have given a name to these unbidden greatnesses — genius, from the Latin for “spirit,” denoting the spirit of a universe we can only submit to but cannot govern.
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My Fifty Years with Dan Ellsberg
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – I think it best that I begin with the end. On March 6, I and dozens of Dan’s friends and fellow activists received a two-page notice that he had been diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer and was refusing chemotherapy because the prognosis, even with chemo, was dire. He will be ninety-two in April.
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Segregation of Roma Children in Schools: A Challenge for Slovakia
Katarina Spisak | Euroviews Impact - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
According to a survey published in 2021 by the Fundamental Rights Agency, between half and two-thirds of Roma children attend segregated schools in Slovakia. It is the largest number among 10 countries surveyed.
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Seismic Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Isolates US
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 – The Chinese-brokered diplomatic deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran not only opens the way for resolution of region-wide conflicts, but foils U.S. Mideast divide-and-rule designs based on Saudi-Iranian enmity. The success of the normalization and its effect on the Middle East remains to be seen. But it is a start that few thought they’d ever see as long as the U.S. stood in the way.
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US Shoots Itself in the Foot in Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – In Africa as in the rest of the world, US machinations undermine its goals and bring other nations together as they seek to protect themselves from a desperate empire. The US can’t seem to understand that the rest of the world, including Africa, doesn’t like to be pushed around.
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The “Snipers’ Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine
Ivan Katchanovski, Ph.D. | University of Otawa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Abstract: The massacre of almost 50 Maidan protesters on 20 Feb 2014 was a turning point in Ukrainian politics and a tipping point in the conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine. This mass killing of the protesters and the mass shooting of the police that preceded it led to the overthrow of the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych and gave a start to a civil war in Donbas in Eastern Ukraine, Russian military intervention in Crimea and Donbas, and an international conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine.
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CIA and Mossad-linked Surveillance System Quietly Being Installed throughout the US
Whitney Webb | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023 – Under the guise of stopping mass shootings, a surveillance system backed by top Mossad, CIA and FBI officials is being installed in schools, houses of worship, and other civilian locations throughout the country, much of it thanks to the recent donation of an “anonymous philanthropist.”
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Twitter Files: My Statement to the US Congress
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
9 Mar 2023 – “Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files” for the House Judiciary Committee. We release a “Twitter Files Statement to Congress” for the record. It contains some surprises. My opening:
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Prisoners Donating Organs to Get Time off Raises Thorny Ethical Questions
Austin Sarat | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
In January 2023 two Democratic representatives, Judith Garcia and Carlos Gonzalez, proposed a bill that would offer prisoners in Massachusetts a new way to win reduction in their sentences: by donating their bone marrow or vital organs.
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La Grande Sortie
Bruce K. Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
The collapsing US military/economic empire is making Washington/NATO even more dangerous. The USA could not beat the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese or the Taliban but thinks it can take on China-Russia-Iran… a sign of psychopathology for sure.
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From the Gulf of Tonkin to the Baltic Sea
Seymour M. Hersh | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
22 Feb 2023 – The secret and incomplete history of US-Norway collaboration in covert operations.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – Wildlife is indeed far much more than a safari or an ‘exotic’ ornament: as many as four billion people –or an entire half the whole world’s population– rely on wild species for income, food, medicines and wood fuel for cooking.
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Sleepwalking to Armageddon: World Divides over the Ukraine War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – As the US, NATO and Russia escalate the war in the Ukraine, the risk increases for a global nuclear war that could destroy most life on the planet, corresponding to the mythical battle of Armageddon mentioned in the Bible.
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Quoth the Vultures “Evermore”
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
It was an intentional genocidal war waged to torture, kill, and maim as many Vietnamese as possible and to use North American boys to do the killing and suffer the consequences. Its Phoenix Program, the CIA’s assassination and torture operation, became the template for Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, CIA black sites, hybrid wars, terrorist actions, etc. up to today.
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Ukraine: The Tunnel at the End of the Light
Robert Freeman | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – The U.S. abused its providential anointment as the exceptional nation. That abuse has been recognized, called out and is now being acted against by most of the other nations of the world.
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The Vital Difference between Work and Labor: Lewis Hyde on Sustaining the Creative Spirit
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
“The gifts of the inner world must be accepted as gifts in the outer world if they are to retain their vitality.”
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The Scale of El Salvador’s New Prison Is Difficult to Comprehend
León Krauze | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, unveiled his latest project: a massive, “first-world” prison, the largest penitentiary in the world, with a capacity for 40,000 inmates.
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Evil Empire: House Overwhelmingly Approves Resolution to Maintain Syria Sanctions after Earthquake
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – The resolution received 51 cosponsors. It passed in a vote of 414-2. Only Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted against the measure.
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Munich Security Conference: “Intensifying Authoritarian Revisionism”
Renee Parsons | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – MSC 2023 Attracts Historic Number of US Congressional Attendees – It is ironic that the Munich Security Conference is set in the site of Adolf Hitler’s return in 1920. Home to the Munich Putsch of 1923, Munich became the location from which the Workers Socialist Nazi party grew into a mass movement and political force throughout Germany.
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(Italiano) Verso un nazionalismo «cosmopolita»?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
3 Marzo 2023 – «Il nazionalismo è la modalità dominante di legittimazione politica e soggettività collettiva dell’era moderna». «Lo Stato-nazione è la realtà politica dominante del nostro tempo». Nonostante questa realtà, fino al 2020 nessuno studio accademico ha affrontato il tema del cambiamento climatico dalla prospettiva delle teorie sul nazionalismo.
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Kiev Flooding Black Markets with NATO-Sourced Weapons
Drago Bosnic | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
2 Mar 2023 – It has been at least 1,5 years since the West intensified weapons shipments to Ukraine. Ever since, black markets have been flooded with Western-made arms and munitions, some of which running out from NATO stocks. There’s fierce competition among Kiev institutions for the right to control the arms smuggling business.
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Where We’re Going
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
Scared Yet?…
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Twitter Files—GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
Global Engagement Center: North Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise themselves, as government agencies and subcontractors undertake a massive digital blacklisting project.
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(Français) Somnambules vers Armageddon : Le Monde se Divise Sur l’Ukraine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 mars 2023 – Alors que les États-Unis, l’OTAN et la Russie intensifient la guerre en Ukraine, le risque augmente d’une guerre nucléaire mondiale qui pourrait détruire la plupart des vies sur la planète, correspondant à la mythique bataille d’Armageddon dans la Bible qui marque la fin du monde.
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West Is Out of Touch with Rest of World Politically, EU-Funded Study Admits
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – A study by the elite EU-funded European Council on Foreign Relations found the West is out of touch politically with the rest of the world. Most people in China, India, and Türkiye see Russia as an important ally, and they want multipolarity, not continued “American global supremacy”.
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China’s Turn
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – The U.S. Hyper-Financialized Economic System Is No Match for China’s Government-Directed Investment Model–Regrettably, China’s Explosive Growth Is Pushing a Desperate Washington Closer to War
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Battle for the Earth
Fred Hageneder | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
6 Mar 2023 – An accurately researched [10-part] account of the effort by industry to cover up the impact of fossil fuels to the environment and public health and to manipulate public opinion. The networks behind this and the truth between big media influence and so called conspiracy theories–and those who truly benefit from them.
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Belarus Court Sentences Nobel Peace Laureate Ales Bialiatski to 10 Years
Yuras Karmanau | AP/The Philadelphia Enquirer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – Belarus authorities arrested Bialiatski and two of his associates after massive protests over a 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko a new term in office.
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China Meets American Hegemony Head-On
Timur Fomenko | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
23 Feb 2023 – In a rare scathing essay, Beijing’s foreign ministry has blasted Washington’s continued attempts at world domination.
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The Deafening Silence of Intellectuals in the Face of Growing Global Armed Conflicts
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – Intellectuals do not have a monopoly on culture, values or truth, much less on the meanings attributed to any one of these “domains of the spirit.” But intellectuals should not shrink from denouncing what they see as destructive of culture, values and truth, notably when it is carried out in the name of these “domains of spirit.”
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Activist Dan Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower, Has Terminal Cancer
Daniel Ellsberg | Twitter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
2 Mar 2023 – I wrote this letter recently to my friends in the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements. I see it’s being circulated, so I’ve decided to share it here. For all of you working on these issues, thank you, and please keep going! — Dan
→ read full article‘Ticking Time Bombs’ for the Most Defenceless: The Children (I)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – Today, there are more children in need of desperate humanitarian assistance than at any other time since World War II.
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‘Ticking Time Bombs’ for the Most Defenceless: The Children (II)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – While the world’s biggest powers and their giant private corporations continue to attach high priority to their military –and commercial– dominance, both of them being shockingly profitable, entire generations are being lost to deadly armed conflicts, devastating climate catastrophes, diseases, hunger and more imposed impoverishment.
→ read full articleProvocation of “Unprovoked Aggression” by Varieties of Encroachment
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Challenge of Insensitivity to Collective Historical Amnesia – Expression of alternative perspectives on the USA/NATO-Russia-Ukraine armed conflict has been limited–and actively suppressed as “disinformation” whenever possible. Those articulating such perspectives have been discredited and personally condemned, if not actively sanctioned in some manner.
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Malcolm X: His Struggle Continues
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago, on 21 Feb 1965, standing at the podium before a crowd in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. His wife Betty Shabazz, pregnant with twins, and his four daughters were in the ballroom looking on.
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Ukraine: 1 Year of War on Top of 30 Years of Conflict Escalation
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – The Only Re-Armament Needed Is Intellectual and Moral – on All Sides – Beyond Russia, NATO/EU policies will prove morally wrong, unrealistic, dangerous and self-destructive.
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China Report Excoriates ‘US Hegemony’, War Crimes, CIA Coups, 400 Foreign Interventions
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – China’s Foreign Ministry published a lengthy report condemning “US hegemony” and its crimes around the world, including wars with millions of victims, coups and “regime change” against elected leaders, and 400 foreign military interventions.
→ read full articleCan Public Comments Penetrate FDA’s Illusory Parallel Universe?
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
On 26 Jan 2023, the 178th Meeting of Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee met to pretend to have a process before unanimously “voting” to authorize a simplified annual Covid shot in order to not confuse the public.
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The Ukraine War Viewed from the Global South
Krishen Mehta | ACURA American Committee for US Russia Accord – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – In October 2022, about eight months after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the University of Cambridge harmonized surveys that asked the inhabitants of 137 countries about their views of the West, Russia, and China: different perspectives.
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Lessons from Majid Khan’s Release from Guantánamo
David Rosen | The Progressive Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – An interview with the attorney for the former al Qaeda operative, who testified to the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ and more torture at the prison camp.
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Who Really Started the Ukraine Wars?
Ted Snider | The Libertarian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – The Four Interrelated Wars in Ukraine
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Seymour Hersh on “How the US Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline”: Exclusive TV Interview
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help from Norway. “The fear was Europe would walk away from the war,” he says.
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From South Africa to Israel, the Three Pillars of Apartheid
Na’eem Jeenah | Orient XXI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
How does a South African and former anti-apartheid activist feel about visiting Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories? Classification of the population, freedom of choice of residence and movement, importance of security: based on the three central drivers of separation, Israeli apartheid is worse than South Africa’s.
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The Trillion Dollar Silencer: Why There Is so Little Anti-War Protest in the United States
Joan Roelofs | Clarity Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
How Military Spending Infests Civil Society Sectors: The Trillion Dollar Silencer investigates the astounding lack of popular protest at the death and destruction that the military industrial complex is inflicting on people, nations, and the environment, and its budget-draining costs.
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US Admits Chinese Balloon Was off Course–It Shot down a $12 Balloon in $2M Missile Attack
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
19 Feb 2023 – US officials acknowledged the Chinese balloon they shot down on 4 Feb had likely been blown off course by unexpected weather. The US Air Force later spent $2 million using missiles to blow up what appeared to be a $12 hobbyist balloon.
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(Français) Austérité, déréglementation : La Banque mondiale et le FMI ont-ils changé ?
Renaud Vivien | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
21 février 2023 – La crise du covid-19 a démontré la nécessité de renforcer les services publics et la protection sociale. Pour autant, a-t-elle servi de leçon à la Banque mondiale et au Fonds monétaire international (FMI) ? Est-ce que ces deux institutions ont cessé de conditionner leurs prêts à la mise en œuvre de politiques d’austérité budgétaire et de déréglementation ? C’est ce que semblent indiquer certaines déclarations récentes de la directrice du FMI [1]. Reflètent-elles pour autant la réalité ?
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Free Thought and Official Propaganda
Bertrand Russell | Project Gutenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Delivered at South Place Institute on 24 Mar 1922 by the Hon. Bertrand Russell, M.A., F.R.S.
→ read full articleThe Enlightened Ones
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Right!
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AI and ChatGPT: Yet another Assault on Democratic Governance?
Tom Valovic | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
We must understand that democracy is morphing with more technocratic systems of governance that lack full oversight and a clear understanding of their social and political impacts.
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How to Be with Each Other’s Suffering: Elie Wiesel on the Antidote to Our Paralysis in the Face of World-Overwhelm
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
“I believe if people talk, and they talk sincerely, with the same respect that one owes to a close friend or to God, something will come out of that, something good. I would call it presence.”
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