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55% of Humanity Does Not Reject the Accession to Russia of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Oct 2022
21 Oct 2022 – just as with previous UNGA votes condemning Russia’s actions in Ukraine, the Western press, with maximum duplicity, continues to treat the 12 Oct vote as an resounding world condemnation of Russia, when in fact it is proof of the world majority’s refusal to condemn Russian actions in Ukraine.
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Geo-engineering Oversight Agency for Thermal Stabilization — GOATS
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – Geoengineering proposals for mitigating climate change continue to proliferate without being tested. It is time to select and assess the most promising ideas according to efficacy, cost, all aspects of risk and, importantly, their rate of mitigation.
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(Português) Eleições no Brasil: Tensão na reta final. E o day after?
Jean Marc von der Weid | Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
15 outubro 2022 – Texto analítico de Jean Marc com os vários cenários possíveis face à eleição no dia 30 de outubro e nos tempos subsequentes. Vale estar atentos, pois se trata de nossa sobrevivência como nação civilizada e sem os ódios e mentiras que marcaram o governo atual. — L. Boff
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(Italiano) Va’ a dire agli affamati che i loro alimenti li si stanno buttando nei rifiuti!
Baher Kamal | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Questi sono fatti, non supposizioni: circa 1.300 milioni di tonnellate di alimenti vanno sprecati e persi… ogni singolo anno, l’equivalente di oltre una tonnellata per ciascuno del miliardo di affamati, molti dei quali sono quelli che li hanno prodotti.
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The Latest Outrage
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
3 Oct 2022 – This Modern World
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Tulsi Gabbard Dares to Challenge Washington’s War Machine
Tony Cox | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – Tulsi Gabbard’s rapid transformation from rising Democratic star to demonized outcast–culminating this week with her decision to leave the party–has exposed the one thing on which every powerful person in Washington agree: war is good. The former presidential candidate has shown that opposing regime-change policies is the one taboo that the ruling class will not tolerate.
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Our Shared Addiction to Empire
Patrick Lawrence | Scheerpost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
If the Columbus myth has been thoroughly discounted, what is it that causes us to continue closing the banks, stopping the mail, and marching in parades on a Monday around October 12 each year?
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Africa, the Looted Continent
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
10 Oct 2022 – Africa. The birthplace of “Homo Sapiens.” The land of plenty. The home of over 1.3 billion humans, with 500 million plus living in extreme poverty, continues to be looted. It is a sort of graveyard for half of the world’s victims of terror and the land with the highest suicide rate on Earth. Why?
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Millions of Girls Abused in the Name of Fake, Toxic Masculinity
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – A common feature to religions – including the monotheistic ones – is that groups of males have self-proclaimed themselves as the source for interpreting the “Word of God,” shaping them, and spreading them among the peoples of good faith.
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Pipelines v. USA
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.
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The Flaws and Fantasies of the New Biden Doctrine
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
14 Oct 2022 – United States President Joe Biden’s newly released National Security Strategy is an amalgam of his predecessors’ doctrines. It is ambitious–and delusional–about America’s role in the world.
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Big Tech: Not Only Market but Also Knowledge and Information Gatekeepers
Cecilia Rikap | Institute for New Economic Thinking - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
How do we regulate an information utility?
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Will Saudi Leadership of OPEC Clash with U.S. Strategic Partnership?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Reevaluating US Relations with Saudi Arabia after OPEC+ Oil Production Cut
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The Thin Red Line: NATO Can’t Afford to Lose Kabul and Kiev
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Russia will not allow the Empire to control Ukraine, whatever it takes. That’s intrinsically linked to the future of the Greater Eurasia Partnership.
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The Non-West Coalesces
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
16 Oct 2022 – Nations representing more than 80 percent of the global population and a like percentage of global gross domestic product are perfectly capable of seeing the Biden administration’s pointed provocations and do not approve.
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(Português) Animais Devem Existir para Nos Servir?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
Reduzir animais a uma finalidade de consumo não anula capacidades dissociadas do consumo. Apesar de haver uma resistência de reconhecimento, esses animais, embora inaturais, manifestam características de sujeitos.
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Israel Authorizes Military to Kill Palestinians with Drones in West Bank
Marjorie Cohn | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
15 Oct 2022 – Commanders of the Israeli Occupying Forces have been authorized to use armed drones to kill Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Journalists who report the truth about Israel’s crimes incur the risk of being fired or even assassinated. Neither Israel nor the U.S. government and its corporate media will tolerate any criticism of the illegal Israeli occupation.
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Biden Administration Wants Kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab to “Suffer like Julian Assange,” according to UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights
Ed Rampell | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington’s onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela.
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The Fatal Attraction of the City
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
3 Oct 2022 – While cities are seen as a symbol of glamour and comfort for a number of their residents, over one billion people continue to live in overcrowded settlements with inadequate housing. And their number is rising every single day.
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How Private Interests and the Banking Dynasties Control Washington
Shane Quinn | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
13 Oct 2022 – The strongest branch of the Federal Reserve is the New York Federal Reserve Bank, which fell under the control of 8 long-established banking families. Only 4 of these dynasties hail from largely American backgrounds, which are Goldman Sachs, the Rockefellers, Lehman Brothers and Kuhn Loeb. The other 4 are the Rothschilds in Paris and London, the Warburgs from Germany, the Lazards from France and Israel Moses Sieff from Britain.
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Death by Nationalism?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – The irresolvable dilemma facing Western leaders is that this is a no-win situation. How can they militarily defeat Russia, when it possesses 6,000 nuclear warheads and its military doctrine explicitly states that it will use them before it will accept an existential military defeat? If a nuclear war happens, everyone on the planet is no more than a deportee.
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Open Letter to UNSG Antonio Guterres: The 2022 Nobel War Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
6 Oct 2022 – Nobel´s prize should each year serve to remind the nations of the world of the urgent need for demilitarization and for taking the UN Charter obligations very seriously. Unfortunately, the Norwegian award committee is betraying Nobel´s trust, breaking the law and deliberately acting in bad faith.
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Optimism of the Will
David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
And the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
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Pipeline Terror Is the 9/11 of the Raging Twenties
Pepe Escobar | PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – There’s no question that future unbiased historians will rank Russian President Vladimir Putin’s address on the Return of the Baby Bears – Donetsk, Lugansk, Kherson, and Zaporizhzhia – on 30 Sep as a landmark inflection point of the Raging Twenties.
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Iranian and Turkish Moves to Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization Raise Its Profile
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
7 Out 2022 – While far from being an alliance, the SCO is increasingly utilized for managing Eurasian affairs without traditional Western mechanisms and organizations.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – These are facts, not guesses: about 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted and lost… every single year, the equivalent of one ton per each of the one billion hungry people, many of them are those who produced the food.
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Deforestation 101: Everything You Need to Know
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Deforestation is the clearing of forested land with the purpose of converting it to be used for something other than forest, including the raising of livestock, agriculture, mining, development or other non-forest uses.
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The Military Industrial Media Complex Wants You to Be More Media (I)Literate!
Nolan Higdon | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – A true media literacy education empowers students to be autonomous and sophisticated media users, who ask their own questions about who controls media messaging and interrogate the power structures behind them. When a student is left dependent on the military industrial complex to analyze content for them, it is not education, it is indoctrination.
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Putin Grants Russian Citizenship to US Whistleblower Edward Snowden
Pjotr Sauer | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – Vladimir Putin signed a decree today granting Russian citizenship to the US whistleblower Edward Snowden, 39, a former intelligence contractor who has been living in Russia since 2013 after leaking secret files that revealed vast domestic and international surveillance operations by the NSA.
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The Democratic Party, Now the Leading Party of War
John V. Walsh | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
The prowar mentality among the progressive Dem pols is not limited to Biden’s cruel proxy war to the last Ukrainian. It extends to a second proxy war now being ginned up in Taiwan. When Nancy Pelosi recently visited the island to stir up secessionist sentiment, not a single progressive Democrat in Congress made so much as a peep of protest.
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‘End the War on Journalism and Free Assange’: Thousands Demand Release of WikiLeaks Founder
Kenny Stancil | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
9 Oct 2022 – Supporters of Julian Assange held a massive transatlantic protest yesterday to demand his freedom. In London, thousands formed a giant human chain around Britain’s parliament; in Washington D.C., people gathered outside the Department of Justice demanding that Attorney General Merrick Garland end U.S. attempts to extradite Assange.
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The Amazing Trumpkin
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – The Magician
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I Was Canceled for Criticizing Israel
Katie Halper | The Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – I contributed to The Hill TV’s “Rising” for three years. But one monologue defending Rep. Rashida Tlaib and Palestinians cost me my job.
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Blinken Says Nord Stream Sabotage Is a ‘Tremendous Opportunity’
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
2 Oct 2022 – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Friday [30 Sep] that the attacks on the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that connect Russia to Germany offer a “tremendous opportunity” to end Europe’s dependency on Russian energy.
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Religiousness, Spirituality, and IQ: Are They Linked?
Regan Clark | UC Davis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Abstract – Research has revealed a positive correlation between IQ and education, as well as a negative correlation between education and religiosity. However, there is little research linking IQ with religiosity and spirituality. Furthermore, researchers disagree about the operational definitions of religiousness and spirituality and about their relationship to one another.
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How Does the Russo-Ukrainian War End?
Timothy Snyder | Thinking about... - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Sometimes you change the subject, and sometimes the subject changes you.
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Friedrich Nietzsche (15 Oct 1844 – 25 Aug 1900)
Bernd Magnus | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Friedrich Nietzsche’s attempts to unmask the motives that underlie traditional Western religion, morality, and philosophy deeply affected generations of theologians, philosophers, psychologists, poets, novelists, and playwrights. He thought through the consequences of the triumph of the Enlightenment’s secularism, expressed in his observation that “God is dead.”
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Is This the End of ‘Socialism for the Rich’?
Yanis Varoufakis | The Atlantic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
5 Oct 2022 – Last Thursday [29 Sep], the International Monetary Fund spooked the markets and surprised the commentariat by chiding the U.K. conservative government for fiscal irresponsibility. The shock was palpable. The rebuke for tax cuts that will “increase inequality” is probably not the come-to-Jesus moment it might seem.
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Despite Calls for Diplomacy to End War, US Confirms More Weapons Headed to Ukraine
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
4 Oct 2022 – Proponents of a negotiated diplomatic solution to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine this week decried the Biden administration’s latest military assistance package for the embattled country, warning that the longer the fight continues, the greater the chance of a catastrophic nuclear war.
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The Myth of Normal”: Dr. Gabor Maté on Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
16 Sep 2022 – “The very values of a society are traumatizing for a lot of people,” says Maté. “Psychological trauma, woundedness, underlies much of what we call disease.” He also discusses how the healthcare system has harmfully promoted the “mechanization of birth” and how capitalism has fueled addiction and the rise of youth suicide rates.
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(Português) Até Quando a Crueldade Animal Será Normalizada?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
Se olhássemos para a realidade comum dos animais, sem a defensiva da priorização de nossos interesses, o que nos impediria de perceber que a violência é cotidiana e intrinsecamente cruel?
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Ukrainian Nobel Peace Prize Winner: “What We Need Today Is Weapons”
Alice Speri | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Oct 2022
“What we need today is weapons, and maybe it’s weird to hear that from a human rights lawyer, but I’ll be very honest with you: I have spent 20 years defending human rights, and now I have no legal instrument which has worked in this situation.”
— Oleksandra Matviichuk, head of Ukraine’s Center for Civil Liberties, recipient of the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Patagonia Partners with Planet Earth
Sohini Dey | The Voice of Fashion - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
American outdoor clothing retailer Patagonia has announced a new ownership. Corporate activism drives sales for the company, which will now transfer all additional profits for climate change initiatives, Yvon Chouinard, who founded Patagonia 50 years ago, announced on 14 Sep 2022.
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Imperialism and Capitalism Are ‘Bleeding the World Dry’: At UN, Nicaragua Calls for Global Rebellion
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
27 Sep 2022 – At the United Nations General Assembly, Nicaragua’s Sandinista government called for a global rebellion against the “imperialist and capitalist system” that is “bleeding the world dry.” Condemning illegal sanctions and war, it urged a new multipolar order.
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An Overview of US Nuclear Weapons and Arms Expenditure
Shane Quinn | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
29 Sep 2022 – By 2012, there were 750 US military bases globally and 1.4 million American troops, figures which are reported through today. Other estimates suggest more than 1,000 military installations abroad but even the Pentagon may not be sure of the exact number.
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The Everlasting Wonder of Being: How a Cold Cosmos Kindles the Glow of Consciousness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
How we went from quanta packages to the laughter of children on a summer afternoon.
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A New UN to Prevent the Sacrifice of Europe to the Nuclear Gods
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
The UN is stymied by its fatally flawed Charter. Despite the fact that the original purpose of the UN is to end “the scourge of war,” it has failed time and time again. While the UN has done much good, the world has seen over 250 wars since the Charter was signed.
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An Open Letter to Vladimir Putin from Roger Waters
Roger Waters | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – Recently I have been reading comments on social media, asking why I’ve written to Mrs Olena Zelenska but not to Mr Vladimir Putin. Very good question, I’m glad you asked, here it is.
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Russia Says US “Wrecked” Ukraine Talks, but Peace Is Still Possible
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
25 Sep 2022 – A US official rejects Putin’s claim that NATO sabotaged a “peaceful settlement” with Ukraine early in the war. The threat of US-Russia nuclear conflict is at its highest in decades, economic havoc is spreading, and more Ukrainian and Russian soldiers are being sent off to die. But it is not too late for diplomacy in this perilous moment.
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(Português) Devermos Combater Algumas Violências Contra Animais, mas Não Outras?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
Crueldade contra animais é algo que nunca é tão pequeno quanto tendemos a julgar que seja, a não ser quando minoramos o significado de “crueldade”.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
19 Sep 2022 – Sigh!
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Biden and Nuland Promised to Destroy Nordstream before the Russian Invasion
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
29 Sep 2022 – Surely, Russia has a tap – the kind you have on your kitchen sink – with which to stop the gas. Why then take the big risk with such a difficult and profound espionage attack? And if it was a signal to Denmark, why do it in international waters?
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On Loving the ‘Vietnam Syndrome’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
2 Oct 2022 – Never, in my opinion, is the country and world more in need of a second coming of the Vietnam Syndrome than at present, with pressures building for an existential nuclear confrontation more menacing to contemplate than was the Cuban Missile Crisis 60 years ago.
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Irony Officially Declared Dead as Israeli Foreign Ministry Decries Russian Annexation of Others’ Territory
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – I say irony is dead because Israel is among the worst actors in defying the norms of international law when it comes to gobbling up other people’s land.
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Led by Giorgia Meloni, Fascists Take Power in Italy for First Time Since Mussolini, WWII
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – “Yesterday’s Italian elections signal the absorption by the European and NATO establishment of Italian neo-fascism,” said Yanis Varoufakis. “The specter of fascism may once again be hovering over Europe. But, as in Greece, it is now fully integrated—and continues its misanthropic work—within the oligarchic European establishment.”
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Of the Mexican Joke and the Nuclear Top Guns
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
26 Sep 2022 – A Mexican joke goes: “I kill people for money. But you are my best friend, so I will kill you for nothing.” This seems to be the dominating thinking of the five permanent members of the so-called UN Security Council, which, according to their own definition, hold the “primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security.”
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Germany and EU Have Been Handed Over a Declaration of War
Pepe Escobar | PressTV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – The sabotage of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines in the Baltic Sea has ominously propelled ‘Disaster Capitalism’ to a whole new, toxic level.
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The Timing of the Pipeline Attack
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
28 Sep 2022 – The U.S. had already forced Germany to shut down Nord Stream 2 but there are signs that an end to the Ukraine war would have put it back online. Why then did someone attack the pipeline on Monday [26 Sep], releasing the gas it contained into the Baltic Sea?
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Only Adult Children Still Believe U.S. Propaganda
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Oct 2022
30 Sep 2022 – It should now be quite clear to any reasonable person that the Biden administration is hell-bent on destroying Russia and will risk nuclear war in doing so. It has already started World War III with its use of Ukraine to light the final match. The problem is that reasonable people are in very short supply.
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(Português) Onze Pistas Falsas sobre o Clima
Michael Löwy | Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
Contestação de lugares-comuns que dificultam o combate à mudança climática.
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Patagonia’s Billionaire Owner Gives Away Company to Fight Climate Crisis
Erin McCormick | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
15 Sep 2022 – Setting a new example in environmental corporate leadership, the billionaire owner of Patagonia is giving the entire company away to fight the Earth’s climate devastation, he announced yesterday.
→ read full articleOur Story So Far
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
12 Sep 2022 —> Boring…
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The Mirror of Enigmas: Chance, the Universe, and the Fragile Loveliness of Knowing Who We Are
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
“There is no human being on earth capable of declaring with certitude who he is.” It takes a great sobriety of spirit to know your own depths — and your limits. It takes a special grandeur of spirit to know the limits of your self-knowledge. (Jorge Luis Borges)
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Vaccine Narrative Collapses as Harvard Study Shows Jab More Dangerous than COVID
Jonas Vesterberg | The Florida Standard – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
14 Sep 2022 – As boosters that have not been tested on humans are being rolled out across the country, a new study indicates that the jab is far more dangerous than COVID-19 itself. And the CDC has provided false information regarding their tracking of adverse events linked to the vaccines.
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What Makes Ukraine Different from Serbia? Why Kosovo? Why Not Donbas?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
Defying Serbian Territorial Sovereignty in Kosovo, Upholding Ukrainian Territorial Sovereignty in the Donbas Region – The blind eye turned toward denials of the right of self-determination to the Palestinian people in what had been their own country of Palestine represents a flagrant example of international double standards.
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Sustainable Debt Slavery
Iain Davis and Whitney Webb | Unlimited Hangout – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
13 Sep 2022 – How the UN’s “sustainable development” policies, the SDGs, do not promote “sustainability,” as most conceive of it, but instead utilize the same debt imperialism long used by the Anglo-American empire to entrap nations in a new, equally predatory system of global financial governance.
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John Pilger’s 2014 Warning about Ukraine
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
24 Sep 2022 – In an article on May 13, 2014 in The Guardian, republished here, John Pilger warned the “U.S. is threatening to take the world to war” over Ukraine, words that have taken on new meaning.
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Brainwashed for War with Russia
Ray McGovern | Antiwar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
22 Sep 2022 – Most Americans are oblivious to the reality that Western media are owned and operated by the same corporations that make massive profits by helping to stoke small wars and then peddling the necessary weapons. Corporate leaders, and Ivy-mantled elites, educated to believe in U.S. “exceptionalism,” find the lucre and the luster too lucrative to be able to think straight.
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Western Myanmar as a Genocide Triangle
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
The Triangle:
– Myanmar’s Military-State;
– Separatist Rakhine Nationalists;
– Rohingya Genocide Victims.
– The erasure of a Genocide Convention-protected identity is a crucial part of any genocidal process. The Arakan Army is engaged in this process.
Racism, Nonkilling, and Shared Humanity
Bill Bhaneja | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022 – Ending racism is essentially about making each person equal, respectful and dignified as the other. To achieve this to the fullest, over the past two centuries the fight has continued globally in tackling racism at the international, national and individual levels. This presentation provides an overview of anti-racism and peacebuilding through the lens of Universal Rights, Nonkilling and Human Dignity.
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Listen to the Music (Music Video of the Week)
Tom Johnston/The Doobie Brothers | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
In music as in life, the things that make us different make us stronger. All the various instruments, tones, perspectives, and cultures in this recording combine to create a new version of this classic Song Around The World.
→ read full articleWhy Are Politicians Able to Read – and Understand – Some Texts and Not Others?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
20 Sep 2022 – Day after day, the world’s scientific community, based on solid investigations, elaborates dozens of studies identifying the causes of the existing emergencies facing humanity. They also prepare understandable summaries and conclusions and propose feasible solutions to the current crises and ways to prevent major future risks.
→ read full articleUnlocked: NATO Prolongs the Ukraine Proxy War, and Global Havoc
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022 – With diplomacy thwarted, the US and its allies plan for “open-ended” military and economic warfare against Russia — despite acknowledging that “the most dangerous moments are yet to come.”
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The Israel Files: WikiLeaks Docs Show Top Hollywood Producers Working with Israel to Defend Its War Crimes
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
23 Sep 2022 – Exploring and highlighting the many revelations about the Israeli occupation of Palestine that WikiLeaks documents disclosed in hopes of shedding light on many of the most important and underreported revelations the publishing group exposed.
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USA’s Open Wound
Edward Snowden | Continuing Ed - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
20 Sep 2022 – The CIA Is Not Your Friend – Democracy and the rule of law have been so frequently invoked as a part of the U.S. political brand that citizens simply take it for granted they enjoy both.
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Social Media: The Socially Acceptable Addiction
Pressenza | TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
The Internet is like a bottle of wine: you can lift your mood, appear more confident, do things you wouldn’t normally. A key difference: we don’t let children consume alcohol. Why then are children allowed such free reign on the Internet, despite the mounting research into the negative impact of social media addiction? — Trigger Warning // addiction, depression, suicide
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Survivors Uncensored: Voices from Rwanda and the Rwandan Diaspora
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022 – The abuse of the Rwandan catastrophe in service to US/EU/NATO interventionist ideology. The US will never stop defending the narrative because they’ll never admit to having engineered what happened and continues in Rwanda and DRC.
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Pentagon’s War on Overheating Planet Earth: Military Spending
Stan Cox | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
22 Sep 2022 – The U.S. military is this globe’s largest institutional consumer of petroleum fuels, producing 60 million metric tons of carbon dioxide greenhouse gas annually. Our military surpasses the total national emissions of Bulgaria, Croatia, and Slovenia combined.
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Why Is Germany Committing Suicide? The Same Reasons that the EU/UK Are Being Deindustrialized
David Chu | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
17 Sep 2022 – Why is Germany committing harakiri (or seppuku)? Because the USA ordered them to do so! Is it to emasculate Europe completely so as to make it completely dependent on the US for both energy and technology? The rest of the world is moving towards BRI and BRICS.
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(Português) Subjugação Animal Não É Esporte
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
12 set 2022 – Impor a um animal que reaja a uma prática classificada como “esportiva” não significa que o seja, já que a participação do mesmo é involuntária.
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Reaping the Whirlwind
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
22 Sep 2022 – “A permanent member of the UNSC invaded its neighbor, attempted to erase a sovereign state from the map,” Biden said. “Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the UN Charter.” History, however, is a harsh mistress, where facts become inconvenient to perception; through the prism of historical fact, the narrative being promulgated by Biden becomes flipped.
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Rise of the New Decadents
Mark Lesseraux | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
21 Sep 2022 – Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Donald Trump (USA) and Giorgia Meloni (Italy) are just a few examples amongst dozens of right-wing nationalist political leaders. There has been no shortage of mainstream media pontification about the recent rise of these politicians.
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Rūmī (30 Sep 1207 – 17 Dec 1273)
Annemarie Schimmel | Encyclopædia Britannica – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
Sufi Mystic and Poet – Rūmī’s use of Persian and Arabic in his poetry, in addition to some Turkish and Greek, has resulted in his being claimed variously for Turkish and Persian literature. The influence of his writings in the Indian subcontinent is also substantial.
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Jeffrey Sachs: U.S. Policy & “West’s False Narrative” Stoking Tensions with Russia, China
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
30 Aug 2022 – We discuss Western hegemony and U.S. policy in Russia, Ukraine and China with Columbia University economist Jeffrey Sachs, whose new article is headlined “The West’s False Narrative About Russia and China.” Sachs says the bipartisan U.S. approach to foreign policy is “unaccountably dangerous and wrongheaded,” and warns the U.S. is creating “a recipe for yet another war” in East Asia.
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What Do North Americans Care About? Not a Cold War with Russia and China
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Sep 2022
20 Sep 2022 – US Citizens’ top security concerns include safety at home and protecting jobs. The US Congress is about to add tens of billions of dollars to the military budget.
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The Other 9/11 in Chile
Carolina Vásquez Araya | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
11 Sep 1973 – It was very early in the morning when I heard the first shots in the centre of Santiago, where I lived. Through the radio I became aware of the scale of the attack and realised that the coup d’état was already a reality. In front of my window, I could observe the movement of soldiers and the exchange of gunfire.
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Revealed: US & EU Plans to Plunder Ukraine
Lee Camp | Behind the Headlines – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
8 Sep 2022 – Lee Camp has evidence that the most powerful people in the world have been planning to plunder the Ukrainian economy since at least 2017. The West’s favorite form of diplomacy is to use conditional loans to dismantle struggling governments and sell their assets to the rich.
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Ukraine: War, Statecraft, and Geopolitical Conflict—the Nuclear Danger
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
14 Sep 2022 – The risk of nuclear escalation in the context of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has been a subject of considerable debate in the United States among scholars, policy analysts and media commentators. These debates reveal a broad spectrum of views from those who dismiss Russian references to nuclear capabilities as mere saber rattling to those who worry that if Russian President Vladimir Putin finds his back to the wall in Ukraine, he may resort to tactical nuclear strikes.
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The Historic Collapse of Journalism
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
19 Sep 2022 – Given the chaotic state of global governance and the crises it faces, it is useful to question the methods employed to address the challenges as they are framed. It is presumptuous to assert the merit of alternatives, however vigorously their merits are described.
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Latin Americans Reject Resource Plundering by Same NATO Countries Fueling Military Conflict in Ukraine
Camila Escalante | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
13 Sep 2022 – It’s a witch hunt where Washington is saying either you are with the U.S., NATO and the West, or you’re against us. Anyone trying to be ‘neutral’ becomes ‘pro-Russia’. Meanwhile, no one is sanctioning the U.S. or the EU for their plundering wars or their violent crimes against humanity and war crimes throughout the world.
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Tech Workers Demand Google and Amazon End Contract That Fuels Israeli Apartheid
Zane McNeill | Waging Nonviolence –TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
9 Sep 2022 – Google and Amazon employees are pressuring their companies to drop a $1.2 billion cloud computing project that will harm Palestinians.
→ read full articleGender Equality Almost 300 Years Away at Current Rate of Progress
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
15 Sep 2022 – Millions of women don’t know what a salary is all about.
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Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) – What You Need to Know
August Neverman | Common Sense Home – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
23 Aug 2022 – The two most likely reasons for an EMP are a nuclear explosion or solar flare. This post discusses the damage an EMP may cause and actions that you can take to prevent or manage the results of the EMP. A large Electromagnetic Pulse EMP would cause widespread problems.
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Asia’s Future Takes Shape in Vladivostok, the Russian Pacific
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
8 Sep 2022 – Sixty-eight countries gathered on Russia’s far eastern coast to listen to Moscow’s economic and political vision for the Asia-Pacific.
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A Devastating Burning Season for the Brazilian Amazon
Luciana Téllez Chávez | Human Rights Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
18 Sep 2022 – Illegal Deforestation Linked to Violence, Loss of Livelihoods for Communities – There were more fires in the Brazilian Amazon during the first week of Sep this year than in all of Sep 2021. Last month, fires were the worst in a decade.
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(Português) A Ciência É Importante na Defesa dos Direitos Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
11 de setembro de 2022 – Num mundo de inferiorização não humana com viés exploratório, e pondero sobre a dominação como fator-perpétuo, porque vida e morte são “trânsitos para lucro e consumo”, como partes de interesse de um sistema perenal, até o óbvio precisa ser esmiuçado para servir como contestação às violências físicas e não físicas impostas aos outros animais.
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‘Dear Friends’ Xi and Putin: Project Unity
Ray McGovern | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
16 Sep 2022 – In the official Chinese and Russian statements regarding yesterday’s meeting between Presidents XI Jinping and Vladimir Putin in Samarkand lies not a scintilla of evidence that China’s support for Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has weakened.
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Paulo Freire (19 Sep 1921 – 2 May 1997)
Leslie Bentley | Pedagogy and Theatre of the Oppressed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
Paulo Reglus Neves Freire was a Brazilian educator, philosopher and a leading advocate of critical pedagogy.
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Explosive Situation in Europe
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Sep 2022
12 Sep 2022 – Sanctions imposed by the EU, UK, US and Canada on Russia are preventing Gazprom from operating North Stream 1. The U.S.-EU strategy is clear: to prevent Europe from receiving Russian gas at low prices and force European consumers to buy it on the spot market at extremely higher prices set by the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, which is now part of a large U.S. holding company.
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