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Time to Sign the Treaty
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022 – The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than it has ever been. It’s time to get the US and the 8 other nuclear powers to sign the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons. Humanity is playing with nuclear fire as if climate catastrophe was not bad enough.
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War Propaganda about Ukraine Starting to Wear Thin
Chay Bowes | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
13 Aug 2022 – More and More Are Seeing Through the Lies – Amnesty International confirms the inconvenient truths, which many independent journalists and political observers already knew.
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Hunger Factory: The Miracle of the Sudden Rise and Fall of Food Prices (Part 1)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – How come food prices declined all of a sudden over four consecutive months? The Ukraine war began around five months ago. So? The “miracle” explained.
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Hunger Factory: The Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse (Part 2)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022 – While often too quickly attributing -quasi exclusively- the world unprecedented hunger tragedy to the current proxy war in Ukraine, other major causes remain hidden in plain sight.
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Can We Please Have an Adult Conversation about China?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental Institute for Social Research– TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – As the US legislative leader Nancy Pelosi swept into Taipei, people around the world held their breath. Her visit was an act of provocation. In December 1978, the US government – following a United Nations General Assembly decision in 1971 – recognised the People’s Republic of China, setting aside its previous treaty obligations to Taiwan.
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Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 77th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
Tomihisa Taue, Mayor of Nagasaki | The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Translation of the Peace Declaration read on 9 Aug 2022 by Nagasaki’s Mayor, Mr. Tomihisa Taue, at a ceremony marking the 77th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, as released by the Nagasaki Municipal Government.
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Russia-Ukraine-USA/NATO (V): From Politics to Propaganda
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Propaganda in Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
This article focus on the official narrative by NATO, especially the US, which explains the war in terms of madman Putin taking the unprovoked decision to invade Ukraine. This narrative effectively camouflages the geopolitics of the war, especially the role of the US and NATO and the possibility of negotiating peace.
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Life and Death and More Life: Leo Tolstoy on Science, Spirituality, and Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
“A caterpillar sees itself shrivel up, but doesn’t see the butterfly which flies out of it.” “How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?”
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Singularity: Attractors and Scenarios (Part 2)
Javier E Belda - IHPS | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
12 Aug 2022 -The approaching evolutionary crisis is evidently not a regular evolutionary crisis like the many others in the history of the planet-system. It is the total crisis of an evolutionary path of 4,000 million years. It can be said to be a crisis of the very critical character of the preceding evolution, a crisis of crises.
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(Castellano) Rusia-Ucrania-Estados Unidos/OTAN: De la política a la propaganda
Joan Pedro-Carañana | Amanece Metrópolis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
Este artículo se centra en la narrativa oficial de la OTAN, especialmente de los EE. UU., que explica la guerra en términos de que el loco Putin tomó la decisión no provocada de invadir Ucrania. Esta narrativa camufla efectivamente la geopolítica de la guerra, especialmente el papel de EE. UU. y la OTAN y la posibilidad de negociar la paz.
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Of the Far West, the ‘Good Cowboys’… and the ‘Bad Indians’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
8 Aug 2022 – Rough men, ranchers, mercenary killers, saloons, cowboys, guns, gold fever, the ‘good sheriff’… and the ‘bad indians”. Add to this mix the deeply-rooted, widely dominating culture of the so-called “white supremacy.”
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Sleeping at the Wheel: The Uber Files, the Media, and the Coup against Labor Rights
Brian Dolber | Project Censored - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
9 Aug 2022 – Uber’s entire model has been about breaking—if not smashing—labor law (and worker power) through systematic misclassification.
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(Castellano) Belleza virtual, libertad virtual, amor virtual: ¿es el Metaverso nuestro futuro?
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
¿Cuándo fue la última vez que saliste afuera por la mañana para ser parte de un glorioso amanecer? ¿O te sentaste en una playa a ver la puesta de sol en el horizonte? ¿Qué sientes cuando tocas la piel de un ser querido? ¿Un abuelo, un padre, un amante o un hijo?
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Americans Rarely See the True Face of Israel’s Bombing of Gaza
Elise Swain and Alice Speri | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
10 Aug 2022 – By shying away from graphic images of death, news organizations sanitize the violence of Israeli aggression against Palestinians. This article includes graphic images and depictions of death.
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At the Lost and Found
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
5 Aug 2022 – Those who are never lost are forever lost. Only those who know they are lost and that life is a shipwreck have a chance to find their way to shore. The world’s great religions, including Taoism and Existential philosophy, understand that at the heart of human existence is the presence of the not (death, emptiness, void).
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Leif Eiriksson Peace Award 2022 to Johan Galtung
Thor Magnusson | Mirpuri Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
The award was presented on 8 July 2022 by Thor Magnusson from the Peace 2000 Institute through the Mirpuri Foundation at the Lisbon Opera House, Portugal. 1,400 people attended.
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The Invention of Capitalism
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
As Official Narratives Go…
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The US War on Drugs Isn’t What It Seems – and Colombia’s New President Wants to End It
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
14 Aug 2022 – Gustavo Petro Promises a Major Blow to US Hegemony over Latin America – Leftist Gustavo Petro was inaugurated as Colombia’s new president on 7 Aug ushering in an unprecedented political swing for a perennially right-wing government.
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The Truth about Markets, Pillar of Capitalist Ideology
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
“Market mechanisms” and “market solutions”: politicians, bureaucrats, media pundits, and academics like to refer to them as if they were somehow politically and ideologically neutral, above partisanship. They are not. Markets existed long before capitalism, but capitalism, as Karl Marx noted, made them ubiquitous, almost universal. Capitalism also raised and praised markets—and their prices—to give them an ideological importance, which leaned toward the absurd.
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The Most Bloated Military Budget in U.S. History: A Staggering $850 Billion
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Aug 2022
11 Aug 2022 – Specially Named to Honor an 87-Year-Old Disciple of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan – 2023 NDAA Represents Swan Song in Senate of a Long-Time Stalwart of the Radical Right
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Donation Politics: Worse than Hypocrisy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022 – We need to ask ourselves with a sense of urgency, ‘where is the outrage?’ and ‘why are the streets empty?’ Bob Dylan’s message of the sixties rings truer than ever: ‘The answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind.”
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9 August: 77th Anniversary of the Bombing of Nagasaki
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Free Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
8 Aug 2022 – Unwelcome Truths for Church and State – 77 years ago (9 Aug 1945) an all-Christian bomber crew dropped an experimental plutonium bomb on Nagasaki City, Japan, instantly incinerating, asphyxiating and/or vaporizing tens of thousands of innocent civilians, mostly women and children. Very few Japanese soldiers were killed by the bombs.
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Strategies of Hyper-Elites as Admired and Deprecated
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Exploration of Super-Rich Lifestyles and Their Contribution to Global Order and Disorder
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Arab Spring, Russian Spring, Latin American Spring?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022 – Consciousness becomes a determining factor in history when the dominant regime (i.e. the culture of war) collapses from its own contradictions. This occurred in the 60’s with the Vietnam War and in end of the 80’s with the collapse of the Soviet Empire. We approach another such moment with the imminent collapse of the US Empire.
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The Ugly Americans: Donald, Joe, Nancy, and more
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
2 Aug 2022 – Dangerous Don, Joe, and Nancy are big believers in the US empire of global domination. US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi goes to Taiwan against China’s wishes. The Ugly Americans believe they have a right to go anywhere in the world and do anything they want, including overthrowing governments, assassinating people, and taking other countries resources.
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How a Missile in Kabul Connects to a Speaker in Taipei
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Washington’s hard power display of taking out Al-Qaeda’s Al-Zawahiri will not be reciprocated by Beijing over Pelosi’s provocative visit to Taiwan. It does however, definitively bury the decades-long era of cooperative US-Chinese relations.
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Shedding Light on Who, Exactly, Is Responsible for the War in Ukraine
Roger Annis | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
6 Aug 2022 – Western capitals make statements about sending troops to Ukraine. London intends to send 600 military personnel. Rendering assistance to the state where settlement is a remote prospect and the domestic conflict is far from being resolved, the West should understand that it automatically becomes an accomplice in the crimes against Ukrainian civilians.
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Technology, Social Media Help Traffickers Hunt Their Victims, Enslave Them, Sell Their Organs
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Human beings produce innumerable practical inventions while often making the worst use of them. How criminal groups heavily rely on digital platforms to trap and enslave their victims also for extracting and selling their organs.
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From Balkh to Konya: Discovering Rumi’s Spiritual Geopolitics
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
30 Jul 2022 – While the mystic poet, Sufi, theosophist and thinker Jalal al-Din Rumi is synonymous with Islamic mysticism, a deeper dig brings to light the West Asian political changes and upheavals that shaped his world and other-worldly view.
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Why No One Cared That Al Qaeda Honcho Zawahiri Got Droned
Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – That Zawahiri’s killing went so quietly suggests that the cultural and political behemoth that was the war on terror had long preceded him into the grave.
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Why the Chair of the Lancet’s COVID-19 Commission Thinks the US Government Is Preventing a Real Investigation into the Pandemic
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Current Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Prof. Jeffrey Sachs says he is “pretty convinced [COVID-19] came out of US lab biotechnology” and warns that there is dangerous virus research taking place without public oversight.
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Colombia’s First Leftist President Will Bring Historic Change, if the US Lets Him
Daniel Kovalik | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
7 Aug 2022 – Colombia is the latest Latin American country to turn from the right, and possibly stand up to Washington, with the inauguration of ex-guerrilla President Gustavo Petro.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
4 Aug 2022 – Right after US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi landed in Taipei on 2 Aug, I was asked by Russia Today to comment on that tension-increasing event. 15-min Video
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Deconstructed | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Tobita Chow of ‘Justice is Global’ and Matt Duss, foreign policy adviser to Sen. Bernie Sanders, two leading progressive foreign policy voices, discuss the House speaker’s decision to visit Taiwan.
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(Français) Printemps Arabe, Printemps Russe, Printemps Latino-Américain ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 août 2022 – La conscience devient un facteur déterminant dans l’histoire lorsque le régime dominant (c’est-à-dire la culture de la guerre) s’effondre de ses propres contradictions. Cela s’est passé dans les années 60 avec la guerre du Vietnam et à la fin des années 80 avec l’effondrement de l’empire soviétique. Nous approchons d’un autre moment de ce genre avec l’effondrement imminent de l’empire Nord Américain.
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A Call to Cancel RIMPAC in Hawaiʻi
Kim Compoc and Joy Lehuanani Enomoto | Foreign Policy In Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
26 Jul 2022 – The movement to demilitarize and deoccupy Hawai‘i is guided by kapu aloha, a code of conduct grounded in nonviolent resistance and Hawai’ian values.
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Hiroshima at 77: Another Hiroshima Is Coming — Unless We Stop It Now
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – Hiroshima and Nagasaki were acts of premeditated mass murder unleashing a weapon of intrinsic criminality. It was justified by lies that form the bedrock of 21st century U.S. war propaganda, casting a new enemy, and target: China.
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Surrendering Power to Reverence
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
3 Aug 2022 – “I humbly beg forgiveness for the evil committed by so many Christians against the Indigenous Peoples.” So said Pope Francis last week, at a powwow in Alberta, at the start of his “apology tour” across Canada — for the participation of the Catholic Church in the multi-century horror of Native American “residential schools.”
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NATO-Backed Network of Syria Dirty War Propagandists Identified
Aaron Maté | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
1 Aug 2022 – Defaming journalism on the OPCW’s Syria cover-up scandal, The Guardian and its NATO-funded sources out themselves as the real “network of conspiracy theorists.”
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WHO Director Dr. Tedros: Monkeypox Outbreak Is “Among Men Who Have Sex with Men”
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
“Factual Chaos” at the WHO? The Questionable 99% Estimate – “The monkeypox virus is a ‘Public Health Emergency of International Concern’ but for the moment it is an outbreak concentrated among men who have sex with men, especially with multiple partners; it can be stopped with the right strategies in the right groups.” This is a FALSE statement as monkeypox is not a sexually transmitted disease.
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A Brief History of Esperanto, the 135-year-old Language of Peace Hated by Hitler and Stalin Alike
Joshua Holzer | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Aug 2022
Esperanto’s vocabulary is mostly from English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Latin, Polish, Russian and Yiddish, the languages that Zamenhof was most familiar with. Grammatically, it was primarily influenced by European languages, but some innovations bear a resemblance to some Asian languages, such as Chinese.
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Three Large American Multinationals Bought 17 Million Hectares of Ukrainian Agricultural Land
Laura Aboli | Truthbook - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
These are Cargill, Dupont and Monsanto. For comparison, Italy has 16.7 million hectares of agricultural land. Among the main shareholders of these three companies are Vanguard, Blackrock and Blackstone. The usual suspects…
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Of the Secret Leaks and the Baking Planet
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
29 Jul 2022 – Strangely enough, two major scientific findings, both announced in July, did not attribute the current dangerous world’s disasters to the proxy war unfolding in Ukraine.
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
28 Jul 2022 – The world cheered the 22-July Turkey-brooked agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resume cereals and fertilisers exports from both countries. The Istanbul Agreement allows them to release their exports under UN and international supervision.
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Interest Rate Hikes Will Not Save Us from Inflation
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
27 Jul 2022 – Rather than making money harder to get, the U.S. government needs to focus on the other side of the demand vs. supply inflation equation.
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The Shadow Bank That Owns the World
Lee Camp | Behind The Headlines - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
28 Jul 2022 – Behind The Headlines in partnership with MintPress News is proud to release the first episode in our new series: The Most Censored News with Lee Camp. Today Lee takes on one of the more important questions in modern times — Who owns the world?
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CIA Vault 7 Leaker Found Guilty–What Did He Actually Reveal?
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
26 Jul 2022 – CIA veteran John Kiriakou breaks down some of the most important elements of Vault 7—the biggest leak in CIA history—allegedly divulged to WikiLeaks by another former CIA officer.
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Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits – A Food Crisis by Design
Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
14 Jul 2022 – Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, headlines have been dominated by the global food supply shortages and rising food prices. Detailed in this new report is how, in fact, we have already been facing a food and malnutrition crisis long before the current conflict.
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Former Bolivian President Evo Morales Calls for a Global Campaign to Eliminate NATO
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
30 Jul 2022 – In interview with British journalist, Morales says the U.S. uses NATO to provoke wars and sell weapons. U.S./UK-backed coup against him in 2019 was undertaken for lithium and because his government advanced an alternative economic model to the neoliberal “Washington Consensus”
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‘This Is a War of Propaganda’
John Pilger | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
10 Jul 2022 – John Pilger on Ukraine and Assange: 20 minutes of truth… and a pretty sweet ending.
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For Those about to Rock, NAM 2.0 Salutes You
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
22 Jul 2022 – Those were the days, in 1955, at the legendary Indonesia conference when the Global South started dreaming of building a new world via the Non-Aligned Movement. NAM 2.0 drive – of which China is a key player – stands in stark opposition to how the Empire of Chaos wove its toxic net since the start of the millennium.
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Socialism and Ecological Survival: An Introduction
John Bellamy Foster and Brett Clark | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
1 Jul 2022 – Capitalism has brought the world to the edge of the abyss. We are approaching a climate Armageddon making the earth unlivable for the human and other species. Such a catastrophe is still avoidable with a revolutionary-scale reconstitution of the systems of production, consumption, and energy usage, though the time is rapidly running out.
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Droupadi Murmu Is the New President of India
Ajay Ghosh | UNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
Mrs. Droupadi Murmu, a 64-year-old tribal politician and former teacher from the Orissa state, was sworn in as the 10th successive president of the Republic of India on 22 July 2022 in New Delhi becoming the constitutional head of India.
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The Bittersweet Story of the Real-Life Peaceful Bull Who Inspired Munro Leaf and Robert Lawson’s Ferdinand
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
A journey to the abyss between the real world and the ideal world, and a romp across our mightiest bridge between the two.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
Perceptions…
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Myanmar: Executing Dissent
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Aug 2022
30 Jul 2022 – Since staging a coup against the democratically elected government on 1 Feb 2021, the Myanmar military–the Tatmadaw–has become increasingly brutal and desperate. It killed more than 1,500 protesters including at least 44 children.
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Sowing Hunger, Reaping Profits – A Food Crisis by Design
Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022 – Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, headlines have been dominated by the global food supply shortages and rising food prices. Detailed in this new report is how, in fact, we have already been facing a food and malnutrition crisis long before the current conflict.
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Sustainability through Global Patterns of 60-fold Organization
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
Psycho-social implications of fullerenes for coherence, integrity and identity of a higher order.
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Xenophobia in Mandiba’s Land: Too Black… Or Just Too Poor?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
18 Jul 2022 – South Africa, the home land of the late giant fighter against Apartheid, racism and discrimination – Nelson Mandela “Mandiba”, is already ‘on the precipice of explosive xenophobic violence’ against migrants, refugees, asylum seekers – and even citizens perceived as outsiders.
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Biden’s Middle East Visit: An Orgy of Cynicism, Hypocrisy, and Erasures
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
21 Jul 2022 – This piece criticizes the dual tracks of Biden’s ill-executed trip in mid-July to Israel and Saudi Arabia. It faults Biden for the extreme cynicism of pursuing a realpolitik approach in Riyadh and an approach in Israel that mixed silences about apartheid, Shireen Abu Akleh, and the Palestinian ordeal with fanciful claims about shared values and democratic affinities.
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Mozart Concerto No 3 (Music Video of the Week)
Elisey Mysin | Young Talent Great Genius – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
Elisey Mysin is a child prodigy born in Stavropol, Russia. In 2022 he celebrates his 12th birthday.
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Marcos Must Tread Cautiously as US and China Seek to Reset Ties with the Philippines
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III | South China Morning Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
10 Jul 2022 – As newly-inaugurated President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr, son and namesake of the former Philippine strongman, begins forming his trade, security, and foreign policies, the United States and China are expected to seize the chance to reset ties amid a competing rivalry for influence.
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Nuclear Strategy and Ending the War in Ukraine
Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Laureate, and Jonathan Granoff | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
19 Jul 2022 – The authors propose that the U.S. and NATO “plan and prepare for withdrawal of all U.S. nuclear warheads from Europe and Turkey” as a way to “get Putin’s attention and bring him to the negotiating table” and possibly agree to end the war. It’s a very interesting and bold proposal that could possibly work.
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The Multipolar “Iran-Russia-Turkey Troika” Overshadows “Unipolar Joe Biden” in West Asia
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
20 Jul 2022 – The Tehran summit uniting Iran-Russia-Turkey was a fascinating affair in more ways than one. Their Presidents convened to discuss critical issues pertaining to West Asia, with the illegal US occupation of Syria and wholesale rejection of the “war on terror” exceptionalist unipolarity that once ruled West Asia, as key talking points.
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The Shameful UN ‘List of Shame’: Equating the Israeli Perpetrator and the Palestinian Victim
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
21 Jul 2022 – This is not what Palestinians are expecting from the United Nations, an organization that supposedly exists to end armed conflicts and bring about peace and security for all.
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Behind the Drought and Food Deficits in Africa
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
19 Jul 2022 – The world is facing a combination of imperialist interventions, climate change and the burgeoning economic crisis of world capitalism.
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Robert Parry Exposed CIA Criminality and Set the Gold Standard for Investigative Journalism
John Kiriakou | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
22 Jul 2022 – “American Dispatches: A Robert Parry Reader,” is a compendium of the most impactful and important pieces of investigative journalism published by Nat Parry’s father Robert, the eminent reporter from the Associated Press, Newsweek, and PBS, and the founder of Consortium News.
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Neutralizing Dirty Tricksters
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
MYSTIFICATION is a plausible misrepresentation of reality, presenting forms of exploitation as forms of benevolence. FABRICATION weaves together fragments of truths, half-truths, facts out of context, images, and distortions to create a coherent, internally consistent, compelling, convincing worldview. Dirty tricks abound. Beware. Don’t be a sucker. Think for yourself.
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‘Good’ Wars, ‘Good’ War Criminals, ‘Good’ Dictators, ‘Good’ Separatists, ‘Good’ Oligarchs, ‘Good’ Money Launderers—and Their Antitheses
Felix Abt | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
Everything You Have Always Wanted to Know about It
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The War on Dissent
Whitney Webb | Bitcoin Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
20 Jul 2022 – Online censorship is becoming increasingly normalized as growing restrictions, deplatforming and its other manifestations have become so pervasive that many have simply come to accept it. This “new normal” for free speech is as insidious as it has been gradual, as we are increasingly being trained to accept unconstitutional limitations on what we can express.
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Documents Reveal Advanced AI Tools Google Is Selling to Israel
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
24 Jul 2022 – Google employees, who have been kept in the dark about the “Nimbus” AI project, have concerns about Israeli human rights abuses.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
What Insurrection?
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Calling Putin ‘Hitler’ to Smear Diplomacy as ‘Appeasement’
Joshua Cho | FAIR- Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
21 Jul 2022 – The extreme caricatures of Putin as equal to or worse than Hitler, frequent Nazi comparisons, and Munich references made by Western media paint those who would prefer a negotiated settlement to years of bloodshed, the risk of World War III and nuclear war as “appeasers” of a Hitlerian dictator with genocidal ambitions.
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Aaron Maté Challenges Guardian on Syria
Pushback | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2022
23 Jul 2022 – A recent article in The Guardian parroted evidence-free allegations that Aaron Maté is “the most prolific spreader of disinformation” about Syria among a “network” of “conspiracy theorists.”
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The West Is Experiencing a Contraction of Its Power, Not Necessarily Its Decline
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022 – With the same ease with which they foresee being able to reduce Russia (one of the largest nuclear power in the world) to a vassal state or bring it to ruin, they foresee neutralizing China (which is on its way to becoming the first world economy) and soon provoking a war in Taiwan, (like the one in Ukraine) to achieve that purpose. On the other hand, the history of empires shows that contraction goes hand in hand with decline, and that decline is irreversible and entails much human suffering.
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The Worst Is yet to Come: When the Center Cannot Hold
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022 – This is an attempt to connect my despair about developments in the USA with wider global systemic tendencies. It is not hopeful about the future, yet its central message is that we should continue to struggle for a future we can believe in given that we live at a time of radical uncertainty.
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The Nitrogen Problem in Agriculture
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – Reduce the use of chemical fertilisers, make the chemical industry pay for pollution instead of criminalising farmers who were trapped by the chemical treadmill through industrial agriculture.
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In Ukraine, a Proxy War on the Planet
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022 – As the Ukraine crisis causes global havoc, US officials won’t negotiate with Russia to end the fighting — and are even willing to “countenance” mounting hunger as a result.
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1980s US Central America Wars
Virginia S. Williams, Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov | US Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
Updated January 2022 – Less than a decade after U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam, the United States became deeply involved in Central America. The catalyst was a popularly supported leftist revolution in Nicaragua led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).
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Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us
Sue Ann Martinson | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022 – It’s time to acknowledge how the failure to connect the dots between U.S. imperialism and the growing climate crisis threatens all life on this planet in more ways than one.
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(Italiano) Perché la NATO è antiquata, pericolosa e merita di essere abolita
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
13 Luglio 2022 – Da un punto di vista analitico del conflitto è ragionevole dire che la Russia è responsabile della guerra ma che la NATO con la sua espansione noncurante, contro tutte le promesse fatte alla Russia e una serie di ammonimenti d’esperti è responsabile del conflitto soggiacente. Discutiamo del mondo post-NATO.
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Frantz Fanon (20 Jul 1925 – 6 Dec 1961)
Jennifer Poulos | Emory Postcolonial Studies and Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
Born on the island of Martinique under French colonial rule, Frantz Omar Fanon was one of the most important writers in black Atlantic theory in an age of anti-colonial liberation struggle. His work drew on a wide array of poetry, psychology, philosophy, and political theory, and its influence across the global South has been wide, deep, and enduring.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
4 Jul 2022 – Meanwhile in the old US of A
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The B61-12 Mini-Nukes “Made in America” Coming Soon to Italy, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022 – To Be Used in “a Nuclear First Strike” – Europe is thus being turned by the U.S. into the front line of a nuclear confrontation with Russia, even more dangerous than that of the Cold War.
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Hundreds of Millions of Human Workers Treated Worse than Robots
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
14 Jul 2022 – While big private business pours billions of dollars in producing automatic machines, barely no money has been invested in the human workers who are left unprotected, treated like cheap robots, or even worse.
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No Starvation for Oil
Kathy Kelly | The Progressive Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – As President Joe Biden embarks on his trip to the Middle East, those of us back home must acknowledge the suffering the United States has caused in places like Yemen.
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The Dying Swan (Music Video of the Week)
Natalia Osipova | The Royal Ballet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
Royal Ballet Principal Natalia Osipova at the Royal Opera House in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s The Swan Lake from 1877.
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US$2 Trillion for War versus US$100 Billion to Save the Planet
Murad Qureshi | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – The West is more fixated on spending social wealth on the military than addressing the climate catastrophe.
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Ukraine: End War. Lift Sanctions.
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – NATO’s hardline position on expansion and membership is further reinforced by a motive which has become more obvious in the course of the war. Some members of NATO and the US leadership are keen to exploit the war to emasculate Russia as a military power. This is why they would like to prolong the war.
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Global Demilitarization – The True Goal of the Nobel Peace Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – Dear Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, since I discovered, in 2007, that Alfred Nobel – in his legally binding will – intended to support general and complete disarmament, I have been using the prize as a wedge to help undo the political influence of global militarism.
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World Looks Away as Oil Disaster Looms off Yemen’s Coast
Elizabeth Hagedorn | Al-Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – Time is running out to prevent what Yemen envoy Tim Lenderking warns will be a “massive oil spill the likes of which the world has not seen.”
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Bogus Report on Nicaragua by “60 Minutes” Exposed as Propaganda from CIA-linked National Endowment for Democracy
Susan Lagos | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
I was appalled to see your program on Nicaragua of June 19, 2022. The correction of this travesty of reporting requires 60 Minutes to actually come to Nicaragua to interview the people whose lives have improved since 2007 with free universal education and health care; 99.2% of homes have electricity; about 90% have running water; the best roads in the region; housing programs; more than half a million people have received a registered title to their land.
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The Uber Whistleblower: I’m Exposing a System That Sold People a Lie
Paul Lewis, et al. | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
11 Jul 2022 – Exclusive: Mark MacGann says he has decided to speak out about firm to ‘right some fundamental wrongs’.
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(Italiano) La NATO e l’Ucraina
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
12 Luglio 2022 – La NATO è la macchina da guerra globale che gli Stati Uniti dominano; la cui politica è la “Full Spectrum Dominance”. Contrariamente alle sue affermazioni, la NATO non è un’organizzazione difensiva. Il suo scopo è stato quello di agire come strumento per il dominio mondiale degli Stati Uniti e di prevenire tutte le sfide all’egemonia statunitense. Avrebbe dovuto essere sciolta nel 1991, dopo lo scioglimento del Patto di Varsavia, ma invece si è espansa in quindici nuovi Paesi.
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Latin America’s Second Wave of Left-Wing Governments Could Be More Powerful than the First
Kyla Sankey | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
12 Jul 2022 – A few years ago, commentators were announcing the demise of the Latin American left. But if Lula wins this autumn’s presidential election in Brazil, the Left will be governing the region’s six largest economies for the first time.
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(Italiano) Un papa invita al rifiuto della guerra
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2022
13 Luglio 2022 – Per la prima volta un papa invita al rifiuto della guerra per ragioni morali, di coscienza. Non solo condanna la guerra (“inutile strage”), ma chiede – non ai governanti, ma ai soldati – di non farla, di disobbedire!
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Angola Mourns Ex-President Jose Eduardo dos Santos
Africanews | AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
9 Jul 2022 – Angolans eulogized former President Jose Eduardo dos Santos who died yesterday in Spain. He was 79 and ruled Angola for 38 years. Born 28 Aug. 1942 to immigrant parents from the archipelago of São Tome, dos Santos was raised in the poor Luanda neighborhood of Sambizanga. His father was a builder, his mother a maid.
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Former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Assassinated
Takashi Yokota, Kanako Takahara and Tomoko Otake | The Japan Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022 – Nation grapples with news of Japan’s longest-serving leader gunned down by former MSDF member.
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How Cuba Is Eradicating Child Mortality and Banishing the Diseases of the Poor
Vijay Prashad and Manolo de los Santos | Globetrotter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
5 Jul 2022 – To move from 59 infant deaths out of every 1,000 live births to no infant deaths in the matter of a few decades is an extraordinary feat.
→ read full articleA World of 8 Billion, Yes, but only a Few Are Seen as Human Beings (Part 1)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – Far-right Brazilian president, Jair Bolsonaro, was quoted as saying to a small group of indigenous people that they “now look a bit more like humans.”
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