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The Meat Industry Has Created a False Dichotomy That Pits People against Animals
Vicky Bond | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
16 Dec 2022 – Factory farms are harmful to animals, the environment, local communities, and public health. We need a more logical and just food system that puts pigs and people back where they belong—on the same side.
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If the US Told Rwanda and Uganda to Get Out of Congo, the War Would End
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
14 Dec 2022 – Rwanda and Uganda continue their plunder and destabilization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as proxies of the United States.
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Looking Back on 2022: Ukraine and the Rest of the Story
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
26 Dec 2022 – As 2022 draws to a close, the world bears the tragic burden of the war in Ukraine and there is nothing to indicate that it will end any time soon. Thousands have perished. A huge number of people have been injured and maimed. Both Russian and Ukrainian prisoners have been subjected to torture.
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Russia Dropping US Dollar for Chinese Yuan – And Fast
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
26 Dec 2022 – In response to Western sanctions, Russia’s central bank is dropping the US dollar for Chinese yuan. The yuan’s share of Moscow’s currency trading increased from 1% to 40-45% in 2022, while dollar trade halved from 80% to 40%.
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The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Bertrand Russell (May 18, 1872–February 2, 1970) endures as one of humanity’s most lucid and luminous minds — an oracle of timeless wisdom on everything.
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On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.
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They Write Themselves (Part 1)
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
No Kidding…
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ICC Wanted to Investigate Israeli War Crimes–Now It’s Caving to US Pressure
Marjorie Cohn | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
17 Dec 2022 – Two years after launching an investigation of war crimes in Palestine, the International Criminal Court is still dragging its feet.
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(Italiano) Caduta fatalistica dell’eroe occidentale e coscienza storica delle religioni
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Quale è la risposta delle religioni davanti al mondo dei nostri tempi che, oltre ad essersi secolarizzato sembra aver dimostrato la inutilità del Messia, perché l’avrebbe superato di gran lunga nella vita pratica?
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Nobel Peace Prize Winners Have Deep CIA Ties
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
21 Dec 2022 – Far-fetched as it sounds, this year’s winners are all connected to a CIA offshoot, the National Endowment for Democracy and parroted CIA/State Department/Pentagon talking points about Ukraine and Russia in their acceptance speeches.
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The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love–>Thich Nhat Hanh
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”
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US Trial of Venezuela’s Alex Saab Exposes Diplomatic Espionage
Anya Parampil | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
12 Dec 2022 – Reporting from inside the federal courtroom where the US is prosecuting Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab, we learn of disturbing acts of diplomatic espionage. Saab’s advocates insist he is imprisoned for violating Washington’s economic blockade.
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Electoral Conflicts and Political Polarization: What Can Mediators Do?
Kenneth Cloke | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
Mar 2022 Issue – Biden and Harris won the U.S. election, but what exactly did they win? What was lost in the process? What is lost and won in electoral conflicts around the world? The U.S. experience offers some lessons for those who seek to reduce the destructive impact of electoral conflicts.
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The U.S. Military Is Poisoning Okinawa
Pat Elder | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
28 Dec 2022 – Blood testing confirms high levels of carcinogen PFAS in the blood of hundreds living close to U.S. bases in Ginowan, Okinawa (10 Jul 2022). Japanese demand answers while Americans deny responsibility. (Toshio Takahashi).
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Migrants? ‘Don’t You Dare Come Here, Unless…’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
19 Dec 2022 – When tens of thousands of Europeans had to flee the horrors of two born-in-Europe devastating armed conflicts–World Wars I and II–they migrated to the Americas and other Western countries in search of safe haven.They were checked at the border and admitted to enter as useful workforce. Seldom, if ever, anybody classified them as “illegal” migrants.
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The 60-Year U.S. Blockade on Cuba Is an Abomination just as Guantanamo—with No End in Sight
David Starr | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2023
14 Dec 2022 – “El Bloqueo” (The Blockade) is what Cubans call it. It is a 60-year-old abomination. It is the U.S. embargo against Cuba imposed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1962.
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Nonviolent Theory on Communication: The Implications for Theorizing a Nonviolent Rhetoric
Ellen W. Gorsevski | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Dec 2022
The interrelationship between nonviolence and rhetoric is examined. While we have studied the world of adversarial relationships, conflict, and difference of belief, rhetorical critics have not done as much to understand the practices of seeking mutual identification, cooperation, and learning how to live with diversity and adversity. Nonviolent theory shows rhetoricians that language and culture—our ways of creating and perpetuating our reality—can impose minimal aggression while maximizing the potential for peacemaking.
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COVID Notice Update
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
19 Dec 2022 – Dear Readers, Friends, Supporters, as you may know, I have contracted COVID, still bedridden. This week I did my best but it wasn’t nearly enough. The materials submitted by writers are being published to the best of my abilities.
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Corruption (I): The Most Perpetrated–and Least Prosecuted–Crime
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
6 Dec 2022 – Transparency International’s report, Exporting Corruption 2022, rates the performance of 47 leading global exporters, including 43 countries that are signatories to the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development Anti-Bribery Convention, in cracking down on foreign bribery by companies from their countries.
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Corruption (II): Europe Doing Nothing
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022 – Western Europe and the European Union remain the highest scoring regions in the world’s corruption index; progress has halted and worrying signs of backsliding have emerged: Transparency International’s 2021 Corruption Perceptions Index.
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US Whistleblower Edward Snowden Takes Oath as Russian Citizen
Elena Teslova | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Edward Snowden gets Russian passport after swearing oath of allegiance. His wife applied for Russian citizenship as well, says lawyer.
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Daniel Ellsberg: Indict Me Too
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022 – Daniel Ellsberg has called on the U.S. to indict him for having the same unauthorized possession of classified material as Julian Assange. Ellsberg follows the Cryptome.org founder who has also invited prosecution.
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Judicial Coup in Argentina: Corrupt Judges Conspire with Media Oligarchs to Ban Cristina Kirchner from Office
Ben Norton | Multipolarista - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
9 Dec 2022 – Leaked messages show Argentina’s corrupt judges and prosecutors conspired with right-wing media oligarchs to launch a judicial coup against left-wing ex President and current VP Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sentencing her to six years in prison and banning her from running in the 2023 elections.
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How British Colonialism Killed 100 Million Indians in 40 Years
Dylan Sullivan and Jason Hickel | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Between 1880 to 1920, British colonial policies in India claimed more lives than all famines in the Soviet Union, Maoist China and North Korea combined.
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The Poetic Science of the Aurora Borealis
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
“And now commenced a display which baffles all description.”
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Having a Blast
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
New Worlds…?
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Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates Is Promoting ‘Surveillance Agriculture’
Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D. | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
5 Dec 2022 – Vandana Shiva and Russell Brand discussed the history of agriculture, the role of Big Food in the current global cost-of-living crisis and how Gates is promoting “basically a surveillance agriculture.”
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My Sweet Lord (Music Video of the Week)
Billy Preston | George Harrison – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
This show was a tribute to George Harrison two years after his death. On guitar Eric Clapton, on the other guitar Harrison’s son, on piano Paul McCartney, 1st drummer Ringo Star, on second Phil Collins, on guitar Tom Petty, on organ and vocals Billy Preston.
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The Christmas Truce of 1914 and Other Unlearned Lessons from WWI
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
That spontaneous event, the Christmas Truce of 1914, was expressed in a variety of ways at a multitude of locations all along the 600 miles of trenches that stretched across France, but it was an event that would never again be duplicated in the history of warfare.
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Carlos Latuff | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
Are you serious? Really?? Wow!
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Our Authentically Fake and Hypocritical Society of Copies
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
4 Dec 2022 – Indeed, to make people into machines is the goal of trans-humanists Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum with its Great Reset and the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Artificial Intelligence for artificial people. While there are innocent examples of repetition, the use of it is a fundamental tactic of propaganda.
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Peru’s Oligarchy Overthrows President Castillo
Manolo de los Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
8 Dec 2022 – The coup against Pedro Castillo is a major setback for the current wave of progressive governments in Latin America and the people’s movements that elected them. This coup and the arrest of Castillo are stark reminders that the ruling elites of Latin America will not concede any power without a bitter fight to the end. And now that the dust has settled, the only winners are the Peruvian oligarchy and their friends in Washington.
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World Health Organization Meets to Plot Censorship of “Misinformation” under International Pandemic Treaty
Tom Parker | Reclaim the Net - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
6 Dec 2022 – The unelected UN health agency inches closer toward being granted unprecedented, legally-binding censorship powers.
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Journalism Defenders Push for Passage of ‘Game-Changing’ PRESS Act
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
7 Dec 2022 – “The PRESS Act is the most important free press legislation in modern times because it would finally stop the government from spying on journalists and threatening them with arrest for doing their jobs,” explained one advocate.
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In Conversation with Jeffrey Sachs
AllesAfrikaans | TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Dec 2022
“The mainstream media wants you to believe that the Russia/Ukraine conflict is the result of an unprovoked invasion by Russia. This fundamental lie about the conflict clearly stands in the way of understanding the war and of finding a peaceful end to the conflict.”
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COVID Notice
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Dec 2022
12 Dec 2022 – Dear Readers, Friends, Supporters, this is the first time that TMS fails to be updated since its inception on 3 Mar 2008. The reason: I have been infected with COVID and bedridden still without prognosis; my very first bout with the condition. Read on…
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(Italiano) Verso un Nuovo Ordine Internazionale–Una Prospettiva Nonviolenta
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Come l’industria delle armi sta portando l’umanità all’autodistruzione.
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Australian PM Tells USA to Drop Charges against Julian Assange
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today said that he has personally asked the US government to drop its case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is an Australian citizen. His comments came after five major news organizations finally spoke out for Assange.
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From Lateral Thinking to Voluminous Thinking
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Unexplored Options for Subterranean Habitats in Dense Urban Areas – Reposted in celebration of world population having reached 8 billion on 15 Nov 2022, with challenges to every kind of resource, and the continuing inability to discuss what cannot otherwise be discussed
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Why Does U.S. Navy Allow Officers to Commit Gory Murders and Other Atrocities with Impunity?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – And even more disturbingly, why are the men who commit these crimes revered in American popular culture? “The thrill of killing [is] like a drug; the greatest feeling I’ve ever experienced in my life.” – Eddie Penney, Navy SEAL Team 6.
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(Français) Préparons-Nous pour un Nouvel Ordre Mondial
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 décembre 2022 – La culture de la guerre est si fermement établie, en particulier dans l’État moderne, qu’une culture de la paix ne peut être achèvée qu’avec un changement radical dans la gouvernance mondiale. Pour comprendre la nature du changement radical, je me tourne vers ce vieil expert, Karl Marx.
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Regional Leaders Raise Doubts over US-Backed Plan to Send Foreign Military to Haiti
Jake Johnston | Center for Economic and Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
28 Nov 2022 – How Haiti’s neighbors are resisting the USA inciting them to participate in another military intervention in Haiti.
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Cryptome Founder Asks to Be Indicted with Assange
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – John Young, the founder of the Cryptome website, has asked the U.S. Justice Department to also indict him as he published un-redacted State Dept. files before WikiLeaks did.
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Jan Oberg in China Daily: Abolish NATO and Build Peace Instead
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
While most organisations are evaluated and reformed as time goes by, NATO isn’t. It has become sacrosanct and criticism of its operations silenced. In Western media, it is always called the ”defensive” alliance. It does not see itself as party to the conflict with Russia…
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TRANSCEND Members December Birthdays
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
We at TRANSCEND Media Service wish our distinguished member JIM ALBERTINI a HAPPY BIRTHDAY with many returns. We take this opportunity to thank him for all his contributions to the world and to TMS. Bless your life!
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A Stoic’s Key to Peace of Mind: Seneca on the Antidote to Anxiety
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
“There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don’t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is.” — Kurt Vonnegut
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David Ray Griffin (8 Aug 1939 – 26 Nov 2022)–The Man and His Work: A Synopsis
Elizabeth Woodworth | AE911truth - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – From a hopeful common-sense theology to the exposés of imperialist propaganda and false flag operations, to the full extent of the climate crisis, to our evolving perception of the nature of the divine, David Griffin stands with the greats; yet was quiet, humorous, down to earth, and unassuming. RIP
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Hawai’i to Pentagon: Stop Bombing Pohakuloa Toxic Area
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – Lava Flow from Maunakea Volcano Has Entered Hawaii’s Military Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) –->Danger of Toxins! There is a massive toxic stew at Pohakuloa from 75 years of bombing and the use of nuclear depleted uranium, spotting rounds, and likely chemical and biological weapons. Pohakuloa is NOT safe for soldiers, residents and visitors to Hawaii Island.
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US Tax Dollars at Work: Neocolonial Dictatorship, Paramilitary and Police Terror in Haiti Today
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Sending additional foreign troops into Haiti: it misses the fact that it was subjected to such an intervention culminating in the foreign occupation of Haiti since 2004. Similarly, the call for greater US-funding and training of the Haitian police camouflages the following fundamental realities:
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‘Zombie’ Viruses Are Thawing in Melting Permafrost Because of Climate Change
Michael Birnbaum and Ellen Francis | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
2 Dec 2022 – Ancient viruses are locked in Russia’s permafrost. We may soon get a peek.
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This Planet Is Drying Up–and These Are the Consequences
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – Drought is one of the ‘most destructive’ natural disasters in terms of loss of life arising from wide-scale crop failure, wildfires and water stress. Droughts devastate farmland, destroy livelihoods and cause untold suffering.
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Plurality of Information Can Prevent War
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
29 Nov 2022 – In the world we observe a multiplicity of media but no pluralism; all refer to the same sources which convey the same vision of the facts. If the facts exist in a unique way, the way we perceive them is multiple. UNESCO has highlighted “information imperialism:” Imposing a single perception and denying all the others.
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Nationalism and Migration in Relation to Peace
Johan Galtung | Univ. of Antwerp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Johan Galtung at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) on 21 Apr 2016 – “His work has a unique imprint on many scholarly disciplines; it is a combination of systematic scientific inquiry and a Gandhian ethics of peaceful means and harmony.”
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Stop and Smell the Apocalypse
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
23 Nov 2022 – In the eyes of the beholder…
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Top Antitrust Expert: We Need a New Approach to Giant Tech Firms like Google
Lynn Parramore | Institute for New Economic Thinking – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
28 Nov 2022 – Economist Cristina Caffarra, a leader in competition and antitrust, warns that ever-expanding tech giants raise concerns about the extent of their power.
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The Racists Return to Kindergarten
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
30 Nov 2022 – Damn those Marxists! You know their game, right? No doubt they’re in favor of dropping charges against Julian Assange, who (as all real Americans know) deserves 175 years in prison for exposing — with the help of the New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País — embarrassing realities about U.S. foreign policy.
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Home (Music Video of the Week)
David Byrne | Talking Heads – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
From the movie This Must Be the Place (2011) starring Sean Penn
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Qatar’s World Cup Is a Lavish Exercise in Sportswashing
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – Qatar’s treatment of foreign workers is a consequence of colonialism: The “kafala” system was the migrant labor governance structure put in place initially by British colonizers to preserve their own interests.
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10 Suggestions for Lula, New President of Brazil
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
28 Nov 2022 – Dear President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, when I visited you in prison on 30 Aug 2018, in the brief time that the visit lasted, I experienced a whirlwind of ideas and emotions that remain as vivid today as they were then.
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Who Benefits from Persistent Hunger?
Prof. George Kent | World Nutrition – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
I am writing this because an article of mine on ‘The Benefits of World Hunger’ was unclear. Some readers have taken it to mean I advocate having more hunger in the world. That was not my intention. I have been pushing for reduction of hunger for decades. I am writing this to explain my views relating to who benefits from hunger.
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Postpone Enforcement of CPTPP
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
29 Nov 2022 – A postponement of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership is necessary because it impinges on our sovereignty and affects the ability of Malaysia to protect its workers and people. If a dispute arouse, a decision by an international arbitration panel would be final; our local courts would have no say.
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Bad News: Headlines Are Indeed Getting more Negative and Angrier
David Rozado, Ruth Hughes and Jamin Halberstadt | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
27 Nov 2022 – New research shows that right-leaning media outlets tend to be more negative and angry. But the left peddles fear, too.
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NATO Narratives and Corporate Media Are Leading to ‘Doorstep of Doom’
Robin Andersen | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – Corporate media are failing democracy and to disclose our current, stark choice between war, life and the planet. They shout for more war in loud voices. They censor and poison public discourse and position North Americans as targets of propaganda—the denizens of empire—instead of citizen participants in a democracy.
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Prepare for a New World Order
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – The culture of war is so firmly established in the modern state that it will take a revolutionary change in global governance to move to a culture of peace. To understand the nature of revolutionary change, I turn to that old expert, Karl Marx.
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Be It Resolved: Don’t Trust Mainstream Media
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
1 Dec 2022 – My Opening Remarks for the Munk Debates in Toronto Tonight
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How Joe Biden Suckered Europe
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
29 Nov 2022 – Europe is lost for answers. Boxed in, the EU is failing the test of the war in Ukraine.
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Unequal Mercy
Helen Benedict | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Dec 2022
4 Dec 2022 – The West’s Approach to Refugees – Almost anyone would agree that war is horrifying and peaceful countries should do their best to help its victims.
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World Cup in Qatar Is “Deadliest Major Sporting Event” in History, Built on a Decade of Forced Labor
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
21 Nov 2022 – A look into Qatar’s labor and human rights record. Minky Worden, of Human Rights Watch, describes how millions of poor migrant workers have faced deadly, forced labor conditions on the $2 billion infrastructure. By one count, 6,500 migrant workers have died in Qatar since 2010, when it was awarded the hosting of the games.
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Did the World Make Progress on Climate Change? Here’s What Was Decided at CP27
Nathan Rott et al. | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
20 Nov 2022 – Contentious climate negotiations ended in Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt, as negotiators from around the world finalized a modest deal to help control global warming and pay for the costs of a hotter Earth.
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Sanctions: Another Form of War on Designated Enemies
Kathleen Malley-Morrison | MAPA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
18 Nov 2022 – Both the UN and illegal US sanctions have had disastrous effects on millions of people, effects that violate both the UN charter and the UDHR. Research in 69 countries showed that sanctions lowered infant weight and increased the likelihood of death before age three.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
23 Nov 2022 – Thanks to the 21 Nov US-imposed sanctions, Eritrea has been excluded from the SWIFT system along with Russia, Iran, and North Korea. Now American Enterprise Institute fanatic Michael Rubin wants it on the US list of state sponsored terrorists along with Cuba, North Korea, and Syria—triggering sanctions that penalize persons and countries trading with Eritrea.
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73% of the World’s Population Did Not Call for Russian Reparations to Ukraine
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
On 14 Nov 2022, the UNGA passed a resolution (A/ES-11/L.6) calling for Russia to pay war reparations to Ukraine. The majority of the world’s countries simply did not support this resolution:
99 NOT VOTING IN FAVOR (AGAINST, ABSTENTION or NOT VOTING)
93 IN FAVOR
Crimes against the Innocent Child
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
21 Nov 2022 – In addition to the reported brutalities, many more crimes against children continue amidst worldwide impunity. The following are just some tragic examples.
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Heal the World (Music Video of the Week)
Michael Jackson | RAM's F.M. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Ukraine and Russia –> Peace Not War 2022
→ read full articleIndigenous People Push Back Against US ‘Thanksgiving Mythology’
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
24 Nov 2022 – “We will not stop telling the truth about the Thanksgiving story and what happened to our ancestors,” says Kisha James, whose grandfather founded the National Day of Mourning in 1970.
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Every Child Has a Right to Realize the Human Potential
Yasmine Sherif | ECW - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
20 Nov 2022 – Racism and discrimination against children on the basis of their ethnicity, language and religion remain widespread in many countries. Statement by Yasmine Sherif, Director of ‘ECW-Education Cannot Wait’
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Zelensky Trapped by Moscow and Washington
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
22 Nov 2022 – The balance of power on the Ukrainian battlefield and the tragic episode of the G20 in Bali mark the first time the West has failed to impose its worldview on the rest of the planet. The USA has already begun secret negotiations with Russia to let go of Ukraine and blame solely Volodymyr Zelensky. As in Afghanistan, the awakening will be brutal.
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Interpol Arrest Warrant Issued for Angolan Billionaire Isabel dos Santos
Fergus Shiel and Micael Pereira | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
19 Nov 2022 – The daughter of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos was the subject of the ICIJ 2020 Luanda Leaks investigation. Sources say the warrant relates to allegedly corrupt dealings exposed.
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Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces Are Defending Their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism
Eva Bartlett | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
19 Nov 2022 – Western Media Inverted Reality, Lauding Nazis and Demonizing Defenders: The U.S. is widely understood to be a key instigator behind conflict in Ukraine that has pitted brother against brother.
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A Thanksgiving Reminder
Daniel Medina | TK Editorial Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
24 Nov 2022 – Happy Thanksgiving, sucker…
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The U.S. Military Pledged to Remove Unexploded Bombs from This Island–Native Hawaiians Are Still Waiting
Rob Perez | Honolulu Star-Advertiser/ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
26 Nov 2022 – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is leading the remediation effort, has been plagued by shoddy work and multiple regulatory disputes, according to an investigation by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica.
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Georgian Legion Carries Out ISIS-Style Executions in Ukraine—with Covert U.S. Support
Evan Reif | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
23 Nov 2022 – U.S. has a long history of subcontracting dirty counterinsurgency operations to brutal proxy forces–the Georgian Legion, which stands out among the many right-wing militias of Ukraine, is but the latest.
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Israel Has Jailed 50,000 Palestinian Children since 1967, and the Number of Detentions Is Growing Rapidly: Report
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
23 Nov 2022 – The Palestinian Commission on Detainees and Ex-Detainees released a report for World Children’s Day on the routine Israeli arrest and jailing of minors, saying that Palestinian children are not secure from being constantly targeted by Israeli security forces.
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Their Children Struggled with Addiction—Now They’re Fighting against the War on Drugs
Troy Farah | Salon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
26 Nov 2022 – A growing number of parents see the war on drugs as an abject failure that harmed their kids.
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(Italiano) Il risveglio arabo-musulmano e USA/Israele
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
Il risveglio arabo è contro la violenza e la corruzione a favore della democrazia, della crescita e dell’occupazione, e contro il dominio USA-Israele. Ma credere che l’Islam tolleri il secolarismo imposto è incredibilmente ingenuo. C’è un risveglio musulmano. Tuttavia, ci sono molti islam, come ci sono i cristiani e gli ebraismi. Come reagiscono USA-Israele e quale sarebbe una reazione positiva alla loro reazione?
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What Does the EU Parliament’s Designation of Russia as a ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’ Mean?
Rachel Marsden | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
24 Nov 2022 – The European Parliament’s non-binding resolution is a PR effort rooted in political agenda.
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While Crypto Bro Scammed Clients, Reporters Scammed Readers
Ari Paul | FAIR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
19 Nov 2022 – Before Bankman-Fried’s transition from financial genius to possible financial criminal, he received little scrutiny in the media.
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Biden Sides with Trump in Killing Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
27 Nov 2022 – Events in the U.S. and in Israel indicate that the Biden administration has decided to drop all notion of reviving the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action-JCPOA. Biden will hold to Trump’s position when he pulled the U.S. out of the pact in 2018.
→ read full articleBlack ‘Fraud-Days’ and the Shocking Cost of Staying Fashionable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
25 Nov 2022 – Please take a quick look at this short report before rushing to shop on a Black Friday, Christmas sales and all those long chains of big discounts and wholesales; most of them are fake, as often denounced by consumers organisations, which report that the business usually inflates prices before launching such deals.
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The COVID Pandemic Farce Served as a Trial Balloon for the New World Order
Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò | LifeSiteNews – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Nov 2022
22 Nov 2022 – Viganò’s Address to Medical Doctors for Covid Ethics International – “There can be no neutrality, because when there is a clash between two armies, those who choose not to fight are also making a choice that affects the outcome of the battle.”
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(Italiano) Elezioni israeliane 2022: una vittoria per i “coloni” colonialisti o per la lotta di Liberazione Palestinese?
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Non c’è dubbio che le elezioni israeliane 2022 del 1°novembre [U.S..] saranno d’importanza durevole. I mesi e gli anni a venire riveleranno se Israele consolida il suo status di stato coloniale di coloni o se la lotta palestinese aumenta la sua resistenza al dominio israeliano rafforzata da un crescente movimento di solidarietà globale.
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Don’t Be Fooled: Climate Disasters Are Highly Lucrative
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
17 Nov 2022 – Companies involved in manufacturing weapons of mass destruction, the nuclear warheads, have been supported by over 150 big banks by lending them money or underwriting bonds, according to ICAN’s ‘Don’t Bank on the Bomb’ report.
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Behaviors to Avoid at the Qatar 2022 FIFA World Cup
Reflect Your Respect | Twitter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
A FIFA spokesperson told Reuters that the poster is not an official 2022 World Cup document. It was made by a Qatari citizen group called “Reflect Your Respect.”
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Biden Travels East in Clouds of Mistrust
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
20 Nov 2022 – U.S. Joe Biden and Chinese Xi Jinping met for more than three hours at the G20 conference Nov 14-15 in Indonesia. China “is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and… the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to advance that objective,” Biden wrote in the U.S. Defense Strategy in Oct, a document focused on China and Russia as “threats” to U.S. hegemony.
→ read full articleImagining Partnership of the SDG Goals as Phases of the Cross
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Correspondence between cognitive internalization and collective strategic articulation.
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The U.S. Has Seen At Least 601 Mass Shootings This Year Alone
Ashley Ahn | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
20 Nov 2022 – In 2022 the US has seen at least 601 mass shootings, an average of 13 shootings a week according to the Gun Violence Archive, which defines a mass shooting as an incident where at least four people are shot or killed. The year 2021 saw 690 mass shootings, 2020 had 610, and 2019 had 417.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – Some billionaires, in particular in the Gulf oil-producing kingdoms, pose their buttocks on a solid-gold toilet around solid-gold faucets. The other side of the coin shows a shocking, different picture: 4 billion people –or about half of the world’s population– still live without access to a safe toilet and other sanitation facilities.
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Russia, India, China, Iran: The Quad That Really Matters
Pepe Escobar | PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – Southeast Asia is right at the center of international relations for a week with three consecutive summits: ASEAN in Phnom Penh, the G20 in Bali, and the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation in Bangkok.
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Western Allies Look to Ukraine as a Testing Ground for Weapons
Lara Jakes | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – Delta is one example of how Ukraine has become a testing ground for state-of-the-art weapons and information systems, and new ways to use them, that Western political officials and military commanders predict could shape warfare for generations to come.
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World Cup Stadium Workers ‘Had Their Money Stolen and Lives Ruined’, Says Rights Group
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
10 Nov 2022 – Report on conditions in Qatar alleges labour abuses are widespread and calls on FIFA to set up compensation fund.
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