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International Rules-Based Order vs UN Charter: What You Need to Understand Now
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – It has become commonplace amongst alternative media to see efforts to reframe the conflict between multipolar vs unipolar systems as a chimera devoid of meaning for the “wise” to the Great Game.
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In Hottest Summer Ever, West Bank Sears from Israeli Water Apartheid
Basel Adraa | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Across the West Bank, Palestinians and Israeli settlers have very different access to water resources — even when they live on the same hill.
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The Pentagon Is the Elephant in the Climate Activist Room
Melissa Garriga and Tim Biondo | CODEPINK/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
8 Sep 2023 – The climate justice movement seems more organized than ever. But, there’s a big elephant in the room, and it has the Pentagon written all over it. The U.S. military is the world’s largest institutional oil consumer.
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Does Islam Disenfranchise Women?
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – Girls who had exposure to modern careers ranging from journalism to teaching have chosen in the past few years to wear the hijab. Most strikingly, however, these women fluently and cogently articulate how they believe Islam has liberated and empowered them.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Videos produced by The Drawdown Project outline what must be done to prevent more climate catastrophes worse than the ones already happening. The main staff members of the project, including narrator Jonathan Foley, are climate scientists.
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Fan the Flames: Lahaina on Fire
The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – The Looting of Lahaina
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Story of Krishna
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Today, 7 September, is an important day for Hindus — it is called Krishna Janmashtami — the birth of Lord Krishna and the several aspects that are known and believed about his birth. Janam-ashtami indicates the eighth day of the Moon.
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Revisiting John Pilger’s 2016 Warnings about US Warmongering against Russia and China
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – “It’s like listening to a time traveler warning people from the past about a grave mistake they were about to make.”
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In AI Regulation Coverage, Media Let US Lawmakers off the Hook
Julianne Tveten | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
8 Sep 2023 – Corporate Press: ‘US Policymakers would like to place guardrails on artificial intelligence, but, given its novel and evolving nature, they’ll need more time.’ This narrative minimizes their responsibility— excusing, rather than interrogating, regulatory inertia.
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What Makes You Makes the Universe: Nobel Laureate Erwin Schrödinger on Quantum Physics, Vedanta, and the Ongoing Mystery of What We Are
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
To face the question of what makes us who we are with courage, lucidity, and fullness of feeling is to face, with all the restlessness and helplessness this stirs in the meaning-hungry soul, the elemental fact of our choicelessness in the conditions that lead to our existence.
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Exploring the Centrality of Nonviolent Communication for Resolution of Conflicts and a Culture of Peace
Vedabhyas Kundu | CIC-Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
It can be an important starting point of analyzing and linking Johan Galtung’s conflict triangle using the Gandhian nonviolent communication. It may also be mentioned that Galtung himself was much influenced by Gandhi.
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NATO Chief Openly Admits Russia Invaded Ukraine Because of NATO Expansion
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
During a speech at the EU Parliament on 7 Sep, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg clearly and repeatedly acknowledged that Putin made the decision to invade Ukraine because of fears of NATO expansionism.
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‘Occupied by the US’: Wildfires Renew Native Hawaiian Call for Sovereignty
Claire Wang | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – As Disaster Capitalists Descend on Lahaina, Indigenous Hawaiians Fight for Self-Governance
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Belgian Minister Says What Biden Won’t: Israel Is Wiping Entire Palestinian Villages Off the Map
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
3 Sep 2023 – Belgium’s Minister of Development, Caroline Gennez, said in an interview that “Entire villages are being wiped off the map by the Israelis” in the Occupied Palestinian West Bank. The Israeli ambassador to Brussels lambasted the remarks as “libel.” To her credit, Ms. Gennez has stood her ground since she is right.
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Media: Bad Faith & Blank Checks
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
4 Sep 2023 – All mainstream journalism is “embedded journalism” now, for the battlefield is everywhere. An excerpt from Lawrence’s new book, ‘Journalists and Their Shadows.’
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“The War Worth Waging”: Afghanistan’s Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – The War on Afghanistan Is a Profit-driven “Resource War” – US-NATO forces invaded Afghanistan more than 20 years ago on 7 Oct 2001. It’s been a continuous war marked by US military occupation. In the wake of the withdrawal of US troops, Afghanistan’s assets were confiscated.
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Peace and War: Russia-Ukraine Conflict Urgently Needs a Dialogue for Peace
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – Mankind Is Being Traumatized for Its Hopes for Peace and Sustainable Future
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A Bad One
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
No Comment
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Peace Ambassador of Old: Hazrat Baba Fariduddin Ganj-E-Shakar, R.A.
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
A Brilliant Star in the Galaxy Shines Gloriously and Draws even after Death
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As the U.S. Wages War on It China Reacts with Defiance
Moon of Alabama - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – Just as U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo returns from China her department issues new restrictions on chip deliveries. But China is not only autarkic in making chips but also in making the delicate machines needed to make them.
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Luis Rubiales the King of the Machirulos
Marcelo Trivelli | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – Machirulo in Spain is a man who boasts of being undisguisedly macho, and is generally used in a derogatory sense. Luis Rubiales, the suspended president of the Royal Spanish Football Federation, has confirmed in every performance the well-earned title of “king of the machirulos”.
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Fears of ‘Plantation Disaster Capitalism’ Mount in Wake of Maui Fires
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
“Justice is returning control of public resources like land and water to the people,” wrote one activist. “For too long the strings of Maui and thousands of communities like it have been pulled by forces indifferent to their soul.”
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The Hunt
Balwant (Bill) Bhaneja | The Beacon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Short Fiction
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Haiti Violence: ‘Carnage Needs to Stop’ Says UN Relief Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – Haiti is in the grip of “extreme brutality”, with gang-related violence continuing to force thousands from their homes amidst widespread suffering, said the UN’s top humanitarian official there.
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Depleted Uranium Won’t Bring Peace to Ukraine
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
6 Sep 2023 – Militarism is obsolete, for God’s sake. Its technology is out of control. The latest news left me stunned and terror-stricken: “The Biden administration will send munitions containing depleted uranium to Ukraine, despite the dangers such weapons pose to civilians.”
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New BRICS Bloc Will Democratize World Economy and Global South Future
Pedro Mzileni | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
8 Sep 2023 – The addition of Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Argentina, Egypt, and Iran to the BRICS block is the consolidation of a struggle to end the domination of this planet by Washington. The future of the world is in the Global South.
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Condolences on the Passing of Dr. M.S. Gosavi
Dr. Surya Nath Prasad – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – I am extremely shocked to hear the news about the death of Dr. M.S. Gosavi, Director General and Secretary, Gokhale Education Society, Nashik, Maharashtra, India on 9 Jul 2023. This is my delayed condolences because I was not aware of his death.
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Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Jul 2023 – Talk at the Lokahi Cultural Center in Wai`anae, Honolulu, Hawaii – The Theft of the Hawaiian Islands Kingdom by the United States of America
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(Italiano) Niger: il calvario del colonialismo perenne
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
Da allora sono successe molte cose che riguardano il Niger e il modo in cui intendiamo la sua relazione con quel Paese, con la regione del Sahel dell’Africa occidentale, con l’Africa in generale e con la guerra geopolitica di posizione che mette in primo piano la rivalità degli Stati Uniti con Russia e Cina.
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Transparency International’s Covert Agenda: A Pawn in Western Intelligence’s Game
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – Expressing “astonishment,” many compared TINZ’s consultation of high-ranking lobbyists on how to clean up their own industry as akin to “police recruiting gang members to determine new rules on pursuit of fleeing drivers.” Yet, anyone familiar with Transparency International’s history would hardly be surprised.
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Africa Climate Summit Issues Nairobi Declaration
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – Nairobi, Kenya, hosted the Africa Climate Summit which attracted thousands of delegates, investors and observers to discuss the continent’s environmental degradation. The meeting was from Sep 4-8 at the Kenyatta International Convention Center.
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Access Journalism at Its Most Pernicious
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – Modern western national security journalism is mostly just writing what a government official tells you to write and then calling it a “scoop” which you got from a nameless “source” in the government.
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Is CIA Director Bill Burns a Biden Yes-Man, a Putin Apologist or a Peacemaker?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
5 Sep 2023 – The insight on Russia that Bill Burns provided during many years as a diplomat, and then ambassador in Moscow, and some critical questions regarding his current role in the Biden administration.
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Smile (Music Video of the Week)
Philippe Quint – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
26 Oct 2019 – To mark the 130th anniversary of Chaplin’s birth, Grammy-nominated violinist Philippe Quint released a new album, Chaplin’s ‘Smile.’
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Economic Growth in G7 vs BRICS: A Reality Check
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
7 Sep 2023 – We are confronted with a combination of denials and pretenses by the conjoined decline of U.S. capitalism and its global empire (or hegemony). Those declines have become clear to observers within the old capitalist establishment. For example, …
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The Pedagogy of Power
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
10 Sep 2023 – The ruling classes always work to keep the powerless from understanding how power functions. This assault has been aided by a cultural left determined to banish “dead white male” philosophers.
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Competitions for Highest, Fastest, Slowest Events
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
There are sports events today where the person who jumps the highest or the longest distance is declared the winner. We also have several games that puts this ideal to test.
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No Respite for France as a ‘New Africa’ Rises
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – Like dominos, African states are one by one falling outside the shackles of neocolonialism. Chad, Guinea, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and now Gabon are saying ‘non’ to France’s longtime domination of African financial, political, economic, and security affairs.
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
11-17 September 2023
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Direct Energy Weapons Create Forest and Bush Fires, Destroying Entire Cities and Igniting Boats in the Sea
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Sep 2023
DEWs are defined as electromagnetic systems capable of converting chemical or electrical energy to radiated energy, then these energies are fired by laser beams with the speed of light on specific targets. They can produce forces that range from deterrent, to damaging, to destructive.
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‘Peace, War and 9/11’ Honors Late Peace Activist Graeme MacQueen
Jeff Mahoney | The Hamilton Spectator - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – The Westdale cinema is hosting world premiere of “Peace, War and 9/11,” a movie about the late Graeme MacQueen, founder of Centre of Peace Studies at McMaster University and a member of the TRANSCEND Network.
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(Italiano) Spiritualità e pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Agosto 2023 – Il nostro mondo manca chiaramente di qualcosa, anzi molto, nei propri sforzi di conseguire la pace. E fra questo c’è quanto espresso dalla parola “spiritualità”, abusata all’incirca quanto la parola “pace”, proprio perché entrambe incarnano tanti nostri sogni.
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Coup in Gabon: Change of Persons Not of Structures
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – On 27 Aug, some of the military of Gabon, in particular members of the Presidential Guard, took power and placed President Ali Bongo Ondimba under house arrest. The consequences of the coup are unlikely to produce any quick changes in structures, but the situation merits watching closely.
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Why We Can’t Have World Peace
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – We can’t have world peace as long as the US government’s foreign policy is to (militarily) conquer the world. Western think tanks refer to this grandiose wet dream to dominate the world as US “exceptionalism” and “hegemony.”
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Japanese Expert: Nuclear-Contaminated Water Sacrifices the Public Interests
CGTN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – “The Japanese government rejected all plans and made the decision to discharge the nuclear-contaminated wastewater into the sea,” said Hayashi Kumpei, associate professor at the Fukushima University
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More Banks to Fail? Not in North Dakota
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – North Dakota has the fastest growing GDP per capita in the country and its banks are thriving, backstopped by the nation’s only state-owned bank.
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(Un)Consciousness
Carl Jung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
No Comment
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The BRICS Summit
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 Sep 2023 – The BRICS Declaration, a major historic document, is published by media in South Africa, Brazil, China, South Africa, Russia, Azerbaijan, Nigeria, India, Nicaragua, Peru, and Colombia. But in Europe and North America, only alternative media and no major media has published the full text.
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The Hippie Lieutenant
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – One soldier’s unsparing vision of life and combat in the Vietnam War
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Inequality and Democracy
Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – With the right political reforms, democracies can become more inclusive, more responsive to citizens, and less responsive to the corporations and rich individuals who currently hold the purse strings. But salvaging democratic politics also will require far-reaching economic reforms.
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Australian Intelligence Agency Funding Research to Merge Human Brain Cells with AI
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
A team of researchers in a Melbourne lab received a $600,000 grant to merge biology with AI. They already demonstrated how 800,000 brain cells in a Petri dish play a game of “Pong.” Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Neuralink has FDA approval to study brain implants in humans since May. They call it transhumanism.
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Live Parasitic Worm Found in Australian Woman’s Brain in World First
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – A live parasitic worm has been found inside the brain of a 64-year-old Australian woman, marking the first case of the infection in humans.
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BRICS Will Change the Power Balance in the Global Energy Market
Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
28 Aug 2023 – BRICS Will Make Up nearly 40% of Global Economy – The 11 BRICS countries will account for 48.5 million square kilometers or 36% of the world’s land area. The combined population will amount to 3.6 billion, 45% of the globe’s total.
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US Extends Science Pact with China: What It Means for Research
Natasha Gilbert and Gemma Conroy | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
25 Aug 2023 – The move is a stop-gap measure, and scientists warn that lack of a full renewal could damage research collaborations.
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Niger’s Ordeal of Forever Colonialism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
27 Aug 2023 – A lot has happened since the coup, which affects Niger and how we understand its relation to that country, to the Sahel region, to Africa generally, and to the U.S. rivalry with Russia and China in the foreground. I have taken ‘liberties’ with my answers to address this awareness of the broader context.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
When the Cold War ended in 1991, the West, and particularly the United States, found itself at a fork in the road. One road led to peace, justice, cooperation, nuclear disarmament, a revitalized UN, inclusiveness, pluralism, human rights, multilateralism, fair trade, regulated markets, food security, sustainability, and humane governance. The other road led to militarism…
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Gabon President Bongo Detained in Coup Attempt after Winning Third Term
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – A group of senior Gabonese military officers today announced that they had taken power and detained President Ali Bongo, minutes after the state election body declared the winner of Saturday’s general election.
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American Psychological Association: Doing Harm
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – I’m excited to share the news that my book Doing Harm: How the World’s Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror has now been published!
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(Italiano) Vietnam e Palestina/Israele: un confronto tra legge e guerra
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Agosto 2023 – Il testo che segue è la mia prefazione a un confronto di conflitti di eccezionale valore: Vietnam e Palestina/Israele. Queste due regioni mi hanno preoccupato per tutta la mia carriera professionale e nel corso della mia vita di cittadino attivista.
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Clearing the Fog of ‘Unprovoked’ War
Edward Lozansky, Ph.D. | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
9 Aug 2023 – For the record: I was born in Ukraine, studied in Russia, and worked in the USA as a laser fusion researcher and Professor of Mathematics and Physics. I have relatives and friends in all three countries, and for the last 35 years, I have been trying to do my best to make them friends, partners, or even allies. Instead, all three are now at war, even if some call the U.S. war only a war “by proxy.”
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Why Do Many Scientists Oppose Fukushima Radioactive Waste Discharge?
Victoria Bela | South China Morning Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – The release of treated waste water from the nuclear plant has begun, despite concerns from major scientific organisations. IAEA is monitoring the operation but many experts are questioning the amount of data being collected.
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Tracking Orwellian Change: New Meanings of “Deep State” and “Working Class”
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – Today’s theme involves once-embraced liberal terminology re-branded as right-wing and therefore infamous, false, or seditious: DEEP STATE.
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A Roadmap for Peace in Ukraine
Alfred de Zayas | TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – As more and more politicians and scholars recognize that the Ukraine conflict cannot be solved militarily, that there will be no winners but only losers, we should concentrate on stopping the slaughter. This is the only rational policy we can follow. My roadmap for peace is simple.
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French Ambassador Defies Order to Vacate Niger
Abayomi Azikiwe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – Prompting a diplomatic crisis, the former colonial power is determined to remain in a country where they are not wanted.
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(Français) Le Sommet des BRICS
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
1 sep 2023 – Le fossé mondial entre le Nord et le Sud s’est élargi ce mois-ci lors du sommet des pays BRICS (Brésil, Russie, Inde, Chine et Afrique du Sud) qui a eu lieu à Johannesburg.
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The Strategic Importance of Space Cooperation: Humanity as an Open-System
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – There are currently two opposing space paradigms that I’d like to speak about today.
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Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – Directed Energy Weapons constitute a $5.3 billion dollar business (2022) slated to increase to $12.9 billon dollars by 2027. This profit-driven military-industrial market is dominated by six “defense contractors” including Raytheon, Northrup Grunman, BAE Systems (plc), Boeing, Lockheed Martin and L3Harris Technologies.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Schools have become essential institutions today for imparting education, not only in a town but also in a village — in rural conditions.
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(Italiano) Resistenza e creatività nell’India di oggi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Sempre più si moltiplicano le notizie messe a disposizione su tutti i temi possibili. Sempre più i sistemi di comunicazione presentano al pubblico molteplici versioni dello stesso tema, fornendo come in un caleidoscopio una pluralità di interpretazioni diverse di uno stesso evento.
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The Joke Is on You…
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
… Jack!
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The Last Time a Foreign Military Threat Was Placed Near the US Border, the World Almost Ended
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
27 Aug 2023 – To demand that Russia and China tolerate foreign activities on their borders that the US would never even think about tolerating on its own borders is just demanding that the entire world lie down and submit to being ruled by Washington.
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Numbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Everybody knows that 2 + 2 = 4 since 4 = 2 + 2. They know that excellent thing with certainty but generally fail to appreciate the charming nature of 2 + 2 = 5. Tautologies are usually preferred to choices that seem to contradict the “laws of nature.”
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NATOstan Robots Versus the Heavenly Horses of Multipolarity
Pepe Escobar – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – We will all need plenty of time and introspection to analyze the full range of game-changing vectors unleashed by the unveiling of BRICS 11 last week in South Africa. Yet time waits for no one. The Empire will (italics mine) strike back in full force; in fact its multi-hydra Hybrid War tentacles are already on display.
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Heavenly Peace of the Oppressor and Hellish Peace of the Oppressed
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
“The Oppressor Gains Power to Achieve Peace, while the Oppressed Gains Agony.”
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UN, Great Powers and World Peace
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
The future of the UN, its funding requirements and authority remain uncertain. Will it buckle and break by rising nationalism, militarism and populism? Will it ever be able to realise its UN Charter goal of – “…to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war which in our lifetime has brought untold sorrow to mankind?”
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Cultural Differences
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Being aware of cultural differences is important to avoid unfortunate misunderstandings.
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51 Think Tanks and Thought Leaders in Global Peacebuilding
Taylor O’Connor | Everyday Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
17 Aug 2023 – Certainly, this is not a list of all organizations working for peace. It is however, a great overview of all organizations I know that conduct research on peacebuilding and/or regularly publish reports, guides and other great resources on building peace and associated topics.
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The US Economic War on China
Jeffrey D. Sachs | The New World Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
31 Aug 2023 – Now the US is taking aim at China. Starting around 2015, US policy-makers came to view China as a threat rather than a trade partner due to China’s economic success. China’s economic rise really began to alarm US strategists when it announced in 2015 a “Made in China 2025” policy.
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Six Years After Their Darkest Hour, the Rohingya Have Been Abandoned
Raïss Tinmaung | Ottawa Citizen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Aug. 25 marks the sixth anniversary of the last massacre of the Rohingya in Myanmar. Half of their villages were exterminated and 800,000 people fled to Bangladesh. Abandoned by the international community, they remain in the refugee camps and apartheid villages.
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Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
4-10 September 2023
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The Real Threat from China: They’re Better at Capitalism Than We Are
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
30 Aug 2023 – The Biden administration’s China strategy comes down to parrying, in a word. All the pointless talk is to obscure an effort to undermine China’s economy because we cannot compete with it, while—part two—buying time to move maximum U.S. military hardware as close to China as possible under the Pacific Defense Initiative.
→ read full articleThe Crusaders against India’s Poisoned Pluralism
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Too much thinking about Muslim rulers is now shaped along predictable, clichéd lines. This is true of all shades of opinion, perception and scholarship.
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Hundreds of Thousands Trafficked into Online Criminality Across SE Asia
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
29 Aug 2023 – Criminal gangs in southeast Asia are using torture and abuse to force hundreds of thousands of people into an online scam operation which generates billions of dollars per year, the UN rights office said today.
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Questioning the Unquestionable
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Why and What Do We Need to Know?
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West Bank: Spike in Israeli Killings of Palestinian Children
Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
28 Aug 2023 – The Israeli military and border police forces are killing Palestinian children with virtually no recourse for accountability. End Systematic Impunity for Unlawful Lethal Force
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Our Collective Trauma Is the Road to Tyranny
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
3 Sep 2023 – US society spawns trauma and this trauma expresses itself in a variety of self-destructive pathologies, including the erosion of democracy and rise of neo-fascism.
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Hamsa Naava (Music Video of the Week)
Deepu | T-Series Telugu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Sep 2023
Enjoy a dreamy, idyllic, inspiring atmosphere.
Click on Watch on YouTube
Magical Discourse Contrasting Human and AI Identity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
Being a Wave or Being Apart from a Quantum Perspective
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XV BRICS Summit Johannesburg II Declaration
BRICS Summit Johannesburg - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
South Africa, 23 Aug 2023 – Full Declaration
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BRICS Invites Iran, Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, the UAE, and Saudi Arabia to Join as New Members
PressTV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
24 Aug 2023 – The five current member states have reached a “consensus on the first phase of this expansion process” and invited the six states to become new members of the BRICS group from 1 Jan 2024. With the new members, BRICS makes up about 40 percent of the world’s population.
→ read full articleBRICS+: Cure for Intellectual Toxicity of Cultural Relativism
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
27 Aug 2023 – The rampant anti-Chinese (and Russian) bias pervasive in today’s Western society has a lot to do with the fact that people have been conditioned by a very messy world outlook known as “cultural relativism”.
→ read full articleLaw & War: A Comparison of Vietnam and Palestine/Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
26 Aug 2023 – The text below is my foreword to an exceptionally valuable comparison of conflicts: Vietnam and Arab-Israeli.
→ read full articleThe Truth about Microfinance
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
Anita Rathod learned about microfinance from a neighbour a decade ago. She joined a group of local women to secure small loans — worth a few thousand rupees at a time — and build up her cooking business.
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BRICS Leaders Approve Document Setting Expansion Guidelines
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
23 Aug 2023 – Since January, BRICS Sherpas have been working on the concept of enlargement and the principles of its implementation. To date, twenty-three countries have submitted formal applications for membership.
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Japan Releases Nuclear Wastewater into the Pacific. How Worried Should We Be?
Lesley M.M. Blume | National Geographic - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
24 Aug 2023 – The plan to gradually discharge more than a million tons of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has started–deeply dividing nations and scientists.
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Surviving Childhood Trauma: The Impact of Domestic Violence
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
It is in our connectedness with other people – in our memories of laughter, smiles, sharing sorrow, being heard, being looked at with kindness, being heard with attention, being remembered by someone, being upset with someone, being comforted – that we become alive as relational beings.
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Neoliberalism Kills People (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | a/political – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
Featuring Mai Khalil and Valeria Kurbatova (Lyrics below)
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BRICS Leaders Call for Democratic Economic Order in the Interest of the Majority
Abdul Rahman | People's Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
23 Aug 2023 – Amid a membership expansion, leaders of the bloc spoke out against sanctions, conditions on sovereign credit and dollar hegemony on the first and second days of the summit.
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Palestinophobia and Africanophobia: Apartheid Parallels in Contemporary History
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
“The atrocities committed by tyrannical regimes in history, and presently, based on human phenotypes, knows no bounds.”
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(Italiano) Mobilitazione per la guerra con la Cina: falchi USA prendono di mira “Code Pink”
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
22 Agosto 2023 – Per gli attivisti antiguerra, la mobilitazione per la guerra con la Cina e i preparativi per una guerra di primo rango hanno un aspetto letteralmente da incubo, in cui si osserva come fisicamente o moralmente paralizzati l’approssimarsi passo passo di una situazione minacciosa finché è troppo tardi per evitare un prevedibile disastro.
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