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Cuba Should Be Removed from the U.S. List of State Sponsors of Terrorism
Roger Waters, Vijay Prashad and Manolo De Los Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022 – There are currently four countries on that list: Cuba, North Korea, Iran and Syria. Cuba, rather than exporting weapons around the world, has a long history of medical internationalism with an international campaign for Cuban doctors to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Why would a country that floods the world with health care be targeted as a state sponsor of terrorism?
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(Italiano) Medio Oriente e giornalismo mancante su conflitto e pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
8 Luglio 2022 – Due immagini di affari internazionali, affari umani a dire il vero, due discorsi: l’approccio securitario e l’approccio pacifista; che competono per la nostra attenzione trattando la stessa preoccupazione per la violenza ma in modo diametralmente opposto.
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Somewhere in My Heart (Music Video of the Week)
Aztec Camera | Rhino – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
The twelfth single and biggest hit by the Scottish band from their 1987 studio album “Love”. Please click on Watch on YouTube and enjoy.
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A European Call for an End to the Ukraine War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
5 Jul 2022 – This piece appeared in the prominent German weekly, ZEIT, last week. It is written from a European perspective, calling for a ceasefire followed by bilateral negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.
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Brazil’s Amazon Lost Record Amount of Forest during First Six Months of 2022
Olivia Rosane | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
6 Jul 2022 – Deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon has breached another record this year. The rainforest lost 1,448 square miles between 1 Jan and 24 Jun. The new findings follow reports that deforestation broke records during 2022. Rainforest advocates have blamed the pro-business policies of right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro for the historic losses.
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Haiti: The Ransom Is Still Being Paid
Robert Roth | San Francisco Bay View - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
On 20 May 2022, the NYT published a series entitled “The Ransom” about the “Independence Tax” enforced by France in 1825 on the world’s first Black Republic. Haiti became the only place where the descendants of slaves were forced to pay compensation to the descendants of slave owners.
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A World of 8 Billion, Yes, but the Unseen, Untold Story of the 50% (Part 2)
Baher Kamal | IPS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
8 Jul 2022 – While women and girls enjoy some of their rights in Western high-income countries, the overwhelming majority of teen and adult women in the impoverished regions of the world’s 8-billion population suffer all kinds of inequalities.
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The Dalai Lama – ‘Ocean of Wisdom’ and Man of Peace – Celebrates His 87th Birthday
Anna Lamboglia | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Today, 6 July 2022 marks the 87th birthday of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. “The past is past; nothing can change it. But the future depends on the present; we still have the opportunity to shape it. This is not a matter of employing technology or spending more money, it’s a question of developing a sense of concern for others’ well-being…”
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The End of Roe
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Meanwhile in the USA – 27 jun 2022
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Jill Godmilow | Vimeo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Here’s a film for high school students and their teachers about the history of the Viet Nam War.
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15 Years of Failed Experiments: Myths and Facts about the Israeli Siege on Gaza
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
6 Jul 2022 – 15 years have passed since Israel imposed a total siege on the Gaza Strip, subjecting two million Palestinians to the longest and most cruel blockades in history. Inevitably, the experiment has backfired and the only way out is for the Gaza siege to be completely lifted and, this time, for good.
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Henry David Thoreau (12 Jul 1817 – 6 May 1862)
Ann Woodlief | American Transcendentalism Web - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
Henry David Thoreau was a complex man of many talents who worked hard to shape his craft and his life, seeing little difference between them. One of his first memories was of staying awake at night “looking through the stars to see if I could see God behind them.” One might say he never stopped looking into nature for ultimate Truth.
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(Italiano) Trascinati dall’incosciente caduta fatalistica dell’eroe occidentale?
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Luglio 2022 – Da un secolo la storia dell’Occidente è una sequenza di disrupts: l’ultimo è lo scoppio della guerra in Ucraina. Questa sequenza è il segno che l’Occidente non ha più il controllo della propria storia.
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The Assassination and Mrs. Paine
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
5 Jul 2022 – A Review of Max Good’s Documentary Film – Human duplicity is a marvel to contemplate. This documentary will force you to do that.
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My Name Is ARMFIN. I Am the God of Total Power
Riccardo Petrella | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – My identity code is UCT. It stands for Universal Capitalist Theology. It is a theology because I talk about myself, about God. It is universal because it cannot be otherwise. Theology has no boundaries of time and space, it is ‘one’, and human history tends ‘towards the one’ (universal).
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Boris Johnson Quits as Decades of Bullshit Finally Catch Up with Him
Jamie Ross | The Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – The prime minister who spent his career using lies and deflection to wriggle out of scandal has finally found a crisis entirely of his own making that he couldn’t survive.
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Achieving Self-Funding Local Sovereignty as Global Food Systems Collapse
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
9 Jul 2022 – The solution to the current food crisis is small and local, including growing food locally. But how to fund local food co-ops without pricey loans from big banks? “Deglobalizing” and “dedollarizing” have been much in the news.
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The Financial Bubble Era Comes Full Circle
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
9 Jul 2022 – An Unstable Encounter with a $50 Billion Stablecoin
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Quotes on War and Peace, the UN, and the Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
7 Jul 2022 – You can smell it. US Empire doubling down on war preparations. Ukraine is now armed with over US$ 40 billion in order for Ukrainians to die to the last man to weaken Russia. North Americans promise military support to Taiwan so they, too, can die for Empire… to weaken China.
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China’s Red Lines on Taiwan Are Clear Regardless of the US’ Policy of Strategic Ambiguity
Zhou Bo | South China Morning Post/Scheer Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
10 Jul 2022 – In spite of Biden’s reiteration afterwards of US adherence to the “one China” policy, his apparent gaffe – the third in nine months – would seem to signal a burgeoning US policy of “strategic clarity”, a shift from its decades-old policy of “strategic ambiguity”.
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Why Brazil Still Matters
Glenn Greenwald | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jul 2022
With Lula eligible to run against Bolsonaro, Brazilians hold the world’s future in their hands.
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Striking Five-Minute Summary of the Ukraine Atrocities
Joe Lauria | George Galloway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
27 Jun 2022 – US & Britain Wanted Ukraine Invasion to Happen – Otherwise they could not launch an economic war against Russia.
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Palestinians ‘Are Not Animals in a Zoo’: On Kanafani and the Need to Redefine the Role of the ‘Victim Intellectual’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
29 Jun 2022 – But for the Palestinian narrative to be truly relevant, Palestinians must indeed assume the role of the Gramscian intellectual, as “purveyors of consciousnesses” and abandon the role of the ‘victim intellectual’ altogether.
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Is Participating in the Sanctions against Russia a Cultural Matter?
Dr. PJ Peverelli | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
The currently emerging Cold War is not in terms of political alliances but a cultural one, a conflict between the old West, the former colonists, that is gradually losing its dominance and the newly emerging economic and political powers, many of which are former colonies. Thus, the Western reaction is neocolonialist.
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(Português) Por que é importante opor-se à exploração animal?
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
A reflexão não é sobre um olhar para suas existências, e sim para suas ausências, os vazios diários que reafirmam uma ideia de que o mundo está repleto de “animais ausentes”.
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Either We Will All Be Saved or We Will All Disappear Equally! That, Is the Dilemma
Sergio Rodríguez Gelfenstein | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
2 Jul 2022 – Following the recent strategy decided by NATO at its Madrid Summit, which states that China “challenges its interests, security and values”, and that Russia is “the most significant and direct threat” to its interests, the world is moving very quickly towards its partition in terms of the structure of the international system.
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New World Records: More Weapons than Ever–and a Hunger Crisis like No Other
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Jul 2022 – While the NATO Summit ended in Madrid on 30 June with net commitments to double spending on weapons and to increase by eight-fold the number of troops in Europe, the total of hungry people worldwide now marks an unprecedented record.
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Key Takeaways from BRICS Summit
Orinoco Tribune | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
29 Jun 2022 – Last week the 14th BRICS Summit took place virtually, chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The BRICS bloc (Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) represents a key political, economic, and scientific force in the international arena. These nations represent half of the world’s population and their collective GDP is greater that $20 trillion.
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“Beautiful Resistance” in Palestine: Challenging Occupation by Forging Inner Peace
Abdelfattah Abusrour | Beautiful Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
13 Jun 2022 – Our organization, Alrowwad, works with the Palestinian youth, and that has been our enduring mandate since we founded it in 1998. People often ask me, why, given the severity of the politics surrounding the Palestinian struggle, would we not aim to tackle other, more pressing, issues?
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Fifteen Years of Gaza Blockade: Open the Doors of Our Prison Now
Haidar Eid | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
24 Jun 2022 – They will keep us imprisoned on this strip, and continue to slowly suffocate us for another 15 or even 150 years if the world does not wake up and say ‘enough’.
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The Role of Value Systems in Conflict Resolution
Abbas Aroua, et al. | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Jun 2022 – Understanding, “right-sizing,” and adequately respecting the role of value systems in conflict transformation avoids both over- and under-emphasis. Johan Galtung’s “Attitude-Behavior-Contradiction” (ABC) triangle is one useful conflict analysis tool to deal with the role of value systems and other factors in conflict analysis.
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The United States Contests the Chinese Belt and Road with a Private Corporation
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
At the G7 Summit in Germany, Joe Biden made a pledge to raise $200 billion for the Partnership for Global Infrastructure and Investment. It was made clear that this new G7 project was intended to counter the Chinese Belt and Road Initiative.
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Exile on Main Street: The Sound of the Unipolar World Fading Away
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Let’s cut to the chase and roll in the Putin Top Ten of the New Era, announced by the Russian President live at the St. Petersburg forum for both the Global North and South. The future world order, already in progress, will be formed by strong sovereign states. The ship has sailed. There’s no turning back.
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NATO Has Completed Its Post-Cold War Transformation from Europe’s Guard Dog into Anglo America’s Attack Dog
Scott Ritter | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
30 Jun 2022 – From an ostensible defensive alliance, NATO has grown into an aggressor designed to promote ‘rules’ dictated by the U.S.
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Turkey Aligns with NATO against Russia
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
30 Jun 2022 – One wonders, what forces have influenced Erdogan to distance himself from Russia and the East by accepting NATO membership of the two Nordic countries. Why would Turkey want to dance on two fiestas, the western lying, deceiving and collapsing NATO / G7+ , and the progressive, growing and peace seeking fast developing East, or better the Greater Global South?
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Behind the Tin Curtain: BRICS+ vs NATO/G7
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
28 Jun 2022 – The West is nostalgically caught up with outdated ‘containment’ policies, this time against Global South integration. Unfortunately for them, the rest of the world is moving on, together.
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(Italiano) Imparare dalla storia
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Luglio 2022 – Nel 1973 lavoravo in Cile con una squadra all’organizzazione di comunità sotto forma di educación popular. Ispirati dalla filosofia di Paulo Freire, non è in fondo un’esagerazione dire che eravamo fanatici nell’evitare a tutti i costi di fare quello che Freire chiamava “educazione bancaria”.
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(Français) Nécessité de Creer: Un Mouvement Mondial pour le Désarmement Nucléaire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
Toutes ces questions devraient être à l’ordre du jour d’un mouvement mondial pour le désarmement nucléaire. Il n’y a rien de plus important pour l’avenir de notre espèce et de notre planète.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
20 Jun 2022 – This Modern World
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Needed: A Global Movement for Nuclear Disarmament
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Jul 2022 – The world faces many dangers at this moment of history, famines, global warming, wars in the Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, mass migrations, increasing electoral tendencies towards fascism. But all these are pale in comparison to the danger of a nuclear World War III which could put an end to all of these problems by a suicidal destruction of all human civilization.
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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto 67 Years Later
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell | Pugwash Conferences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
9 July 1955 – “In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”
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While Biden Gives Ukrainian Army “the Most Lethal Weapon,” War Profiteer BAE Systems Stock Soars
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
27 Jun 2022 – Sending Ukraine a $300 million shipment of powerful M-777 howitzers is a lobbying triumph for BAE Systems, one of the many war industry corporations fattening on the death and destruction of the Ukraine war.
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U.S. Exposed as “Secret Partner” in Israeli Airstrikes against Syria that Violate International Law
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
29 Jun 2022 – Dirty War in Syria Continues as Media Attention Focuses Elsewhere
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Ukraine Is the Latest Neocon Disaster
Jeffrey D. Sachs | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
1 Jul 2022 – If Europe has any insight, it will separate itself from these U.S. foreign policy debacles, writes Jeffrey D. Sachs.
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The Haitian Revolution Today and the Limits of Token Solidarity
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
“Solidarity in the fight for social justice must be international. It’s not acceptable to be in solidarity with the Venezuelan people, but not in solidarity with the Haitian people; it’s not acceptable to be for Iraq, but against Haiti.”
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Future Global Exodus to the Metasphere
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
Enabling Mass Migration of Humanity to a Cognitive Frontier – The publicity regarding the rebranding of Facebook as Meta has drawn attention to one particular understanding of the “metaverse” envisaged by techno-optimists.
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U.S. Supreme Court Overturns Roe V. Wade, Ending Right to Abortion Upheld for Decades
Nina Totenberg and Sarah McCammon | NPR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
24 Jun 2022 – In a historic and far reaching decision, the U.S. Supreme Court officially reversed Roe v. Wade today, declaring that the constitutional right to abortion upheld for nearly a half century, no longer exists.
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Fascists in Our Midst
Chris Hedges | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – Supreme Court rulings, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade, herald the ascendancy of Christian fascism in the United States.
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
Meanwhile in the USA
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(Português) Marcação animal é barbárie institucionalizada
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
“Escolha dos ‘instrumentos’ só leva em conta eficiência e menor custo – sem anestesia ou alívio para dor. Talvez haja medonho prazer nessa violação. E devo duvidar que não?”
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Europe Dumps Its Climate Commitments after Facing Shortage of Russian Gas
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – The quick shift by rich European countries to “dirty” energy sources such as coal instead of managing demands raises serious concerns about the fate of global climate action and the future of the environmental movement.
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The Tragic Absurdity of Qatar’s World Cup Sportswashing
Dave Zirin | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Were there not so much suffering involved, the Qatar 2022 World Cup would be an absurdist parody of sportswashing. Labor abuses, homophobia, corruption? Qatar and FIFA will use the men’s World Cup to put a happy gloss on it all.
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Who Is to Blame for Inflation? The Power Brokers of Capitalism
Yanis Varoufakis | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – Inflation as a Political Power Play Gone Wrong – A half-century long strategy, led by corporations, Wall Street, governments, and central banks, is coming undone. As a result, the West’s authorities now face an impossible choice: push conglomerates and states into cascading bankruptcies or allow inflation to go unchecked.
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Nuclear-Armed Powers Squander $156.000 per Minute on Their MAD Policy
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
24 Jun 2022 – They call it MAD: Mutual Assured Destruction. It is about the nuclear-armed powers’ doctrine of military strategy and national security policy. And they spent on their MAD policy more than 156.000 US dollars, every single minute, in just one year–2021.
→ read full article(Italiano) I migranti tengono in vita un miliardo di persone… nonostante le difficoltà inenarrabili
Baher Kamal | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
15 giu 2022 – Ecco un altro dato: 230 milioni di lavoratori migranti sono oggi un’importante fonte di salvezza per un miliardo di persone che muoiono di fame nelle comunità più povere del mondo, oltre che un’ancora di salvezza vitale per l’economia dei loro Paesi d’origine.
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Assange Put on Suicide Watch after Patel Decision, Father Says
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
22 Jun 2022 – John Shipton said Julian Assange was stripped naked and put in an empty cell to prevent him from killing himself over the home secretary’s decision to sign his extradition order.
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The Paradoxical Seeds of the Holocaust: Oppression and Death Live on in the Apartheid State
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – It is becoming increasingly difficult for Israel and the agencies that promote Zionism around the world to portray Zionism in rosy colors.
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St. Petersburg Sets the Stage for the War of Economic Corridors
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
18 Jun 2022 – In St. Petersburg, the world’s new powers gather to upend the US-concocted “rules-based order” and reconnect the globe their way.
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The Wide Role Brazil’s Military Has Played in the Destruction of the Amazon
Pedro Marin | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
23 Jun 2022 – In the Brazilian Amazon, as deforestation reaches record levels and rivers are increasingly polluted, the illegal gold mining contributing to these problems continues largely unabated. The response of the government has been to increase military action to curb environmental crimes in Brazil. Far from achieving this purpose, however, the military intervention has only led to tragedies in the region, directly or indirectly.
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Glenn Durland Paige (28 Jun 1929 – 22 Jan 2017): A Prophet of Nonkilling
David Krieger | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
I wrote this in 2010, the year in which Glenn received the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s Distinguished Peace Leadership Award. It is about Glenn’s great transformation in life from a successful academic to a prophet of nonkilling. I’ve left the article in the present tense, and believe that Glenn lives on in the hearts and minds of the many people he inspired with his commitment to and leadership for a nonkilling world.
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Fear and Loathing: The US Travel Guide to the World
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
21 Jun 2022 – The US state department really wants travelling Americans to be wary of the ‘dangerous’ world their country helped create.
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‘Rationality Is Not Permitted’: Chomsky on Russia, Ukraine and the Price of Media Censorship
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
23 Jun 2022 – The unprecedented control and censorship over the Ukraine war narrative is because western governments do not want their public to know that the world is vastly changing. Ignorance might be bliss, but not in this case.
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Angry? Careful!
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2022
Irrationality of Anger
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The Triumph of Death
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.
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Human Rights and Confronting China Geopolitically
Richard Falk and Alfred de Zayas | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – Breakthrough success of Bachelet’s HRC mission to China. We decry those who distort such an achievement to continue to rationalize confronting China coercively. Opportunism in relation to human rights is not a path to peace and justice. Rather than provoking a critical storm the mission, in our judgment, should have been applauded with a sustained shout of BRAVO!
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 2022 – Here goes another fact: 230 million migrant workers are now a major life-saving source for up to one billion people starving in the world’s poorest communities, as well as a vital lifeline for the economy of their countries of origin.
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Of Course, the UN’s Michelle Bachelet Should Be Criticised for Her Visit to China
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
31 May 2022 – After years of preparations, Michelle Bachelet went to China, had a zoom conversation with President Xi Jinping and visited Xinjiang. Why is she forced out? She did not adhere to the US Cold War agenda but established a dialogue with China instead of confrontation and provocation. She works for human rights – the Cold War campaigners use human rights as a political tool.
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Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
17 Jun 2022 – UK Home Secretary Priti Patel approved the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the US. Her decision was immediately condemned by human rights and press freedom organizations. The Assange legal team planned to submit an appeal in the High Court of Justice challenging how extradition law was interpreted.
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Will the Global South Break Free from Dollarized Debt?
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – In his latest book, economist Michael Hudson pits socialism against finance capitalism and tears apart the ‘dream civilization’ imposed by the 1 percent.
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India Is Becoming a Hindu-Fascist Enterprise
Arundhati Roy | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
17 Jun 2022 – The practice of bulldozing Muslim homes and businesses for purely punitive reasons is proof that India is ‘transitioning pretty brazenly into a criminal Hindu fascist enterprise.’
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(Italiano) Dalla giustizia ambientale alla giustizia climatica
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
Non c’è pace senza giustizia: questo è uno degli slogan che accompagnano le manifestazioni e i presìdi organizzati da associazioni e gruppi della società civile per protestare contro i conflitti armati che in tante parti del mondo portano ancora oggi morte e devastazione.
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(Italiano) Una carestia su vasta scala
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
Fra i maggiori pericoli per la civiltà umana ci sono la guerra nucleare e un mutamento climatico catastrofico, pericoli che minacciano anche la biosfera. Inoltre, siamo di fronte alla minaccia di una carestia su vasta scala, che coinvolge miliardi di persone, non solo milioni.
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Gustavo Petro Wins Colombian Election, Makes History as Country’s First Leftist President
Genevieve Glatsky, Julie Turkewitz, et al. | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
20 Jun 2022 – A former rebel and longtime legislator won Colombia’s presidential election yesterday, galvanizing voters frustrated by decades of poverty and inequality under conservative leaders.
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US Department of Defense Finally Admits in Public Document that There Are 46 US Military-Funded Biolabs in Ukraine
Jim Hoft | Gateway Pundit – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
The Pentagon on Thursday [9 Jun] finally admitted in a public statement that there are 46 US-funded biolabs in Ukraine. This is after months of lies and denials by Democrats, Biden, and their fake news mainstream media!
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Embracing the Complexity of Peace
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 2022 – Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars. One can also quickly, unavoidably imagine the cynicism that rushes in whenever someone tosses out the word “peace.” Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars.
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Is There Life After Death?
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – A review of ‘James and Whitehead on Life after Death’ by David Ray Griffin – The meaning of death, and whether humans do or do not survive it in some form, has always obsessed people, from the average person to the great artists and thinkers. Death is the mother of philosophy and all the arts and sciences.
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Deon and Telos: How Journalisms Are Evolving Their Ethical Approaches
Jake Lynch | MDPI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Aug 2021 – This article belongs to the Special Issue, Beyond Fake News and Fact-Checking: The Political, Social and Technological Consequences of the Battle Against Misinformation and Disinformation.
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Welcome to a Science-Fiction Planet
David Barsamian and Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
16 Jun 2022 – How George Orwell’s Doublethink Became the Way of the World – The remarkable 93-year-old Noam Chomsky put the Ukraine War in the largest and most devastating context possible in an interview with Alternative Radio’s David Barsamian.
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Why Does the United States Have a Military Base in Ghana?
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
15 Jun 2022 – An interview with Kwesi Pratt Jr., a journalist and leader of the Socialist Movement of Ghana.
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What Is ‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’? Inside China’s Economic Model
Ben Norton | Multipolarista - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
22 May 2022 – How does socialism with Chinese characteristics differ from Western neoliberal capitalism? Multipolarista editor Benjamin Norton discussed China’s socialist model with economist John Ross, a senior fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China.
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New Bill That Passed U.S. House Reinvokes Old Russian Bogeyman as Pretext for More Intervention in Africa
Richard S. Dunn | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
14 Jun 2022 – Liberal Democrats shamefully all voted for the “Countering Malign Russian Influence Activities in Africa” Act—seems like relic from bygone era.
→ read full articleCan Social Media and Democracy Co-exist? A Conversation with Frances Haugen (Podcast)
Mark Blyth | Rhodes Center Podcast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
27 May 2022 – From 2019 to 2021, Frances Haugen worked as a Product Manager in Facebook’s Civic Integrity Department. During that time she got an inside view into how Facebook’s algorithms are deliberately designed to influence its users. She also saw something deeply worrying: that this influence was often used to grow Facebook’s profits at the expense of users’ safety and wellbeing.
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Herman Melville’s Passionate, Beautiful, Heartbreaking Love Letters to Nathaniel Hawthorne
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
“Your heart beat in my ribs and mine in yours, and both in God’s… The divine magnet is in you, and my magnet responds.”
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Doctor’s Orders: ‘Do Not Extradite Assange’
Doctors for Assange | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022 – Ahead of the U.K. Home Secretary’s decision on whether to extradite Julian Assange to the United States, a group of more than 300 doctors representing 35 countries have told Priti Patel that approving his extradition would be “medically and ethically unacceptable”.
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Returning to Realism: The Other Face of the Ukraine Crisis
Mohamed Mahad D. Darar | E-International Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
12 Jun 2022 – The debate over the driving force behind Putin’s invasion of Ukraine has divided the West into two major camps: one renders Russia’s offensive as Putin’s grand scheme to resuscitate the Soviet Empire, while the other portrays Russia’s aggression as Putin’s response to the expansion of NATO to Russia’s neighbors. While both arguments merit serious attention, both ignore a crucial connection.
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Why Won’t Europe Call for an End to This War?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2022
13 Jun 2022 – Manipulation of the news around Russia’s war on Ukraine is to prevent a lasting peace for both Ukraine and the region. The aim is to prolong the war to serve the interests of those who wish to promote it. How does one know facts from lies, and how can one learn to explain events without being accused of justification?
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Constrained, Unconstrained and Surprised in a Global Context
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Encountering Black Swans with Insights of the Frog-in-the-Well and Turtle of Chinese Fable
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We Need a Culture of Nonviolence
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – The culture of violence is failing us. It’s time to change everything. U.S. society is defined by a culture of violence. This year, Campaign Nonviolence’s Action Days aim to build momentum toward a radical, nonviolent future.
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African Union Leaders Meet with Russian Government amid Escalating Food Crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
3 Jun 2022 – The Russian special military operations in neighboring Ukraine have brought to the surface a number of persistent economic problems which have plagued the world since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic that emerged during the early months of 2020.
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Secretive Bilderberg Meetings of ‘Spies, War Hawks and World Leaders’ Escape Media Scrutiny
Susan C. Olmstead | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – A secretive meeting of more than 100 of the world’s most powerful people just took place in a Washington, D.C. hotel behind closed doors and under tight security — while few reporters even took note.
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Why Are We Risking Nuclear War over Ukraine? Have We Gone Mad? (MUST WATCH)
Col. Richard Black (ret.) | Schiller Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Col. Richard Black (ret.), former head of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon and former Virginia State Senator, addresses the May 26 Schiller Institute conference.
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Ukraine and the Risk of Geopolitical Conflict — A Reawakening to Nuclear Dangers?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
11 Jun 2022 – The risk of nuclear escalation has been subject of debate in the US. These debates reveal those who dismiss Russian references to nuclear capabilities as mere saber rattling to those who worry that if Putin finds his back to the wall in Ukraine, he may resort to tactical nuclear strikes.
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Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – A confluence of crises—lockdowns and business closures, mandates and worker shortages, supply chain disruptions and inflation, sanctions and war—have compounded to trigger food shortages; and we have been warned that they may last longer than the food stored in our pantries. What to do?
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Chad Declares Food Emergency While International Agencies Sound the Alarm
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
9 Jun 2022 – There have been 20 hunger hotspots listed by UN humanitarian organizations while underlying problems remain unaddressed. Two of the major UN agencies are warning of the potential for widespread hunger and famine in several geopolitical regions of the world.
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(Italiano) Legami USA al Nazismo
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
Volonterosa sospensione d’incredulità: il pericolo di trascurare i legami USA al nazismo
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Storms at the Summit of the Americas
Rosa Miriam Elizalde | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 was a bad day for Luis Almagro, secretary-general of the Organization of American States at the Summit of the Americas. A young man declared to him what he is: an assassin and puppet of the White House, instigator of the coup in Bolivia.
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Chemtrails Are Not Contrails: The Face of Evil
Nick Rogers | Our Geoengineering Age - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
22 May 2022 -This book is an indispensable addition to the growing swath of evidence implicating governments, health agencies, medical establishments, and media the world over in one of–if not the greatest and most deadly–cover-ups of all time.
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Summit of the Americas Fails: Boycott by Presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, Guatemala
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – As the US government’s Summit of the Americas opens in Los Angeles, California, the presidents of Mexico, Bolivia, Honduras, and Guatemala have refused to attend, protesting the exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
8 Jun 2022 – 13 gun massacres this past weekend, at strip malls, nightclubs, graduation parties — with 16 people dying, many more injured — and the total number of such shootings so far in 2022 is 246. The country is on pace to match or surpass last year’s total, which is the worst on record.
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Bilderberg Meets in Washington: Bilderberg Does China–An Economic Hurricane Is Coming
Pepe Escobar | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jun 2022
7 Jun 2022 – Discreetly, as under the radar as a looming virus, the 68th Bilderberg meeting is currently underway in Washington, D.C. Nothing to see here. No conspiracy theories about a “secret cabal”, please. This is just a docile, “diverse group of political leaders and experts” having a chat, a laugh, and a bubbly.
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