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With Western Imperial Decline, Capitalism Is in Crisis – a New Phase Is Emerging
João Romeiro Hermeto | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
1 Sep 2022 – The energy crisis in Europe, proxy war in Ukraine, rebellion in the Global South, and expansion of the BRICS reflect the decline of Western imperialism and growing cracks in the capitalist world system.
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WHO Chief, TPLF Leader Tedros Silent about His Party’s Theft of World Food Program Fuel
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
UN World Health Organization chief Dr. Tedros Adhanom is also the world’s most prominent advocate of the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front. He has said nothing about the TPLF’s recent theft of fuel intended for UN relief efforts in Ethiopia.
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Six Months into Ukraine’s Collapse, the World Has Changed Forever
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Sep 2022
24 Aug 2022 – The inevitable transfer of power away from the west is leading to a surge in state-sponsored terrorism, but this will do little to reverse the trend. To paraphrase T.S. Eliot, this is the way the (new) world begins, not with a whimper but a bang.
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Howard Zinn at 100: the Enduring Legacy of the U.S. People’s Historian
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
24 Aug 2022 marked six months since Russia launched its war on Ukraine, with millions displaced and tens of thousands of civilians and soldiers killed. That same day marked the centennial of the late historian Howard Zinn’s birth. He was an author, professor, and anti-war activist.
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The Nuclear Agreement (JCPOA, 2015) Should Be Renewed
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – Undoing the human and diplomatic harm of Trump’s international legacy is a complex matter that not only exhibits the persisting influence of unrepentant Trumpists but the passivity of the Democratic Party leadership, particularly when it dares to disagree with Israel on a matter of foreign policy concern.
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The Instinctive Distrust of Big Media
Nat Parry | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 – US citizens’ trust in the media has reached all time lows, with just 11 percent expressing confidence in television news and 16 percent expressing confidence in newspapers. These are the startling findings of Gallup’s latest survey of US attitudes about the media.
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Vera Sharav: When a Holocaust Survivor Confirms the Parallels, We Need to Listen
Ann Tomoko Rosen | On Second Thought - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – This is the New Eugenics. It is embraced by the most powerful global billionaire technocrats who gather at Davos: Big Tech, Big Pharma, the financial oligarchs, academics, government leaders & the military industrial complex. These megalomaniacs have paved the road to another Holocaust. This time, the threat of genocide is Global in scale.
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Is Lula under Threat? Political Intrigue Grows as Right Suddenly Merges with Left in Brazil’s Upcoming Presidential Election
Julian Cola | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – Latin America’s pink tide resumes its stride when Luíz Inácio “Lula” da Silva is re-elected for a third term as president. It’s a sentiment rooted in the size and geopolitical importance of the country. Lula’s two-term presidency (2003-2011) was no fluke, much less a disappointment.
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For Those Who Still Trust the U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Radioactive Cesium – 137 Limits in Food by Country
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Israel’s Assault on Palestinian NGOs Is Shutting off Access to International Community
Umar Farooq | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Experts say that Israel’s recent assault with overnight raids on Palestinian NGOs and closure of six Palestinian civil society groups will further block ties to international institutions from which they receive most of their funding. To what extent these groups will be able to continue operating with the outside world?
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European Central Bank Says Cash ‘Not Fit’ for Digital Economy, Dismisses CBDC Privacy Concerns
Andrew Moran | The Epoch Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – In the digital economy, cash is no longer a useful tool, and a Central Bank Digital Currency is the “only solution” to continue the existing monetary system, according to a new paper, “The Economics of Central Bank Digital Currency.”
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Nuremberg: Holocaust Survivor Vera Sharav’s Alert about Nazi Tactics in 2022
Vera Sharav | CHD TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
“Humanity Is Currently Under Siege by the Global Heirs of the Nazis” – Vera Sharav, Holocaust survivor and human rights advocate, speaks first at the 75th Anniversary Event of the Nuremberg Code in Nuremberg, Germany, on 20 Aug 2022.
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The Monstrous Game of Nuclear Annihilation
Ray Acheson | Reaching Critical Will – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
States parties and signatories to the TPNW issued a joint statement on 26 Aug 2022 reiterating their support for the NPT and its full implementation. We will not rest until the last state has joined the TPNW, the last warhead has been irreversibly dismantled and destroyed, and nuclear weapons have been totally eliminated from the Earth.
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Deliberate Misrepresentation: Western Media Bias Makes Possible Israeli War of Aggression against Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
26 Aug 2022 – While US and western mainstream and corporate media remain biased in favor of Israel, they often behave as if they are a third, neutral party. This is simply not the case. The deadly Israeli wars on Gaza are made possible, not only by western weapons and political support, but through an endless stream of media misinformation and misrepresentation.
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Philippine Activist Walden Bello Arrested for Cyber-libel
Carlos H. Conde | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
9 Aug 2022 – Philippine police yesterday arrested Walden Bello, a 76-year-old social activist, academic, and former congressman on charges of cyber-libel. Charges Spotlight Criminal Defamation Laws
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Afghanistan, Iraq, and the “War on Terror”
Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov | USFP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
The paper analyzes how the North American people were duped into believing that the proper and necessary response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks was to attack other nations (beyond stateless terrorists); and examines the counterproductive policies pursued in the name of counterterrorism.
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The West’s Dangerously Simple-Minded Narrative about Russia and China
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – The overwrought fear of China and Russia is sold to a Western public through manipulation of the facts. Europe should reflect on the fact that the non-enlargement of NATO and the implementation of the Minsk II agreements would have averted this awful war in Ukraine.
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What Do the New York Times, Kiev Independent, Euromaidan Press, Twitter, Facebook, Reddit and TikTok all Have in Common?
John Parker | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – They are all funded or staffed by Western and U.S. intelligence members pushing the U.S. narrative on Ukraine. Fact-finding mission to Ukraine and Russia to report on the suppressed information that challenges the narrative of NATO and its member states, led by the U.S. The Facebook algorithm driving white supremacists. More…
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‘And of Water We Made Every Living Thing’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – This is how the Muslims’ Holy Book–the Quran–refers to the most precious element of life… Religions aside, also UNESCO underlines that “water is a unique and non-substitutable resource.” Now comes the question: is water finite or infinite?
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“The Worse, the Better” Doctrine and the Melting Ice
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
25 Aug 2022 – There is a prevailing doctrine among the right and far-right political parties that are still in the opposition and most likely to jump to power in those countries where they are not already ruling. It is the doctrine of “the worse things go, the better for us.”
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Julian Assange Files His Perfected Grounds of Appeal
Assange Defense | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Today, 26 August 2022, Julian Assange is filing his Perfected Grounds of Appeal before the High Court of Justice Administrative Court. The Respondents are the Government of the United States and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Priti Patel.
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Tradition vs. Modernity? Humans vs. Animals? The Truth behind the Violations of Animal Rights
Carolina Gomes | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Over the past years animal exploitation became a popular subject but not in a good way. Music, documentaries, and news channels helped bring more public awareness but animal rights are still violated left and right, and we are not even close to some solution.
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The Plastics Paradox Facing Humanity
Alice Mah | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Properly addressing the plastics problem involves not only interrogating corporate tactics but also understanding that some plastics provide societal benefits.
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‘Disaster Capitalism at Its Worst’: Profits of Grain Giants Spark Global Criticism
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
23 Aug 2022 – The fact that global commodity giants are making record profits at a time when hunger is rising is clearly unjust. “There are strong arguments for a windfall tax on the food oligopoly.” — Natalie Bennett, U.K. Green Party Peer
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The Hidden Truth about the War in Ukraine
Jacques Baud | The Postil Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
1 Ago 2022 – The way we understand crises determines the way we solve them. Cheating with the facts leads to disaster. This is what is happening in Ukraine. In this case the number of issues is so enormous that we will not be able to discuss them here. Let me just focus on some of them.
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Values, Virtues and Sins of a Viable Democratic Civilization
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
22 Aug 2022 – Reframing the Controversy of Unconstrained Population Growth as a Hyperobject
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The TFF Abolish NATO Catalogue
Jan Oberg and TFF Associates | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – Abolish NATO or Convert It to Serve Peace – 30 Arguments & 100s of Inspirations
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Movements to Eliminate Nuclear Weapons and to Establish Geopolitical Accountability
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
16 Aug 2022 – Go to the links given connecting you with the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, the NGO that has the longest record of commitment to establish a global security system without nuclear weapons and with geopolitical accountability.
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(Castellano) Rusia-Ucrania-Estados Unidos-OTAN (Parte VI): De la Propaganda de Guerra al Periodismo para la Paz
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Amanece Metrópolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – El marco general para la práctica del periodismo de paz consiste en proporcionar el contexto de las interrelaciones entre tres formas clave de violencia que son constitutivas de la guerra: 1. La violencia directa, física, hacia los seres humanos, las infraestructuras y el medio ambiente; 2. La violencia cultural, comunicativa, contra el otro; y 3. La violencia estructural basada en relaciones de poder desiguales.
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Howard Zinn (24 Aug 1922 – 14 May 2008)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Zinn’s influence lives on in millions of people who have read his work and have been inspired by his actions. He ended his autobiography with these encouraging words: ‘We don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an endless succession of presents, and to live now as we think humans should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.’
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New Polls Show almost No One Trusts Our Media Anymore
Lee Camp | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Gone are the days when the CIA secretly infiltrated American newsrooms, craftily tricking people into believing U.S. government propaganda was the real news. Putting the CIA in every newsroom was a clandestine project called Operation Mockingbird, and it paid mighty dividends.
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Assange Attorneys and Journalists Sue the CIA over Spying
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – “Journalists are allowed to request documents that have been stolen and to publish them.” So wrote U.S. federal Judge John Koeltl in a 2019 opinion dismissing a lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee against Julian Assange, Wikileaks and others.
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How Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan Has Enabled China to Redefine the Rules of the Game
Míng Jīnwéi (明金维) | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Editor’s Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides documentation of important ongoing dialogue within top circles in China unavailable elsewhere.
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How to Keep Life from Becoming a Parody of Itself: Simone de Beauvoir on the Art of Growing Older
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
“In old age we should wish still to have passions strong enough to prevent us turning in on ourselves.”
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A Hall of Mirrors
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 – I have long wondered why our mainstream journalists, correspondents and commentators give so similar accounts of things. This has been especially so in the Ukraine crisis: Keeping readers and viewers a safe distance from reality is a touchy matter. One slip and the shroud shreds.
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Blue Helmets Shoot and Kill Civilians in Congo: Nobody Talks about the Failure of the UN
Cecilia Capanna | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – There are some facts happening in the world that are extremely serious, but very few media talk about them. Few weeks ago, for example, shocking news from the Democratic Republic of Congo has passed silently.
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Homage to Hiroshima, Homage to Life
Roy Tamashiro | IPRA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
This address was delivered at the 33rd Annual Hiroshima Peace Service Ceremony commemorating the 77th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, on August 6, 2022, at the Izumo Taishakyo Mission
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Of Aristotle, Orwell, and the Young Heirs
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Today’s youth are an unpowered witnesses to numerous unprecedented crises, which they did not create but are expected to overcome… and hopefully leave a much less baleful inheritance.
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Three Lessons from Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan
Huáyǔ Think Tank (华语智库) | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – Editor’s Note: This article was distributed by a Chinese government accepted source, but we believe it is worthy of a wider audience because it provides documentation of important ongoing dialogue within top circles in China unavailable elsewhere.
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Washington Wants a New Cold War—but That’s a Bad Idea
Katrina vanden Heuvel | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – As China unleashed live-fire military exercises off the coast of Taiwan, simulating a real “reunification by force” operation in the wake of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s ceremonial visit to the island last week, the bipartisan fervor for a new Cold War with China and Russia took greater hold in Washington.
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The Deadly Business of Reporting Truth
Andy Lee Roth | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
17 Aug 2022 – Violence is press censorship. To kill or imprison a journalist is to silence the public’s source of news. 33 journalists around the world have been killed this year and 494 are imprisoned, according to Reporters Without Borders. In 2022 once per week, average, somewhere in the world a journalist is killed.
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Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO: From War Propaganda to Peace Journalism
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Propaganda in Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – This series has argued that the war in Ukraine is being fueled by a propaganda campaign which hides previous and current NATO/US aggressiveness towards Russia as well as the options to reach a peaceful settlement by resolving underlying conflicts.
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No Longer a Pariah? Russia and China Could Be about to ‘Normalize’ North Korea and Leave the US with another Asian Headache
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – Once a Cold War proxy battleground for superpowers, is the Korean peninsula being pulled apart by bloc politics again?
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Amidst Uproar over Nancy Pelosi’s Visit to Taiwan, Media Ignores Aggressive U.S. Maritime Action in South China Sea
Sara Flounders | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – In order to force high-tech companies to decouple from the People’s Republic of China and reverse U.S. decline, U.S. imperialism needs a political/military crisis with China.
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Ukraine ‘Testing Ground’ Shaping US Network, Electronic Warfare Effort
Colin Demarest | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
17 Aug 2022 – Fierce battles being waged in Ukraine are showcasing cyber and electronic warfare and their consequences for connectivity and communications, according to the deputy commanding general at U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command.
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Western ‘Naturalism’ Disrespects Nonhuman Animals and the Entire Natural World
Baptise Morizot | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
15 Aug 2022 – The self-destructive delusion that we are the only species that has a right to life on Earth has led to the ecological crisis.
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(Português) Beleza virtual, liberdade virtual, amor virtual: o Metaverso é o nosso futuro?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
Quando foi a última vez que você saiu de manhã para fazer parte de um glorioso nascer do sol? Ou você se sentou em uma praia vendo o sol se pôr no horizonte? O que você sente quando toca a pele de um ente querido? Um avô, um pai, um amante ou um filho?
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Saudi Woman Given 34-Year Prison Sentence for Using Twitter
Stephanie Kirchgaessner | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
16 Aug 2022 – Salma al-Shehab, a Leeds University student, was charged with following and retweeting dissidents and activists.
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Why the U.S. Is the Main Obstacle to Nuclear Disarmament
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
18 Aug 2022 – The Pentagon has made no secret of its goal of military “full spectrum dominance,” with the added delusional claim that the U.S. is “exceptional” and justified in establishing and maintaining an American empire. What’s wrong with this picture?
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This Media Empire Leads the Charge in the US-China Propaganda War
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 – Australian-born American billionaire Rupert Murdoch’s global media empire has consistently led anti-China narratives in the Western media. Encompassing a long list of influential–both television and print–media, the list of talking points aimed at Beijing is immense.
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When Roger Waters Cried: “Has any Israeli Shed Tears for a Boy from Gaza?”
Roger Waters | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 -Roger Waters cried yesterday on his Twitter page as he read, on camera, an essay at the Mondoweiss news website about a boy from the Gaza Strip. “What is wrong with the fucking Israelis? What is wrong with them?” he asked, in anger and despair.
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Time to Sign the Treaty
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022 – The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than it has ever been. It’s time to get the US and the 8 other nuclear powers to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Humanity is playing with nuclear fire as if climate catastrophe was not bad enough.
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War Propaganda about Ukraine Starting to Wear Thin
Chay Bowes | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
13 Aug 2022 – More and More Are Seeing Through the Lies – Amnesty International confirms the inconvenient truths, which many independent journalists and political observers already knew.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – How come food prices declined all of a sudden over four consecutive months? The Ukraine war began around five months ago. So? The “miracle” explained.
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Hunger Factory: The Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Part 2)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022 – While often too quickly attributing -quasi exclusively- the world unprecedented hunger tragedy to the current proxy war in Ukraine, other major causes remain hidden in plain sight.
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Can We Please Have an Adult Conversation about China?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental Institute for Social Research– TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – As the US legislative leader Nancy Pelosi swept into Taipei, people around the world held their breath. Her visit was an act of provocation. In December 1978, the US government – following a United Nations General Assembly decision in 1971 – recognised the People’s Republic of China, setting aside its previous treaty obligations to Taiwan.
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Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 77th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
Tomihisa Taue, Mayor of Nagasaki | The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Translation of the Peace Declaration read on 9 Aug 2022 by Nagasaki’s Mayor, Mr. Tomihisa Taue, at a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, as released by the Nagasaki Municipal Government.
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Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO (V): From Politics to Propaganda
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Propaganda in Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
This article focus on the official narrative by NATO, especially the US, which explains the war in terms of madman Putin taking the unprovoked decision to invade Ukraine. This narrative effectively camouflages the geopolitics of the war, especially the role of the US and NATO and the possibility of negotiating peace.
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Life and Death and More Life: Leo Tolstoy on Science, Spirituality, and Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
“A caterpillar sees itself shrivel up, but doesn’t see the butterfly which flies out of it.” “How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?”
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Singularity: Attractors and Scenarios (Part 2)
Javier E Belda - IHPS | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022 -The approaching evolutionary crisis is evidently not a regular evolutionary crisis like the many others in the history of the planet-system. It is the total crisis of an evolutionary path of 4,000 million years. It can be said to be a crisis of the very critical character of the preceding evolution, a crisis of crises.
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(Castellano) Rusia-Ucrania-Estados Unidos/OTAN: De la política a la propaganda
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Amanece Metrópolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Este artículo se centra en la narrativa oficial de la OTAN, especialmente de los EE. UU., que explica la guerra en términos de que el loco Putin tomó la decisión no provocada de invadir Ucrania. Esta narrativa camufla efectivamente la geopolítica de la guerra, especialmente el papel de EE. UU. y la OTAN y la posibilidad de negociar la paz.
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Of the Far West, the ‘Good Cowboys’… and the ‘Bad Indians’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
8 Aug 2022 – Rough men, ranchers, mercenary killers, saloons, cowboys, guns, gold fever, the ‘good sheriff’… and the ‘bad indians”. Add to this mix the deeply-rooted, widely dominating culture of the so-called “white supremacy.”
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Sleeping at the Wheel: The Uber Files, the Media, and the Coup against Labor Rights
Brian Dolber | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
9 Aug 2022 – Uber’s entire model has been about breaking—if not smashing—labor law (and worker power) through systematic misclassification.
→ read full article(Castellano) Belleza virtual, libertad virtual, amor virtual: ¿es el Metaverso nuestro futuro?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
¿Cuándo fue la última vez que saliste afuera por la mañana para ser parte de un glorioso amanecer? ¿O te sentaste en una playa a ver la puesta de sol en el horizonte? ¿Qué sientes cuando tocas la piel de un ser querido? ¿Un abuelo, un padre, un amante o un hijo?
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Americans Rarely See the True Face of Israel’s Bombing of Gaza
Elise Swain and Alice Speri | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022 – By shying away from graphic images of death, news organizations sanitize the violence of Israeli aggression against Palestinians. This article includes graphic images and depictions of death.
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At the Lost and Found
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
5 Aug 2022 – Those who are never lost are forever lost. Only those who know they are lost and that life is a shipwreck have a chance to find their way to shore. The world’s great religions, including Taoism and Existential philosophy, understand that at the heart of human existence is the presence of the not (death, emptiness, void).
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Leif Eiriksson Peace Award 2022 to Johan Galtung
Thor Magnusson | Mirpuri Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
The award was presented on 8 July 2022 by Thor Magnusson from the Peace 2000 Institute through the Mirpuri Foundation at the Lisbon Opera House, Portugal. 1,400 people attended.
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The Invention of Capitalism
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
As Official Narratives Go…
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The US War on Drugs Isn’t What It Seems – and Colombia’s New President Wants to End It
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
14 Aug 2022 – Gustavo Petro Promises a Major Blow to US Hegemony over Latin America – Leftist Gustavo Petro was inaugurated as Colombia’s new president on 7 Aug ushering in an unprecedented political swing for a perennially right-wing government.
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The Truth about Markets, Pillar of Capitalist Ideology
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
“Market mechanisms” and “market solutions”: politicians, bureaucrats, media pundits, and academics like to refer to them as if they were somehow politically and ideologically neutral, above partisanship. They are not. Markets existed long before capitalism, but capitalism, as Karl Marx noted, made them ubiquitous, almost universal. Capitalism also raised and praised markets—and their prices—to give them an ideological importance, which leaned toward the absurd.
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The Most Bloated Military Budget in U.S. History: A Staggering $850 Billion
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – Specially Named to Honor an 87-Year-Old Disciple of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan – 2023 NDAA Represents Swan Song in Senate of a Long-Time Stalwart of the Radical Right
→ read full articleDonation Politics: Worse than Hypocrisy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022 – We need to ask ourselves with a sense of urgency, ‘where is the outrage?’ and ‘why are the streets empty?’ Bob Dylan’s message of the sixties rings truer than ever: ‘The answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind.”
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9 August: 77th Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Free Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
8 Aug 2022 – Unwelcome Truths for Church and State – 77 years ago (9 Aug 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped an experimental plutonium bomb on Nagasaki City, Japan, instantly incinerating, asphyxiating and/or vaporizing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, mostly women and children. Very few Japanese soldiers were killed by the bombs.
→ read full articleStrategies of Hyper-Elites as Admired and Deprecated
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Exploration of Super-Rich Lifestyles and Their Contribution to Global Order and Disorder
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Arab Spring, Russian Spring, Latin American Spring?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022 – Consciousness becomes a determining factor in history when the dominant regime (i.e. the culture of war) collapses from its own contradictions. This occurred in the 60’s with the Vietnam War and in end of the 80’s with the collapse of the Soviet Empire. We approach another such moment with the imminent collapse of the US Empire.
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The Ugly Americans: Donald, Joe, Nancy, and more
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
2 Aug 2022 – Dangerous Don, Joe, and Nancy are big believers in the US empire of global domination. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi goes to Taiwan against China’s wishes. The Ugly Americans believe they have a right to go anywhere in the world and do anything they want, including overthrowing governments, assassinating people, and taking other countries resources.
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How a Missile in Kabul Connects to a Speaker in Taipei
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Washington’s hard power display of taking out Al-Qaeda’s Al-Zawahiri will not be reciprocated by Beijing over Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan. It does however, definitively bury the decades-long era of cooperative US-Chinese relations.
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Shedding Light on Who, Exactly, Is Responsible for the War in Ukraine
Roger Annis | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
6 Aug 2022 – Western capitals make statements about sending troops to Ukraine. London intends to send 600 military personnel. Rendering assistance to the state where settlement is a remote prospect and the domestic conflict is far from being resolved, the West should understand that it automatically becomes an accomplice in the crimes against Ukrainian civilians.
→ read full articleTechnology, Social Media Help Traffickers Hunt Their Victims, Enslave Them, Sell Their Organs
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Human beings produce innumerable practical inventions while often making the worst use of them. How criminal groups heavily rely on digital platforms to trap and enslave their victims also for extracting and selling their organs.
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From Balkh to Konya: Discovering Rumi’s Spiritual Geopolitics
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
30 Jul 2022 – While the mystic poet, Sufi, theosophist and thinker Jalal al-Din Rumi is synonymous with Islamic mysticism, a deeper dig brings to light the West Asian political changes and upheavals that shaped his world and other-worldly view.
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Why No One Cared That Al Qaeda Honcho Zawahiri Got Droned
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – That Zawahiri’s killing went so quietly suggests that the cultural and political behemoth that was the war on terror had long preceded him into the grave.
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Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks the US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation into the Pandemic
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Current Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs says he is “pretty convinced [COVID-19] came out of US lab biotechnology” and warns that there is dangerous virus research taking place without public oversight.
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Colombia’s First Leftist President Will Bring Historic Change, if the US Lets Him
Daniel Kovalik | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
7 Aug 2022 – Colombia is the latest Latin American country to turn from the right, and possibly stand up to Washington, with the inauguration of ex-guerrilla President Gustavo Petro.
→ read full articleNancy Pelosi, Taiwan and the Changing World Order
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
4 Aug 2022 – Right after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taipei on 2 Aug, I was asked by Russia Today to comment on that tension-increasing event. 15-min Video
→ read full articleProgressives on U.S.-China Policy and Nancy Pelosi’s Taiwan Visit (PODCAST)
Deconstructed | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Tobita Chow of ‘Justice is Global’ and Matt Duss, foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders, two leading progressive foreign policy voices, discuss the House speaker’s decision to visit Taiwan.
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(Français) Printemps Arabe, Printemps Russe, Printemps Latino-Américain ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 août 2022 – La conscience devient un facteur déterminant dans l’histoire lorsque le régime dominant (c’est-à-dire la culture de la guerre) s’effondre de ses propres contradictions. Cela s’est passé dans les années 60 avec la guerre du Vietnam et à la fin des années 80 avec l’effondrement de l’empire soviétique. Nous approchons d’un autre moment de ce genre avec l’effondrement imminent de l’empire Nord Américain.
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A Call to Cancel RIMPAC in Hawaiʻi
Kim Compoc and Joy Lehuanani Enomoto | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
26 Jul 2022 – The movement to demilitarize and deoccupy Hawai‘i is guided by kapu aloha, a code of conduct grounded in nonviolent resistance and Hawai’ian values.
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Hiroshima at 77: Another Hiroshima Is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target: China.
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Surrendering Power to Reverence
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – “I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous Peoples.” So said Pope Francis last week, at a powwow in Alberta, at the start of his “apology tour” across Canada — for the participation of the Catholic Church in the multi-century horror of Native American “residential schools.”
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NATO-Backed Network of Syria Dirty War Propagandists Identified
Aaron Maté | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022 – Defaming journalism on the OPCW’s Syria cover-up scandal, The Guardian and its NATO-funded sources out themselves as the real “network of conspiracy theorists.”
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WHO Director Dr. Tedros: Monkeypox Outbreak Is “Among Men Who Have Sex with Men”
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
“Factual Chaos” at the WHO? The Questionable 99% Estimate – “The monkeypox virus is a ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’ but for the moment it is an outbreak concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially with multiple partners; it can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups.” This is a FALSE statement as monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted disease.
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A Brief History of Esperanto, the 135-year-old Language of Peace Hated by Hitler and Stalin Alike
Joshua Holzer | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Esperanto’s vocabulary is mostly from English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian and Yiddish, the languages that Zamenhof was most familiar with. Grammatically, it was primarily influenced by European languages, but some innovations bear a resemblance to some Asian languages, such as Chinese.
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Three Large American Multinationals Bought 17 Million Hectares of Ukrainian Agricultural Land
Laura Aboli | Truthbook - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
These are Cargill, Dupont and Monsanto. For comparison, Italy has 16.7 million hectares of agricultural land. Among the main shareholders of these three companies are Vanguard, Blackrock and Blackstone. The usual suspects…
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Of the Secret Leaks and the Baking Planet
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
29 Jul 2022 – Strangely enough, two major scientific findings, both announced in July, did not attribute the current dangerous world’s disasters to the proxy war unfolding in Ukraine.
→ read full articleThe World Was Already Broken–Shall Ukrainian Cereals Fix It Up?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
28 Jul 2022 – The world cheered the 22-July Turkey-brooked agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resume cereals and fertilisers exports from both countries. The Istanbul Agreement allows them to release their exports under UN and international supervision.
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Interest Rate Hikes Will Not Save Us from Inflation
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
27 Jul 2022 – Rather than making money harder to get, the U.S. government needs to focus on the other side of the demand vs. supply inflation equation.
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The Shadow Bank That Owns the World
Lee Camp | Behind The Headlines - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
28 Jul 2022 – Behind The Headlines in partnership with MintPress News is proud to release the first episode in our new series: The Most Censored News with Lee Camp. Today Lee takes on one of the more important questions in modern times — Who owns the world?
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CIA Vault 7 Leaker Found Guilty–What Did He Actually Reveal?
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
26 Jul 2022 – CIA veteran John Kiriakou breaks down some of the most important elements of Vault 7—the biggest leak in CIA history—allegedly divulged to WikiLeaks by another former CIA officer.
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Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits – A Food Crisis by Design
Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
14 Jul 2022 – Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, headlines have been dominated by the global food supply shortages and rising food prices. Detailed in this new report is how, in fact, we have already been facing a food and malnutrition crisis long before the current conflict.
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Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Calls for a Global Campaign to Eliminate NATO
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
30 Jul 2022 – In interview with British journalist, Morales says the U.S. uses NATO to provoke wars and sell weapons. U.S./UK-backed coup against him in 2019 was undertaken for lithium and because his government advanced an alternative economic model to the neoliberal “Washington Consensus”
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