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The Stage Is Set for US Combat Troops in Ukraine
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
11 Nov 2022 – If US forces join the fighting, the calculus for winning could change dramatically, but the strategic objectives would remain the same. No nation can be expected to live at peace when a gun is pointed at its head. That is why Putin opposed NATO membership for Ukraine, and that is why the current war is being fought.
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It’s Not Just Coca-Cola: Corporations Have Co-Opted the UN Climate Talks
Kate Yoder | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – COP27 is covered with logos. But that’s just the start of companies’ influence. The event is brought to you by the largest plastic producer in the world, Coca-Cola.
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Ursula K. Le Guin on Suffering and Getting to the Other Side of Pain
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
“All you have is what you are, and what you give.”
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Lost and Damaged: The UN’s COP27 Climate Summit
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
17 Nov 2022 – An estimated 30,000 people from around the world have descended on this Red Sea resort on the southern tip of the Sinai Peninsula. The summit is hosted by Egypt, a dictatorship propped up by billions of dollars annually in military aid from the United States.
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Betrayal All the Way Down (Part 1)
Diane Perlman | TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Whether we deal with our experience of betrayal consciously or unconsciously will make all of the difference. It is critical that we take an enlightened approach to get it right. Here I attempt a comprehensive, coherent and constructive analysis towards intentional, wisely designed strategies and processes, informed by social science, conflict analysis, psychology and history.
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Shatter Alley
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
I snuggle behind the wheel
and see
shards of glass
scattered across
the seat of my car.
Hawai’i: The Very First U.S. Regime Change
Jon D. Olsen | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – Illegitimate overthrow of Polynesian Queen Lili’uokalani of Hawai’i in 1893 marked beginning of more than a century of American regime-change operations.
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College Degrees Help Incarcerated People Take the Next Step to Freedom
M. Yayah Sandi | Prison Journalism Project - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
15 Nov 2022 – At East Jersey State Prison prior to 2013 the only rehabilitative program available was a high school equivalency diploma. The Prison Journalism Project trains incarcerated writers to become journalists and publishes their stories.
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Qatar: World Champion Human Rights Violators
Daniel Medina | TK Editorial Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Bloodied Trophy…
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Corporate Weapons Heaven Is a Hell on Earth
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
17 Nov 2022 – A Hall of Shame of U.S. Weapons Sales
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(Italiano) Cambiamento climatico: facciamo finta
Anthony Judge | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Perché dobbiamo fare qualcosa per il cambiamento climatico dopo la COP27?
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Jeffrey Sachs on World Peace, US Wars, NATO, and the Costs
Jeffrey Sachs | InvestoPads - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
12 Nov 2022 – Hegemonic USA Is Causing a Horrific Financial Crisis
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Eat Me
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
Help Yourself…
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A World Cup Stained with Blood and Bribery
Aram Aharonian | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – Qatar is a Soccer World Cup tainted by blood and corruption. The spread of these facts preoccupies the FIFA leadership which, less than 20 days before the start, asked the teams to focus on soccer and not on “sermons” on morality, dragging soccer “into ideological or political battles that exist”.
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Attempt to Try Russian Leaders for War Crimes Is Part of the West’s Weaponization of the ICC
Robin Philpot | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
14 Nov 2022 – International Criminal Court continues to serve as a “battering ram for U.S. and NATO policy,” as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it.
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US Nuclear Forces Chief: ‘The Big One Is Coming’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
6 Nov 2022 – The commander that oversees US nuclear forces delivered an ominous warning at a naval conference last week by calling the war in Ukraine a “warmup” for the “big one” that is to come. [Having fun yet?]
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Climate Change — Let’s Just Pretend
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
Why Do We Need to Do Anything Following COP27?
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TRANSCEND Members November Birthdays
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
We at TRANSCEND Media Service wish our distinguished members VANDANA SHIVA and RICHARD FALK 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!
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Urging Peace with Russia, Top US General Challenges DC’s Proxy War
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
12 Nov 2022 – A series of leaks, including a call for diplomacy from Gen. Mark Milley, show that some US officials are ready for a settlement in Ukraine. While US “diplomats” oppose diplomacy, White House officials would not be disclosing that Milley, the nation’s highest military officer, is challenging their stance if he were alone.
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Energy Bills in Europe Are 90% Higher Than Last Year
Irina Slav | Oilprice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
8 Nov 2022 – Electricity and gas prices are soaring across Europe, with bills close to double from last year in most European capitals, according to new data from the Household Energy Price Index—a monthly tracker of energy prices for households across 33 European capitals, including the 27 EU member states and several non-members.
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What Is Missing from the Climate Debate
Dr. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
7 Nov 2022 – “The destabilisation of the Earth’s climate systems is the consequence of violating the ecological processes and cycles of the earth, violating the Rights of the Earth, Rights of Indigenous People, and the Rights of Future Generations. — Dr. Vandana Shiva
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Hands off Haiti!!—No Military Intervention!!
Richard S. Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
12 Nov 2022 – The United States and Canada have delivered military machinery to Haiti under the suspicious title of “security equipment”; this “security equipment” includes armored and tactical vehicles to be used to strengthen the police to fight “criminal gangs.” It is reported that, by October 28, Haiti will receive additional delivery of military machinery.
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American-Born Canadian Professor Attacked by Mainstream Media for Opposing NATO Narrative on Ukraine
Aidan Jonah | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
6 Nov 2022 – A highly regarded Russia specialist in Canada, Prof. Michael Carley at the Univ. of Montreal, has refused to support the NATO narrative on the Ukraine conflict and has since been subjected to a vicious smear campaign. The “Carley Affair” can act as a warning of what to expect as the U.S. harbors more Ukrainian refugees.
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Market Lords, Much more than a War, behind World’s Food Crisis
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
11 Nov 2022 – While grain exports continue to flow to world’s markets, and Turkey-brokered agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resume cereals and fertilisers shipments from both countries, food prices are still skyrocketing. How come? “In each of the three global food crises studied, financial speculation has caused steep increases in prices, making food inaccessible to hundreds of millions of people.”
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What to Expect from Netanyahu & Religious Zionism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
A Preliminary Appraisal
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Germany: Is the Chancellor Betraying the US Emperor? The New Germany-China “Connection”
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
9 Nov 2022 – Before Olaf Scholz and Ursula von der Leyen, two Germans, were chosen to economically destroy Europe, they were indeed vetted for months by the neoliberal hegemons in Washington and the Pentagon/NATO.
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(Italiano) Non c’è pace senza giustizia. Ma non c’è giustizia senza pace
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
La violenza ha più forme: è bellica, armata, omicida, invasiva; ma c’è anche la violenza strutturale, incarnata nelle strutture economiche e sociali; e c’è anche, più profonda, la violenza culturale, quando è insediata nelle menti, nelle tradizioni onorate, nelle teorie, nelle antropologie che riconoscono fatale e insuperabile la violenza in tutte le sue forme. La violenza bellica è la più visibile, fragorosa e dolorosa
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U.S. Government Quietly Declassifies Post-9/11 Interview with Bush and Cheney
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
10 Nov 2022 – One of the most striking aspects of the interview conducted in 2004 is the apparent absence of even a glimmer of self-awareness by Bush about the significance of the death and destruction he was unleashing with his global war. He comes off as almost childishly simplistic in his insights and analysis.
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More Investment, Less Interference: How China Is Moving into ‘Washington’s Latin Hemisphere’
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
10 Nov 2022 – After decades [centuries?] of abuse by the U.S., some Latin American countries seem to find Beijing’s approach attractive.
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Will the U.S. War-for-Profit Capitalist System Lead to Nuclear Annihilation?
Leonard Goodman | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
9 Nov 2022 – The US continues to fan the flames of nuclear conflict with massive investments in the war department. How long can this last? A cancer on Earth.
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‘So Irresponsible’: US Condemned for Warning Australia against Joining Anti-Nuclear Treaty
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
9 Nov 2022 – Blackmail: The U.S. Embassy in Canberra warned Australian officials that the government’s decision to adopt an “abstain” position regarding the treaty—after five years of opposing it—would obstruct Australia’s reliance on American nuclear forces in case of a nuclear attack on the country.
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Fairytale (Music Video of the Week)
Alexander Rybak | Eurovision – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
Alexander Rybak represented Norway in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest and won the grand finale.
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Who Knew: We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
10 Nov 2022 – My title comes from a song sung by soldiers as they marched to hell in the trenches of World War I. We’re all lucky to still be here. If we continue to celebrate past wars and the soldiers who fought them in a sly homage to the greatness of war, we are doomed.
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(Italiano) Scienziati in affanno? Ai confini tra scienza, società e policy
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
La parola ‘affanno’ nel suo duplice significato – letterale e metaforico – mi sembra molto adatta a ispirare non solo il mondo scientifico – ma la società tutta, a mettere in atto un personale e collettivo satyagraha.
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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,
14 Nov 2022
A hymn of rage, a hymn of redemption, and a timeless love letter to the possible.
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Largesse: US Air Force Seeks the Aircraft Equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife
Stephen Losey | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Nov 2022
7 Nov 2022 – Preparing for a potential fight against China, weighing limited budgets and fleets, and looking for more capabilities from existing aircraft: if a C-130 can act as bomber, a bomber can serve as a cargo plane, the argument goes. Toys for the boys.
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Glaring Western Hypocrisy on Human Rights in Africa: Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
2 Nov 2022 – The US and EU are complicit in the Rwandan and Ugandan incursions into the DRC, as well as in their support of their TPLF proxies against Ethiopia. On a positive note, however, Ethiopians, Eritreans, Congolese, Rwandans, and Ugandans are speaking out about the West’s hypocrisy and interference and building PanAfrican ties.
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Putin Skewers US Ineptitude
Ray McGovern | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
1 Nov 2022 – Speaking on Oct. 27 at Valdai, Russian President Vladimir Putin questioned the sanity of those who would “spoil relations with China at the same time they are supplying billions-worth of weapons to Ukraine in a fight against Russia.” It turns out they come from the same stock of white-privileged, exceptional, ivy-mantled “Best and Brightest” that brought us Vietnam–this time brought by President Joe Biden.
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Human Rights Hypocrisy
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
1 Nov 2022 – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the great documents of history. With that in mind, it is especially ironic and unfortunate when human rights is used by the culture of war as part of its weaponry.
→ read full articleFyodor Dostoyevsky (11 Nov 1821 – 9 Feb 1881)
Gary Saul Morson | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
Dostoyevsky is usually regarded as one of the finest novelists who ever lived. Literary modernism, existentialism, and various schools of psychology, theology, and literary criticism have been profoundly shaped by his ideas. His works are often called prophetic because he so accurately predicted how Russia’s revolutionaries would behave if they came to power. In his time, he was also renowned for his activity as a journalist.
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Data Journalism: Why Usability Is More Than ‘Nice to Have’
Antonia Sanke interviews Christina Elmer | Deutsche Welle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
31 Oct 2022 – Christina Elmer is professor of Digital and Data Journalism at TU Dortmund University and a renowned data journalist in Germany. Why do media outlets need data journalism? She shares her expertise on how to become a data journalist and the future of digital media.
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Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.
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Top 5 Worst Things That Far-Right Netanyahu Could Do as Prime Minister
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
… to Israeli Democracy and Palestinian Society
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(Français) Hypocrisie à Propos des Droits Humains
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
La Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme est l’un des grands documents de l’histoire. Dans cet esprit, il est particulièrement ironique et malheureux que les droits de l’Homme soient utilisés par la culture de la guerre comme faisant partie de son armement.
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Unapologetic about Arguing for Peace
Ivana Nikolić Hughes | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
1 Nov 2022 – The lack of calls for peace in the mainstream is just the beginning of the problem. As some leaders like Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, Antonio Guterres and Noam Chomsky have called for peace, they’ve been quickly labeled as Putin apologists or worse. The Progressive Caucus in Congress sent a letter to President Biden urging a diplomatic solution, only to withdraw it a day later. When did peace become a bad word, a dirty word?
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Kremlin Says Talks on Ukraine Should First Be Held with US
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
30 Oct 2022 – Russian officials have repeatedly stated they’re open to talks with the US, but the Biden administration has no interest in diplomacy–quite the opposite.
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Oliver Stone | GlobalTreePictures - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
Ukraine’s 2014 Maidan Massacre helped oust President Yanukovych with Russia painted as the perpetrator. Oliver Stone interviews Russian President Vladimir Putin, Yanukovych and others exposing the role the U.S. played in destabilizing the region. Watch the full documentary below.
→ read full articleSpace Invaders, Continued
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
The Strange Case of the Brain-Eating Space Aliens
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The Truth about Cargill: The Most Evil Company
Lee Camp | Behind the Headlines - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
2 Nov 2022 – The agricultural conglomerate, Cargill Inc., is the largest privately-held corporation in the U.S. by a large margin, and the current price increases in the food market are driving their profits higher. Camp exposes their corrupt practices that are leading to such high returns.
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Revealed: The Former Israeli Spies Working in Top Jobs at Google, Facebook and Microsoft
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
31 Oct 2022 – A MintPress study has found that hundreds of former agents of the Israeli spying organization, Unit 8200, have positions of influence in the biggest tech companies, including Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Amazon. The Israeli Defense Forces’ Unit 8200 is infamous for surveilling the indigenous Palestinian population.
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Do No Harm: Compassionate Actions Supporting the Common Good
Wendy Wood, Ph.D. | The Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
As conflict practitioners and peacebuilders, engaging in ways that do not harm others or the planet requires that we are mindful and compassionate; that we use our words wisely and listen deeply; that we are authentic while embracing the ideals of equity and working for the common good; and that all are actions are accompanied with love and joy for the work we do.
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Disinformation, Absolutely
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
1 Nov 2022 – This is what our public discourse has come to. We in the USA have made a nonsense of ourselves. Our troubled republic sounds like an indecipherable cacophony amid which anything we say can be turned to mean other than what we mean. When we come across anyone who thinks differently than we do, we simply call him or her a disseminator of disinformation, a liar, and nothing more need be said.
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Entire World Votes 185 to 2 against Blockade of Cuba—US and Israel Are Rogue States at UN
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
4 Nov 2022 – For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the United States and Israel.
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New U.S. Sanctions Are Designed to Hit Nicaragua’s Poorest Citizens
John Perry | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
4 Nov 2022 – Mainstream media ridiculously claim that Nicaragua is a threat to U.S. national security when it has one of the lowest levels of defense spending in the world.
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More Than Six Decades of Sanctions on Cuba
Louis A. Pérez, Jr. | NACLA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
24 Oct 2022 – The Biden administration’s renewal of sanctions against Cuba reveals the folly of a long failed policy.
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American Horror: POTUS after POTUS Wronged This Old Pakistani Man
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Nov 2022
3 Nov 2022 – Saifullah Paracha, a 75-year-old Pakistani, was released last week (29 October) after 19 years in the dungeons of Guantanamo Bay for no crime. He won’t even get an apology.
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Musk Takes Twitter Helm, Enacts Sweeping Change as Deal Closes
Katie Roof, Ed Hammond and Kurt Wagner | Bloomberg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
28 Oct 2022 – Elon Musk wasted no time taking complete control of Twitter Inc. The billionaire appointed himself chief executive officer, dismissed senior management and immediately began reshaping strategy at one of the world’s most influential social media platforms as his $44 billion take-private deal closed.
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Why US Hegemony Is Incompatible with a ‘Rules-Based International Order’
Sam Fraser | Quincy Institute/Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
“It is clear that, going forward, the laudable goal of creating a global order based on international law and mutually agreeable rules of conduct is incompatible with U.S. hegemony — or for that matter, the hypothetical hegemony of any other power. Any state possessing a preponderance of power will, as the U.S. has, reject external restraints on that power. Any “rules-based order” put forward by a hegemon will be wielded in service of hegemony, not the other way around.”
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How Europe Has Navigated Its Energy Crises
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – A multifaceted response from Europe has so far prevented its energy woes from creating widespread social and economic destabilization. But with winter approaching, the crisis is far from over and risks are getting worse.
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India’s GM Mustard and the 30-Year Path to Food Tyranny
Colin Todhunter | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
27 Oct 2022 – A public interest litigation is currently before India’s Supreme Court which challenges the drive to commercialise the growing of genetically modified mustard in India. Yesterday, however, the country’s apex regulatory body – the Genetic Engineering Appraisal Committee – sanctioned commercialisation of the crop.
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The Fed’s Trading Scandal Broadens into a Scandal with the Mega Banks It “Regulates”
Pam Martens - Russ Martens | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
The president of the St. Louis Fed, James Bullard, gave a private, invitation-only briefing on Oct 14 2022 to clients of Citigroup, which received the largest bailout from the Fed in banking history–a sum of $2.5 trillion in secret loans according to a government audit.
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The Consortium Imposing the Growing Censorship Regime
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
30 Oct 2022 – The rapid escalation of online censorship, and increasingly offline censorship, cannot be overstated. The silencing tactic that has most commonly provoked attention and debate is the banning of particular posts or individuals by specific social media platforms. But the censorship regime that has been developed, and which is now rapidly escalating, extends far beyond those relatively limited punishments.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – European politicians continue to run in all directions to find a way out of their energy crisis. One of them, the Swiss Environment Minister, asked people to ‘shower together’.
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The Dark Origins of the Davos Great Reset
F. William Engdahl | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
Sci-Fi?
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
26 Oct 2022 – War between Ethiopia and the TPLF may be coming to an end, but the US is using sanctions to have the final word despite the apparent defeat of its proxy.
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The War in Ukraine: Made in Washington Not Moscow
Mike Whitney | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
No American president would allow a potential adversary to deploy their nuclear missiles to sites along the Mexican-American border. The risks to national security would be far-too great. In fact, Washington would remove those missile sites through force-of-arms without batting an eye. We all know that. So, why isn’t that same standard applied to Russia?
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I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For (Music Video of the Week)
Song Around The World | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
Featuring over 40 musicians from 13 countries who played several instruments and combined their magnificent voices.
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Diversity Debate Rages as Sunak, a British Indian, Becomes UK PM
Linah Alsaafin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – For the first time in UK’s history, the country has a non-white as its prime minister. At 42, Rishi Sunak, a Hindu, is the youngest prime minister in more than 200 years. The multimillionaire Oxford-educated former hedge fund boss is married to an Indian billionaire’s daughter and some doubt his policies will benefit underrepresented communities.
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How Google’s Ad Business Funds Disinformation around the World
Craig Silverman, Ruth Talbot, Jeff Kao and Anna Klühspies | ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
29 Oct 2022 – Google is funneling revenue to some of the web’s most prolific purveyors of false information in Europe, Latin America and Africa, a ProPublica investigation has found. The largest-ever analysis of Google’s ad practices on non-English-language websites reveals how the tech giant makes disinformation profitable.
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German Air Chief: F-35 Buy Safe despite Rising Inflation Costs
Vivienne Machi | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – Rising prices for everything have put some of Berlin’s up-arming plans into question. The air force’s multibillion-euro F-35 program, however, is expected to weather inflation-related cost increases intact, according to the service’s chief of staff.
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The Bottomless Pit of War Spending
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022 – The European Union is giving Ukraine €5 billion in exceptional macrofinancial assistance in addition to 9 billion provided by the EU-sponsored fundraising campaign. The US and EU have already donated 100 billion euros in military supplies to Kiev. These huge funds, coming directly and indirectly from our pockets, serve to fuel the war in the heart of Europe.
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(Italiano) Negoziare la pace in Ucraina ADESSO
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
27 Ottobre 2022 – Benché qualcuno consideri difficile o addirittura impossibile per gli ucraini e i russi fare la pace proprio adesso, questo è effettivamente un ottimo momento per negoziati quanto mai necessari al più presto per por termine a questa guerra immensamente distruttiva e sempre più pericolosa: negoziare la pace in Ucraina ADESSO
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Will the Lettuce Outlast All This?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
One third of all plastic waste ends up in soils or freshwater. Most of this plastic disintegrates into particles smaller than five millimetres, known as microplastics, and these break down further into nanoparticles.
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Act!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
If not HERE, WHERE?
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Progressive Democrats Retract Biden Ukraine Letter after Furious Debate
Ed Pilkington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
25 Oct 2022 – The chair of the progressive caucus of the US House of Representatives, Pramila Jayapal, has retracted a letter sent by 30 of the members urging Joe Biden to engage in direct talks with Russia to end the war in Ukraine following a heated debate within the Democratic party about future strategy over the conflict.
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Everybody Wants to Hop On the BRICS Express
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
28 Oct 2022 – Eurasia is about to get a whole lot larger as countries line up to join the Chinese and Russian-led BRICS and SCO, to the detriment of the West.
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NATO Rehearsed for an Amphibious Assault on Eastern Ukraine Using Ukrainian Naval Bases Acquired in Agreement with the UK
Arnaud Develay | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
26 Oct 2022 – Documents Reveal: Russia felt it had to act in self-defense in special military operation to thwart U.S.-UK-NATO provocations and aggression and save people of the Donbas.
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The ‘War of Terror’ about to Hit Europe
Pepe Escobar | PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
24 Oct 2022 – Never underestimate a wounded and decaying Empire collapsing in real time. Imperial functionaries, even in a “diplomatic” capacity, continue to brazenly declare that their exceptionalist control over the world is mandatory. The blowing up of Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2, everybody knows who did it, but the perpetrator cannot be named.
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’24 Hours of Hell’: Israeli Settler Gangs Terrorize Palestinian Town under Army Protection
Yumna Patel | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
14 Oct 2022 – Israeli settlers continued their attack on the Palestinian town of Huwwara in the northern occupied West Bank, vandalizing several storefronts, vehicles and homes–escorted and enabled by the Israeli army that fired live ammunition at Palestinians in the town.
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Palestine/Israel: Australia Hammers Final Nail in US ‘Deal of the Century’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
On 17 Oct 2022, the Australian government announced it is revoking its 2018 recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. Expectedly, the new decision was strongly criticized by Israel, celebrated by Palestinians, and welcomed by Arab countries. As long as Palestinians continue to resist and fight for their freedom and international solidarity continues to grow around them, the Palestinian cause will remain central to all Arabs and to all conscientious people around the world.
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Strategy to Open the Door for a New UN and for an Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2022
29 Oct 2022 – The United Nation’s primary job is to end war. It hasn’t worked. It could not prevent the devastating criminal invasion of Iraq by the US, and now it’s Russia against US/Ukraine. To add to the frustrating madness, US/NATO promises a future war against China over Taiwan. The UN needs a world federal constitution.
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Eliciting Potential Patterns of Governance from 16 Sustainable Development Goals
Anthony Judge, Ph.D. | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Interactive Exploration of Goal 17 through a Polyhedral Compound of 16 Tetrahedra in 3D
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The Pentagon Loves First-Person Shooter Video Games
Laura Bartkowiak and Brian J. Sullivan | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
19 Oct 2022 – Video games are the most popular entertainment media on the planet — and one of the American war machine’s most effective propaganda tools.
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Rural Women Work the Hardest, Produce the Most, Eat the Least
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
17 Oct 2022 – Make no mistake. Violence against women has been perpetuated, specially when it comes to those who have already been deprived of their basic human rights, as it is the case of rural women in over two-thirds of the world.
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Chelsea Manning’s Book Further Complicates US Government’s Case against Julian Assange
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
20 Oct 2022 – The US government’s theory of the case against Assange depends upon a narrative that involves Assange recruiting Manning to leak documents to WikiLeaks. Facts have always conflicted with this conspiracy theory, and Manning raises a few of these facts in her new book, README.txt, which further complicates the prosecutors’ case.
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(Italiano) Fermare la guerra in Ucraina, prima che sia troppo tardi!
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
18 Ottobre 2022 – Il tema di come affrontare e fermare la guerra in Ucraina continua a essere molto controverso e divisivo. Anche nel caso che non si dovesse giungere fino a ciò, una vittoria militare non porterebbe alcuna pace, ma porrebbe solo le basi per un prossimo conflitto.
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Call on the Future of Humanity
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
A webinar to build a global community of endorsers to work for a better future for this lonely endangered planet.
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Two New Books Explore Pernicious Impact of U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
17 Oct 2022 – Credibility is low these days for the U.S. government, politicians and the mainstream media. Sorting through news reports for reliable fact and analysis would make George Orwell weep. How ideologies of American exceptionalism and innocence have inoculated public from human suffering meted out in their name.
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U.S. Senate to Give Taiwan $10 Billion in Military Aid
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
17 Oct 2022 – The Senate’s effort comes as tensions are soaring between the US and China whose unprecedented military drills in response to Nancy Pelosi visiting Taiwan make it clear that more US military support will only make a conflict more likely.
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The Europeans Have Been Nicely Played by the Americans
Amb. MK Bhadrakumar | The Tribune India - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – Two massive terrorist strikes in quick succession misfired spectacularly in the Ukraine war: on Nord Stream gas pipelines and on the Crimean Bridge. Basically, the Biden administration created a contrived energy crisis whose real aim is war profiteering. The Crimean Bridge attack of 8 Oct is much more serious.
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The Parts of Chelsea Manning’s Book Censored by the US Government
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – The US government censored parts of Chelsea Manning’s new book, where she attempted to describe the information she provided to WikiLeaks in 2010. Manning says she wrote README.txt because she had not really been able to tell her story, and this book was a “first draft of history” from her perspective.
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Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – Despite the economically disastrous impact the Nord Stream pipeline sabotage will have on Europe, Western media still holds its tongue about it.
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Bordering on Failure: A Tale of Discovering the Three Rules of Conflict
Duncan Autrey, MA | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
How I discovered the Three Rules for Transforming Conflict while working on border conflicts in Ecuador. Poignant lessons about the essential nature of conflict and the existential value of improving our political, social, and environmental discourse. They present a guide to improving collective decision making; teach us to get clear on what the conflict is really about; to include everyone who is involved; and to ensure that the process of transformation is aligned with the desired outcome. Win-Lose processes are dividing us, impeding our healing and progress.
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Objective Reality: Threat or Menace?
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
10 Oct 2022 – Soap Opera USA
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16 Life-Learnings from 16 Years of The Marginalian
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022 – The Marginalian was born as a plain-text newsletter to seven friends on October 23, 2006, under the outgrown name Brain Pickings. Reflections on keeping the soul intact and alive and worthy of itself.
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(Italiano) Iran: L’evoluzione dei simboli della protesta
René Wadlow | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Sempre più spesso, i temi simbolici delle proteste si stanno spostando dall’attenzione alle restrizioni imposte alle donne alla natura stessa del regime clericale. L’ayatollah Khamenei è anziano e non sta bene. Non c’è un ovvio sostituto in caso di sua morte. La situazione in Iran merita di essere osservata da vicino.
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Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
22 Oct 2022 – Let me tell you a story about a haunted house and all the thoughts it evoked in me. Do we believe we can save ourselves by saving things? Or do our saved possessions come to possess their saviors?
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: la scalata verso l’oblio
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
Washington non solo ha mobilitato il mondo per denunciare l’aggressione della Russia, ma ha fornito armi avanzate in grandi quantità agli ucraini per resistere all’attacco russo, e ha fatto tutto il possibile all’ONU e altrove per costruire una coalizione punitiva ostile alla Russia, accompagnando il tutto con una serie di sanzioni e la demonizzazione di Putin. Questa prospettiva di propaganda di Stato è stata fedelmente veicolata da un filtro mediatico occidentale autocensurante.
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Getting to Yes: What U.S. Africa Command Doesn’t Want You to Know
Nick Turse | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022 – What’s the U.S. military doing in Africa? It’s an enigma, wrapped in a riddle, straight-jacketed in secrecy, and hogtied by red tape. Or at least it would be if it were up to the Pentagon.
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