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War on Syria: Eleven Years of Carnage
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – “Hundreds of thousands have been killed, more than half of the pre-war population has been displaced. More than 100,000 are missing or forcibly disappeared. Syria’s cities and infrastructure have been destroyed. The poverty rate is 90 percent; 14.6 million people depend on humanitarian aid.”
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Obituary: How Madeleine Albright’s ‘Munich Mindset’ Turned into Uninhibited Interventionism
Daniel Larison | Responsible Statecraft – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
24 Mar 2022 – Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State, a prominent liberal interventionist, and promoter of NATO expansion, died on 23 Mar from cancer at the age of 84. A refugee who rose to the highest levels of government, she became a well-positioned advocate of American exceptionalism.
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Reporting from Moscow: Sanctions May Achieve the Opposite of Biden’s Stated Long-Term Goals
Glenn Greenwald and Dimitri Simes Jr. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
27 Mar 2022 – In Russia, sanctions have taken a bite out of the Russian economy, but interviews and data suggest they cannot fulfill the West’s strategic motives for imposing them.
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Washington Is Driving the World to Nuclear War
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Washington dumped three more provocations simultaneously on the Kremlin. The signal it consistently sends is aggression. Why has no government and no presstitute in the West pointed this out? Why provoke a country concerned with its security with more security concerns unless you are trying to widen the war?
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The Marriage of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – I was in London as a guest of Julian Assange and Stella Moris for their wedding, but even on that day the authorities continued their relentless campaign of cruelty against Julian.
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Yemen: The Largest Humanitarian Crisis That No One Discusses
Martin Armstrong | Armstrong Economics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The media rarely reports on Yemen and most journalists likely would not be able to recognize Yemen’s flag. The public does not discuss or shed tears for the people of Yemen who live in unfathomable conditions because they are not a piece of the larger agenda and no one can profit off of their suffering at this time.
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Confession
Raymond Nat Turner | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” —P. J. O’Rourke
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(Italiano) Per una pace su Gaia
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Marzo 2022 – Di recente è stata approvata una modifica della Costituzione Italiana, all’articolo 9. L’inserimento della biodiversità e degli ecosistemi è un passo avanti rispetto al ‘paesaggio’. Viene riconosciuta almeno una parte di Gaia – il nostro pianeta vivente – tra i soggetti da tutelare, anche se c’è ancora qualche ambiguità.
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Ice Shelf Bigger than New York City Breaks Off Eastern Antarctica
Jason Samenow | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
26 Mar 2022 – The first major shelf to collapse in more than four decades of satellite observations. The Conger Ice Shelf, spanning about 460 square miles, shattered off the continent on March 15. Its disintegration has alarmed scientists, who have long considered ice in eastern Antarctica as relatively stable.
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Ukraine Déjà Vu 1984: Political Egocentrism, Nuclear Narcissism and Political Maturity
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – In 1984 I went to the USSR with the Association of Humanistic Psychology as a citizen diplomat during the height of the Soviet-American nuclear arms race. That was the good old days when Reagan called the USSR “the Evil Empire.” I put aside my shyness to become a speaker for Physicians for Social Responsibility on the psychology of the arms race.
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Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
Ray McGovern, John Mearsheimer | Salon, Committee for the Republic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To an empire, everything looks like a crisis to justify a multi-trillion-dollar military-industrial-security complex as dictatress of the world. The crisis du jour for the American empire is Russia‘s aggression against Ukraine.
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The Future Is Here: Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – We have arrived into the dystopian future dreamed up by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick. Much like Orwell’s Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate spies now watch our every move. Much like Huxley’s A Brave New World, we are churning out a society of watchers who “have their liberties taken away from them, but … rather enjoy it.
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UN Condemnation of Russia Endorsed by Countries Run by the Richest, Oldest, Whitest People on Earth
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360° - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
24 Mar 2022 – The statistics below show that only 41% of the world’s people live in countries that joined the US in voting for the UN resolution: Divided World
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Facing Severe Repression, Russians Are Turning to Antiwar Graffiti
Colleen Wood and Alexis Lerner | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – As the Kremlin cracks down on antiwar protests, subversive street art critiquing the war in Ukraine is proliferating across Russia.
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(Italiano) Conflitto NATO/Russia in Ucraina
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – La reazione “rettiliana” dell’Occidente si dimostrerà estremamente autodistruttiva: una lettura di Jan Oberg del conflitto NATO/Russia in Ucraina.
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Biden’s Reckless Words Underscore the Dangers of U.S. Use of Ukraine as a Proxy War
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
27 Mar 2022 – The central question from the start of the war in Ukraine was what role, if any, should the U.S. government play in it? If the U.S. is going to involve itself in this war, what objectives should drive that involvement? Those questions were never considered and it may be too late for them to be examined. But given the stakes, this is as clear a case of better late than never.
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The Evolving Narrative
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – Current Affairs
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World’s Dullest Editorial Launches Panic
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Mar 2022 – In an inane sequel to the Harper’s Letter fiasco, a New York Times editorial ignites a fury proving its anodyne thesis.
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2021 Amazon Deforestation Map Shows Devastating Impact of Ranching, Agriculture
Maxwell Radwin | Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The Andean Amazon Project found that around 1.9 million hectares (4.8 million acres) of primary forest were lost in 2021, mostly as the result of cattle ranching and other agricultural activities.
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U.S. Lied about Funding “Dangerous Pathogen” Research in Secret Ukrainian Biolabs, Newly Leaked Documents Reveal
Dilyana Gaytandzhieva | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – Newly Leaked Documents Reveal Pentagon Contractors Worked Under $80 Million Program Funded by Defense Department but Kept Hidden from Public
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The Lie of North American Innocence
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. Our hypocrisy makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible.
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: una prospettiva geopolitica
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Ripresa modificata di una conferenza tenuta il 9 marzo 2022 a una sessione dei Colloqui su Studi Globali all’Università di California – Santa Barbara convocata dal professor Jan Nederveen Pieters, purtroppo priva di una serie di domande impegnative a seguito del mio intervento, fra cui da vari partecipanti in Europa.
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NATO Is Arming and Training Nazis in Ukraine, as US Floods Russia’s Neighbor with Weapons
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
11 Mar 2022 – NATO is sending weapons and trainers to help neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s white-supremacist Azov movement fight Russia. This follows numerous reports of Western government support for Ukrainian far-right extremists.
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Ukrainian Leftist Criticizes Western War Drive with Russia: US Is Using Ukraine as ‘Cannon Fodder’
Yuliy Dubovyk | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – A left-wing peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the US government created the crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and exploiting his nation as a proxy against Russia.
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United Nations as a Potemkin Institution Faced with Potemkin Crises?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Potential of AI to Enable a Transformative Dynamic through Meta-Discourse – As noted previously, the current global campaign of sanctions against Russia curiously recalls the psychosurgical procedure of lobotomy — much favoured in the USA and the UK subsequent to World War II during the Cold War period.
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From Kyiv to Kabul: The ‘Blessings’ of Civilisation
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – It’s time to put an end to a long history of violence in the name of benevolence.
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A Commune Called ‘Che’: A Socialist Holdout in the Venezuelan Andes
Chris Gilbert | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – Just as the independence struggle had different resonances in the Andes, so too does Venezuela’s project of communal socialism. The region is home to one of the most successful communes in the country and has a solid productive basis (a chocolate factory and coffee cooperative). However, the Che Guevara Commune is markedly different from others.
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(Italiano) Se lo stato abdica alle sue leggi, i comuni hanno il diritto/dovere di disobbedire
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Stavo pensando ad alcune esperienze di resistenza civile in cui la pubblica amministrazione (PA) locale (Comuni) è intervenuta nei conflitti armati e non armati.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Pochi giorni fa, l’11 marzo, in sordina, ricorreva l’undicesimo anniversario della tragedia di Fukushima (in Giappone) Il 26 aprile prossimo saranno trascorsi 27 anni dal disastro di Chernobyl (in Ucraina)
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Transcending the Certainties of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Can we stare into hell and refuse to see . . . an enemy?
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Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – While millions have been hurt by surging gas prices, a new report from a government watchdog group shows 25 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel corporations in 2021 collectively pulled in $205 billion in profits. Now, fossil fuel giants are trying to “cash in on inflation and the crisis in Ukraine,” said one critic.
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Barcoding Nature: The Largest Global Land Grab in Human History
Meleni Aldridge and Melissa Smith | ANH International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – The commoditization of nature is justified as being driven by the protection of natural resources. But scratch beneath the surface and the greed and avarice is clear to see. Is the largest corporate land grab in recent history hiding in plain sight?
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Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – The Cold War, 1945-1989, was a Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another, and the global corporations able to equate predatory capitalism with freedom. The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives then–and now.
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The UK Supreme Court Won’t Listen to Assange, but the Legal Battle Is Still On
Sara Chessa | Bella Caledonia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – What are Assange’s lawyers’ options after the Supreme Court refused to listen to his appeal. Why US diplomatic assurances are unacceptable from a human rights point of view.
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Bias(?)
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
In the eyes of the beholder…
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Lockheed and Raytheon–Today’s ‘Masters of War’
Betsey Piette | Workers World -TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Mar 2022 – That the U.S./NATO-instigated war in Ukraine could result in a WWIII is of major concern for all of humanity. Yet for some global billionaires — today’s ‘masters of war’ — this conflict is an opportunity to further boost profits.
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Escaping the Trap of Efficiency: The Counterintuitive Antidote to the Time-Anxiety That Haunts and Hampers Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
“Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster… Since finitude defines our lives… living a truly authentic life — becoming fully human — means facing up to that fact.”
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UK Supreme Court Slams Door on Assange Appeal, Extradition May Be Authorized
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – Without any explanation, the British Supreme Court denied WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “permission to appeal” a decision by the British High Court. If the British Home Office approves extradition, Assange’s defense may submit an appeal on the issues of freedom of the press.
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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Louis Armstrong | ABC Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Original Spoken Intro Version – 1970
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The Amazon, Undone: Death in the Forest
Terrence McCoy | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
17 Mar 2022 – The groups, which dominate this stretch of the forest, had unleashed a wave of fire and destruction that was transforming much of southern Amazonas state into smoldering pastureland. The way they solve problems is with violence.
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Say Hello to Russian Gold and Chinese Petroyuan
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – It was a long time coming, but finally some key lineaments of the multipolar world’s new foundations are being revealed. The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions.
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(Italiano) Si può fare la pace con le armi?
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Nei giorni scorsi sono comparsi diversi articoli di autorevoli intellettuali quali Vito Mancuso su «LaStampa»o di politici impegnati come Luigi Manconi su «La Repubblica», in difesa della scelta etica dell’invio di armi all’Ucraina.
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On the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – To grasp this possibility within the context of Ukraine, we need to put aside all talk of morality, rights, international law, and think in terms of great power politics. When a great power feels its existence is threatened, might makes right. You simply can’t understand world politics without thinking at this level. It is a means of clarifying the causes of wars.
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Unique Resource on the Russia/Ukraine Conflict 2022
Rachael Mellor | Better World Info - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Mar 2022 – Better World Info provides a unique peace perspective on the current developments. At over 4,000 links, and growing daily, they feature the conflict from a Western/NATO perspective, Russian perspective, and independent viewpoints.
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Noam Chomsky on Hope and the Barcelona World Conference
Noam Chomsky | IPB International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Second IPB World Peace Congress: Campaign for Peace, Disarmament & Common Security Apr 2021
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A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War
Greg Mello | Los Alamos Study Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – An end to the invasion and war in Ukraine can only be guaranteed if Russia’s security is itself guaranteed. Security is largely indivisible. Security for one state requires security for others, says the Los Alamos Study Group.
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Nation-States Are Destroying the World – Could ‘Bioregions’ Be the Answer?
Shrishtee Bajpai, Juan Manuel Crespo and Ashish Kothari | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – From the border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are seeking new ways to organise societies that respect humans and nature.
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Ukraine, It Was All Written in the Rand Corp Plan
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – How to Destroy Russia–2019 Rand Corporation Report: “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia.” Rand is “a global research organization developing solutions to [USA] policy challenges”: it has an army of 1,800 researchers from 50 countries, speaking 75 languages in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Persian Gulf: more than 25 countries.
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Business as Usual in Munich: White Men Rule the World
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – A photograph from a CEO lunch at this year’s Munich Security Conference yet again demonstrated who continues to run the world.
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Orwell Was Right
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
13 Mar 2022 – From free speech to “spheres of influence” to our passion for endless war, we’ve become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted.
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Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has “Biological Research Facilities,” Worried Russia May Seize Them
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
9 Mar 2022 – The neocon’s confession sheds critical light on the U.S. role in Ukraine, and raises vital questions about these labs that deserve answers.
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Worthy and Unworthy Victims
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – Dividing the world into worthy and unworthy victims is a tactic used to justify our crimes and demonize our enemies. Conflicts will not be solved until all nations abide by international law and all victims are deemed worthy.
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Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – From Sep-Nov 2021, overlapping with the UN Climate Change Conference, three major developments in global finance marked a turning point in the financial expropriation of the earth and a shift in the economic paradigm to unlimited accumulation of total capital, which is now seen as including “natural capital.”
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Arms Flood into Ukraine as US, NATO Pursue Proxy War over Peace
Kit Klarenberg | The Dissenter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
8 Mar 2022 – In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country has been flooded with weapons and military hardware from Europe and North America. The strategy significantly expands the growth prospects for military companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman.
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Putin’s Criminal Invasion of Ukraine Highlights Some Ugly Truths about U.S. and NATO
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – The fact that Putin is trying to justify the unjustifiable in Ukraine does not mean we must ignore the U.S. actions that fuel his narrative.
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Life Goes on, Right?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
9 Mar 2022 – I had a breakthrough yesterday — and I don’t mean metaphorically. Wars rage, countless humans suffer, the rich get richer, life goes on. I still have my morning coffee. But not yesterday.
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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine through My Burmese Eyes
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
13 Mar 2022 – None of the leading liberal democracies of the West really honours the principles they loudly espouse such as nonviolence, popular and state sovereignty, human rights, or democracy, nor do they support democratic resistance, armed or nonviolent, unless such support serves their hidden interests, whether commercial or geostrategic.
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The Ukraine War: A Geopolitical Perspective
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Talk on 9 Mar 2022 at the Global Studies Colloquium, UCSB. When we agreed on a theme for my presentation, we were in a pre-Ukraine world. Interim developments: the imprudent US-led provocations, Russian aggression against a sovereign state of over 44 million people, the confrontational Western sanctions, and a surging Russophobia produced a win/lose calculus rather than partial win/win political outcomes.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Current Affairs…
→ read full article(Italiano) Da Gaia a Tecno-Gaia… e poi?
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
“Voglio finire presto, perché ho bisogno di staccare la mente e di immergermi nella consapevolezza gloriosa e sensuale delle connessioni tra la grande atmosfera, i germogli primaverili, la profondità del tempo dell’evoluzione e il mio umile respiro. Inspiro. Espiro…
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U.S. and NATO’s Unprecedented Weapons Transfers to Ukraine Could Prolong the War
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – The USA, world’s largest arms dealer, is leading an effort to dramatically increase the flow of weapons to the government in Kyiv. The weapons transfers represent a significant escalation of Western involvement and nations must ask themselves whether it is more or less likely to help end the horrifying violence being imposed on Ukraine’s civilian population.
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Extremely Important Statements by Putin (MUST SEE!)
Andrei | The Saker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – This is such an important statement that I am also posting the transcript below. In this exchange, Putin spells out in quite some details WHAT Russia is doing and WHY she is doing it. — Andrei
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Understanding the War in Ukraine
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
8 Mar 2022 – The United States wants “to organize chaos between Russia and the Europeans.” Peace in Ukraine “is a matter of reconciliation between NATO and the new global powers, Russia and China.”
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It’s Time to Ask: What Would a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal Look Like?
Anatol Lieven | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – The West is morally right to oppose the illegal Russian war and to impose severe sanctions on Russia, but would be morally wrong to oppose an agreement to end the invasion and spare the people of Ukraine terrible suffering. America’s own record over the past generation gives no basis for such self-righteous hyper-legalism.
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Virology of Ideas and Colonialism
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
12 Mar 2022 – This brilliant talk by a Nobel Prize Winner George Smith on “The Virology of Ideas — An Indispensable Pandemic” calls us to a higher level of (re)thinking our world.
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Some Lives Are More Valuable Than Others
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
8 Mar 2022 – According to Western Media’s Coverage of the Ukraine War
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How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
“To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.”
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Richard Falk on Peace, War, and the Life of a Citizen Pilgrim
David Swanson | Talk World Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
11 May 2021 – Richard Falk is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and Chair of Global Law, Queen Mary University London. Since 2009 he has been annually nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. His political memoir, Public Intellectual: Life of a Citizen Pilgrim was published by Clarity Press in Feb 2021.
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Follow the Money: US Sanctions–Will Russia Be Able to Bypass Western Economic Warfare?
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The US and EU are over-reaching on Russian sanctions. The end result could be the de-dollarization of the global economy and massive commodity shortages worldwide.
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Vandana Shiva on the Dangers of Philanthrocapitalism
Vandana Shiva | Nonviolence Radio Team – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Physicist, ecologist and prolific author Vandana Shiva discusses her new book, “Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy,“ which identifies a new form of colonialism turning us away from each other and the Earth.
→ read full articleSevering the Russian Hemisphere as Problematic Global Lobotomy?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – Engendering a Transformative Dynamic through the Potential of Meta-Discourse – The current global campaign of sanctions against Russia curiously recalls the psychosurgical procedure of lobotomy — much favoured in the USA and the UK subsequent to World War II.
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A Guide for Peace in Ukraine: A Humanist and Nonviolent Proposal from Portugal
Redação Portugal | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – The Centre for Humanist Studies “Exemplary Actions”, the Portuguese branch of the World Centre for Humanist Studies, an organism of the Humanist Movement, is disseminating a non-violent proposal for the restoration of peace in Ukraine, inviting citizens and non-governmental organisations who identify with it to sign it and send it.
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Ukrainian Refugees to Portugal Will Have Over 11,500 Jobs to Choose from
Natasha Donn | Portugal Resident - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – As the government announced earlier this week, bureaucratic details like temporary residence authorisation/social security, fiscal and SNS State health Service numbers, will all be fast-tracked to make this transition for new arrivals as simple as possible.
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Ukraine: A Conflict Soaked in Contradictions and New Patterns in War and Media
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – The world has become used to military interventions by the United States. This is, however, not a U.S. intervention. That in itself is a surprise—one that has befuddled reporters and pundits alike. It is valuable to step back and look at how the rest of the world may perceive this conflict, starting with the West’s ethnocentric interests.
→ read full articleThe Frailty of Peace in the Midst of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Prior to any analysis of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, prior to the casting of blame and outrage — at Putin’s hubris, at NATO’s pernicious eastward expansion over the last three decades — there’s this:
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Ukraine: How Close Was the Nuclear Plant Attack to Catastrophe?
Esme Stallard and Victoria Gill | BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – Buildings at the Zaporizhzhia plant–the largest in Europe–were damaged after it was hit by shelling. UN’s nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency says that none of the safety systems at the plant were affected, and there was no release of radioactive material.
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The Risk of Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine
Bennett Ramberg | Project-Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Of all the obvious dangers that come with war, one of the most far-reaching in the current Russia-Ukraine conflict has been woefully underappreciated. Even if commanders took pains to avoid striking Ukraine’s 15 nuclear power reactors, that might not be enough to avoid a catastrophe.
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The Dangerous Assumption That Violence Keeps Us Safe
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
26 Feb 2022 – A romanticized belief in violence renders people irrational to the point of hurting ourselves, over and over again. One of the most popular — and dangerous — assumptions in the world is that violence keeps us safe.
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So This Is What It Looks Like When the Corporate Media Opposes a War
Jeff Cohen | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Having worked inside mainstream U.S. media during the beginning of the “War on Terror” and run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the differences in today’s war coverage are dizzying to me. Major American media outlets oppose military aggression… unless the United States is doing it.
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Toxic Nostalgia, from Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?
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See Saw
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
21 Feb 2022 – Please clarify…
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(Français) La Chute de Poutine – Un Déjà-vu
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
J’ai travaillé par intermittence en Union Soviétique dans les années 1970 et 1980 et j’ai observé le crash de l’Empire Soviétique – de l’intérieur. Il y avait trois causes principales: la perte de valeur du rouble, la perte de la guerre en Afghanistan et la perte de confiance du peuple.
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The Curse of NATO
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The war over Ukraine is an example of the curse of NATO. Russia reacted to the possibility of Ukraine being in NATO. This is not irrational in that US/NATO has over 750 military bases around the world, and many of these bases appear to be there to militarily encircle Russia (and China).
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I Want You Back (Music Video of the Week)
The Jackson 5 | The Ed Sullivan Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The Jackson 5 on The Ed Sullivan Show December 14, 1969
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They Are ‘Civilized’ and ‘Look Like Us’: The Racist Coverage of Ukraine
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Are Ukrainians more deserving of sympathy than Afghans and Iraqis? Many seem to think so.
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Ukraine and the Orwellian “Ministry of Truth”: The Attack Was Launched by NATO Eight Years Ago
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU is banning Sputnik and Russia Today so that “they can no longer spread their lies to justify Putin’s war with their toxic disinformation in Europe”. The EU thus officially establishes the Orwellian Ministry of Truth.
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Navigating our Humanity: Ilan Pappé on the Four Lessons from Ukraine
Ilan Pappé | The Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – The USA Today reported that a photo that went viral about a high-rise in the Ukraine being hit by Russian bombing turned out to be a high-rise from the Gaza Strip, demolished by the Israeli Air Force in May 2021. Legitimizing internationally the invasion of sovereign countries and licensing the continued colonization and oppression of others, such as Palestine and its people, will lead to more tragedies, such as the Ukrainian one, in the future.
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The Fall of Putin – a Déjà vu
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – Déjà vu. I worked on and off in the Soviet Union during the 1970’s and 1980’s and I watched the crash of the Soviet Empire – from inside. Three main causes: the loss of value of the ruble, the loss of the war in Afghanistan and the loss of confidence of the people.
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(Italiano) La Russia non doveva bombardare l’Ucraina: c’erano alternative
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Marzo 2022 – Un giorno o due prima dell’attacco russo all’Ucraina, scrissi che la Russia NON avrebbe invaso l’Ucraina. La notizia del mattino del 24 febbraio francamente mi scioccò e mi intristì molto.
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Militarism Is Never the Answer
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The West has always demonized Russia and ignored its border security. The US has successfully stoked another war because NATO always needs an enemy–Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria—and they have now turned their sights back to Russia. It will be the Europeans who reap the fall out of another US/NATO folly.
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Climate Change: IPCC Report Warns of ‘Irreversible’ Impacts of Global Warming
Matt McGrath | BBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Many of the impacts of global warming are now simply “irreversible” according to the UN’s latest assessment.
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Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Marzo 2022 – Questi appunti su quale pedagogia nei conflitti li ho scritti pensando a Gene Sharp che è stato per diversi anni direttore del Program of nonviolent sanctions del Center for International Affair della Harward University.
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The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”
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The War-Profiteering Gangsters Will Kill Us All Unless We Unite against Them
Roger Waters | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – Western media simplifies the conflict in Ukraine in ways that divide us. But what if instead, we chose to unite against those who profit from all wars throughout the world?
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What You Should ‘Really’ Know about Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
As tensions began to rise over Ukraine, US media produced articles attempting to explain the situation: “Ukraine Explained” (New York Times, 12/8/21) and “What You Need to Know About Tensions Between Ukraine and Russia” (Washington Post, 11/26/21). But to truly understand this crisis, you would need to know much more than what these articles offered.
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Ukraine versus Iraq — Humanitarian Intervention versus Invasion?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – Russian “Peacekeeping” or another “Forever War” – With the emphasis so emphatically placed on “invasion”, little is said of the possibility of “humanitarian intervention” — let alone of the meaning of any form of “promise” not to invade.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – We continue to be threatened by the culture of war, which, as usual in recent history, is monopolized by the nation states.
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Whistleblower Exposes Credit Suisse’s Bankrolling of Spy Chiefs Involved in CIA Torture
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – A major global journalism project called “Suisse Secrets” revealed the names of criminals and corrupt government officials who had Credit Suisse accounts, including spy agency chiefs implicated in the CIA’s torture program.
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Leak Exposes Ericsson’s Secret Dealings with ISIS amid Iraq Corruption Spree
Sydney P. Freedberg, Maggie Michael and Amir Musawy | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – The embattled Swedish telecom giant concealed years of bribery and fraud in the war-torn nation and grappled with undisclosed corruption allegations in more than a dozen other countries.
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The Situation in Russia and Ukraine – Why Is Ukraine the West’s Fault?
Prof. John Mearsheimer | King’s Politics/The University of Chicago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
John J. Mearsheimer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. In 2020 he won the James Madison Award from the American Political Science Association to “an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.”
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