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(Italiano) L’Ucraina e il pericolo di guerra nucleare
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
La guerra in Ucraina è da sempre una guerra per procura fra NATO e Russia, benché combattuta su suolo ucraino e comporti gran sofferenze per gli ucraini. La guerra sta diventando sempre più un confronto diretto fra Russia e Stati Uniti, entrambe potenze con armamenti nucleari.
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The UN Charter Must Remain the Heart and Soul of Any New Peace Architecture
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Aug 2023
This article is a contribution to this year’s Anti-War Day on September 1st. On this day, 84 years ago, the German Reich marched into Poland and ignited WWII, bringing indescribable destruction, misery and suffering to Europe and the world.
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Spain’s 2023 Women’s Soccer World Cup Belongs to Players
Mark Ogden | ESPN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
20 Aug 2023 – Jorge Vilda will never forget the night he guided Spain to a first-ever Women’s World Cup title. He was booed when he held the trophy with barely a pat on the back from his players, but he was a world champion; maybe not for his players, but the World Cup is a response to every condemnation.
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Quran Desecration and Freedom of Expression
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
The harder efforts are made to stop this highly objectionable behavior by Islamophobic and right-wing extremists groups, the greater is their temptation to persist in such action. In the short-term what these groups seek is public recognition and media attention, not power or authority.
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Continuity of the Hawai’ian National Consciousness
Pōkā Laenui (Hayden F. Burgess) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
21 Aug 2023 – A nation never dies until its national consciousness dies. It dies not by a conquest by another, by a loss of territory, by a takeover of a foreign power, by an overthrow of the government, by a change of its economic system, or by the colonization of a foreign people. It dies when its people have lost consciousness of themselves.
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Liberia Has Suffered 20 Years of ‘Negative Peace’–It’s Time for Change
Robtel Neajai Pailey and Aaron Weah | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – Since the conflicts ended on 18 Aug 2003, Liberia has only seen what peace studies pioneer Johan Galtung called “negative peace” – the absence of direct physical violence. What Liberia should strive for is “positive peace”, which involves building values, customs and institutions that create and sustain peaceful societies.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
Project for a New American Century
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The American Psychological Association Takes Another Step—Backward
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – Operational psychologists are primarily involved in non-clinical activities linked to national security, national defense, and public safety. Their largest source of employment is the military-intelligence establishment, which includes the Department of Defense and the CIA.
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The Day after Roswell
Col. Philip J. Corso | Dateline NBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
Eyewitness Testimony–1947 UFO Crash–US Army Recovers Alien Technology
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What Is a Hicks-Style Plea Bargain for Assange?
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 – David Hicks took a so-called Alford Plea to get out of Guantanamo, in which he pled guilty to a single charge, but was allowed to assert his innocence at the same time. Such a plea could be offered to Assange. (Watch video below)
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Weapon Transfers, Including Banned Cluster Munitions, Spike in Ukraine
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – Arms and ammunition transfers to Ukraine have increased rapidly in recent months, alongside concerning reports of deliveries of banned cluster munitions, the UN’s top disarmament official told the Security Council today.
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Revitalising the Peace Movement for the 21st Century
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 – With a barely existing peace movement worldwide and a decline of the left and its ideas and values, how can we make peace activism work? How can we uplift our focus on hope and be optimistic, bold, for positive changes and a more peaceful and compassionate world?
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Ahmed Isam | Chaos Communication Camp 2023 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
Sudan Civic Map is a Counter-Militarisation project, a political statement that challenges the dominant narrative of the Sudan conflict. By foregrounding the experiences of civilian-led movements, the project aims to shift the focus from military-centric news towards the humanitarian efforts of these actors. The project asserts the importance of non-combatant actors, subverting the conventional portrayal of the conflict as a two-party war.
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As Maui Burns, Biden Demands Another $24 Billion… for Ukraine!
Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 – It’s hard to look at footage of the devastation in Maui and then hear Biden demand from Congress another $24 billion for Ukraine. The residents of Maui will take little comfort knowing that the US is more interested in sending their money to the proxy war than in helping them recover.
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Amid ‘Staggering’ Ukrainian Toll and Souring US Polls, Biden Seeks Billions More for War
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
14 Aug 2023 – As Ukraine faces “staggering” losses and US public mood shifts, the Biden administration seeks billions more to prolong the war.
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The Nuclear Apple
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
9 Aug 2023 – How do we turn 26 Sep — declared by the UN to be (I kid you not) the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons — into a reality? Or does the human future have nothing to do with “us”? Are we just spectators of our own lives, stuck in the world our leaders continue to bequeath us?
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What’s Happening in Niger Is Far from a Typical Coup
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
16 Aug 2023 – Rather than send troops in response to the coup, France and the U.S. seem to favor a “Rwanda” type solution applied in Mozambique earlier this year. Only this time ECOWAS would apply force.
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Cannon Fodder for the Empire
Samir Saul and Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
20 Aug 2023 – The US dreams of a unipolar world and of global hegemony. It intervenes everywhere to support dictatorships, provoke coups d’état, encourage rebellions and finance opposition. Let’s recall some of their major feats since the end of WWII that will help us understand the Ukrainian tragedy.
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How to Say Goodbye: An Illustrated Field Guide to Accompanying a Loved One at the End of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
To comprehend the luckiness of death is to comprehend life itself. When a loved one is dying and we get to be by their side, it is a double luckiness — lucky that we got to have the love at all, and lucky, which is not everyone’s luck, that we get to say goodbye.
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Phir Milenge Chalte Chalte (Music Video of the Week)
Sonu Nigam – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
A song that describes the journey of love. Romancing the Bollywood beauties. Enjoy!
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The Hiroshima Peace Declaration on 78th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
6 Aug 2023 – The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read today by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony to mark 78 years since the 1945 atomic bombing of the city.
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The Race to Save the World’s DNA
Matthew Hutson | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
9 Aug 2023 – A scientific rescue mission aims to analyze every plant, animal, and fungus before it’s too late.
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How the US and France Created a Niger Mess for Themselves
M. K. Bhadrakumar | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
19 Aug 2023 – Neo-colonial powers have become entangled in a diplomatic and military impasse borne from a fundamental lack of understanding.
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Pakistan: How Did Neo-Colonial Leaders Stab the Nation?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
Imran Khan wanted to opt for political changes in Pakistan’s external relations and reshape its reliance on the US towards a more balanced relationship with Russia, China and other Middle Eastern nations. Was Khan so naive about his own plans and abstract political and intellectual strength to be removed from office undemocratically by his opponents?
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World Sliding toward WW3 as More Warhawks Grab Power in Washington DC
Drago Bosnic | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
11 Aug 2023 – Their style has always been preying on the weak, as they focus on bringing “freedom and democracy” to those unable to retaliate or defend themselves. Direct attacks are preceded by economic warfare (sanctions) and “isolation” by the so-called “international community” (read USA).
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Western Media Glorify TPLF Mob Violence against Eritrean Festivals
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
19 Aug 2023 – This summer, violent mobs associated with the US-backed Tigray People’s Liberation Front assaulted Eritrean festivals across the US and Europe. Western media is now spinning the targeted mob violence as legitimate protest against Eritrea’s government.
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South Africa, My Birthplace, Still Weeping: Coffin on Wheels (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
The Black, Minibus Taxis in South Africa keep the entire “Rainbow Nation” not weeping, but wailing.
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Iran Repression Continues: NGO Action Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – The U.N. International Independent Fact-Finding Mission on the Islamic Republic of Iran has called on non-governmental organizations for information. The broader NGO community needs to keep public attention focused on events in Iran.
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US: Summer of the Hawks
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – Wishful thinking is still the rule among Biden’s foreign policy team, as the slaughter in Ukraine continues.
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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga | TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
21-27 August 2023
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The Purpose of Defending Dharma
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
It is to our advantage to work for the benefit of others and provide the means for them to learn and participate in the Vedic traditions. This is Dharma, our Dharma, and Dharma will protect those who help protect it. That is one reason that it is sanatana, or that which exists eternally.
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Cuba’s Worsening Food Crisis Means US Blockade Must End Now, Not Later
W.T. Whitney Jr. | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
“It is time for all of us, in solidarity with the Cuban Revolution, to intensify the struggle against the U.S. blockade and mobilize international cooperation with the island that dared to conquer its independence and sovereignty against the most powerful and genocidal empire in the history of mankind.” — Frei Betto
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A Photo Is Worth a Million Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
–> What Is Right in This Pic?
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Assange Be Wary: The Dangers of a US Plea Deal
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – In the proceedings against Julian Assange, the US Imperium has shown its vengeful impulses. Given the 17 charges he faces from the US Espionage Act of 1917, any sentence is bound to be hefty. Were he to be extradited to the US, Assange will disappear into a carceral, life-ending dystopia.
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Top 5 U.S. Weapons Contractors Made US$196B in 2022
Connor Echols | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – Half of the world’s 20 biggest arms makers are based in the US, according to a new ranking from Defense News.
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The US Will Strengthen Its Occupation of Syria, while Plundering Oil Resources
Steven Sahiounie interviews Prof. Glenn Diesen | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
11 Aug 2023 – The main reason behind the US invasion and occupation of Syria, now lasting eight years, was to prevent Syrians from accessing their own oil wells–and steal it. Due to US sanctions, Syria can’t buy energy products, having a chronic shortage of gasoline, diesel and almost no electricity.
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China’s Diplomatic Evolution: A Potential Ally for Palestinians’ Quest for Justice
Ramzy Baroud | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
16 Aug 2023 – It is feasible for China to continue playing an important role in mediating Middle East conflicts. Even before Beijing successfully managed to achieve reconciliation between Saudi Arabia and Iran last April, Chinese diplomacy has shown exceptional maturity.
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The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
This is a sermon I gave on Sunday 20 Aug in Oslo, Norway at Kulturkirken Jakob (St. James Church of Culture). Actor and film director Liv Ullmann read the scripture passages.
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How People Are Fighting the World’s Reliance on the War Economy
April M. Short | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
17 Aug 2023 – Many people are already investing themselves in the local peace economy as they divest from the economy of war.
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The US Is Caught in a Dilemma with Niger
Scott Ritter | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
15 Aug 2023 – Washington can’t sever relations with the post-coup government lest it lose the basis for its military presence in the African country.
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Mr. Blue and the CIA
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
18 Aug 2023 – Some time ago on a Sunday evening when my wife and I had just sat down to dinner, our phone rang. Since I didn’t recognize the phone number and it was dinnertime, I hesitated to answer it, but for some chance reason I did. The voice on the other end was agitated, intense, and asked for me.
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U.S.-Backed Roll of the Dice Leaves Ukraine in Worse Crisis
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
16 Aug 2023 – How Ukraine’s failed counteroffensive has left it in a worse crisis than before, and how US barbaric decisions to reject peace negotiations and prolong the war have led to a brutal war of attrition that is gradually destroying Ukraine.
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Help
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
Efficiency…
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Nagasaki Peace Declaration on 78th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
9 Aug 2023 – The following is a translation of the Peace Declaration read today by Nagasaki Mayor Shiro Suzuki at a ceremony to mark the 78th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city, as provided by the Nagasaki Municipal Government.
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Rain Rain
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
India, especially its northern parts including the capital Delhi, have been devastated by excess rainfall with the result that many parts of Delhi and the states bordering it are flooded and have landslides.
→ read full articleMobilizing for War with China: U.S. Hawks Target “Code Pink”
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Aug 2023
A sign of war fever involves concerted efforts by government and news media hawks to defame and criminalize the behavior of activists who oppose the deterioration of relations with the alleged enemy. The anti-China crowd’s latest target is Code Pink.
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From Chi-Town Bagman to ECOWAS Chairman: Meet the Former Money Launderer Leading the Push to Invade Niger
Kit Klarenberg and Alexander Rubinstein | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
5 Aug 2023 – Since the overthrow of Niger’s US-friendly government, the chair of the ECOWAS block and Nigerian President, Bola Tinubu, has threatened an invasion of their neighbor. Before, Tinubu spent years laundering millions for heroin dealers in Chicago, and has since been ensnared in numerous corruption scandals. Luckily for the West elites, compromised figures like Tinubu are still on hand to do their dirty work for them.
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Nigerian Senate Rejects President Bola Tinubu’s Demand to Send Troops to Invade Niger
Ibrahim Garba Shuaibu | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
6 Aug 2023 – The head of the Nigerian Senate said Sat [5 Aug] that the chamber rejected military force to reinstate the ousted President of Niger. They also pleaded with the head of ECOWAS, Nigerian President Bola Tinubu, to embrace diplomacy in handling the toppling of the Niger government.
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Innovative Regional Dialogue: Iran, Iraq, and Six Gulf Countries
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – The regional dialogue scheduled for Sep 2023 is a notable breakthrough, by diplomatic initiatives, to replace tensions with stability in the Middle East, and in the process gaining political independence from U.S./Israel hegemony. This development also reflects the increased involvement of China in the region.
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Niger: A Coup against French Control and Dominance
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
9 Aug 2023 – One of the reasons why ECOWAS has changed its stance is because of strong opposition to any military intervention from some of its member states. Mali and Burkina Faso have made it explicitly clear that they would view military intervention as a “declaration of war” against the people of Niger and would defend the newly installed military junta.
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South Africa, My Birthplace, Still Weeping (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
“In the Post-Liberation Democracy in South Africa, the philosophies as espoused by Ubuntu and Batho pele remain, all, but as dreams of camaraderie now dead and interred with Madiba.”
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Niger – The Liberation from “Independence”
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Thousands demonstrate in the streets of the capital of Niger. They do not want an ECOWAS-Economic Community of West African States intervention as it stands for western influence. ECOWAS, France, the EU, USA and other western governments may be thinking they are domineering over the sovereignty of other nations.
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Taliban’s Massively Successful Opium Eradication Raises Questions about What US Was Doing All Along
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
4 Aug 2023 – The Taliban government in Afghanistan, which produced 90% of the world’s heroin, has drastically reduced opium cultivation across the country; up to 99% in some provinces. This raises questions about the seriousness of U.S. drug eradication efforts in the country over the past 20 years of occupation.
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Ecologically-sound Development: A Vital Need for Concerted Action
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
11 Aug 2023 – With the consequences of climate change in the background, ecologically-sound development must be the center of a concerted action.
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Hawaii: Maui’s Deadly Wildfires Burn Through Lahaina
Mojtaba Sadegh | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – It’s a Reminder of the Growing Risk to Communities That Once Seemed Safe
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War by Other Means: Short Selling JPMorgan
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
10 Aug 2023 – As was said of Lehman Brothers fifteen years earlier, the targeted banks did not fall; they were pushed. One blogger shows how even JPMorgan Chase, the US largest bank, could be pushed — not perhaps by local short-sellers, but by China. And that is another good reason not to provoke the Chinese Dragon into “war by other means.”
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Hawaii: Catastrophic Wildfires Lay Waste to Historic Maui Town of Lahaina
Euronews - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
11 Aug 2023 – Flyover footage of the once-vibrant tourist town of Lahaina shows street after street reduced to grey and black rubble.
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Nuclear Now—What Is Nuclear Power (Documentary)
Oliver Stone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
June 2023 – Whether you’re a seasoned environmentalist or a curious newcomer, Nuclear Now offers a thought-provoking look at the challenges and opportunities presented by nuclear energy. With director Oliver Stone’s signature, style, and a wealth of expert insights, this is a must-see for anyone concerned about the future of our planet. And its present.
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
The war in Ukraine has always been a proxy war between NATO and Russia, although it involves great suffering for the Ukrainian people. It is increasingly becoming a direct confrontation between Russia and the United States, both nuclear armed powers.
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Victoria Nuland Has Gone to Africa
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
9 Aug 2023 – Victoria Nuland has gone to Africa. Gone to Africa to talk some sense into the Nigeriens and convince them to return to the shackles of Paris. Gone to Africa to harvest blood diamonds and cobalt. Gone to Africa to masturbate on Gaddafi’s grave.
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Quran Burnings Assertion of Broader Bias against Immigrants in Europe: Ex-UN Rapporteur
Rabia Iclal Turan | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – There is a ‘strong case’ for prohibition of such acts that ‘serve no possible constructive purpose,’ says Richard Falk.
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(Português) Ela Canta, Pobre Ceifeira
Ferrnando Pessoa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
Ela canta, pobre ceifeira,
Julgando-se feliz talvez;
Canta, e ceifa, e a sua voz, cheia
De alegre e anónima viuvez,
Kuznick’s Essential Companion to the Oppenheimer Movie
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
4 Aug 2023 – In this interview, Peter, who also teaches a film course on “Oliver Stone’s America,” gives an essential analysis of Chris Nolan’s Oppenheimer. He commends the film in many respects, and then criticizes the exclusion of important historical facts, which he proceeds to supplement in great depth and detail.
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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – The Israel Lobby’s Useful Idiot
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
12 Aug 2023 – Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regurgitates every lie, racist trope, distortion of history, and demeaning comment about the backwardness of the Palestinians peddled by Israel’s most retrograde and far-right elements. This alone discredits him as a progressive candidate. It calls into question his judgment and sincerity.
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Can We Measure Inequality without Tallying the Wealth of the Wealthiest?
Sam Pizzigati | Inequality - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
31 Jul 2023 – Hundreds of prestigious economists don’t think so. The World Bank, unfortunately, does.
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(Italiano) Camminatori e Camminatrici per la Pace e Il Disarmo
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
La Camminata da Maresca a Sant’Anna di Stazzema, 6-12 Agosto 2023
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Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring (Music Video of the Week)
The Mormon Tabernacle Choir – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
Composition by Johann Sebastian Bach – Cantata BWV 147
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Pakistan Striving for Its Soul
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
Arrest of Imran Khan Signals Corrupt Authoritarian Order
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
Many people think that children learn many aspects of academia or life mainly in schools or academic institutions. This is indeed so but a child also learns from his surroundings.
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USA No Longer the “Lone” Superpower
Chalmers Johnson | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
13 Aug 2023 – Coming to Terms with China
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Anti-Imperialist Sentiment Spreads across West Africa amid Threats against Niger
Abayomi Azikiwe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
10 Aug 2023 – Nigerian Senate rebukes president’s effort to invade a neighboring state at the aegis of Paris and Washington.
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US Cluster Munitions Will Bring More Pain and Death to Donbass Civilians, but Washington Doesn’t Care
Eva Bartlett | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
1 Aug 2023 – Kiev will use its newly received weapons to target residential areas, just as it has for the past nine years.
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New Investigation Exposes a Stomach-Churning Practice to Make Your Bacon
Kenny Torrella | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
5 Aug 2023 – The pork industry’s forced cannibalism, explained. Why they feed feces and raw intestines to pigs.
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Independent Journalism as It Was: Portugal Case Study
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Lisbon, following the revolution, was the author’s classroom. As Washington made another nation one of its experiments in altered reality, the U.S. press played POLO — “the power of leaving out” — with abandon.
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How Not to Go to War
David Swanson - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
The book by Vijay Mehta comes to us from Britain where the author is a leading peace activist, and it is actually a set of recommendations for how to not go to war at all ever.
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Indictment Talking Points
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – GOP Indictment Talking Points
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Hawaii Fires: Fresh Blaze Prompts Renewed Evacuations as Maui Death Toll Rises
The Observer/Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
12 Aug 2023 – At least 80 people killed in deadliest disaster in the state’s history, as questions asked about the local warning system.
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Who Is the Real Threat in the Pacific
Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
Take a look.
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Surf the Apocalypse
William T. Hathaway - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
We stand on doomsday’s beach
watching waves rise and crash,
breathing the brisk and final breeze.
US Response to Russia-China Naval Patrol Exposes Glaring Hypocrisy
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Washington believes it has a divine right to send its warships wherever it wants, but when ‘rivals’ do the same it’s deemed a threat
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How U.S. News Coverage of the Wars in Yemen and Ukraine Reveals a Bias in Recording Civilian Harm
Esther Brito Ruiz and Jeff Bachman | The Conversation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
3 Aug 2023 – War entails suffering. How and how often that suffering is reported on in the U.S., however, is not evenhanded. Take, for example, the Saudi-led intervention in Yemen in March 2015 and the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
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Chocolates and a Chat: A Peaceful Response to Quran Burnings in Sweden
Nils Adler | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Muslims present at the burnings refuse to be provoked as they hand out chocolates and seek dialogue with onlookers.
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The United Nations’ New Agenda for Peace
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
3 Aug 2023 – The UN report–apart from identifying the conflict between the unipolar and multipolar worlds, and showing concern over the metastasizing weapons industry–throws moral scaffolding over hard realities it can’t directly confront.
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Syrian Civilians Struggle between Deadly Israeli Air Strikes and Equally Deadly US Sanctions
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – Israeli airstrikes on Syria have become routine and deadly.
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Nothing New in New GMOs
Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
7 Aug 2023 – A new report exposes the corporate interest behind the gene editing business.
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Malu ‘Aina in Search of Volunteers
Jim Albertini and Antonio C. S. Rosa | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
10 Aug 2023 – Founded in 1979, Malu ‘Aina is an all-volunteer non-profit peace farm in Hawaii. We are looking for a farm torch carrier, someone to take on the volunteer farm coordination that Jim Albertini has done for over 40 years. (Read the special note from the TMS Editor, a former volunteer.)
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“Little Women” Author Louisa May Alcott on the Creative Rewards of Being Single
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
“Liberty is a better husband than love.”
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Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
14 – 20 August 2023
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Nicaragua: A History of US Intervention and Resistance
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
Many nations in the Americas have suffered from US promoted coups, dictatorships, sanctions and outright invasions. Nicaragua may take the cake for being the most victimized. Dan Kovalik has written a book which reviews the history of intervention and resistance up to the present day.
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Literature as Peace Work: Eyes on Kashmira Sheth’s ‘Keeping Corner’
Jocelyn Wright | The Beacon - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
28 Jul 2023 – Johan Galtung, the founder of Peace and Conflict Studies, conceptualized peace and I adopt his views here. In Peace by Peaceful Means, he sees peace as a perpetual process, and an “acceptable and sustainable outcome,” which is satisfying the basic needs of survival, wellbeing, identity/meaning, freedom, and ecological balance via harmonious and associative means.
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Do People Change?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
11 Aug 2023 – Because there is so much personal anguish, unhappiness, and human mental and physical suffering in the world, many people often wonder how they might personally change to find happiness, contentment, or some elusive something.
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Harold Pinter Had It Right
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
“After Oliver Cromwell had taken the town of Drogheda, he announced: ‘Kill all the women and rape all the men.’ His aide said: ‘Excuse me General. Isn’t it the other way around?’ A voice from the crowd called out: ‘Mr. Cromwell knows what he’s doing!’”
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Africa in Rebellion: Is a Second Anti-Colonial Liberation on the Horizon?
Denis Rogatyuk | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Aug 2023
8 Aug 2023 – After a series of coups, one country after the other is moving to expel the traces of former empires.
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Syria Updates – Military Escalation
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
30 Jul 2023 – As things are moving fast in Syria, I will try to maintain regular updates.
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Pōkā Laenui – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
The Theft of the Hawaiian Islands Kingdom by the United States of America
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A Corporate Takeover of the UN Must Be Stopped
Harris Gleckman | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
3 Aug 2023 – The UN’s vision for the future involves giving corporate executives crucial say in decisions. That is too dangerous to be allowed.
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The Algorithm [ Brilliant! ]
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
6 Aug 2023 – The algorithm knows what you want before you do. The algorithm knows you better than you know yourself. The algorithm knew you back before you were a screaming slime child, back before they washed off the uterine gunk and handed you a smartphone and made you get a landlord, back before you knew that war…
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Vandana Shiva: Bill Gates and Silicon Valley behind Push for ‘Farming without Farmers, Food without Farms’
Brenda Baletti Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
2 Aug 2023 – On this episode of Russell Brand’s “Stay Free,” TRANSCEND member, scholar, environmental activist and food sovereignty advocate Vandana Shiva, Ph.D., discusses food fascism, the power of “philanthropy,” digital enslavement and how people can free themselves from this system.
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Russia-Africa Summit Held Amid Worsening Global Security Situation
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
2 Aug 2023 – African Union member-states put forward their peace plan for ending the conflict in Ukraine and received a positive response from Moscow.
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Second-order Dialogue and Higher Order Discourse for the Future
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
Potential Implications of Second-order Cybernetics and Higher-order Communication Possibilities — Second-order cybernetics is a form in which “the role of the observer is appreciated and acknowledged rather than disguised, as had become traditional in western science”.
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