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(Italiano) Ambiente e Guerra
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
20 Febbraio 2023 – Nei mesi scorsi mi sono lasciata prendere dal desiderio di condividere con dei giovani alcune emozioni e riflessioni, sul tema ambiente e guerra, che provo di fronte a immagini e ai discorsi bellici che ormai da un anno accompagnano le nostre giornate, mescolandosi alle pubblicità, alle cronache cittadine, ai dibattiti politici.
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How Can the Peace Movement Be More Effective?
Tom Valovic | Massachusetts Peace Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
I’m probably not your typical peace activist. As a former research analyst, educator, and political journalist looking at the movement with a fresh pair of eyes, I wanted to share some thoughts about how the peace movement considered as a whole might become more effective.
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Totalized Censorship
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
20 Feb 2023 – Content warning, canceling, de-platforming, denying access: The fate of Sy Hersh’s Democracy Now! interview on YouTube is the latest indication of how much rougher press suppression is in this new media era.
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The Case for Diplomacy in Ukraine
Katrina vanden Heuvel and James W. Carden | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – As 2023 unfolds, we fear that US policy will continue to be characterized by both mission creep and the absence of any sort of diplomatic engagement with Russia. Throughout the course of the war, the Biden administration has slowly, steadily, even stealthily increased US involvement.
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What Will Happen When Banks Go Bust? Bank Runs, Bail-Ins and Systemic Risk
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
25 Feb 2023 – “Bail-ins:” the provision allowing Systemically Important Financial Institutions (basically the biggest banks) to bail in or expropriate their creditors’ money in the event of insolvency. So how big is the risk to your deposit account? From Bailouts to Bail-Ins.
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The Theft of Harun Abu Aram’s Body, Home, and Life
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – Harun was born into, paralyzed, and killed by Israel’s colonial system. The struggle to dismantle it begins in the cave where he spent his final years.
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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – Hersh, the journalist who broke the stories of the My Lai Massacre, the CIA spying program and the Abu Ghraib torture scandal, reports that U.S. Navy divers attached C4 explosive charges to the pipeline and President Biden himself ordered its destruction, an operation that began planning long before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Despite this, corporate media have overwhelmingly ignored the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter’s bombshell.
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Story Killers (Part 1): In the Age of False News–A Journalist, a Murder, and the Pursuit of an Unfinished Investigation in India
Phineas Rueckert | Forbidden Stories/Story Killers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
In 2017, journalist Gauri Lankesh was assassinated in Bangalore days before she planned to publish an article about disinformation. Over five years later, Forbidden Stories pursued Lankesh’s work on fake news and explored new leads in her murder case.
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Saint Valentine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – A whimsical poem to celebrate the love legacy of Saint Valentine, written by Marianne Moore 63 years ago, published in The New Yorker on 13 Feb 1960, dedicated by me to all of us who love poetry and dare to love love on Valentine’s Day 2023.
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Israeli Security Forces Carry Out Massacre in Jenin, Palestine
Richard Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have vowed to make it easier for Israelis to carry guns. Ben-Gvir: “I want weapons on the streets, I want Israeli citizens to be able to protect themselves.” It follows the Zionist narrative of demonizing the victim and sanctifying the aggressor [remember Hitler & Nazism?].
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(Castellano) Comunicación y Paz–Homenaje a Johan Galtung: Call for Papers CIC 28
Joan Pedro-Carañana y Ángel Carrasco-Campos | Universidad Complutense de Madrid – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
En homenaje a la trayectoria y aportaciones de Johan Galtung, la revista Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación (CIC) hace una llamada a contribuciones para su número 28, que incluirá un monográfico sobre “Comunicación y paz”, enfocado a difundir investigaciones y aportaciones teóricas centradas en el papel de la producción social de comunicación, tanto en la reproducción de los conflictos sociales como en la promoción de los procesos de paz.
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Story Killers (Part 2): “Team Jorge”–In the Heart of a Global Disinformation Machine
Cécile Andrzejewski | Forbidden Stories/Story Killers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – In Part 2 of the “Story Killers” project, the Forbidden Stories consortium investigated an ultra-secret Israeli company involved in manipulating elections and hacking African politicians. We took an unprecedented dive into a world where troll armies, cyber espionage and influencers are intertwined.
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Biden’s Misplaced Optimism: 2023 State of the Union Address
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
18 Feb 2023 – The national situation is far too deeply challenged for us to be content with presidential bromides. What is most needed are policies and practices that embody compassion, and are dedicated with the fullness of being to responding to the imperatives of human security at all levels of social interaction.
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How the US Crushed the Struggle for a Somali Nation
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – As Somalia struggled to hold its first real national elections since the country collapsed in 1991, the US and its allies pushed separatism and undermined democracy so as to militarily dominate the country and plunder its resources.
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Inside the Iron Cage
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – I would prefer not to relay the following very strange story given to me by a fellow sociologist, but I feel obligated. I don’t know what to make of the whole thing. Below you will find the manuscript he handed me. I realize you are getting this third hand, but there’s nothing I can do about that. I don’t know his friend. So here it is.
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Barcelona Mayor Cuts City’s Ties with Israel over ‘Crime of Apartheid’
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau yesterday announced her city is cutting ties with Israel and ending its symbolic 25-year-old “twin cities” relationship with Tel Aviv over the Israeli government’s violent anti-Palestinian policies. “We cannot be silent,” said Colau.
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How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
A simple perspective shift that reorients the roots of being. Hermann Hesse believed that trees are our greatest spiritual teachers. Walt Whitman cherished them as paragons of authenticity amid a world of mere appearances.
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Nord Stream: What Hersh Got Wrong
Mike Whitney | Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – There’s something not-quite-right about Sy Hersh’s report on the destruction of Nord Stream 2. There are a number of inconsistencies in the piece that lead me to believe that Hersh was less interested in presenting ‘the unvarnished truth’ than relaying a version of events that advance a particular agenda.
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Over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)
Ella Autti | World Dignity University Workshop – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – The First World Dignity University Initiative Workshop, “For People and the Planet: Learning for a Future of Dignity,” has been hosted online on 9 Dec 2022.
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Cuba Is Not a State Sponsor of Terrorism
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Cuba, with 11 million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the USA for over six decades. Despite this, Cuba’s people have been able to transcend the indignities of hunger, ill health and illiteracy, social plagues that still troubles much of the world.
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‘Hate Speech Loads the Gun, Misinformation Pulls the Trigger’ – And It Is Profitable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
17 Feb 2023 – In this world of wars, massive weapons production, sales and use; of sharpening inequalities and deadly climate emergencies, hate speech and its inhumane impact is being amplified at ‘unprecedented scale’ by new technologies.
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Ukraine, Rethinking Global Security—Webinar
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar, et al. | SHAPE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Our second webinar on 23 Feb 2023 draws lessons from the Ukraine war and sets new pathways to global security. An initiative to address the multiple crises that brought us to the brink of the precipice. Doomsday Clock: 90 seconds to midnight.
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Brazil: Pres. Lula Knows How to Fight the Far Right. We Should Listen.
Craig Johnson | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – Brazilian president Lula da Silva knows the dangers of the far right all too well, and during his visit to the US last week he laid out exactly how to defeat such reactionaries: not by striving for a false unity but by confronting the foes of democracy head-on.
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ChatGPT: Boon for the Lazy Learner
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – Launched on 30 Nov 2022 by OpenAI, ChatGPT is open to the curious, the lazy and the opportunistic. In January, the Manchester Evening News reported that a student asked the bot to put together a 2,000-word essay on social policy. Within 20 minutes, the work was done.
→ read full article(Italiano) Gli scienziati sono in affanno? Ai confini tra scienza, politica e società
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
10 Febbraio 2023 – Come anticipato nell’articolo Le crescenti incertezze della scienza, gli scienziati sono in affanno perché sempre più spesso alla scienza viene chiesto di fornire risposte chiare e univoche su questioni sanitarie o socio-ambientali, in contesti di per sé ad elevata complessità e incertezza, e in cui è urgente prendere decisioni o predisporre politiche regolatorie.
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‘Cleansing’ Palestinians from Palestine
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Israel’s new extremist regime — the most anti-Palestinian in history — seems to be aiming at incorporating all of the occupied Palestinian territories into Israel.
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Zelensky Signs Agreement with JP Morgan on Ukraine’s Reconstruction
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – Bankers from JP Morgan Chase visited Ukraine last week and signed a memorandum of understanding with President Volodymyr Zelensky and plan to help raise private capital for a new fund for Ukraine’s reconstruction.
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Valentines for 2023
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Sigh!
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Einstein & Freud Agree: Ending War Requires World Government
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – A new form of global governance will be needed to end war between nations according to Einstein and Freud in their 1932 exchange of letters. They describe a governing system consistent with what world federalists describe as world government.
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Media: Objectivity and Its Discontents
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – It is one thing for reporters and editors to abandon the principle of objectivity as they hurl their hatchets at those who provoke their prejudices—Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, whomever. It is another for the retired coots now posing as the profession’s wise men to elevate these derelictions to the principle of there-are-no-principles. How far down the crater of corruption are those running US media’s newsrooms going to cascade?
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‘Finally’ The Lancet Acknowledges Natural Immunity Superior to mRNA COVID Vaccines
Brenda Baletti Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Immunity acquired from past COVID-19 infection provides strong, lasting protection against severe outcomes from the illness at a level “as high if not higher” than that provided by mRNA vaccines, according to a study published Thursday [16 Feb] in The Lancet.
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Exile and Mama
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – A post about exile and my mama in a series of posts I will start weekly on positive role models. This is post 1.
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Alone and Unafraid: How to Prepare to Fight and Win the Next War
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Ernest “Nest” Cage | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – A near-peer conflict between the U.S. and China will be a nightmare in real life. Just how scary it might be is dependent on what is done now. Man is not perfect and is a reliable creature of habit, so we must prepare to win today.
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The New York Times Is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if all were reversed and Russia had put troops and weapons in Mexico and Canada that the United States would respond forcefully.
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The Moral and Intellectual Disconnect between the Memories of Shoah and Today’s Jewish State
Maung Zarni | Islamic Renaissance Front – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – Every time I hear about the Shoah or the Nazi genocide of the Jews, I can’t help but make a sad and rage-filled link between it and the present day Israel – the officially Jewish State with echoes of the ideology that served as the foundation of Nazi Germany.
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Outraged again!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Meanwhile, in the USA
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Food Industry Exposes Five Billion People to Toxic Chemicals That Kill
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – The food industry continues to intensively use toxic chemicals in their products, some of them provoking heart diseases and death. Trans fat is just one of them, adding to contaminating fertilisers, pesticides, microplastics and a long etcetera.
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TRANSCEND Members February Birthdays
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
We at TRANSCEND Media Service wish our distinguished members a HAPPY BIRTHDAY with many returns. We take this opportunity to thank them for all their contributions to the world and to TMS. Bless your lives!
* Richard E. Rubenstein 24 Feb 1938 –> 85 years
* Antonio C. S. Rosa, 8 Feb 1946 –> 77 years
The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver’s Racial Justice Movement
Trevor Aaronson | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – Mickey Windecker encouraged violence, accused activist leaders of being police cooperators, and tried to draw demonstrators into elaborate stings.
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The Atlantic Realists
Felix Rösch | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Attempting to broaden our understanding of international relations but failing to classify the theoretical schools to which key actors belong. The role of German-speaking scholars forced by Fascism to emigrate from Central Europe in 1920s/30s vis-à-vis North American scholarship should not be underestimated.
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Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
“If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall; this is the physics of vulnerability.”
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Royal Commission of Inquiry: Investigating War Crimes in the Hawaiian Islands
Dr. Keanu Sai | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – The RCI was established by Proclamation of the Hawaiian Kingdom Council of Regency in 2019, yet there has been no coverage in either the mainstream or alternative media. Most people are not aware that the Hawaiian Islands have been under a prolonged and illegal occupation by the USA since 17 Jan 1893.
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Hi-Tech Military Weapons Breed New Danger
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – New Report Unpacks Dangers of Emerging Military Tech: AI Nukes, Killer Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Hypersonic Missiles, Cyber Battles
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Lift Sanctions against Syria to Lessen Sufferings from the Earthquake
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
The International Movement for a Just World urges the North American, British, Australian, Canadian, Swiss and some European Union and Arab League governments to lift the unjust, immoral sanctions against Syria in order to lessen the immense sufferings of the people caused by the massive earthquake of 6 Feb 2023.
→ read full articleHow the USA Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2022 – The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now.
→ read full article(Italiano) Le incertezze crescenti della scienza
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Febbraio 2023 – Nell’ambito della rassegna di ‘Biennale Tecnologia’ organizzata dal Politecnico di Torino a novembre del 2022 una nota studiosa americana, Naomi Oreskes, ha tenuto una lezione dal titolo “Perché fidarsi della scienza?”. Nella locandina di presentazione dell’evento si leggeva:
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US-Laid Trap for Russia Has Trapped West Instead
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – A month before the Feb. 24, 2022 Russian invasion, CN wrote that the U.S. was laying a trap to lure Russia into an economic, information and proxy war. All three have failed for the U.S.
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Decommission US Land-Based Nuclear Missiles NOW!
Leonard Eiger | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – There has not been any international outcry over the launch of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile that would carry a thermonuclear warhead. No discussion anywhere by the news media about the test and its implications regarding control of the proliferation of nuclear weapons and disarmament.
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For Palestine, Justice Is Not a Question of Law
M Muhannad Ayyash | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2023 – As we work towards Palestinian liberation, we should not forget that international law is itself a form of imperial violence.
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(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
3 fev 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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Sanctions Imposed by US and Allies Hamper Relief and Rescue Work in Earthquake-Devastated Syria
Defend Democracy Press | Delphi Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent demanded that the US and its allies lift their siege and sanctions on Syria so that rescue and relief work can proceed after the devastation of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake yesterday. Over 5,000 people have been reported dead so far and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria.
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The Ukraine War in the Light of the UN Charter
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – Whether or not the West considers NATO’s expansion a provocation, what is crucial is how NATO expansion is perceived by those who feel threatened by it. In this context we must remember that article 2(4) of the UN Charter prohibits not only the use of force but also the threat of the use of force.
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The New Geopolitics
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Horizons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Winter 2023 – Understanding the forces that are refiguring the international ‘system’ and what outcomes we can imagine.
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On the History of the Black Power Movement in the USA
Mark Whitaker | CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Wallace: “Mr. Carmichael, if you had the chance to stand up in front of the white community and say to them, ‘Understand me, white man,’ what would you say?” Carmichael: “I would say, ‘Understand yourself, white man. You are the savages. Yes, it is you who have always been uncivilized. Civilize yourself.'”
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Poverty amid Plenty
Liz Theoharis | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – A World Fragmented by Inequality
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White House-Linked Venture Capital Fund Boasts China War Would Be Great for Business
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – A representative from America’s Frontier Fund said that a “kinetic event” in the Pacific would be very good for its bottom line.
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The US Is Legitimizing Jewish Terrorism against Palestinians
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – There is one line at the very end of the State Department’s statement that is particularly cynical: “We look to both sides not to take steps that actually make things worse.” This comment is noteworthy because Blinken did make one proposal that will make things far worse and will without doubt bring about more violence.
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Mechanistic and Non-mechanistic Science
The Hieronimus Show | Vedic Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Thompson defines the soul (jivatma) as a “distinct quanta of consciousness”, and argues convincingly that this basic principle of life cannot logically arise from matter. He affirms the need for intelligence in some of nature’s more intricate designs.
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Three New Books by Former Soldiers That the US Military Doesn’t Want You to Read
Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023 – Several new memoirs from disillusioned military veterans reflect on the horrors of war. They’re essential tools for challenging US empire.
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U.S. Hypocrisy on War Crimes Is a Gift to Putin
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – The failure to prosecute American officials and other powerful nations for war crimes has created a jurisdictional mess.
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Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism
Ashley Gjovik | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck.
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Can Europe Survive This Moment?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of the number of deaths caused by warfare during the last 100 years is heading for a new war.
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Russia-Ukraine Lessons to Boost US Electronic Warfare, Sen. Reed Says
Colin Demarest | C4ISRNET - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2023 – “We are in a tremendously dynamic situation,” said Sen. Jack Reed, “where technology is changing rapidly, techniques are changing rapidly.”
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The Leopard’s Tale: U.S. Weapons Makers on a Marketing Spree
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – When western Europe depleted its armory by shipping everything to Ukraine to get blown up by the Russians, it created a huge market opportunity for the U.S. weapons industry due to a concerted media and political humbug campaign to trap the world as a purchaser of U.S. armaments. In fiscal 2022, U.S. weapons sales increased 48.8 percent. War is good business, and blood-soaked war profiteers are making out like the mafiosi they are.
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Antony Blinken Plays the ‘Two Sides Game’: Getting Netanyahu/Israel off the Hook
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
31 Jan 2023 – Antony Blinken is the most lightweight Secretary of State, a fitting complement to the overweight Mike Pompeo. Together they could do a late night TV comedy routine on the ‘arrogance of decline’ when it comes to US foreign policy in the Trump/Biden years.
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The Doomsday Clock: Deceptive and Rather an Indicator of US Foreign Policies
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
26 Jan 2023 – Like the Nobel Prizes, the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atom Scientists attracts enormous media attention. It simplifies a very complex issue into a time measure: How close is the world to global catastrophe?
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Ukraine: Rethinking Global Security–Saving Humanity and Planet Earth
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Saving Humanity and Planet Earth (SHAPE) is an initiative to address the multiple crises that have brought us to the brink of the precipice. This, our second webinar to be held on 22/23 February 2023, draws lessons from the Ukraine war and sets new pathways to global security.
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‘Obscene’: Exxon Posts Record $56 Billion in Profits — But Keeps Gouging Consumers
Brett Wilkins | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – ExxonMobil on Tuesday [31 Jan] joined other U.S. oil companies in reporting record 2022 earnings amid rising gas prices, sparking renewed calls by consumer and climate advocates for a Big Oil windfall profits tax.
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WATCH: Swedish Prosecutors Destroyed Assange Documents
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – A 35-minute interview with Stefania Maurizi. Swedish prosecutors destroyed copies of email correspondence related to the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Revealed: Sweden Destroyed a Substantial Part of Its Documents on Julian Assange
Stefania Maurizi | Il Fato Quotidiano - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – Almost six years after the British Crown Prosecution Service destroyed key emails, the Swedish Prosecution Authority also destroyed a large part of the documentation–as Assange’s life hangs in the balance.
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Ilhan Omar Is Not Mama Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – The new Speaker of the House announced he will remove Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. The attack from Republicans has given her image a boost, but her record shows the credibility is not deserved.
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Nobel Peace Prize Watch: Watchdog Suspends Screening of Nobel Peace Prize Candidates
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – After 15 years studying the award’s intention, finding out who should have received the NPP over 120 years, and who are the most suitable recipients in our time, we have concluded that the Committee does not contribute for elimination of wars; rather, it takes sides.
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Missing Links in Textbook History: Indigenous Peoples
Jim Mamer | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – By the time I started high school I had come to see the world in Manichaean terms, full of good guys and bad guys. We, North Americans, were the good guys, often presented as settlers defending our families against hostile Indians. It was dangerously easy to accept the notion that history is pretty simple.
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How US Marines Are Being Reshaped for China ‘Threat’
Jonathan Marcus | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – The US military commitment to the Pacific was underlined in a White House meeting between the leaders of the US and Japan. But behind the scenes, this renewed focus on Asia has sparked a fierce debate within one of its most fabled military forces.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Nobel Peace Prize Watch avslutter sine årlige anbefalinger til Nobelkomiteen
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
6. februar 2023 – Etter ti år har vi i år besluttet å ikke publisere vår årlige anbefaling til Nobelkomiteen, en liste over de som er både nominert og kvalifisert til å motta Nobels fredspris. Så lenge Den norske Nobelkomite fortsetter å sabotere Nobels intensjon om fred ved global nedrustning har vårt arbeid med å få frem gode kandidater ingen hensikt opplyse.
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Shell Makes ‘Obscene’ $40bn Profit—Highest Ever
Alex Lawson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – Sunak government under pressure after gas prices fuel ‘outrageous’ doubling of profits at Anglo-Dutch group
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Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – Palestinian journalists pay a heavy price for carrying out their mission of spreading the truth about the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Their work is critical not only to balanced media coverage but to the very cause of justice and freedom in Palestine. However, the harm inflicted on Palestinian journalists is not only physical and material. They are also constantly exposed to a very subtle but equally dangerous threat: the constant delegitimization of their work.
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A Winter Walk with Thoreau: The Transcendentalist Way of Finding Inner Warmth in the Cold Season
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.”
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Ukraine—The Inevitable War
Chay Bowes | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023 – Why negotiate a diplomatic settlement and adhere to the Minsk agreement when there is so much money in war?
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How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the US Patent System
Rebecca Robbins | The New York Times/Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The monopoly is about to end.
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US House Republicans Vote to Remove Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee
Lexie Schapitl | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – House Republicans have voted to remove Minnesota Democratic Rep. Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee, citing past controversial comments she made about Israel and concerns over her objectivity.
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Twitter Files & the Death of Russiagate (Matt Taibbi, Chris Hedges, John Kiriakou)
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – Matt Taibbi joins CN Live! to discuss the implications of his Twitter Files revelations, including his latest on Hamilton 68 and its fatal blow to the Russiagate narrative. With Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou.
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Earth Constitution: Only A Democratic World Federal Government Is Realistic
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – The Constitution for the Federation of Earth (aka Earth Constitution) is a blueprint for an emerging democratic world federal government — an Earth Federation movement led by the World Constitution & Parliament Association to replace the United Nations system stymied with its obsolete and fatally flawed Charter.
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The Analysis Is Simple; It Is Economic
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
For a Profound Analysis of Our Political Situation, the Answer Is Simple: It Is Economic
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Inside the Fight to Save the Peruvian Amazon from Big Oil
Josh Fox | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – The survival of the world’s biggest rainforest is critical to the survival of life on Earth. The fossil fuel industry is hell-bent on drilling in it.
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Roger Waters Questioned in Depth about Ukraine, Russia, Israel, U.S.
Berliner Zeitung | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – Roger Waters can rightly claim to be the mastermind behind Pink Floyd. He came up with the concept of and wrote all the lyrics for the masterpiece “The Dark Side of the Moon”. A musical genius turned activist.
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(Français) L’Analyse Est Simple ; C’est Economique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 févr. 2023 – Pour une analyse approfondie de notre situation politique, la réponse est simple : c’est économique.
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Why Bonnie Raitt’s “Just Like That” Is a Song for the Ages
Harvey Wasserman | Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – In an era when cruelty and greed run rampant, human kindness is at an ultimate premium. Of all the emotions our species finds in desperately short supply, compassion and empathy top the list.
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Ukraine’s Tank Problem
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – This is an ever-broadening war of the West against Russia with Ukraine an experimental proxy convinced it will win. Efforts to limit the deepening conflict continue to be seen as the quailing sentiments of appeasers, the wobbly types who find democracy a less than lovable thing.
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This 22-Year-Old Is Trying to Save Us from ChatGPT before It Changes Writing Forever
Greg Rosalsky and Emma Peaslee | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
18 Jan 2023 – While many were nursing hangovers on New Year’s Day, 22-year-old Edward Tian was working feverishly on a new app to combat misuse of a powerful, new artificial intelligence tool called ChatGPT. The technology is both awesome — and terrifying.
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Poland Says It’s Ready to Send F-16s to Ukraine in Coordination with NATO
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – Biden said “No” when asked if the US would send F-16s to Ukraine. To send F-16s, Poland needs the approval of the US under export rules. The Netherlands also showed a willingness to do the same, with the Dutch saying they would have an “open mind” if asked.
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(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 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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The Pentagon’s Perpetual Crisis Machine
Jacob Hornberger | The Future of Freedom Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
26 Jan 2023 – When the Pentagon crossed Russia’s “red line” by threatening to absorb Ukraine into NATO, the Pentagon achieved what it wanted — the continuation of its old Cold War racket, except that the Reds were coming to get us. But they’re doing their best to gin up a crisis with China over Taiwan, which will enable them to exclaim, “See, you need us to protect you from both Russia and the Chinese Reds.”
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Germany Risks Forgetting Its History
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
31 Jan 2023 – Two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, under heavy pressure from Washington, announced that Germany would send 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine breaking the self-imposed constraints on the military’s role in German foreign policy in place since the end of WWII.
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Planetary Impalement by Stakeholder Capitalism?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
“Stake” as a Strategic Metaphor Promoted by the World Economic Forum
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(Italiano) Memoria della com-passione
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
27 Gennaio 2023 – Nel giorno in cui si fa giusta e meditata memoria della Shoah, è giusto esprimere solidarietà al popolo ebraico, nel clima di un discorso franco e sincero.
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(Français) Amilcar Cabral : l’anticolonialisme comme « patrimoine commun à l’humanité »
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
20 janvier 2023 – Il y a 50 ans, le 20 janvier 1973, sous l’instigation de la dictature portugaise, était assassiné Amilcar Cabral (1924-1973), l’une des principales figures des luttes anticolonialistes. Il mourrait quelques mois seulement avant l’indépendance de la Guinée-Bissau et du Cap-Vert.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
25 Jan 2023 – Gone are those times when catastrophes were measured in terms of human suffering. Now, with an exception: Ukrainians victims of the Russian invasion, everything is calculated in just money.
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A Responsibility to Wonder: Pioneering Neuroscientist Charles Scott Sherrington on the Spirituality of Nature
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
“We have, because human, an inalienable prerogative of responsibility which we cannot devolve…not… even upon the stars. We can share it only with each other.”
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The World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization Are Elevating Themselves above the World’s Governments
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
15 Jan 2023 – “In the last three years, the common people’s exclusion from what is still sold as a democratic process has reached a pinnacle.” — Peter Koenig, former senior economist for the World Bank and the World Health Organization
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