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(Português) Marcação animal é barbárie institucionalizada
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
“Escolha dos ‘instrumentos’ só leva em conta eficiência e menor custo – sem anestesia ou alívio para dor. Talvez haja medonho prazer nessa violação. E devo duvidar que não?”
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The Tragic Absurdity of Qatar’s World Cup Sportswashing
Dave Zirin | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Were there not so much suffering involved, the Qatar 2022 World Cup would be an absurdist parody of sportswashing. Labor abuses, homophobia, corruption? Qatar and FIFA will use the men’s World Cup to put a happy gloss on it all.
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Europe Dumps Its Climate Commitments after Facing Shortage of Russian Gas
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – The quick shift by rich European countries to “dirty” energy sources such as coal instead of managing demands raises serious concerns about the fate of global climate action and the future of the environmental movement.
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Who Is to Blame for Inflation? The Power Brokers of Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong – A half-century long strategy, led by corporations, Wall Street, governments, and central banks, is coming undone. As a result, the West’s authorities now face an impossible choice: push conglomerates and states into cascading bankruptcies or allow inflation to go unchecked.
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Nuclear-Armed Powers Squander $156.000 per Minute on Their MAD Policy
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
24 Jun 2022 – They call it MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction. It is about the nuclear-armed powers’ doctrine of military strategy and national security policy. And they spent on their MAD policy more than 156.000 US dollars, every single minute, in just one year–2021.
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Assange Put on Suicide Watch after Patel Decision, Father Says
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – John Shipton said Julian Assange was stripped naked and put in an empty cell to prevent him from killing himself over the home secretary’s decision to sign his extradition order.
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(Italiano) I migranti tengono in vita un miliardo di persone… nonostante le difficoltà inenarrabili
Baher Kamal | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
15 giu 2022 – Ecco un altro dato: 230 milioni di lavoratori migranti sono oggi un’importante fonte di salvezza per un miliardo di persone che muoiono di fame nelle comunità più povere del mondo, oltre che un’ancora di salvezza vitale per l’economia dei loro Paesi d’origine.
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The Paradoxical Seeds of the Holocaust: Oppression and Death Live on in the Apartheid State
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – It is becoming increasingly difficult for Israel and the agencies that promote Zionism around the world to portray Zionism in rosy colors.
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St. Petersburg Sets the Stage for the War of Economic Corridors
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
18 Jun 2022 – In St. Petersburg, the world’s new powers gather to upend the US-concocted “rules-based order” and reconnect the globe their way.
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The Wide Role Brazil’s Military Has Played in the Destruction of the Amazon
Pedro Marin | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
23 Jun 2022 – In the Brazilian Amazon, as deforestation reaches record levels and rivers are increasingly polluted, the illegal gold mining contributing to these problems continues largely unabated. The response of the government has been to increase military action to curb environmental crimes in Brazil. Far from achieving this purpose, however, the military intervention has only led to tragedies in the region, directly or indirectly.
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Glenn Durland Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Prophet of Nonkilling
David Krieger | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
I wrote this in 2010, the year in which Glenn received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. It is about Glenn’s great transformation in life from a successful academic to a prophet of nonkilling. I’ve left the article in the present tense, and believe that Glenn lives on in the hearts and minds of the many people he inspired with his commitment to and leadership for a nonkilling world.
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Fear and Loathing: The US Travel Guide to the World
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
21 Jun 2022 – The US state department really wants travelling Americans to be wary of the ‘dangerous’ world their country helped create.
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‘Rationality Is Not Permitted’: Chomsky on Russia, Ukraine and the Price of Media Censorship
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
23 Jun 2022 – The unprecedented control and censorship over the Ukraine war narrative is because western governments do not want their public to know that the world is vastly changing. Ignorance might be bliss, but not in this case.
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Angry? Careful!
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
Irrationality of Anger
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The Triumph of Death
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.
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Human Rights and Confronting China Geopolitically
Richard Falk and Alfred de Zayas | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – Breakthrough success of Bachelet’s HRC mission to China. We decry those who distort such an achievement to continue to rationalize confronting China coercively. Opportunism in relation to human rights is not a path to peace and justice. Rather than provoking a critical storm the mission, in our judgment, should have been applauded with a sustained shout of BRAVO!
→ read full articleDespite Unspeakable Hardships, Migrants Keep One Billion People Alive
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 2022 – Here goes another fact: 230 million migrant workers are now a major life-saving source for up to one billion people starving in the world’s poorest communities, as well as a vital lifeline for the economy of their countries of origin.
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Of Course, the UN’s Michelle Bachelet Should Be Criticised for Her Visit to China
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – After years of preparations, Michelle Bachelet went to China, had a zoom conversation with President Xi Jinping and visited Xinjiang. Why is she forced out? She did not adhere to the US Cold War agenda but established a dialogue with China instead of confrontation and provocation. She works for human rights – the Cold War campaigners use human rights as a political tool.
→ read full article‘Another Dark Day’: UK Government Approves Assange’s Extradition to United States
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
17 Jun 2022 – UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US. Her decision was immediately condemned by human rights and press freedom organizations. The Assange legal team planned to submit an appeal in the High Court of Justice challenging how extradition law was interpreted.
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Will the Global South Break Free from Dollarized Debt?
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – In his latest book, economist Michael Hudson pits socialism against finance capitalism and tears apart the ‘dream civilization’ imposed by the 1 percent.
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India Is Becoming a Hindu-Fascist Enterprise
Arundhati Roy | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
17 Jun 2022 – The practice of bulldozing Muslim homes and businesses for purely punitive reasons is proof that India is ‘transitioning pretty brazenly into a criminal Hindu fascist enterprise.’
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(Italiano) Dalla giustizia ambientale alla giustizia climatica
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
Non c’è pace senza giustizia: questo è uno degli slogan che accompagnano le manifestazioni e i presìdi organizzati da associazioni e gruppi della società civile per protestare contro i conflitti armati che in tante parti del mondo portano ancora oggi morte e devastazione.
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(Italiano) Una carestia su vasta scala
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
Fra i maggiori pericoli per la civiltà umana ci sono la guerra nucleare e un mutamento climatico catastrofico, pericoli che minacciano anche la biosfera. Inoltre, siamo di fronte alla minaccia di una carestia su vasta scala, che coinvolge miliardi di persone, non solo milioni.
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Gustavo Petro Wins Colombian Election, Makes History as Country’s First Leftist President
Genevieve Glatsky, Julie Turkewitz, et al. | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
20 Jun 2022 – A former rebel and longtime legislator won Colombia’s presidential election yesterday, galvanizing voters frustrated by decades of poverty and inequality under conservative leaders.
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US Department of Defense Finally Admits in Public Document that There Are 46 US Military-Funded Biolabs in Ukraine
Jim Hoft | Gateway Pundit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
The Pentagon on Thursday [9 Jun] finally admitted in a public statement that there are 46 US-funded biolabs in Ukraine. This is after months of lies and denials by Democrats, Biden, and their fake news mainstream media!
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Embracing the Complexity of Peace
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 2022 – Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars. One can also quickly, unavoidably imagine the cynicism that rushes in whenever someone tosses out the word “peace.” Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars.
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Is There Life After Death?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – A review of ‘James and Whitehead on Life after Death’ by David Ray Griffin – The meaning of death, and whether humans do or do not survive it in some form, has always obsessed people, from the average person to the great artists and thinkers. Death is the mother of philosophy and all the arts and sciences.
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Deon and Telos: How Journalisms Are Evolving Their Ethical Approaches
Jake Lynch | MDPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Aug 2021 – This article belongs to the Special Issue, Beyond Fake News and Fact-Checking: The Political, Social and Technological Consequences of the Battle Against Misinformation and Disinformation.
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Welcome to a Science-Fiction Planet
David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – How George Orwell’s Doublethink Became the Way of the World – The remarkable 93-year-old Noam Chomsky put the Ukraine War in the largest and most devastating context possible in an interview with Alternative Radio’s David Barsamian.
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Why Does the United States Have a Military Base in Ghana?
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 2022 – An interview with Kwesi Pratt Jr., a journalist and leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana.
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What Is ‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’? Inside China’s Economic Model
Ben Norton | Multipolarista - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
22 May 2022 – How does socialism with Chinese characteristics differ from Western neoliberal capitalism? Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton discussed China’s socialist model with economist John Ross, a senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China.
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New Bill That Passed U.S. House Reinvokes Old Russian Bogeyman as Pretext for More Intervention in Africa
Richard S. Dunn | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
14 Jun 2022 – Liberal Democrats shamefully all voted for the “Countering Malign Russian Influence Activities in Africa” Act—seems like relic from bygone era.
→ read full articleCan Social Media and Democracy Co-exist? A Conversation with Frances Haugen (Podcast)
Mark Blyth | Rhodes Center Podcast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
27 May 2022 – From 2019 to 2021, Frances Haugen worked as a Product Manager in Facebook’s Civic Integrity Department. During that time she got an inside view into how Facebook’s algorithms are deliberately designed to influence its users. She also saw something deeply worrying: that this influence was often used to grow Facebook’s profits at the expense of users’ safety and wellbeing.
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Herman Melville’s Passionate, Beautiful, Heartbreaking Love Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
“Your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God’s… The divine magnet is in you, and my magnet responds.”
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Doctor’s Orders: ‘Do Not Extradite Assange’
Doctors for Assange | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022 – Ahead of the U.K. Home Secretary’s decision on whether to extradite Julian Assange to the United States, a group of more than 300 doctors representing 35 countries have told Priti Patel that approving his extradition would be “medically and ethically unacceptable”.
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Returning to Realism: The Other Face of the Ukraine Crisis
Mohamed Mahad D. Darar | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
12 Jun 2022 – The debate over the driving force behind Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has divided the West into two major camps: one renders Russia’s offensive as Putin’s grand scheme to resuscitate the Soviet Empire, while the other portrays Russia’s aggression as Putin’s response to the expansion of NATO to Russia’s neighbors. While both arguments merit serious attention, both ignore a crucial connection.
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Why Won’t Europe Call for an End to This War?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022 – Manipulation of the news around Russia’s war on Ukraine is to prevent a lasting peace for both Ukraine and the region. The aim is to prolong the war to serve the interests of those who wish to promote it. How does one know facts from lies, and how can one learn to explain events without being accused of justification?
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Constrained, Unconstrained and Surprised in a Global Context
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Encountering Black Swans with Insights of the Frog-in-the-Well and Turtle of Chinese Fable
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We Need a Culture of Nonviolence
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – The culture of violence is failing us. It’s time to change everything. U.S. society is defined by a culture of violence. This year, Campaign Nonviolence’s Action Days aim to build momentum toward a radical, nonviolent future.
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African Union Leaders Meet with Russian Government amid Escalating Food Crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – The Russian special military operations in neighboring Ukraine have brought to the surface a number of persistent economic problems which have plagued the world since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that emerged during the early months of 2020.
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Secretive Bilderberg Meetings of ‘Spies, War Hawks and World Leaders’ Escape Media Scrutiny
Susan C. Olmstead | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – A secretive meeting of more than 100 of the world’s most powerful people just took place in a Washington, D.C. hotel behind closed doors and under tight security — while few reporters even took note.
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Why Are We Risking Nuclear War over Ukraine? Have We Gone Mad? (MUST WATCH)
Col. Richard Black (ret.) | Schiller Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Col. Richard Black (ret.), former head of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon and former Virginia State Senator, addresses the May 26 Schiller Institute conference.
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Ukraine and the Risk of Geopolitical Conflict — A Reawakening to Nuclear Dangers?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
11 Jun 2022 – The risk of nuclear escalation has been subject of debate in the US. These debates reveal those who dismiss Russian references to nuclear capabilities as mere saber rattling to those who worry that if Putin finds his back to the wall in Ukraine, he may resort to tactical nuclear strikes.
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The Food Shortage Solution in Your Own Backyard
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – A confluence of crises—lockdowns and business closures, mandates and worker shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation, sanctions and war—have compounded to trigger food shortages; and we have been warned that they may last longer than the food stored in our pantries. What to do?
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Chad Declares Food Emergency While International Agencies Sound the Alarm
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – There have been 20 hunger hotspots listed by UN humanitarian organizations while underlying problems remain unaddressed. Two of the major UN agencies are warning of the potential for widespread hunger and famine in several geopolitical regions of the world.
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(Italiano) Legami USA al Nazismo
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Volonterosa sospensione d’incredulità: il pericolo di trascurare i legami USA al nazismo
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Storms at the Summit of the Americas
Rosa Miriam Elizalde | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 was a bad day for Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Organization of American States at the Summit of the Americas. A young man declared to him what he is: an assassin and puppet of the White House, instigator of the coup in Bolivia.
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Chemtrails Are Not Contrails: The Face of Evil
Nick Rogers | Our Geoengineering Age - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
22 May 2022 -This book is an indispensable addition to the growing swath of evidence implicating governments, health agencies, medical establishments, and media the world over in one of–if not the greatest and most deadly–cover-ups of all time.
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Summit of the Americas Fails: Boycott by Presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – As the US government’s Summit of the Americas opens in Los Angeles, California, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, and Guatemala have refused to attend, protesting the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – 13 gun massacres this past weekend, at strip malls, nightclubs, graduation parties — with 16 people dying, many more injured — and the total number of such shootings so far in 2022 is 246. The country is on pace to match or surpass last year’s total, which is the worst on record.
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Bilderberg Meets in Washington: Bilderberg Does China–An Economic Hurricane Is Coming
Pepe Escobar | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – Discreetly, as under the radar as a looming virus, the 68th Bilderberg meeting is currently underway in Washington, D.C. Nothing to see here. No conspiracy theories about a “secret cabal”, please. This is just a docile, “diverse group of political leaders and experts” having a chat, a laugh, and a bubbly.
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Israeli Anti-Torture Body Refers Israel to International Criminal Court
Lubna Masarwa | Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
10 Jun 2022 – The Public Committee Against Torture in Israel has referred its own country to the International Criminal Court upon concluding that, after 30 years, Israel is “not interested and unable to stop the use of torture and abuse against Palestinians”.
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The Unbearable Reactions of Zelensky
Éric Denécé | CF2R/ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – If Russia is clearly the aggressor in this conflict, those who pushed it to this attack are undoubtedly the United States, NATO and the Zelensky government. It is essential never to forget it. If NATO had not been constantly expanding, and if Zelensky and his clique had not listened to the disastrous advice of their American mentors, we would not be here.
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Portugal as an Enduring Embarrassment of the Failure of the COVID Mass Vaccination Campaign
Daniel Horowitz | Conservative Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – Portugal has the highest vaccination rate in Europe. 94 percent (including young children) have received at least one dose, and 70% have received boosters. Yet, Portugal now has the highest case rate and COVID death rate per capita in Europe and the second highest COVID fatality rate in the world. Why?
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Rossiya TV Interviews Vladimir Putin
Presidential Executive Office | Kremlin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – This extensive interview on the global as well as European resource crisis provides more than statement of Russia’s perspective. It also frames issues structurally that need to be addressed in every capital and policy arena… However we judge the actions of Russia, and others, I see no advantage in having a political elite – including those in power – who wear their ignorance as some sort of insignia of rank. — Prof. Michael Brenner
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The Great Fish Robbery
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
6 Jun 2022 – Now it comes to another ‘crime’ being stealthy committed as a consequence of the unrelenting obsession for making more and more money. It is about the illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, a practice that threatens marine biodiversity, livelihoods, exacerbates poverty, and augments food insecurity.
→ read full articleWhat If a Patient Unplugged the Oxygen Tube That Keeps Her or Him Alive?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – Imagine a patient connected to a vital oxygen device to keep him or her breathing, thus alive. Then, imagine what would happen if this patient unplugged it. This is exactly what humans have been doing with the source of at least 50% of the whole Planet’s oxygen: the oceans. The ocean […]
→ read full articleThe Richest 1% Pollute More than the Poorest 50%
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
As an introduction to the World Environment Day on 5 June, this report deals with how the excesses of the world’s population, mostly in the wealthiest countries, are causing so much harm to Planet Earth.
→ read full articleFive More Planets Earth Urgently Needed
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – If everyone were to consume resources at the rate at which people in the United States, Canada and Luxembourg do, at least five Earths would be needed. But there is a problem… There is one Earth.
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U.S. Global Empire of Violence!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – The U.S. says weapons, weapons, and more weapons, are the solution for everything! More weapons for Ukraine! Arm teachers in schools! Put armed guards everywhere!
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Kissinger Nails It. For Once.
Michael Whitney | The Unz Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – Kissinger didn’t criticize the way the war in Ukraine is being conducted or the lack of progress on the ground. No. What Kissinger criticized was the policy itself, that’s what triggered the firestorm. He was throwing a bucket of cold water on the people who concocted this loony policy by telling them to their faces that they “got it wrong.”
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Ray McGovern and Scott Ritter on Ukraine, Russia, China
Ray McGovern | AntiWar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
29 May 2022 – Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern discuss China relations with Taiwan and the US, the lemming-like bloc heads now leading the NATO bloc, and Russian forces on the ground in Ukraine.
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Ode to Joy – Finale (Music Video of the Week)
Leonard Bernstein | Beethoven – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
Leonard Bernstein conducts the Vienna Philharmonic in Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. This is the final part of the piece, which contains the incredible Prestissimo Finale. In 1985, it was adopted by EU leaders as the official anthem of the European Union.
→ read full articleUpset with the Opulence of the Rich? But the World’s Children Are Paying the Bill
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – The excesses committed by rich people can be deadly–and in fact they are. Be it about food, energy or overall waste, such excesses have been depleting the world’s natural resources and pushing both current and future generations towards the edge of a predictable abyss.
→ read full articleAFRICOM: Black Skin, White Mask
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – Lt. General Michael Langley is poised to become the first black Four Star Marine Corps Officer and second black commander of AFRICOM—a neocolonial force to enable Western corporate pillage of Africa. We have seen Blacks assist in the subjugation of their own people before and it is not something to cheer about.
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Collapse of the Us Dollar
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – Two years ago I wrote that the dollar would lose its global role and be devalued. Reasons: the bloated military budget and national debt to pay for it, the blow-back effect of U.S. sanctions on other countries, and the reaction of countries such as Russia, China, Turkey and India to trade their dollars for gold. According to Zero Hedge, this trend has intensified.
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Plastic Recycling Doesn’t Work and Will Never Work
Judith Enck and Jan Dell | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – If the plastics industry is following the tobacco industry’s playbook, it may never admit to the failure of plastics recycling.
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Impact of Israeli Strike in Gaza Akin to Chemical Weapons, NGO Report Finds
Bethan McKernan and Hazem Balousha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – Shells fired at agrochemical warehouse created toxic plume that has left residents with health problems.
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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.
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The Great Carbon Capture Scam
Rex Weyler | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – We know that Big Oil hid knowledge of global heating for decades, but the captains of petroleum industry devised a plan to swindle money from the public purse by pretending to address the climate issue while using subsidies to increase oil production. One might say their scam was a stroke of genius. How it works.
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Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia (Part 5)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – I wish I could conclude on a lighter note, but summoning Gramsci’s “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will,” I can only resolve to share what I’ve learned back home and suggest that the US let Ethiopia live.
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Owned Again
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
This Modern World – 23 May 2022
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Best Case Scenario: Cheaper, Deeper, Faster, Better Solutions
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – A Court-Free Alternative for Reparative and Transformational Justice
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War AS Terrorism
Andrea Mazzarino | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – Conflicts We Can’t Win, Suffering We Don’t See
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How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – There are ways to defeat the billionaire class and many of these tactics have been pioneered or refined by Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative party in Seattle.
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Why Is Everything Broken?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
The U.S.A. and its allies are waging war on many fronts. It is a form of total war – cold, hot, medical, military, mind-control, spiritual, etc. – that demands a total response from us. None of us is completely innocent; we are all part of the deep evil that is happening all around us. But if we listen carefully, we might hear God asking for our help. For we need each other.
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(Français) Effondrement du Dollar Américain
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1er juin 2022 – Il y a deux ans, j’écrivais que le dollar perdrait son rôle mondial et serait dévalué. Raisons : le budget militaire gonflé et la dette nationale pour le payer, l’effet de retour des sanctions américaines sur d’autres pays et la réaction de pays comme la Russie, la Chine, la Turquie et l’Inde à échanger leurs dollars contre de l’or. Selon Zero Hedge, cette tendance s’est intensifiée.
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Italy Drops Last COVID Entry Rules, Ditches Testing and Vaccination Restrictions
Nichola Daunton | Euronews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
1 Jun 2022 – Italy will abolish all entry rules for international travellers from June 1. At present, unvaccinated tourists need to take a test before visiting the country – but this rule expires on May 31. Italy’s Health Ministry have indicated that it “will not be extended,” marking the end of all entry restrictions on travellers.
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Phase Three in Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – No amount of western military aid has been able to prevent Russia from achieving its military objective of liberating the entire territories of both Lugansk and Donetsk as Phase Three begins.
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Ensuring Dynamics of Sustainability by Appreciative Recognition of Evil
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Engaging Otherwise with the Paradoxes of Positive and Negative – Whilst the religions have long featured its existence in their theologies, the country world leader in science devoted no resources to evil and the responses required — unless the many “virtual wars” are to be seen as proxy wars to that end
→ read full articleThe Risk of Turning Planet Earth into a Giant Desert
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – The message is clear: three-quarters of the world’s population will be affected by drought by 2050. Does it sound too far in time? Well, your kids might be among the billions of humans living on a desertified planet.
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Westphalian Logic and Geopolitical Prudence in the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – The Ukraine War, its complexities and global spillover effects, have not been adequately depicted by either political leaders or the more influential media. Most commonly, the Ukraine War has been narrowly and reductively depicted as a simple matter of defending Ukraine against Russian aggression.
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U.S. Congress Holds First UFO Hearings in Fifty Years Just as Biden Administration Budgets Record $27.6 Billion for Space Weapons
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
On 17 May 2022, the U.S. Congress held its first hearings on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena —the new official name for Unidentified Flying Objects —in more than 50 years. Wernher von Braun, a Nazi scientist recruited under Operation Paperclip, said: “Weapons will be based in space—hence the need to create a psychological nexus whereby people will fear all things alien.”
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Funding the Ukraine Proxy War, Bernie Sanders and the Squad Abandon Progressives and Peace
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – By voting to enrich the US arms industry and escalate a proxy war against Russia, Congressional progressives are enabling a militarist agenda that threatens their political cause, and the planet.
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No Way Out but War
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Permanent war has cannibalized the country. It has created a social, political, and economic morass. Each new military debacle is another nail in the coffin of Pax Americana.
→ read full articleListen to Kissinger and CIA’s Burns and Compare with Populist Platitudes
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
19 May 2022 – This short article aims to merely illustrate – not prove – the difference between security political intellectualism and ignorance. It does not focus on peace simply because none of the personalities appearing below are in the business of peace.
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We Need a Real Debate about the Ukraine War
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – Bringing the war in Ukraine to an end will demand new thinking and challenges to the orthodoxies of this time.
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Guantanamo, Cuba: VII Symposium on the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases
Ann Wright | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – The Seventh Iteration of the Symposium on the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases Was Held May 4-6, 2022 in Guantanamo, Cuba, Near the 125-Year-Old US Naval Base Located a few Miles from the City of Guantanamo
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Mikhail Aleksandrovich Bakunin (30 May 1814 – 1 Jul 1876)
Alan Ryan | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Bakunin formulated no coherent body of doctrine, and his voluminous and vigorous writings were often left incomplete. Anarchist movements owing allegiance to Bakunin flourished in Italy and especially in Spain, where as late as 1936 the anarchists were the strongest revolutionary party. Bakunin died in Bern, Switzerland as chief propagator of 19th-century anarchism, a prominent Russian revolutionary agitator, and a prolific political writer.
→ read full articleThe Killing of Shireen Abu Akleh
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
28 May 2022 – The USA Must Demand a Credible Investigation into Shireen Abu Akleh’s Killing – The assassination sent shock waves throughout the Middle East as Shireen was known and respected as a trusted journalist. We keep waiting for a ‘Sharpville Moment’ with respect to Palestine and Israeli impunity. When will it come?
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Pandemic Created 1 New Billionaire Every 30 Hours, Now Millions Could Face ‘Extreme’ Poverty
Oxfam International | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
25 May 2022 – For every new billionaire created during the pandemic — one every 30 hours — nearly a million people could be pushed into extreme poverty in 2022 at nearly the same rate, according to Oxfam.
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Big Fossil’s Disaster Capitalist Response to Russia-Ukraine
Amy Westervelt | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
25 May 2022 – The industry moved quickly to capture the narrative, going from disinformation blitz to policy wins within a matter of weeks.
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‘Realist’ Kissinger Says Ukraine Must Give Up Land to Russia, Warns West Not to Seek to Humiliate Putin with Defeat
Tom Porter | Business Insider - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
24 May 2022 – Even for those of us who are not big fans of Henry Kissinger, his ‘Realpolitik’ comments yesterday to the World Economic Forum in Davos about what should be done in Ukraine requires careful consideration by Western leaders.
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(Italiano) Le mancate iniziative di pace in Ucraina
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Perché si parla così poco di pace per l’Ucraina? La comunità mondiale è davvero disposta a starsene seduta sulle mani mentre il paese viene distrutto? Non abbiamo alternative che raddoppiare il nostro patrocinio, nonostante i contraccolpi. Per la pace ci vuole tempo, mentre invece un consulto di fretta è un consulto di guerra. Ma può darsi che non abbiamo ere ed ere, perciò dobbiamo elaborare come fare una differenza.
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Sweden Poised to Join NATO as Part of Western Mobilization against Russia
Andi Olluri | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
28 May 2022 – Debates in the Country Follow Narrow Lines Defined by Government As Dissenting Voices Are Silenced
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Mass Shootings: American Exceptionalism of the Worst Kind
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
26 May 2022 – A shocking number of U.S. mass shootings take place in schools. According to the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, there have been 2,054 school shootings in the United States since 1970, with 681 deaths. Canada has had a total of eight school shootings in about the same time frame, from 1975, with a total of 31 victims killed.
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Emotional Reaction?
Bruce Lee | The Minds Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
Let it go…
→ read full articleUS Threatens Ethiopia and Eritrea with Illegal “Legal Designation of Genocide”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
25 May 2022 – The US is falsely accusing Ethiopia and Eritrea of hindering food aid and committing genocides in the ongoing war in Tigray. The charges are false and the US has no right to make such a claim on its own.
→ read full articleGoofball and Galahad
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
16 May 2022 – This Modern World
→ read full articleThe Rise of NATO in Africa
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 May 2022
In 2001, NATO conducted an “out of area” military operation in Afghanistan, which lasted 20 years, and in 2011, bombed Libya– its first major military operation in Africa–and overthrew its government. These were the prelude to a “Global NATO.” Anxiety about NATO’s expansion toward the Russian border is one of the causes of the current war in Ukraine.
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