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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.

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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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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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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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This Week in History
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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International Forgiveness Day—7 July 2023
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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The Niger Coup – Syria Military Escalation as U.S. Increases Pressure
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

Section one: The military coup in Niger and the Pan-Africanist movement led by Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali.
Section two: The U.S. military build-up and ISIS attacks triggered by the U.S-led axis of terror occupying one third of Syrian territory.

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USA: How to Hide and Ignore 4.5 Million Deaths
Bryce Greene | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

1 Aug 2023 – A ‘Costs of War’ study estimates that the USA’s 9/11 wars caused 4.5 million deaths in Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia and Syria with 40–60 million people displaced from their homes. “Pax Americana”

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Why Oppenheimer Read the Bhagavad-gita when the First Atomic Bomb Exploded
Jason Gregory – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

19 Jul 2023 – The meaning of the famous line from the Bhagavad-gita that Oppenheimer remembered when the first atomic bomb exploded. Oppenheimer’s rendition of the verse as ‘I am death’ was, in fact, a misinterpretation.

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Enough of the Blaming Game: Let’s for Once Try Talking to Each Other
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

25 Jul 2023 – In the UN Human Rights Council, the blaming game is known as “naming and shaming”, as if the States “naming” possessed a higher moral authority over the “named;” as if blaming could contribute to dialogue and compromise.

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A Brief Neocolonial History of the Five UN Security Council Permanent Members
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

1 Aug 2023 – Understanding the actions and justifications behind territorial colonial behavior by the UN Security Council since 1945.

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The Dialectics of History: Aggression Produces a Reaction of Solidarity
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

1 Aug 2023 – History is dialectical, as described by Hegel, Marx and Engels. We see this in our times as three policies of aggression have led to the increased solidarity of those who have been attacked.

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How Green Is Lab-grown meat?
Navdanya International Press Office – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

28 Jul 2023 – Synthetic foods are the next generation of ultra-processed foods through the hyper-processing of industrially produced crops, a combination of processed and artificial ingredients produced through synthetic biology and cell-culturing.

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Could We Save Humanity Being Destroyed by Ignorance and Perpetuated Animosities?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

Global Warriors Besiege We, the People in Draconian Conflicts

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In Haiti, Kenya Chooses Imperialist Servitude Over Pan-African Solidarity
Black Alliance for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

3 Aug 2023 – By agreeing to send troops into Haiti, the Kenyan government is assisting in undermining the sovereignty and self-determination of Haitian people, while serving the neocolonial interests of the United States, the Core Group, and the United Nations.

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Eight Months Pregnant and Arrested After False Facial Recognition Match
Kashmir Hill | NYT/Reader Supported News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

6 Aug 2023 – Porsha Woodruff thought the police who showed up at her door to arrest her for carjacking were joking. She is the first woman known to be wrongfully accused as a result of facial recognition technology.

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Flash Mob – Pachelbel’s Canon in D (Music Video of the Week)
Flash Mob Geek – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

Performed by 7–16-Year-Old Kids at Bellavita Department Store, Taipei, Taiwan

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The Violent Lies of Israel’s President
Yuli Novak | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

When members of the US Congress applaud falsehoods about Israel being a vibrant democracy, they are aiding and abetting further oppression of Palestinians.

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The East Is Still Red: Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360 - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

1 Aug 2023 – Western media never stop warning us of China: it menaces Taiwan, threatens its neighbors and shipping lanes in the South China Sea, and sticks military bases on Cuba. It spies on us by the most devious means, through TikTok, Huawei 5G, and weather balloons, and ensnares Africa with debt traps.

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Palestine: Unsettling Israeli Settlers Severely Damaging the USA
Dan Lieberman | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

28 Jul 2023 – UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs: “There have been 570 attacks by Jewish settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank in the first six months of 2023; three attacks a day.” 2010-2019: 3,000 settler attacks, 22 Palestinians killed, 1,258 injured.

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U.S. Leaders Are Split on China Policy
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

3 Aug 2023 – The U.S. bipolar approach to China: It aims to constrain China’s economic, political, and military development because it has become U.S.’ chief economic competitor—thus, enemy. However, U.S. also seeks to secure the many benefits of its companies doing business in China. “Decoupling” or “de-risking”?

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(Italiano) Camminata per la Pace e il disarmo 6-12 agosto 2023
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

6 ago 2023 – Parte oggi la Camminata per la Pace e il disarmo 2023. Da Maresca a Sant’Anna di Stazzema. Il percorso è fatto di cammino, visite ai luoghi della storia e della memoria collettivi, incontri pubblici, riflessioni e contributi dei partecipanti, …

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(Français) La Dialectique de L’histoire : L’agression Produit Une Réaction de Solidarité
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

1 août 2023 – L’histoire est dialectique, comme l’ont décrit Hegel, Marx et Engels. Nous le voyons à notre époque alors que trois politiques d’agression ont conduit à une solidarité accrue de ceux qui ont été attaqués.

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1999 NATO/CIA False Flag Operation at Račak Set Precedent for Similar Operations in Syria and Ukraine
Olga Peterson | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

Designed to Create a Pretext for Military Intervention

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What’s So Important about the San Francisco Promise?
Roger Kotila and Suchismita Pattanaik | Democratic World Federalists – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

The global crisis of climate change must be dealt with effectively, yet the superpowers USA, Russia and China are making it worse with their wars and threats of war. What about the UN? To save our world, a review of the UN Charter is necessary to open doors to the changes urgently needed.

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Nobel Peace Prize 2024: Too Fast and Premature, IPB!
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

7 Aug 2023 – It was sad, indeed, to see even the venerable International Peace Bureau, in a 4 Aug press release, once again undermining the peace legacy of Alfred Nobel. Both came to life in the 1890s, emanating from the same sources.

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Humanity Needs a Completely Different Peace and Security System in the Future
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

The world’s taxpayers give US$ 2,240 billion annually to their national military defenses. It is the highest ever, more than 600 times the UN budget and three times the total trade between China and the US. The five largest spenders are the USA 39% of the total, China 13%, Russia 3,9%, India 3,6% and Saudi Arabia 3,1%.

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How to Keep Criticism from Sinking Your Soul: Walt Whitman and the Discipline of Creative Confidence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

“Re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul,” Walt Whitman wrote in the preface to Leaves of Grass. “I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood.”

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A Vital Atlantic Ocean System Could Collapse Sooner Than Previously Thought
Siri Chilukuri | Grist - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

26 Jul 2023 – Climate change is slowing down the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, a key ocean “conveyer belt.” New research finds it could collapse completely by 2060.

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The Resurrection of the Luciferous Demons of Democracy and Archangels of Autocracy, as Peace Disruptors in South Africa (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

The Decline of Democracy in South Africa Is Propelled by Rampant Corruption and a Legacy of Racism from the Past, with Greed for Materialism, Post Liberation–The Original Philosophy as Espoused by Madiba Is Dead and Buried

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Send Julian Home: A More Constructive Message
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

I was curious about the urge to extradite him to the US, where he is not a citizen, for more harsh punishment. Anticipating extradition, activists are discussing plans for massive protests.

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India’s Calendar Year and Days of the Week
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

India has produced scholars of repute in various fields–astronomy, geography and allied fields like Mathematics. India’s traditional Hindu calendar is called Vikram Samvat. This is the year 2080 according to it.

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78 Years Ago Today, in Hiroshima: What Oppenheimer Wrought
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

6 Aug 2023 – The official U.S. bombing survey on what happened in Hiroshima 78 years ago today.

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Putin Says African Proposal Could Be Basis for Peace in Ukraine
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

30 Jul 2023 – The proposal floats a series of possible steps to defuse the conflict, including a Russian troops pullback from Ukraine.

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Why You Need to Know the Difference Between Race and Ethnicity in Hawaii
Jonathan Okamura | Honolulu Civil Beat - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

Ethnicity matters in Hawaii because it yields explanations about how our society operates that race does not. Ethnicity can also enable us to address more significant problems and issues, such as persisting ethnic inequality and injustice in Hawaii.

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An Intrepid Crusader Resurrecting South India’s Muslim Heritage
Moin Qazi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

Forgotten Muslim Empires of South India

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The Causes of Hunger Are Manipulation of Food Prices and Corporate Land Grabbing
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

31 Jul 2023 – Headline: “Russia starves the world, Italy’s Meloni confirms it.” The accusation that Russia is starving Africa by blocking Ukrainian grain shipments, falls in the face that all of the grain from Ukraine went to EU countries, not to poorer nations, to which only 2 ships out of 87 were sent.

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Militarization of AI Has Severe Implications for Global Security and Warfare
Tshilidzi Marwala | United Nations University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

24 Jul 2023 – As artificial intelligence continues to evolve, the need for effective governance mechanisms to manage its use and mitigate potential hazards grows.

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Hear the Hibakusha… before It’s Too Late!
Leonard Eiger | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

6 Aug 2023 – Seventy-eight years ago, on 6 Aug 1945, a United States warplane dropped an atomic bomb, which detonated over the city of Hiroshima, Japan early in the morning. Testimony of Tokie Mizuno, Hibakusha of Hiroshima (Recorded in 2010).

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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

7-13 August 2023

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Sinéad O’Connor Always Knew That Black Lives Mattered
John Nichols | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

28 Jul 2023 – The singer, who died on 26 Jul 2023, made an unforgettable protest song about the police killings of black people 30 years before the murder of George Floyd.

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An Elephant’s Tale…
Vienna International Summit for Peace in Ukraine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

… not of the Fairy persuasion.

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X Marks the Spot
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

31 Jul 2023 – X ex Twitter

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Requiem for NATO’s Nightmare
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

28 Jul 2023 – The dysfunction of the Atlantic military alliance over Ukrainian membership was just the most public manifestation of the debacle that was the Vilnius summit.

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Mainstream Journalists
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

4 Aug 2023 – It’s not just the obscenely wealthy owners of the mass media who are protecting their class interests, it’s the reporters–cloistered Ivy League-educated trust fund kids–, editors and pundits as well.

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Oceans Hit Hottest Average Temperature Ever Recorded, Endangering Ecosystems on Which We Depend
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

5 Aug 2023 – The world’s oceans hit an average temperature of 20.96°C (69.728°F ) this week, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service. It is the highest average ocean temperature ever recorded.

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Israeli Court Orders Eviction of Bedouin Village for New Predominantly Jewish Neighborhood
Nati Yefet | Haaretz/PAJU - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

31 Jul 2023 – The illegal and immoral eviction of a Bedouin village to make way for a Jewish neighborhood is a prime example of ethnic cleansing given a legal framework via an apartheid system based on institutional discrimination against non-Jewish populations.

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Central Europe’s Arms Makers Scramble for Workers as Ukraine Boosts Business
Michael Kahn, Robert Muller and Karol Badohal | Reuters – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Aug 2023

2 Aug 2023 – From building apartments for new employees to offering retired workers free canteen meals to share their expertise, Central Europe’s arms manufacturers are scrambling for new ways to cope with the biggest boom since the end of the Cold War.

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Pertinent Concerns about Artificial Intelligence (AI): Friend or Foe?
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

 31 Jul 2023 – Intelligence or… what? What are AI possibilities, vis-a-vis its human counterpart? A new human master? You be the judge.

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ASEAN and Its 50 Years of Failure in Ending Wars and Genocides
Maung Zarni | Prothom Alo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

16 Jul 2023 – The gulf between the impact of ASEAN in Myanmar affairs and the spins – “centrality” “cohesion” “inclusive dialogue” blah blah blah – is jaw dropping.

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Why Is the West Bank Under Assault by Settlers and Netanyahu Government?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

24 Jul 2023 – While the media focus has been on ‘the judiciary overhaul’ confrontation between antagonistic Jewish factions as to the ‘democratic’ character of Israel, the unifying themes in apartheid Israel remain the further marginalization of the Palestinians in their own homeland.

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Israel and Ukraine: Zionists and Nazis Collide
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

24 Jul 2023 – The extraordinary history of Zionist and Nazi collaboration.

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How to Avoid WWIII?
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

28 Jul 2023 – The New York Times recently ran an article on an Artificial Intelligence (AI) start-up named Anthropic. Doing so, they created their own AI, named Claude2, which was linked in the article. A friend asked Claude2 how peace could be brought to Ukraine and avoid WWIII. Its thoughts are below.

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International Inertia Follows Israeli Assault on Jenin in the West Bank
Catherine Wilson | IPS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

28 Jul 2023 – The likelihood of further confrontations remains high following a major Israeli military assault on an impoverished camp of more than 23,500 Palestinian refugees in Jenin in the occupied West Bank earlier this month.

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The U.K. Government Is Very Close to Eroding Encryption Worldwide
Joe Mullin | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

26 Jul 2023 – The U.K. Parliament is pushing the Online Safety Bill, which will undermine the privacy of people around the world; now at the final stage. It gives the British government the ability to force backdoors into messaging services, destroying end-to-end encryption. No amendments have been accepted.

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Storm Clouds Gathering: NATO in the Perilous Black Sea
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

21 Jul 2023 – In an ominous development, Kiev is suggesting the continuation of the collapsed Black Sea Grain Deal without Russia’s participation and with apparent NATO protection.

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New Files Reveal MKUltra’s Terrifying Reach: Ethnic Bioweapons, Mind Control and Disturbing Experiments
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

25 Jul 2023 – Renowned anthropologist Orisanmi Burton exposes a dark chapter in CIA history. Classified Agency files obtained through Freedom of Information reveal ties between the infamous MKULTRA program and nightmarish experiments on prisoners of color in the United States.

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Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet: On Giving
Kahlil Gibran - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

Then said a rich man, Speak to us of Giving.
And he answered:
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

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The International Community Must Stand Up to Myanmar’s Junta
Heidi Hautala | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

22 Jul 2023 – With authoritarianism on the rise in much of our world, the struggle of the Myanmar people is the struggle of all who cherish democracy and justice.

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Just Asking Questions
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

17 Jul 2023 – Media Impartiality

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Dozens of Nations Express Interest in Joining an Expanded BRICS
Saurav Sarkar | Globetrotter News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

25 Jul 2023 – 45 countries have expressed interest in joining the Global South bloc ahead of a summit scheduled for 22-24 Aug 2023 in South Africa. Current members are Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa. 22 countries submitted their formal applications.

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Outlaw Superpower: United States Refuses to Play by the World’s Rules
Rebecca Gordon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

25 Jul 2023 – Here Are Three Ways

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Free Speech Denied 25 Years Ago: Free Speech Trial
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

Big Island, Hawaii’s History: Hawaii Tribune-Herald, 1998 – Albertini presented Choi with an estimated 5-foot-by-8-foot check made out to the District Court for the amount of $100. At the top of the check was written, “free speech denied” and “no lie can live forever.”

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UN Chief Proclaims ‘Era of Global Boiling:’ July Hottest Month Ever
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

27 Jul 2023 – New data released today showed that July is the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. “We can still stop the worst,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres insisted. “But to do so we must turn a year of burning heat into a year of burning ambition.”

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22 Organizations Using Digital Technology to Build a More Peaceful, Just World
Taylor O’Connor | Everyday Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

For those of you new to the term PeaceTech, it basically means the use of digital technology in any efforts to build peace and/or justice.

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Opera Buffa in Ukraine
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

“How would President Biden react if China had established a base in Tijuana, Mexico, and met there with all the left-leaning governments of South America? That’s how Putin would be expected to react to the meeting earlier this month of all the NATO chiefs in Vilnius, close to the Russian border.”

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(Italiano) Il fattore Impero: il pezzo mancante nella narrazione della guerra in Ucraina
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

Narrazioni in concorrenza della guerra in Ucraina: il fattore impero come pezzo mancante.

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Election Time — Photos and Promises
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

Politics plays a major role in the media just as it does in reality. Various political parties and individuals appreciate the role of media–newspapers, posters, television.

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Reflections on ‘Political Capitalism’
Lola Seaton | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

Jul-Aug 2023 – The debate is an attempt to grapple with a succession of unprecedented crises—and the distinctive political reactions they elicited—in the heartlands of the capitalist system.

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US Admits to Pushing Ukraine into a Fight It Can’t Win
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

28 Jul 2023 – A US “windfall” in Ukraine comes at an unfathomable cost.

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Peacemaking: The Spiritual Contribution
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

Obviously, religious organizations can play a positive role in creating possibilities for dialogue and an understanding of opposite positions.  However, spirituality is not limited to organized religious groups.  In fact, in some countries there is an increasing number of people who say “I am spiritual but not religious.”

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Niger Coup Leader Joins Long Line of U.S.-trained Mutineers
Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

27 Jul 2023 – Brig. Gen. Moussa Salaou Barmou, who trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, helped oust Niger’s democratically elected president.

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Russia-Africa Summit Ends with Signing of Final Declaration
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

28 Jul 2023 – Vladimir Putin and African leaders today adopted the final declaration of the 2nd Russia-Africa summit in St. Petersburg. It commits to adopting coordinated approaches to the role for the development of Russian-African cooperation and efforts in the international arena.

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Nothing Compares 2 U (Music Video of the Week)
Sinéad O'Connor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

Enjoy

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Will the Small States of Oceania Be Able to Maintain Their Independence in the Face of a New China-USA Cold War?
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

23 Jul 2023 – The ‘friends to all, enemies to none’ strategy is living its last days as the US and China press the island nations to take sides.

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Is the Multipolar Alliance ‘Controlled Opposition’? The Case of Two Green Paradigms
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

29 Jul 2023 – In 2022, Xi Jinping and Putin unveiled a ‘Joint Declaration on the International Relations and the Global Sustainable Development.’ “Sustainable development” was coined by misanthropic fanatic Maurice Strong to promote depopulation as ‘de-carbonization.’

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Reduce Migration by Ending Economic Sanctions
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

24 Jul 2023 – US sanctions affect a third of humanity impacting more than 40 countries.  They are a form of economic warfare and amount to Crimes Against Humanity.   Meanwhile, both the EU and the US struggle with excessive migration, immigrants seeking a better life as they flee their impoverished home countries. 

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‘Pax’ Americana? Really?
Liu Rui | Global Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

US Democrats and Republicans scream about the ‘threat’ of Russia and China. Meanwhile, the US military has weapons pointed at the entire world–and beyond.

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American Anthropological Association Endorses Resolution Boycotting Israeli Apartheid
Anthroboycott | TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

24 Jul 2023 — The AAA, representing thousands of anthropologists and scholars, has passed a historic resolution in support of Palestinians, pledging to boycott Israeli academic institutions that are complicit in maintaining Israel’s oppressive apartheid system.

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The War on Julian Assange
Lowkey interviews Stella Assange | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jul 2023

21 Jul 2023 – Lowkey catches up with legal expert and human rights defender Stella Assange to talk about her battle to free her husband Julian, the world’s most famous political prisoner.

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