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(Italiano) Di fronte alla guerra
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Febbraio 2022 – La prima reazione che viene spontanea di fronte a quanto sta accadendo in queste ore non troppo lontano dai nostri confini è lo sconforto, unito a sgomento e dolore. Di fronte alla prospettiva di tante vite distrutte solo il silenzio è adeguato. Poi, però, di fronte alla guerra, segue il bisogno di capire, di riflettere e di agire.
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The ICJ and the Issue of Lawful Representation in The Gambia v Myanmar
John Packer, Gregory Stanton, Nathalie Chaar, Loujain El-Sahli, and Bailey Pelletier | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
18 Feb 2022 – Ahead of the scheduled public hearings in The Gambia v Myanmar (the Rohingya genocide case) at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Canada, the Genocide Watch of USA and FORSEA release a comprehensive legal analysis. It focuses on the crucial question of who should lawfully speak for Myanmar before the ICJ as Myanmar’s coup resulted in an unprecedented situation with no recognized government or even regime with effective control of the state.
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Assange Affirms the Existence of another Kind of Human Nature
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
** Statement made at the Belmarsh Tribunal on 25 Feb 2022 ** Beyond his great public service with WikiLeaks, it is his unwillingness to surrender his integrity and dignity that is key to understanding why the powers that be continue to crucify him.
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Veganism vs. Cruelty-Free Products: What Is the Difference?
Jason Hughes | VeganLiftz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
It is a common misconception that the term veganism and cruelty-free are synonymous. But there are several factors that differentiate both the terms from each other. When you’re new to the plant-based diet and lifestyle, there is so much information out there that it can be overwhelming.
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How Nanoplastics Enter the Human Body
Erica Cirino | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – If you regularly drink water from plastic bottles, you’re likely ingesting even more plastic than the average consumer.
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Nils Melzer: The Political Persecution of Julian Assange
Saturday Morning | RNZ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being made an example of by the US government to deter investigative journalists from exposing state abuses, the current UN Special Rapporteur on torture says.
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US, UK, France Promised USSR Not to Expand NATO East of Germany, Newly Discovered Document Proves
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Feb 2022 – A newly discovered document provides more evidence that Western governments broke their promise not to expand NATO eastward after German reunification. Notes from a 1991 meeting prove that the US, UK, France, and Germany assured the Soviet Union that NATO would not expand east.
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(Italiano) Industria delle armi: la coda che agita il cane
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
24 Febbraio 2022 – Il militarismo è una minaccia negli sforzi di costruzione di un sistema mondiale più pacifico. Ed è spinto dalla forza gravitazionale, che distorce le risposte sia politiche sia mediatiche, del complesso militar-industriale. Opporvisi comporta aver qualcos’altro da proporre, da mettere al suo posto, come fonte di sicurezza come pure di prosperità.
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War Propaganda about Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – Every useful or pleasing claim about the war, no matter how unverified or subsequently debunked, rapidly spreads, while dissenters are vilified as traitors or Kremlin agents.
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Chronicle of a War Foretold
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
24 Feb 2022 – After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.
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The Insurrection
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
Life in the Stupidverse
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Creating Peace Means Changing the World
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
23 Feb 2022 – Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right? Regarding Ukraine: Both sides in the matter are flawed, and both sides need to listen.
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Ukraine: Understanding the Concern of the Other
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – Bluntly put, Moscow has now been provoked to act since Washington was not willing to use diplomacy. Moscow’s response is perfectly understandable and rational. Cuba 60 years ago is relevant to the present situation. Just as the US did not want Russian missiles at its doorstep, Russia does not want overwhelming Western military power at its gate today.
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Switzerland at Risk of EU Blacklist after Credit Suisse Leak
Kalyeena Makortoff and David Pegg | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
– 21 Feb 2022 –
* Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians.
* What is the Suisse secrets leak and why are we publishing it?
Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy, and Life Has Never Been Better
Ida Auken | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
[Note from TMS editor: We republish this 2016 piece without approving or subscribing to the author’s or the WEF’s views. It is purely for analysis and context as it was written 6 years ago about 8 in the future. You the judge.]
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The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Our Human Fragility as the Key to Our Survival and Our Sanity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
An Antidote to Helplessness and Disorientation – “Only through full awareness of the danger to life can this potential be mobilized for action capable of bringing about drastic changes in our way of organizing society.”
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(Français) Les États-Unis et l’OTAN ont-ils promis de ne pas menacer la Russie en déplaçant les forces militaires de l’OTAN vers ses frontières ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 février 2022 – Nous continuons d’être menacés par la culture de la guerre qui, comme d’habitude dans l’histoire récente, est monopolisée par les États-nations.
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The Sacralization of War, U.S.-Style
Kelly Denton-Borhaug | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – St. Paul’s line from Galatians, “A person reaps what they sow,” sprang into my consciousness with the death of the 95-year-old Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, who helped encourage Martin Luther King to declare his opposition to the Vietnam War so long ago.
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There Were Alternatives: Why Russia Should Not Have Bombed Ukraine
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
A fundamentally different professional Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment/Solution approach that should have been tried – just bits of it – during the last 30 years.
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Fake News Warfare in Ukraine Conflict
José Manuel Blanco Díaz | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – The ongoing geopolitical and military conflict situation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine is being used for fake news production by Western press and social media platforms, as is becoming evident.
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(Français) Avoir confié la politique sanitaire mondiale à Big Pharma est une faute impardonnable
Nick Dearden | Guardian/Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Fév 2022 – Le Covid l’a clairement démontré : Pfizer et ses semblables, asservis aux actionnaires, ne se soucient vraiment que de leurs profits faramineux. C’est ce qu’explique, dans une tribune parue dans le Guardian, Nick Dearden, directeur de Global Justice Now.
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Conflict: Management, Resolution, or Transformation?
Charles Webel, Ph.D. | The New Presence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – What is a conflict? Is conflict always undesirable? What is the range of human conflicts? What are the reasons for conflicts? And when conflicts arise, how should one optimally deal with them? These general issues have particular relevance for understanding and mitigating contemporary conflicts
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Russia Announces Withdrawal of Troops near Ukraine as Drills End
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – Amid the hype around a potential Russian invasion, Moscow announced today that it is withdrawing troops from areas near Ukraine as military drills in the region conclude. The Russian Defense Ministry said the troops are returning to their permanent bases.
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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska | Our Chopin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
The musical talent of Fryderyk became apparent extremely early on, and it was compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. Already at the age of 7, he was the author of two polonaises…. In the summer of 1849, Ludwika Jedrzejewiczowa, the eldest sister of the composer, came from Warsaw to take care of her ill brother. On 17 October 1849, Chopin died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his Parisian flat in the Place Vendôme. He was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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Future Psychosocial Implications of the Metaverse
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Exploring Possible Non-Technical and Existential Dimensions
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RAND Corporation Study Calls for Regime Change in Moscow
Bruce Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
13 Feb 2022 – Imagine how Moscow felt when they first read this study. It is clear that there is a method behind US-NATO madness. If you were sitting in Russia’s shoes how would you react to these proposals – many of which have been or are now being implemented?
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On Israel as an Apartheid State: An Interview with Richard Falk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
19 Feb 2022 – An interview David Falcone originally published in CounterPunch on 11 Feb prompted by the Amnesty Report but extending beyond it.
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‘Politics as Usual’ Will Never Be a Solution to the Current Climate Threat (or to Nuclear War)
C.J. Polychroniou interviews Richard Falk | DWF News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – There is an ever-growing consensus that the climate crisis represents humanity’s greatest problem. Indeed, global warming is more than an environmental crisis — there are social, political, ethical and economic dimensions to it. (Commentary added by Roger Kotila)
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Multiple Articles on Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations
Defense News | Military Space Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Thought-provoking News on War and Destruction
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The Mind Control Police: U.S. Government’s War on Thought Crimes and Truth-Tellers
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – The U.S. government, which speaks in a language of force, is afraid of its citizenry. “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell
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The Western Allied Nations Bully the World While Warning of Threats from China and Russia
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – Why the chief of Germany’s navy, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach, was sacked? Because while in India he said two things that are unacceptable in the West:
• That “the Crimean Peninsula is gone and never [coming] back” to Ukraine.
• That Putin should be treated with respect.
Activism Uncensored: The Freedom Convoy
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – As Canada Clamps Down on Trucker Protest, American Copycat Event Fails to Materialize So Far – A Balanced Look at the Canadian Protests
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Today’s Crisis over Ukraine
Amb. Jack F. Matlock | ACURA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – Today we face an avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense. We are being told each day that war may be imminent in Ukraine. (This article is judged “UNFIT TO PRINT” by The New York Times et al. — Prof. Michael Brenner)
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Afghanistan on the Brink of Disaster
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Gay rights, women’s rights — in reality, these are a nuisance to many U.S. conservatives, but purporting to protect these rights on the other side of the world is a great excuse to play war.
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Corporate Vaccine Mandates and Vaccine Passports — Brought to You by BlackRock and Vanguard?
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Investment giants BlackRock and The Vanguard Group stand to benefit from their ownership stakes in most of the corporations that imposed COVID vaccine mandates, and in some of the technology firms developing vaccine passports.
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US Democrats, the More Effective Evil
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire, and the primary business is war.
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(Italiano) Ucraina, oltre gli schieramenti…
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Febbraio 2022 – La crisi che sta vivendo l’Europa, con il suo punto focale in Ucraina, è descritta, spiegata, alimentata da dichiarazioni e azioni, mosse e contromosse di molti soggetti interessati, in una complessa e mutua esibizione delle ‘forze in campo’: truppe, aerei, navi; soldati regolari e mercenari; armamenti…
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Pipeline Politics and the Ukraine Crisis
John Foster | Canadian Dimension – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Amid escalating tensions, all eyes are on Ukraine. Canada’s Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland describes it as “a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism.” But Nord Stream 2, a pipeline built to bring Russian gas directly to Germany, is an integral part of the story.
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What Happens When We Die
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
“How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?”
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‘Nothing More Grotesque than a Media Pushing for War,’ Says Edward Snowden
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill similarly notes that “the talking heads on cable news are almost drooling over the prospect of a ratings-boosting war.”
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Meta’s Facebook to Pay $90 Million to Settle Decade-Old Privacy Lawsuit
Makena Kelly | The Verge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – Meta, Facebook’s parent company, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users even after they logged out of their accounts.
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Why Is the White House Stealing $7bn from Afghans?
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Last week, the White House issued an executive order announcing the theft of some $7bn. In a move that can only be described as brazenly immoral and utterly unconscionable, the Biden administration has begun a process to seize the more than $7bn of assets that the Central Bank of Afghanistan has on deposit at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since the Taliban gained control of the war-ravaged country last year, that money has been frozen in place.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Memorable Cycles of Subdivision Enabling Viable Governance – Ever increasing quantities pose an ever increasing challenge for governance — its comprehension and its coherence. The matter can be clarified by the following somewhat simplistic exercise.
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Is the Amnesty International Report an Israeli ‘Sharpeville Moment?’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
10 Feb 2022 – This interview followed the release on 1 Feb of the explosive Amnesty International Report finding Israel guilty of the continuing crime of apartheid. How much longer can governments, the UN, and liberal Zionist close their eye in face of the mounting consensus in the international human community on the question of Israeli apartheid?
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NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia over Ukraine
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security state promoting NATO as a defender of the free world & describing Putin as Hitler incarnate.
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Haiti, San Martin and the Odious Foreign Debt
Miguel Julio Rodríguez Villafañe | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
7 Feb 2022 – The colonising logic of the centres of conditioning capital, from the very beginning, sought to take over Latin America, dominating it in different ways, according to their interests, beyond the principles that were proclaimed and the freedom that was promised.
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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Louis Armstrong | ABC Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Original Spoken Intro Version,1967 – Click on Watch on YouTube, kick back…, enjoy!
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Rather Than Sink Main Street by Raising Interest Rates, the Fed Could Save It. Here’s How.
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Today’s price inflation was triggered not so much by “too much money” as by “too little supply,” due to U.S. lockdowns and mandates. The Fed can help restock consumer supplies using tools that include Open Market Operations to counteract speculation, and the Discount Window to purchase loans from local banks willing to fund Main Street businesses if they had some help from the national Lender of Last Resort.
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Seventy-Seven Years Ago, U.S. and Russia Signed Historic Agreement at Yalta
Jeremy Kuzmarov and Jacques Pauwels | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – With tensions between the U.S. and Russia at historic levels and threat of a hot war breaking out in Ukraine, we would do well to remember FDR’s visionary leadership and pursuit of diplomacy.
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Oliver Stone: American Exceptionalism Is on Deadly Display in Ukraine
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The creator of the Showtime documentary series “The Putin Diaries” speaks to Robert Scheer about the escalating crisis in Ukraine.
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AP Reporter Challenges US Lies about Russian War Preparations
Clara Weiss | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
5 Feb 2022 – In a remarkable exchange on Thursday [3 Feb], US State Department spokesman Ned Price was challenged by Matt Lee from the Associated Press. With just one simple question—“what evidence do you have?”—Lee threw Price completely off and exposed a simple fact: The current press campaign over an allegedly impending “Russian invasion” of Ukraine and “false flag attacks” has no more credibility than Colin Powell’s lies of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq.
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The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized “Fact-Checking”
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The fact-checkers who flagged Paul Thacker’s British Medical Journal article about a Pfizer subcontractor for Facebook admitted they police narrative, not fact.
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Can Israel Stop the World from Saying ‘Apartheid’? Concealing the Suffering in Palestine
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – Statements by Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups (including B’Tselem, Al-Haq and Addameer) as well as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch—are a reflection of the facts witnessed on the ground, and no amount of Hasbara 2.0 can erase these facts.
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From Havana with Love
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
7 Feb 2022 – Sixty years of US embargo on Cuba have not starved the island into ‘democratisation’, the way Washington hoped.
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The Terrible Fate Facing the Afghan People
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – When the West fled the country at the end of August 2021, a large part of the foreign funding, which Afghanistan’s GDP is dependent on, also vanished with the troops: 43 percent of Afghanistan’s GDP and 75 percent of its public funding, which came from aid agencies, dried up overnight.
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Sustainable Legacy
Fred Dubee | China Daily - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The 2022 Beijing Winter Games are a work-in-progress and will be a learning experience even after the Olympic flame leaves Beijing to begin the journey to Paris. However, its legacy will continue to enrich Beijing, China and the world long into the future.
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Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
9 Feb 2022 – As the plot thickens in Eastern Europe, Russia’s move in South America promises to add a new component that would make a win-lose scenario in favor of the US and NATO nearly impossible.
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How to End the Ukraine Crisis in 4 Steps
Alexander Dynkin and Thomas Graham | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
9 Feb 2022 – Two former top policymakers — one Russian, one American — have a plan they think could work.
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Can Peace Be Researched?
Nils Petter Gleditsch | PRIO-Peace Research Institute Oslo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Revisiting a 55-Year-Old TV Program
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What Went Right This Week: Iceland to Ban Whaling, Plus More Positive News
Sarah LaBrecque | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
10 Feb 2022 – Iceland made moves to ban commercial whaling, a paralysed man walked again, scientists published research into chimpanzees showing each other empathy, …
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Argentina Turns to Russia and Joins China’s Belt and Road
Ben Norton | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Seeking alternatives to US hegemony, President Alberto Fernández traveled to Russia and China, forming an alliance with the Eurasian powers, joining the Belt and Road Initiative. Argentina is trapped in $44 billion of IMF odious debt taken on by corrupt right-wing regimes.
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BREAKING: Joint Russia-China Statement Articulates United Opposition to Western Alliance
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – Today’s joint statement is a historic articulation of the major shift underway from the unipolar world that has existed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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The Moral, Military and Financial Cost of Guantanamo Bay, 20 Years Later
Stefano Kotsonis and Meghna Chakrabarti | WBUR/On Point - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – 20 years ago, the first detainees in the U.S. War on Terror arrived at Guantanamo Bay. Many detainees were innocent, and tortured. Presidents since then have promised to close Guantanamo, and failed. They picked up human beings and moved them halfway around the globe without an idea of how to undo this. They’re stuck with this mission. So, what’s next?
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Major Media Outlets That Use Invasive User Tracking Are Lobbying Against Regulation
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The “surveillance advertising” industry makes online news possible. News outlets entrusted with promoting transparency and privacy are also lobbying behind closed doors against proposals to regulate the mass collection of data.
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The Exit from the Ukraine Crisis That’s Hiding in Plain Sight
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Is there any way out of this exceedingly dangerous crisis? Perhaps the only hope is the Minsk II agreement, forged in February 2015 between Russia and Ukraine, brokered by Germany and France, and endorsed by the European Union and the United Nations. The agreement essentially called for a recognition of reality in law.
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Russia-Ukraine Standoff: Putin Says US Could Drag Moscow into War with Aim to Impose Sanctions
Vladimir Putin | Global News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The Ukraine Conflict: Views from the Other Side
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The Problematics of Middle Eastern Diplomacy: The Case of Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – In relation to both Iran, Israel, and Palestine, the essential message sent by the new leadership is continuity when it comes to substance combined with a resumption of the pre-Trump pretension of equi-distance diplomacy when it comes to the search for a sustainable peace.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Coherence in the Surreal as a Kaleidoscope of Imagery Forming a Hyperobject – There is no lack of commentary and explanation with regard to the surreal nature of the current times. Emphasis is commonly placed on the pervasive sense of meaninglessness — with various parties to be appropriately blamed.
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Press Stunned as Ukraine President Zelensky Points Finger at West
Nury Vittachi | Friday Everyday - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
* Campaign to paint Russia as aggressor is huge, but there are cracks
* Putin placing troops on Ukrainian border is “no different to last year”
* Ukrainian leader tells journalists that Russia isn’t the main problem, the press is
* NATO has continuously broken promises made to Moscow, archives reveal
The Blackwater Is in Ukraine with the Azov Battalion
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – In the Donbass front line is the Azov battalion, trained and armed by the US and NATO. The Azov recruits neo-Nazis from all over Europe under its flag from SS Das Reich. It is not only a military unit, but an ideological and political movement. In addition, there is the $10 billion plan being implemented by Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, now renamed Academy, which has been supplying mercenaries to the CIA, Pentagon and State Department for covert operations (including torture and assassinations).
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Why Amnesty Is Taking Aim at the ‘Root Causes’ of Israeli Apartheid
Edo Konrad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Amnesty International’s Saleh Hijazi elaborates about his organization’s new report, the Israeli government’s harsh response, and why our analysis of Israeli apartheid needs to begin from 1948.
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US National Debt Surpasses $30 Trillion for the First Time
Michael Peterson | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – On Monday [31 Jan], the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the national debt surpassed US$30 trillion, which included US$23.5 trillion in debt held by the public and US$6.5 trillion in intergovernmental holdings.
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Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
“It is only a narrow passage of truth (no matter whether scientific or other truth) that passes between the Scylla of a blue fog of mysticism and the Charybdis of a sterile rationalism. This will always be full of pitfalls and one can fall down on both sides.”
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Stripping Away the Bulls**t: U.S. and Russian Threats over Ukraine—What They’re about and Who’s the Aggressor
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
25 Jan 2022 – Threats and counter-threats flying between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine have caused a flurry of fear and confusion that escalates and expands daily. Is the world on the brink of war? What is it about, who is the aggressor and who is to blame?
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(Français) Guerre à l’étranger, Guerre Dans la Métropole
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 février 2022 – C’est une vieille expression selon laquelle “les poulets sont rentrés chez eux pour se percher”. Les guerres que l’Empire américain a menées à l’étranger arrivent aux États-Unis sur son propre territoire ! L’invasion du Capitole il y a un an a marqué le début d’une seconde guerre civile dans la métropole.
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NPPW Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Shortlist Respecting Nobel’s Antiwar Intention Updated on 5 Feb 2022
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Prosecutors Silence Evidence of Cruel Factory Farm Practices in Animal Rights Cases
Natasha Lennard | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
30 Jan 2022 – The government wants to keep juries from seeing gruesome evidence of animals in distress — the very reason activists are going into farms.
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Is It Time to Bar Coup Leaders from the UN?
Thalif Deen | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – A rash of military coups in Africa has resurrected a long dormant question: should leaders who take power through armed insurrections be barred from addressing the United Nations—an institution which swears by, and promotes, multi-party democracy?
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Reaching COVID-19 “Turning Point of Critical Mass”: Is Nuremberg 2 Next? London Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation
Joachim Hagopian | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – At least 1,011 scientific studies have proven beyond any doubt that the Covid-19 non-vaccines are in fact lethal. The deceivers are realizing that regardless of how many times they repeat their lies to those no longer buying it, it will only lead to their own downfall sooner than later. The despots’ narrative is quickly falling apart smashed by real science.
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Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State
István Mészáros | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – István Mészáros was one of the greatest political theorists of the twentieth century. Left unfinished at the time of his death, Beyond Leviathan focuses on the transcendence of the state, along with the transcendence of capital and alienated labor, while traversing the history of political theory from Plato to the present. Aristotle, More, Machiavelli, and Vico are only a few of the thinkers discussed in depth.
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War Abroad, War at Home
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – There is an old expression that “the chickens have come home to roost.” The wars that the American Empire waged abroad have come to the continental USA. The invasion of the Capitol one year ago has signaled the beginning of a second civil war at home.`
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Nostalgic for the Future
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – Nostalgia is always about time and space. In that sense, it is equivalent to all human experience that also takes place within these dimensions. And when technology has radically disrupted our human sense of limits in their regard, it becomes harder and harder to feel at home, to dwell enough to grasp what is happening in the world.
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A Night with the Untouchables
David Maybury | The Reformed Physicist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
I live in downtown Ottawa, right in the middle of the trucker convoy protest. They are literally camped out below my bedroom window. They moved in on Friday [28 Jan] and they seem determined to stay. They are our moral conscience reminding us – with every blow of their horns – what we should have never forgotten: We are not a country that makes an untouchable class out of our citizens.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – There is a paradox here the size of the whole planet. The essential point here, as far as I can tell, is that the signatories are confessing that, yes, we possess the weapons that could destroy all life, and yes, we think using them would be wrong, but we have no idea how to make them go away and so we’ll just use them to scare each other, a.k.a., serve defensive purposes.
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Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Gennaio 2022 – Lo scenario della crisi ucraina presenta elementi molto allarmanti e contraddittori, ma anche concrete vie di uscita per il ristabilimento della pace nel cuore dell’Europa. Ecco il paradosso della crisi ucraina.
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The Blockade against Cuba Turns 60
Rosa Miriam Elizalde | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – It’s easy to say, but it’s been six very hard decades that began with disconcerting lightness and the belief that the United States government’s blockade of Cuba would not last long—a couple of years, maybe.
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The News Is Not That Israel Has Apartheid, but That Amnesty Dares Say So
Ari Paul | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – Does the state of Israel now endorse cancel culture? AP (1/31/22) disclosed that its government called on Amnesty International not to release a report (2/1/22) that defines that nation’s legal structure as a form of apartheid. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the report endorses “lies shared by terrorist organizations.”
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Heeding James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – A century after its publication, the timeless novel warns us about the poisons of nationalism and idolatry and the commonality of our sojourns between birth and death.
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Whose Body Is It?
Ron Hauge | The Nation OppArt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Choice on the Line Again
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The USA Is in Danger of Having More Rivals Than It Can Handle
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 – The US wants a world in which everyone – Russia, China and Iran included – bows down to it. But the days of a single superpower are gone. As the Ukraine crisis rolls on, there is a growing fear among Western commentators and foreign policy elites that a “China-Russia” axis is consolidating.
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USA: The Post-Cold War Era, 1989-2001
Brian D’Haeseleer, Jeremy Kuzmarov and Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
Imperial Self-Deception: There is no shortage of books, articles, and websites addressing the history of US foreign policy. There is nevertheless, within the USA, a dearth of understanding and often knowledge about the subject. This is due in part to popular nationalistic history, which tends to obscure, overwrite, and sometimes whitewash actual history.
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Theranos Verdict: In the U.S., It Is Fine to Lie to Consumers but Not to Investors
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Jan 2022 – Hyper-capitalism has systematically weakened regulations to help capital at the cost of consumers. The verdict on the Elizabeth Holmes case simply illustrates the growing post-’90s disregard for consumers.
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(Italiano) Ostaggi del militarismo
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Gennaio 2022 – I nostri “Ministeri della Difesa” ci difendono davvero? Assolutamente no! Il lor stesso nome è una bugia. C’è pericolo che il nostro mondo, con tutta la sua bellezza e la preziosità che contiene, venga distrutto da questo cinico gioco per il potere e il denaro in cui i civili sono ostaggi del militarismo. Lasceremo che succeda?
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Let’s Not Have a War
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
25 Jan 2022 – The U.S. foreign policy establishment, chasing decades of failures, appears to be seriously considering the unthinkable in Ukraine.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
(Italiano) Thich Nhat Hahn [Thay]: La morte per l’impermanenza, la vita per la pace
Cinzia Picchioni | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
È talmente famoso che mi «vergogno» un po’ a scrivere qualcosa, qualsiasi cosa, in occasione della morte di Thich Nhat Hahn, Thay come era affettuosamente chiamato. Ma d’altra parte, con qualche notizia in più, potrebbe nascere l’interesse ad approfondire la vicenda umana, l’insegnamento, l’impegno per la pace di questo piccolo-grande uomo che ha smesso di camminare sulla Terra nella notte, alle 00.00, del 22.1.22, al Tempio T? Hi?u a Hu?, Vietnam.
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Will the Iran Nuclear Agreement Be Restored?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
26 Jan 2022 – An interview with Mojtaba Majidi of the Mehr News Agency (Tehran) on the Vienna Talks that are seeking to restore the Iran Nuclear Agreement of 2015 reached during the Obama presidency.
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Dreams, Consciousness, and the Nature of the Universe
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
“Perhaps dreams are an arena that can enable supracognitive powers to perform calculations and perceptions of reality that may be incomprehensible in our wake state.”
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Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh
Paul R. Dekar | Fellowship of Reconciliation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
22 Jan 2022 – The renowned 95-year-old Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away, leaving behind a legacy of interconnection.
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What You Should Really Know about Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Jan 2022 – These “explainer” pieces are emblematic of Ukraine coverage in the rest of corporate media, which almost universally gave a pro-Western view of US/Russia relations and the history behind them. Media echoed the point of view of those who believe the US should have an active role in Ukrainian politics and enforce its perspective through military threats.
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