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Myanmar Mothers’ Cries Do Not Bode Well for the Nation’s Future
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
19 Apr 2022 – The musician of resistance Mun Awng reminded the viewers, “The revolution must prevail, against all odds.” Tain Sway was seen nodding her head profusely when Mun Awng spelled out the pervasive sentiment – that “it is better to die fighting for the cause than living under the boot, again”.
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Notes from Wartorn Ethiopia (Part 2)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
Ann Garrison continues her reporting from Ethiopia.
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Why Non-Western Countries Tend to See Russia’s War Very, Very Differently
Trita Parsi | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – The West appears blind to its own hypocrisy and narrow interests in calling for a rules-based order.
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The US Military Is Driving Environmental Collapse across the Planet
Sam Carliner | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
24 Apr 2022 – The U.S. military emits more carbon than 140 countries combined, fueling climate change and environmental degradation. Below we examine five ways in which the Pentagon is destroying the environment.
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The Cause, and the Goal, of Israeli Violence
Mark Muhannad Ayyash | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
20 Apr 2022 – Another Ramadan, another attack on Palestinian worshipers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. What is the real reason behind Israel’s routine violence against Palestinians?
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Ukraine: The Fakes of Anti-Russian Propaganda
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – The New York Times published on April 4 a satellite photo, dated March 19, showing a street in the Ukrainian city of Bucha strewn with corpses. The photo, disseminated by the mainstream on a global scale, was presented as evidence of a “war crime committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.”
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Renounce the Geopolitical War between the U.S. and Russia
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – Stopping the Geopolitical War being waged by the United States against Russia is a precondition for ending the aggressive war initiated by Russia against Ukraine and also a return to semi-responsible statecraft, which is the most we can expect or hope for in the present. Diplomacy seeking a ceasefire and a political compromise is the only sane path.
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Reparations in Reverse: Afghanistan Pays, Vatican Prays, US Preys
Azeezah Kanji | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
22 Apr 2022 – What better illustration of the perversities of “justice” under colonial modernity, than the grotesquely disparate treatment of Afghanistan versus the Vatican when it comes to exacting recompense for international crimes. The doctrine of ‘sovereign immunity’ is being used to insulate state violence from legal liability.
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How Obama-Biden Team Empowered Terrorists in Syria
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
20 Apr 2022 – Ukraine is the Obama-Biden team’s second major proxy war against Russia. The first was Syria, where US support for the insurgency helped create an Al Qaeda safe haven.
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The Suicidal War on Nature Continues Unabated – International Mother Earth Day
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
20 Apr 2022 – The gloomy picture is drawn from indisputable scientific conclusions and should be already known by everybody, in particular by decision-makers, whether they are politicians… or rather not.
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Officials Manipulated COVID Data to Exaggerate Crisis, Mathematician Tells RFK, Jr.
Susan C. Olmstead | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – “Data was very easily used by influencers and decision-makers to fit particular narratives,” Norman Fenton, Ph.D., a mathematician at Queen Mary University of London, said.
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Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Scahill on the Russia-Ukraine War, the Media, Propaganda, and Accountability
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Noam Chomsky spoke with Jeremy Scahill in a wide-ranging discussion on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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Doing His Own Research
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
11 Apr 2022 – At the Treehouse
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Oxfam Report: Poorer Countries Going from Crisis to Catastrophe
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
19 Apr 2022 – In the lead up to the semi-annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank being held in Washington this week, the global aid agency Oxfam has produced a report detailing the horrendous impact of rising inflation, coming on top of the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, for almost half the world’s population.
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Russian Geoeconomics Tzar Sergey Glazyev Introduces the New Global Financial System
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – The world’s new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.
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Skin Deep (Music Video of the Week)
Buddy Guy | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
| Song Across the USA | The song includes over 50 musicians from coast to coast featuring Buddy Guy, Tom Morello, Billy Branch, Chicago Children’s Choir, and Roots Gospel Voices of Mississippi.
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‘Crushing Dissent’ with George Galloway, Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter and Jill Stein
Joe Lauria and Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News Live – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Join us as we examine the information warfare being waged to enforce a single narrative about the war in Ukraine. It may be worse than McCarthyism, which was defeated by its own excesses. Our guests have been targets of censorship and smears in this coordinated assault on freedom of expression.
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Dark Day for Press Freedom: British Court Orders Assange Extradition
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
20 Apr 2021 – Outrage as a British magistrates court ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States and sent the request for his extradition to Home Office Secretary Priti Patel for approval. He will remain in detention at Belmarsh until Patel’s decision and during any appeal.
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U.S. Commissars
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – Social media platforms are aggressively censoring all who challenge the dominant narrative on Ukraine, the ruling Democratic Party, the wars in the Middle East and the corporate state.
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“One less Traitor”: Zelensky Oversees Campaign of Assassination, Kidnapping and Torture of Political Opposition
Max Blumenthal and Esha Krishnaswamy | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals’ arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.
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Easter Call for Heroic Cease Fire
Thor Magnusson | Peace 2000 Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – Prof. Johan Galtung, the Internationally recognized father of peace studies who correctly predicted the fall of the Berlin wall, said: “We seem to have come to the point that we ourselves, as the major cause of death and being wounded through violence and war, are our own worst enemies. It takes two to make war. And to make peace. If others do the same, those who do have achieved common security.”
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Europe Sweeps Away More Refugees, Asylum Seekers – Part I: UK, Greece
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
21 Apr 2022 – In what looks pretty much like an ‘operation clean sweep’ aiming at getting rid of more and more migrants, refugees and asylum seekers by shipping them far away, the process of ‘externalisation’ of millions of victims of wars, poverty, climate crisis and political persecution, is now growing fast.
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Humanity: Evolving in Spite of Itself
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
As wars rage, cruelty shatters lives across the planet, nuclear Armageddon remains a viable option for all of us — I think that the human race is evolving in spite of itself — evolving beyond war, empire, dominance and conquest, and toward an uncertain future. Most of us already know this, but at a level so deep, so vague, it feels like mere “hope.”
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Europe Sweeps Away More Refugees, Asylum Seekers – Part II: Hungary, Poland
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
22 Apr 2022 – This article will deal with how Hungary has been criminalising organisations that provide humanitarian assistance to migrants, and how Poland ‘arbitrarily’ detains thousands of asylum seekers.
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Towards Inclusive Multi-Massacre Memorials to Victims of Conflict
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
Interrelating the Opponents, Perpetrators and Victims of Human Tragedy — Known and Unknown
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Give War a Chance
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
12 Apr 2022 – More and more, we’re told outright war isn’t just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve U.S. existential problems.
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America’s Hypocrisy over Ukraine and ‘Spheres of Influence’
Katrina vanden Heuvel | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
15 Apr 2022 – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that he does not recognize “spheres of influence,” and the concept “should have been retired after World War II.” Those are empty words because they obviously do not apply to the Western Hemisphere–or the USA. Take Cuba, for example, or Nicaragua, Venezuela… Hypocrisy is common in international relations.
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Elon Musk Offers $43 Billion in Cash to Buy Twitter in Bid to ‘Save Free Speech’
David Charbonneau, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – The world’s richest person, Elon Musk, yesterday offered $43 billion — cash — to buy Twitter so he can “unlock” its “potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe.”
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Dr. Vandana Shiva: ‘The Evolved Mind Sees Earth as One Family’
David Marks interviews Vandana Shiva | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
6 Apr 2022 – Environmental champion shares her perspective on how the degradation of the planet can be reversed by returning to traditional organic farming practices and compassionate community organization.
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‘It Can Get Very Creepy Very Fast:’ John Oliver Exposes Multimillion-Dollar Data Brokering Industry
Susan C. Olmstead | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
11 Apr 2022 – Data brokering is the multi million-dollar industry of collecting personal information and then reselling or sharing it with marketers and others. Data brokers are “the middlemen of surveillance capitalism.” “They know significantly more about you than you might like and do significantly more with it than you might think,” Oliver said.
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The New Capitalist Gold Rush
William Hartung and Julia Gledhill | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – How Pentagon Contractors Are Cashing in on the Ukraine Crisis
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The Pimps of War
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
11 Apr 2022 – The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.
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The Monopoly on Your Mind (Part 1): Six Media Companies Control 90% of What You Read, Watch and Hear
Rebecca Strong | Down The Rabbit Hole - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
12 Apr 2022 – Ever-mounting media consolidation has narrowed the perspectives the public is privy to. Ownership and funding of these corporations are riddled with conflicts of interest and Big Tech companies are outright censoring and demonetizing independent outlets.
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Elon Musk, Twitter’s Largest Shareholder: We Can’t Let Billionaires Control Major Communications Platforms
Victor Pickard | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO notorious for posting asinine tweets to his 80 million–plus Twitter followers, has purchased himself a position of power within the platform itself by becoming the company’s largest shareholder–and that’s bad news.
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Michigan Bomb Plot: FBI Scheme to Create False ‘Domestic Terror’ Cabal Exposed in Court
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – Jury finds FBI agents fabricated a kidnapping threat against Michigan governor so they could be heroes by foiling a “crime” of their own creation. FBI director’s use of entrapment is part of a strategy designed to sow public fear and render support for draconian anti-terrorist legislation.
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Jingoistic Journalism Is No Friend of Ukraine
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Propaganda for a bigger and longer Ukraine war is flooding the media on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NY Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal in attempts to manipulate public opinion.
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The Dangerous ‘Truth’ of the Kashmir Files
Sanjay Kak | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – The popular Bollywood film, powered by a visceral demonisation of the Kashmiri Muslim, attempts to construct the truth about Kashmir out of the carcasses of facts.
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Nuclear Weapons and Cranial Winter
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – “The defense industry mobilized a small army of at least 718 lobbyists and doled out more than $67 million dollars pressuring Congress for increased weapons spending generally.”
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Dutch Journalist: ‘We Are Here, in Donbass, to Awaken Westerners Deluded by Propaganda’
Ekaterina Blinova | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
6 Apr 2022 – There are only a handful of Western journalists on the ground in Donbass, while the Western mainstream press is rubber-stamping fake news about the Ukrainian crisis using the same templates it previously exploited in Iraq, Libya and Syria, says Dutch independent journalist Sonja van den Ende.
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The Censorship Campaign against Western Criticism of NATO’s Ukraine Policy Is Extreme
Glenn Greenwald | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – Preventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.
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How Movements Can Maintain Their Radical Vision while Winning Practical Reforms
Mark Engler and Paul Engler | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
12 Apr 2022 – Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
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The Role of Capitalism in the War in Ukraine
Richard Wolff | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – To the motives for war in human history, capitalism added another: profit. Ukraine, per se, is not the issue. It is tragically a war-ravaged pawn in a much larger conflict.
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Palestine’s Widening Geography of Resistance: Why Israel Cannot Defeat the Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – If Israel continues to subjugate the Palestinian people under the current system of military occupation and deepening apartheid, Palestinians will surely continue to respond until their oppressive reality is changed.
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Complexities of the Ukraine War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
15 Apr 2022 – This war can be characterized thus:
– Level One: Russia vs. Ukraine
– Level Two: USA vs. Russia
– Level Three: Ukrainian nationalism vs. Russian-oriented separatism
Siding with Ukraine’s Far-Right, US Sabotaged Zelensky’s Peace Mandate
Aaron Maté | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – In 2019, Zelensky was elected on an overwhelming mandate to make peace with Russia. As Stephen F. Cohen warned that year, the US chose to side with Ukraine’s far-right and fuel war.
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More Than 1 Million COVID Vaccine Injuries, Nearly 27,000 Deaths Reported to VAERS, CDC Data Show
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
15 Apr 2022 – VAERS data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,226,314 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 26,976 deaths and 219,865 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and April 8, 2022.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – I’m writing from Ethiopia, where the war that began in November 2020 continues, with the US backing their former puppet, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation, which ruled Ethiopia with an iron fist from 1991 to 2018, when they were finally overthrown by a popular uprising.
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Peace Train (Music Video of the Week)
Yusuf/Cat Stevens | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media service,
18 Apr 2022
Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ timeless anthem of hope and unity was originally released in 1971. This Song Around The World version features more than 25 musicians from 12 countries, and Cat Stevens singing and playing a beautiful white piano in a tranquil open air setting in Istanbul, Turkey.
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“Conflicts Should Be Resolved through Negotiations, Not War”
Reiner Braun | IPB, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Apr 2022 – Interview by Reiner Braun, Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau, by email, with Oleg Bodrov and Yurii Sheliakhenko, peace activists from Russia and Ukraine respectively.
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(Français) La Guerre d’Ukraine Aurait Pu Être Évitée
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 avril 2022 – La guerre en Ukraine est le résultat de décisions politiques erronées des États-Unis et de l’OTAN en 1997 qui ont conduit à l’expansion de l’OTAN jusqu’aux frontières de la Russie.
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The Origins of the Ukraine Crisis and the Need for Collective Security between Russia and the West
Tom Sauer | Global Policy, Wiley Library – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
This paper tries to explain the origins of the Ukraine crisis. It posits that it is only a symptom of a wider conflict between two major powers (or power blocs), whose origins can only be understood by assessing the post-Cold War security architecture in Europe. Instead of having integrated Russia in a collective security organization on an equal level, the West kept NATO alive.
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Biden Administration Budgets Record $27.6 Billion for Militarization of Outer-Space
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – As homeless rates skyrocket and public education flounders, the Biden administration has proposed a record $27.6 billion budget for the militarization of outer space in 2023—a 25% increase from the 2022 budget. New cold war provides continued backdrop for misallocation of public resources into weaponry right out of science fiction films.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – This Modern World
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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr | Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 1967 – I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
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An Appeal for Peace
Thomas Daffern | World Intellectual Forum/International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
As intellectuals, philosophers, academics, scientists and teachers, we issue this peace appeal to all the citizens of Russia, Ukraine and other countries from today, February 25, 2022, we call for:
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: capire l’agenda sottostante dell’élite globale e resisterle
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Aprile 2022 – In un comunicato televisivo del 24 febbraio 2022, il presidente russo Vladimir Putin ha annunciato la sua decisione di ordinare alle forze militari russe di invadere l’Ucraina in quella che ha denominato una ‘operazione militare speciale’ per difendere le neo – autoproclamate repubbliche di di Donetsk e Luhansk e ‘smilitarizzare e […]
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The Coming Global Financial Revolution: Russia Is Following the American Playbook
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
5 Apr 2022 – No country has successfully challenged the U.S. dollar’s global hegemony—until now. How did this happen and what will it mean? it could well mean the end of the petrodollar as sole global reserve currency, and the end of the devastating petroleum wars it has funded to maintain its dominance.
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Europe Is Sleepwalking into another World War
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – How can we trust countries that created SWIFT—a financial transfer system aimed at protecting economic transactions against political interference—only to end up removing from that system a country on political grounds? Countries that arrogate to themselves the power to confiscate the financial and gold reserves of sovereign nations like Afghanistan, Venezuela, and now Russia? Countries that trumpet freedom of expression as a sacrosanct universal value, but resort to censorship the moment they are exposed by it?
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The Ukraine Crisis: Past, Present, and Future?
Charles Webel | The New Presence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
Mar 2022 – Is the Ukraine crisis a turning point in world history? And is this also a potential wake-up call for the “liberal U.S.-dominated Western world order,” due to a conflict whose significance is comparable to and potentially greater than 9/11?
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Trumping Environment
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
8 Apr 2022 – Under colonization and during conflicts (rackets for money/profit of the elites) environmental declines accelerate. For those like me who study and write about these things, the most disheartening aspect is the way common people who suffer are duped to be partisan to conflict thus enriching the oligarchs who oftentimes profit on both sides of conflicts. For example, the oligarchs of the Rothschild and Bush families who got enriched from both sides on WWII.
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The Ukraine War Could Have Been Avoided
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – The Ukraine war is the result of mistaken policy decisions by the United States and NATO in 1997 which led to the expansion of NATO up to the borders of Russia.
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Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
5 Apr 2022 – The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most North Americans.
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Neither Victims nor Executioners: Albert Camus on the Antidote to Violence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
“If he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in the face of circumstances is a coward.”
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Was Alleged Russian Army Massacre of Civilians at Bucha Actually a False Flag Event Staged by Ukrainian Nazis?
Evan Reif | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
6 Apr 2022 – Why was Nazi Butcher Botsun at Bucha? This story raises an important challenge to the official storyline of the Bucha massacre promoted in the mainstream media.
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Animal Crossing: World’s Biggest Wildlife Bridge Comes to California Highway
Katharine Gammon | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – Unprecedented overpass will allow fauna of the Santa Monica mountains to safely cross a dangerous 10-lane stretch.
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Noam Chomsky: “We’re Approaching the Most Dangerous Point in Human History”
George Eaton | The New Statesman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
The US professor, now 93, on the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear war.
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An Antidote to the ‘Split’ in the US Peace Movement: Anti-Interventionism
John V. Walsh | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Apr 2022 – No more US Arms to Ukraine. End the Racist Sanctions. Stop the Russia Bashing. Once upon a time anti-interventionism by the hegemonic US empire was a point of principle for progressives and peace advocates. Sadly, that is no longer the case.
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Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – Fully artificial food is an increasingly popular trend focused on developing a new line of synthetically produced, ultra-processed food products by using recent advances in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. These new products seek to imitate and replace animal products, food additives, and expensive, rare, or socially conflictive ingredients (such as palm oil).
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My First Aid Kit: Turmeric
Horacio Mesón | REHUNO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – Our healers, our shamans and witches, our “curanderos” used these medicines for millennia and today science is beginning to vindicate them through the force of reason and a return to the origins, the path of the heart. Originally from India and Southeast Asia, the use of turmeric dates back more than 4,000 years.
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The Military Situation in the Ukraine
Jacques Baud | The Postil Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it. I notice that the “experts” who take turns on television analyze the situation on the basis of dubious information, most often hypotheses erected as facts—and then we no longer manage to understand what is happening. This is how panics are created.
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This Geopolitical War Is a ‘Geopolitical Crime’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – There is no doubt that atrocities have been committed in Ukraine, seemingly yet not exclusively by Russian attacking forces, and in a perfect world those who so acted would be held responsible. But the world is highly imperfect when it comes to accountability for international crimes.
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Let Us Now Praise Amazon Unionists
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – The only way to halt the global assault on the human rights of workers is to unionize.
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Cyclic Representation of Coherence as Knots and Otherwise
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – Cyclic themes include the circular economy, environmental cycles, recycling, business cycles, domestic cycles of violence, and the cycles of conflict. Exploration of the cyclic representations of coherence considering their significance separately, or however they may be combined with others.
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Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description. They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.
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The Cost of War: 23 Million Afghans Suffer Acute Hunger, 95% Don’t Eat Enough Food
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
24 Mar 2022 – Following 20 long years (2001-2021) of brutal war on Afghanistan by the US-led military coalition, 23 million Afghans now face severe and acute hunger, economic bankruptcy, healthcare system collapse, unbearable family indebtedness, and devastating humanitarian crisis.
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(Italiano) Ucraina: non mandiamo armi ma un esercito di volontari in soccorso degli abitanti
Paolo Maddalena | Il Fatto Quotidiano - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Marzo 2022 – “C’è bisogno di ripudiare la guerra, luogo di morte dove i padri e le madri seppelliscono i figli, dove gli uomini uccidono i loro fratelli senza averli nemmeno visti, dove i potenti decidono e i poveri muoiono. Ogni giorno di guerra peggiora la situazione per tutti. Perciò rinnovo il mio appello: basta, ci si fermi, tacciano le armi, si tratti seriamente per la pace!”.
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Ukraine and the Global Economic War: Is This Barbarism or Civilization?
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
The West’s actions against Russia since the war in Ukraine could signal an emerging new order that shuns the U.S. for weaponizing the dollar and Western control over the global financial system.
→ read full articleSave the Planet, Behead the Military Budget
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – Why, why, why, as our ecosystem collapses, as millions flee the horrors of war and poverty, as the pandemic continues, as WWIII and a nuclear Armageddon rears its evil head, does ever-expanding, global militarism remain our primary national purpose? This question stabs me as President Whoever announces his proposed military budget, as Congress increases it, as the media shrugs.
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Maya Angelou (4 Apr 1928 – 28 May 2014): Identity and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
The light of the world has grown a little dimmer with the loss of the phenomenal Maya Angelou, but her legacy endures as a luminous beacon of strength, courage, and spiritual beauty.
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(Italiano) Verso un’Abbondanza Frugale. Gaia e l’Umanità: Esperimento in Corso
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
La situazione mondiale è critica: la popolazione umana ha raggiunto la cifra di 8 miliardi, e il suo impatto sul pianeta ha alterato i processi e le dinamiche del nostro pianeta a tal punto, da innescare una trasformazione dell’ecosistema globale.
→ read full articleMake Peace, Not War, in Ukraine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – There were a series of provocations by NATO that aroused security concerns in Moscow, including the expansion of NATO after the Cold War was over, the threat from the Soviet Union had disappeared, and promises were made by Western leaders to Gorbachev of no further NATO expansion. Such geopolitical behavior amounted to imprudent statecraft by the West,
→ read full articleSouth Sudan: Oil Underground, Blood on the Surface
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While politicians and media have been viewing the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan as a “civil war” between ethnic groups, there are some facts that should be considered. One of them is that this country is rich in oil.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – The title comes from a speech by Vladimir Posner at Yale Sept 27, 2018. Posner was the spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev in the latter years of the 1980’s and has continued over the years to provide independent, informed journalism from his base in Russia.
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Wars Lie!
Eduardo Galeano | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – Wars always invoke noble motives. They kill in the name of peace. In the name of God. In the name of civilisation. In the name of progress. In the name of democracy… And just in case, if so many lies are not enough… the mass media are ready to invent imaginary enemies to justify the conversion of the world into a great madhouse and an immense slaughterhouse.
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While You Were Distracted by Will Smith, the International Elite Met at the World Government Summit
Derrick Broze | The Last American Vagabond - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – While much of the world spent the last days obsessing over the celebrity spectacle of actor Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock ‘live,’ the international elites were meeting in Dubai for the 2022 World Government Summit. Guests included Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and Kristalina Georgieva of the International Monetary Fund.
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Ukrainians Could Defeat a Russian Occupation by Scaling Up Unarmed Resistance
Jørgen Johansen, et al. | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – As scholars of nonviolent resistance, we see four key ways Ukrainians can organize and expand the civil resistance that’s already happening.
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Geopolitics and the Rise of China
Anna Jaguaribe | OpinionSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Let’s start with a reverse order as the rise of China has a direct impact on how we perceive geopolitics today. It is unique by the historical situation in which it is couched.
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Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This Ukrainian War
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
27 Mar 2022 – In a moment of candor, Joe Biden has revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion and why it needs it to continue.
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(Castellano) “Las Guerras Mienten”
Eduardo Galeano | Promotores No Violencia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
“Ninguna guerra tiene la honestidad de confesar: Yo mato para robar. Las guerras siempre invocan nobles motivos, matan en nombre de la paz, en nombre de dios, en nombre de la civilización, en nombre del progreso, en nombre de la democracia y si por las dudas, si tanta mentira no alcanzara, ahí están los grandes medios de comunicación dispuestos a inventar enemigos imaginarios para justificar la conversión del mundo en un gran manicomio y un inmenso matadero.”
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2022 Global Policy Institute Book Award to Richard Falk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Dr. Falk is now a Santa Barbara resident. After four decades at Princeton, he has served as Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has lectured widely around the world as one of America’s most recognizable and relentless crusaders for international justice.
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Corporate Profits Soar to Record $2.8 Trillion
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – Federal data released yesterday shows U.S. corporate profits jumped 25% to record highs in 2021, even as COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the nation’s economy and CEOs bragged on corporate earnings calls about jacking up consumer prices.
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My Sweet Lord “Live” (Music Video of the Week)
George Harrison | Federico Perlingieri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
A Tribute to George Harrison by “Family & Friends”
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The U.S. Has Its Own Agenda against Russia
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – Ukraine is ground zero for the expansion of the U.S.-Russia proxy war, simultaneously a war of aggression being waged by Putin and a larger geopolitical battle between the U.S., NATO, and Russia. “It’s a proxy war with Russia, whether we say so or not,” said Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary under Obama.
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Really??
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
No Shame…
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Comedians’ Tragedy: The Global Shortage of Cynicism in the Russian-Ukrainian War
Michimi Muranushi | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – The world has no choice but to condemn the Russian aggression against Ukraine. It has no choice but to help the Ukrainians to end the war with honor. But it is the role of the Ukrainians to produce statesmen who understand that the Ukrainians need to suspect not only the Russians but also the Americans and the Europeans.
→ read full article(French) Comment Les États-Unis Ont Créé Vladimir Poutine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 avril 2022 – Le titre de ce blog vient d’un discours de Vladimir Posner à Yale le 27 septembre 2018. Posner était le porte-parole de Mikhaïl Gorbatchev dans les dernières années des années 1980 et a continué au fil des ans à fournir un journalisme indépendant et informé depuis sa base en Russie. .
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Resisting Militarism: Mission Impossible?
Sean Howard | Cape Breton Spectator – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – “I don’t think the country should be militarized… but we live in the moment when the Army matters.” — Ukrainian peace activist Nataliya Gumenyuk. But denying millions the right to conscientiously object or leave the country is criminal. Overall problem: war. Pseudorealities lead to war. All lines lead to the war. It may be a mission impossible, but can pacifism help lead us back?
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BioBiden
María Zakharova | Pressenza Argentina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – An idea of the US political elites’ involvement in the military biological activity in Ukraine. Below is an attempt to reconstruct the chronology of this involvement, though not a comprehensive one. There are many gaps in this truly diabolical plan that are still to be filled.
→ read full articleRound and Round
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Now you see… Now you don’t…
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On Being Disappeared
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – The entire archive of On Contact, the Emmy-nominated show I hosted for six years for RT America, has been disappeared from YouTube. I received no inquiry or notice. I vanished. In totalitarian systems you exist; then you don’t. Are we a more informed and better society because of this wholesale censorship?
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