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Our Tech Overlords Offer another Climate Solution without Sacrifice
Kurt Cobb | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
17 Apr 2023 – My expectations are never disappointed when I read that the solutions to problems created by technology are in more technology. It will solve our problems without us having to make any substantial change in our way of life. We cannot wait for our tech overlords to solve our problems; their kind of thinking only perpetuates them.
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US/EU/NATO Meet with Somaliland Secessionists
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
19 Apr 2023 – As Somaliland forces continue to fire on Somali nationalists, US/EU/NATO officials held a joint call with secessionist Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi.
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Leaks Spelling the End for Ukraine
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
17 Apr 2023 – Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington.
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Denmark Refusing to Engage on Nord Stream Probe
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
17 Apr 2023 – Denmark has rejected all contact regarding the investigation, the Russian ambassador has warned. US Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh claimed in February that Washington had orchestrated the sabotage with help also from Norway.
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(Dutch) Wij worden politiek, economisch, medisch en technologisch vermorzeld door de “Grote Reset” van de Elite
Robert J. Burrowes | The Love Factory - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
Sinds het begin van de menselijke beschaving, 5000 jaar geleden, zijn gewone mensen zoals u en ik verwikkeld in een eindeloze strijd tegen de pogingen van elites, lokaal, nationaal, internationaal of wereldwijd, om volledige controle over ons en de middelen om ons heen te krijgen.
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(Français) Brésil : La « malédiction de l’or » en territoire Yanomani–une tragédie préméditée
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
3 avril 2023 – Riches en ressources minérales, les terres indigènes du Brésil, malgré les protections légales, sont soumises à une pression intense. Les mineurs illégaux, en quête d’or, ont multiplié les incursions, les exactions contre les communautés et les atteintes à l’environnement, dans une dynamique qui rappelle les pires heures de la conquête coloniale.
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U.S. Hypocrisy toward the World Is another Way of Saying, ‘Don’t Do as We Do, Do as We Say’
David Starr | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
7 Apr 2023 – The U.S./NATO alliance’s ulterior motives have been evident, for those who care to directly look at the situation and to directly understand it.
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The Cup of Life – La Copa de la Vida (Music Video of the Week)
Ricky Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
Official Song Soccer World Cup France 1998 – Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin opens the Festival de Viña del Mar 2014 in Chile in a big way.
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If the U.S. Can’t Boss the World, It Will Spitefully Destroy It
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
13 Apr 2023 – Unable to accept the reality of a growing multipolar world order, U.S. elites are willing to risk nuclear war.
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Ukraine a ‘Non-Existent Country’ Financially – Orban
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
14 Apr 2023 – The conflict will end as soon as the West stops giving money to Kiev, the Hungarian PM has insisted.
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Policing the Elite’s Technocracy: How Do We Resist This Effectively?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
14 Apr 2023 – As has been carefully documented, under cover of the ‘virus’/‘vaccine’ narrative, the Global Elite is implementing long-planned and profound changes to 200 areas of human life. Hence, our persistence in presenting the information, while listening well when appropriate, is crucial to mobilizing the resistance we need to succeed.
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BRICS Bank De-dollarizing, New Chief Dilma Rousseff Says
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
16 Apr 2023 – The new chief of the BRICS bloc’s New Development Bank, Brazil’s leftist ex-President Dilma Rousseff, revealed they are gradually moving away from the US dollar, promising at least 30% of loans in local currencies of members.
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The Republican Martyr
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
Right!
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The Passing of Benjamin Ferencz (11 Mar 1920 – 7 Apr 2023) RIP
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
Easter 2023 (9 Apr) was marked by the passing of a remarkable man–Benjamin Ferencz. He died on 7 Apr at the age of 103. Ben was the last living Nuremberg WWII war crimes prosecutor. I met him in 1972.
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US Uses Rusesabagina’s Release to Whitewash Its Decades of Support for the Kagame Regime
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
5 Apr 2023 – Paul Rusesabagina is free after being kidnapped and taken to Rwanda in 2020. The US claims credit for pressuring Rwanda to release him, hoping to distract the world from its decades of support for President Paul Kagame and his human rights crimes in Rwanda and neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The Israeli Government Doing What They Do Best
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Apr 2023
6 Apr 2023 – Israeli apartheid police brutality beat Palestinian worshipers inside the sacred al Aqua mosque during Ramadan.
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(Português) Brasil: Lava-Jato, Essa Desconhecida
Leneide Duarte-Plon e Leonardo Boff | RED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
2 abril 2023 -Publicamos este texto-pesquisa que revela o escondido da Lava-Jato e mantido escondido pela grande imprensa empresarial e conservadora do Brasil. Foi preciso que pesquisadores estrangeiros pusessem esse escondido à luz e assim refutar tantas afirmações de jornalistas nacionais que não se comprometem com a verdade dos fatos mas servem aos interesses do grande sistema nacional e norte-americano.
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The Iinternational Criminal Court’s Selective Prosecution
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
29 Mar 2023 – The ICC’s double standard in the treatment of Ukraine and Palestine is largely due to political coercion by the U.S., which isn’t even a party to the court’s Rome Statute.
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Human Rights Watch Deliberately only Scratched the Surface in Exploring Ukraine’s Use of Banned ‘Petal’ Mines
Eva Bartlett - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
29 Mar 2023 – Since Ukraine dropped thousands of mines on the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in July, 104 people have fallen victim to the internationally-banned PFM-1 ‘petal’ (otherwise known as ‘butterfly’) devices. Nine of them are children. Of which three died.
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“Facing Clear Evidence of Peril” in a Country of Lies
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
28 Mar 2023 – Perhaps silence is the best response to the endless cavalcade of official lies that is United States history. The Internet and digital technology have allowed those lies to increase exponentially in number and frequency with the result that people’s minds have become like 7-Eleven stores, open 24/7 for snack-crap “news.”
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China and Brazil Deal a Blow to US Dollar-powered Bullying
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
1 Apr 2023 – Ditching the American currency in trade will diminish Washington’s ability to impose its will.
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How EU Leaders Destroyed Relations with Russia – and Denied Their Citizens Access to Reliable Cheap Energy
Tyler Kay | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
2 Apr 2023 – The West destroyed over a half-century of cooperation in the energy sector and hasn’t any affordable prospects in sight.
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2023 Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize Awarded to John Williams Ntwali and Kambale Musavuli
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Apr 2023
29 Mar 2023 – The Prize for Democracy and Peace is awarded to people who work for democracy, peace, and freedom in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.
→ read full articleThe Fabulist Arrogance of US Power
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The U.S. reserves for itself the right to commit crimes all over the world. Yet it also refuses to participate in any war crimes prosecution and even passed a law giving itself the right to invade the International Criminal Court at the Hague should a North American or an ally face justice.
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The Mafia: BP Stole £15 Billion of Iraqi Oil after British/West Invasion
Matt Kennard | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – Shell, the other U.K. “super-major” oil company, also re-entered Iraq in 2009 after an invasion in 2003 that was widely denounced at the time as a war-for-oil on the part of the U.S. and U.K.
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G7 vs BRICS — Off to the Races
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – BRICS Surpasses G7 in PPP-Adjusted Global GDP – An economist digging below the surface of an IMF report found something that should shock the Western bloc out of any false confidence in its unsurpassed global economic clout.
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U.S. War for Oil Turned 20!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Fascism?! What?!
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Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
In his iconic 1950s anti-war hit song ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?’, Pete Seeger posed the eternal question about war: ‘when will they ever learn?’ primarily to those who participate in the fighting. But it might equally have been directed at those in the ‘anti-war’ movement.
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US Banks Want Socialism for Themselves–and Capitalism for Everyone Else
Robert Reich | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – When banks like Silicon Valley Bank collapse, money floods to bigger ones like JPMorgan. Clients know they’re ‘too big to fail.’
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The Lords of Chaos
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – The politicians and shills in the media who orchestrated 20 years of military debacles in the Middle East, and who seek a world dominated by U.S. power, must be held accountable for their crimes.
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Haiti: “The Truth Speaks for Itself”
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
With a defunded health care system, Haiti is once again confronting a cholera epidemic. Food insecurity threatens 5 million people, including 2.4 million children, in a country of 12 million. Government-supported paramilitary groups continue to terrorize opposition neighborhoods, with kidnappings at an all time high. These crises have their roots in the 2004 coup and the subsequent imposition of foreign occupation, coordinated through the UN.
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Forever Wars vs. Armageddon
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The call for the U.S. to end military involvements is often made in order to advocate for new wars against more powerful countries. It appears that the only choices are forever wars or the end of the world.
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Anything to Say? Assange, Snowden & Manning in Sydney
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 – The three bronze statues that have been touring the world have arrived in Assange’s home country, Australia.
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A Sane Voice amidst the Madness
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – Former Australian PM Paul Keating has eviscerated Australia’s deal to buy nuclear submarines from the U.K. and U.S., saying there is no Chinese threat to defend against, despite the war hysteria stirring in Australia.
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Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
13 Mar 2023 – FORBES Has a New List of the World’s Richest People
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Iraq Plus 20 (Part 1): Lies as Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The Script for the Lead-Up to War
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Peace Conference: A World without Militarism
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Sat, 25 Mar: 9am to 5pm, University of London, In-person & Online, Free Entry
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The Pentagon’s B-Movie: Looking Closely at the Sep 2001 Attacks
Edward Curtin and Graeme MacQueen | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – Graeme MacQueen: The Indispensable 9/11 Writer’s Latest Book – Leftists, no matter what they say in their defense, bear great moral responsibility for the so-called War on Terror, the Patriot Act, the invasion of Iraq, the deaths of Muslims, etc., all of which emanate from the insider attacks of September 11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks.
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WCPA’s Two Track Strategy for Earth Federation Government or a ‘New UN’
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
16 Mar 2023 – Einstein noted the absence of enforceable world law in the UN Charter. Bully nations violate international law with impunity as leaders responsible for world crimes, especially from the UN Security Council (U.S., Russia, China, UK, France) are untouchable, never held accountable, even by the ICC or the ICJ.
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Will Humans Become an Extension of Their Machines? ChatGPT May Have Irrevocable Consequences for Learning and Decision-Making
Dr. Mathew Maavak | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
13 Mar 2023 – We already rely on digital crutches in numerous aspects of our lives – will we delegate even our essential faculties to AI?
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AI Robots Invade the Classroom — So What?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – As long as the system of artificial education focuses on “teaching to the test” by insisting on reducing individual intelligence to a number and belittling the potential of each student, we have a problem. AI isn’t the cause; it helps expose it.
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Lynching the Deplorables
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
5 Mar 2023 – The criminal investigation undertaken by the federal government against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol is polarizing the country and shredding civil liberties.
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Ukraine’s Death by Proxy
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 – Proxy wars devour the countries they purport to defend. There will come a time when the Ukrainians will become expendable to the U.S. They will disappear, as many others before them, from U.S. national discourse and popular consciousness.
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Seismic Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Isolates US
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 – The Chinese-brokered diplomatic deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran not only opens the way for resolution of region-wide conflicts, but foils U.S. Mideast divide-and-rule designs based on Saudi-Iranian enmity. The success of the normalization and its effect on the Middle East remains to be seen. But it is a start that few thought they’d ever see as long as the U.S. stood in the way.
→ read full articleUS Shoots Itself in the Foot in Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – In Africa as in the rest of the world, US machinations undermine its goals and bring other nations together as they seek to protect themselves from a desperate empire. The US can’t seem to understand that the rest of the world, including Africa, doesn’t like to be pushed around.
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Artistic Perfection…
Arthur Compton, Nobel Physics Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
… Intelligent Design
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Quoth the Vultures “Evermore”
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
It was an intentional genocidal war waged to torture, kill, and maim as many Vietnamese as possible and to use North American boys to do the killing and suffer the consequences. Its Phoenix Program, the CIA’s assassination and torture operation, became the template for Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, CIA black sites, hybrid wars, terrorist actions, etc. up to today.
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Ukraine: The Tunnel at the End of the Light
Robert Freeman | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – The U.S. abused its providential anointment as the exceptional nation. That abuse has been recognized, called out and is now being acted against by most of the other nations of the world.
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West Is Out of Touch with Rest of World Politically, EU-Funded Study Admits
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – A study by the elite EU-funded European Council on Foreign Relations found the West is out of touch politically with the rest of the world. Most people in China, India, and Türkiye see Russia as an important ally, and they want multipolarity, not continued “American global supremacy”.
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China Meets American Hegemony Head-On
Timur Fomenko | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
23 Feb 2023 – In a rare scathing essay, Beijing’s foreign ministry has blasted Washington’s continued attempts at world domination.
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China Report Excoriates ‘US Hegemony’, War Crimes, CIA Coups, 400 Foreign Interventions
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – China’s Foreign Ministry published a lengthy report condemning “US hegemony” and its crimes around the world, including wars with millions of victims, coups and “regime change” against elected leaders, and 400 foreign military interventions.
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Who Really Started the Ukraine Wars?
Ted Snider | The Libertarian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – The Four Interrelated Wars in Ukraine
→ read full articleWe Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite’s ‘Great Reset’: Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
21 Feb 2023 – Since the dawn of human civilization 5,000 years ago, ordinary people like you and me have been engaged in an endless struggle to resist efforts by elites, whether local, national, international or global, to assert complete control over us and the resources around us.
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US Admits Chinese Balloon Was off Course–It Shot down a $12 Balloon in $2M Missile Attack
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
19 Feb 2023 – US officials acknowledged the Chinese balloon they shot down on 4 Feb had likely been blown off course by unexpected weather. The US Air Force later spent $2 million using missiles to blow up what appeared to be a $12 hobbyist balloon.
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Free Thought and Official Propaganda
Bertrand Russell | Project Gutenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Delivered at South Place Institute on 24 Mar 1922 by the Hon. Bertrand Russell, M.A., F.R.S.
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Meditation in Sunlight
May Sarton – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
A beguiling reflection on the relationship between presence, solitude, and love.
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The Trump-Russia Saga and the Death Spiral of US Journalism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
25 Feb 2023 – The media caters to a particular demographic, telling that demographic what it already believes — even when it is unverified or false. This pandering defines the coverage of the Trump-Russia saga.
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Totalized Censorship
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
20 Feb 2023 – Content warning, canceling, de-platforming, denying access: The fate of Sy Hersh’s Democracy Now! interview on YouTube is the latest indication of how much rougher press suppression is in this new media era.
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Story Killers (Part 1): In the Age of False News–A Journalist, a Murder, and the Pursuit of an Unfinished Investigation in India
Phineas Rueckert | Forbidden Stories/Story Killers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
In 2017, journalist Gauri Lankesh was assassinated in Bangalore days before she planned to publish an article about disinformation. Over five years later, Forbidden Stories pursued Lankesh’s work on fake news and explored new leads in her murder case.
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Israeli Security Forces Carry Out Massacre in Jenin, Palestine
Richard Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have vowed to make it easier for Israelis to carry guns. Ben-Gvir: “I want weapons on the streets, I want Israeli citizens to be able to protect themselves.” It follows the Zionist narrative of demonizing the victim and sanctifying the aggressor [remember Hitler & Nazism?].
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Inside the Iron Cage
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – I would prefer not to relay the following very strange story given to me by a fellow sociologist, but I feel obligated. I don’t know what to make of the whole thing. Below you will find the manuscript he handed me. I realize you are getting this third hand, but there’s nothing I can do about that. I don’t know his friend. So here it is.
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Feeding the Beast That Feeds on You
Monte Wolverton - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
A Symptom of the ‘Superior’ Intelligence of Humans
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Rage against the War Machine Rally
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
This is the text of a talk I gave in Washington, D.C. on Sunday 19 Feb at the Rage Against The War Machine rally.
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Chopin Recital
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Piano concert by Alberto Portugheis to celebrate Chopin’s 213th birthday on 22 Feb 2023.
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‘Cleansing’ Palestinians from Palestine
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Israel’s new extremist regime — the most anti-Palestinian in history — seems to be aiming at incorporating all of the occupied Palestinian territories into Israel.
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Einstein & Freud Agree: Ending War Requires World Government
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – A new form of global governance will be needed to end war between nations according to Einstein and Freud in their 1932 exchange of letters. They describe a governing system consistent with what world federalists describe as world government.
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WATCH: Roger Waters at UN Security Council on Ukraine (Full Text)
Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2023 – The British rock star was invited by Russia to address the Council. The Pink Floyd co-founder has been an outspoken critic of U.S. policy in Ukraine and has called for an end of arms shipments to Kiev.
→ read full articleThe New York Times Is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if all were reversed and Russia had put troops and weapons in Mexico and Canada that the United States would respond forcefully.
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Royal Commission of Inquiry: Investigating War Crimes in the Hawaiian Islands
Dr. Keanu Sai | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – The RCI was established by Proclamation of the Hawaiian Kingdom Council of Regency in 2019, yet there has been no coverage in either the mainstream or alternative media. Most people are not aware that the Hawaiian Islands have been under a prolonged and illegal occupation by the USA since 17 Jan 1893.
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There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing, we will be impotent in the face of corporate power and the war machine.
→ read full articleUS-Laid Trap for Russia Has Trapped West Instead
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – A month before the Feb. 24, 2022 Russian invasion, CN wrote that the U.S. was laying a trap to lure Russia into an economic, information and proxy war. All three have failed for the U.S.
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Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism
Ashley Gjovik | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck.
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Ilhan Omar Is Not Mama Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – The new Speaker of the House announced he will remove Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. The attack from Republicans has given her image a boost, but her record shows the credibility is not deserved.
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Ukraine—The Inevitable War
Chay Bowes | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023 – Why negotiate a diplomatic settlement and adhere to the Minsk agreement when there is so much money in war?
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How a Drug Company Made $114 Billion by Gaming the US Patent System
Rebecca Robbins | The New York Times/Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – AbbVie for years delayed competition for its blockbuster drug Humira, at the expense of patients and taxpayers. The monopoly is about to end.
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Twitter Files & the Death of Russiagate (Matt Taibbi, Chris Hedges, John Kiriakou)
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – Matt Taibbi joins CN Live! to discuss the implications of his Twitter Files revelations, including his latest on Hamilton 68 and its fatal blow to the Russiagate narrative. With Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou.
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Earth Constitution: Only A Democratic World Federal Government Is Realistic
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – The Constitution for the Federation of Earth (aka Earth Constitution) is a blueprint for an emerging democratic world federal government — an Earth Federation movement led by the World Constitution & Parliament Association to replace the United Nations system stymied with its obsolete and fatally flawed Charter.
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Woke Imperialism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023 – Woke culture, devoid of class consciousness and a commitment to stand with the oppressed, is another tool in the arsenal of the imperial state.
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Why Bonnie Raitt’s “Just Like That” Is a Song for the Ages
Harvey Wasserman | Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
4 Feb 2023 – In an era when cruelty and greed run rampant, human kindness is at an ultimate premium. Of all the emotions our species finds in desperately short supply, compassion and empathy top the list.
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Germany Risks Forgetting Its History
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
31 Jan 2023 – Two days before Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, under heavy pressure from Washington, announced that Germany would send 14 Leopard tanks to Ukraine breaking the self-imposed constraints on the military’s role in German foreign policy in place since the end of WWII.
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The World Economic Forum and the World Health Organization Are Elevating Themselves above the World’s Governments
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
15 Jan 2023 – “In the last three years, the common people’s exclusion from what is still sold as a democratic process has reached a pinnacle.” — Peter Koenig, former senior economist for the World Bank and the World Health Organization
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The Nightmare of NATO Equipment Being Sent to Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The West’s recent approval of more military assistance for Kiev risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations, and rebukes the WWII history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin. Today the White House decided that it would send about 30 M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine, a political cover for Germany that decided to ship 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Kiev.
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Remembering Robert Parry, Who Died 5 Yrs Ago Today
Nat Parry | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
27 Jan 2023 – The founder of Consortium News died five years ago today. Robert Parry had an illustrious career as an investigative reporter for the Associated Press, Newsweek and PBS Frontline, best-known for his revelations in the Iran Contra scandal and the October Surprise.
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Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
29 Jan 2023 – NATO support for the war in Ukraine, designed to degrade the Russian military and drive Vladimir Putin from power, is not going according to plan. The new sophisticated military hardware won’t help.
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Why US-China Trade Is on Track to Break Records despite All the Politics
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – The real needs of global economics trump political scaremongering – for the time being.
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Alberto Portugheis 80th Birthday Concert (Music Video of the Week)
Alberto Portugheis | Pyanek – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
Pianist, pedagogue, peace activist and TRANSCEND Member Alberto Portugheis celebrates his 80 years performing Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin at St John’s Church, London. His life is shared between music and his organization, HUFUD, whose mission is the Abolition of Militarism. Recorded on 11 Jun 2021.
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Tribunal in Washington Calls on President Biden to End Prosecution of Julian Assange and to Defend Rights of Journalists and Whistleblowers
Chris Garaffa | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jan 2023
24 Jan 2023 – Nearly 13 years after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released the video Collateral Murder, over 150 people packed the same room in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.–just two blocks from the White House–for the Belmarsh Tribunal. Co-chaired by Amy Goodman and Srećko Horvat, it brought together whistleblowers, activists, lawyers in support of Assange.
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The Plague of Social Isolation
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 – The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a dangerous social isolation.
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Why War?
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
Letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, 1932
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Moderna Wants to Quadruple the Price of Its Covid-19 Vaccine as Hundreds Die per Day
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
18 Jan 2023 – With the US federal government’s stock of vaccines for residents running out, Moderna now plans to raise the cost of its vaccine from $26 to up to $130 in a decision that understandably has North Americans pissed.
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Peru’s Natural Resources: CIA-linked US Ambassador Meets with Mining and Energy Ministers to Talk ‘Investments’
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
20 Jan 2023 – Peru has large reserves of copper, gold, zinc, silver, lead, iron, and natural gas. After a coup overthrew left-wing President Pedro Castillo on 7 Dec 2022, the US ambassador, CIA veteran Lisa Kenna, met with mining and energy ministers to discuss “investments”. Europe is importing Peruvian LNG to replace Russian energy.
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What Price “Defense”?
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jan 2023
17 Jan 2023 – Going Down the Military Drain– US Costly, Dysfunctional Approach to Security Is Making Us Ever Less Safe
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How Western Sanctions Blow Back, Hurting Europe, Deepening Asian Integration
Renate Bridenthal | Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – Western sanctions led Russia to greatly increase trade with Asia, while devastating Europe’s economy. The US tech war against China is damaging its own industry.
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Grandson of Charles de Gaulle, an Old CIA Nemesis, Condemns West’s Policy in Ukraine
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – Pierre de Gaulle, grandson of former French President Charles de Gaulle, has said the U.S. and NATO triggered the Ukraine conflict and are making Europeans suffer by fueling and waging a pre-planned economic war against Russia.
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Biden Tramples on Japan’s Post-WWII Pacifist Constitution by Pushing Country’s Rearmament
Sara Flounders | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
9 Jan 2023 – Main target is China in dangerously provocative policy that faces no visible domestic opposition in the U.S.
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How Safe Can We Really Be?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – What is freedom–the freedom to be armed and able to defend yourself? Does one man’s freedom force the rest of us to watch their country turn into a John Wayne movie?… And the strongman may kill his enemies, but he can’t kill the paradox.
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Venezuela: Guaidó Is Gone, but Media Dishonesty Is Here to Stay
Ricardo Vaz | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – The latest iteration of Washington’s regime-change efforts against the democratically elected Venezuelan government came to an end. On 30 Dec an opposition-controlled parliament voted to end the US-backed “interim government” headed by Juan Guaidó.
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Yemen War Continues Beyond Media Spotlight
Felix Abt | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jan 2023
11 Jan 2023 – The Washington Post even gives positive spin by suggesting that the war has improved gender equality in devastated country.
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If You Wouldn’t Ask Hannibal Lecter to Stop Mass Atrocities, Don’t Ask “The International Community”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
4 Jan 2023 – The hope that the U.S. will intervene anywhere in the world for humanitarian reasons is misguided in the extreme. Claims of concern are always a ruse hiding ulterior motives. Imperialist actions are antithetical to human needs.
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U.S. Spreads Misery across the Globe Imposing Sanctions on a Third of Humanity
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jan 2023
The U.S. may try piously to defend sanctions as a ‘response to foreign tyranny,’ but they are really a pretext to steal foreign bank accounts and cripple commercial rivals of U.S. corporations–a true fascist tyranny.
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