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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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(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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Is There a Difference Between Nigeria and Niger?
TMS Editor,
7 Aug 2023
Niger and Nigeria are two separate countries in the African continent.
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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Aug 2023
7-13 August 2023
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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.
→ read full articleElection 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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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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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.
→ read full articlePeacemaking: 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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Impact of Religion in Gandhi’s Philosophy on Nonviolence
Thando Gwinji | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
Religion is often a trigger to conflicts. It is a double-edged sword that can both encourage and/or discourage world change, and can facilitate both violent and peaceful activism. Leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., Mohandas Gandhi, and Mother Teresa, have tried to put this into practice.
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The Resurrection of the Demons of Democracy and Angels of Autocracy as Peace Disruptors (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
The Cancerous Pathogens of the Decline of Democracy and the Growth of Autocracy in Liberated Countries.
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The City of Nine Gates
Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarmā dāsa) | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
29 Jul 2023 – This paper was originally presented at ‘Toward a Science of Consciousness,’ an international conference attended by leading scientists, physicians, philosophers, and other scholars, and hosted by the University of Arizona in Tucson. An allegory from the Srimad-Bhagavatam sheds light on the mind/body connection.
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Literacy
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
I would like to announce the publication of a new ebook, which may be downloaded and circulated free of charge. Here are some of the topics discussed in the book:
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Covid’s Origins and the Death of Trust
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
20 Jul 2023 – Public releases the Proximal Origin documents. What they show, and why they’re historic.
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Fukushima Water Release Fears: Fish with 180 Times over Legal Limit of Radioactive Cesium Caught
Gavin Blair | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 – Black rockfish caught close to disaster-hit nuclear power station is one of dozens caught in the past year above the legal safety limit.
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Alert! New ‘Redesigned GMOs’ Being Forced on Farmers and Consumers
Julian Rose | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
24 Jul 2023 – In the corridors of politico-industrial power in Washington and in the hallowed bastion of the European Commission in Brussels, the same dark plans are being pushed forward: to alter the genetic code of life to make humans and nature patentable and controllable by the techno-industrial god of insentient progress.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
31 Jul –> 6 Aug 2023
→ read full articleNonviolent Journalism: New Book Offers Pathbreaking Alternatives to Mainstream Media’s Embedded Militarism
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
22 Jul 2023 – Is there Nonviolent Journalism? Of course! But we live in a perverted militarist culture where nobody questions the concept of War Reporting and most would probably respond to “nonviolent journalism” with a: What?
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The Most Embarrassing “Facebook Files” Revelation? The Press, Exposed as Censors
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
28 Jul 2023 – The most embarrassing revelation of the “Facebook Files” released by the House Judiciary Chair yesterday involves the news media. They show that the press is part of the censorship establishment, but that’s not the worst part.
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The Profiteers of Armageddon
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
30 Jul 2023 – Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Nuclear-Industrial Complex
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Sinéad O’Connor, Fiery and Uncompromising Singer, Dead at 56
Keith Harris | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jul 2023
26 Jul 2023 – Sinéad O’Connor, the fiery Irish singer-songwriter whose striking voice made her a pop superstar while her bold public stances on child abuse, war, and the Catholic Church made her a controversial figure, has died today in London. Her most successful recording was Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’ (on TMS Music Video of the Week). RIP
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Coronavirus/COVID Pandemic: New Doubts, Revelations by US Congress
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
18 Jul 2023 – Communications between officials and scientists who wrote the key paper promoting a natural origin for Covid-19 show doubts, interference, politicized science, and more.
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Peace Planners: Awake!
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
“We do not hold the vision of a world without conflict. We do hold the vision of a world without war – and this inevitably requires an alternative system for dealing with conflict.”
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(Italiano) Studi di pace: ispirazione, obiettivi, conseguimenti
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
La pace piace ai cuori, gli studi al cervello. Sono necessari entrambi, anzi indispensabili. ma altrettanto indispensabile è una connessione valida fra cervello e cuore. Ed è ben questo, in essenza, ciò di cui trattano gli studi e la prassi di pace.
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Eliciting Patterns of Global Consensus via Tensional Integrity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
18 Jul 2023 – Interweaving Agreement and Disagreement Coherently with Force-Directed Layout Tensegrity – Much is made of the need for consensus in global affairs, most notably in a major crisis such as climate change. Efforts are made for a consensus, as is evident in the current initiative of the World Health Organization…
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If Everybody’s Going to Join NATO, Then Why Have the United Nations?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
20 Jul 2023 – Since the year 2000, NATO used its military might to destroy several states, such as Afghanistan (2001) and Libya (2011), shattering societies with its aggressive alliance, and end the status of Yugoslavia (1999) as a unified state. It is difficult, given this record, to sustain that NATO is a ‘defensive alliance’.
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Agent Zelensky
Scott Ritter Extra - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Volodymyr Zelensky’s rise to power represents a manipulation of world opinion, a social psychological engineering. An ordinary comedian who came to power because he promised a long-awaited peace, who then dragged his fellow citizens into a bloody war, a massacre. How he accumulated his vast wealth.
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From Enlightenment Corruption to Cybernetics Fusion
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
18 Jul 2023 – We are told that we are living through the “Fourth Industrial Revolution”. In this period humans will merge with the machines engineered by social engineers and will be part of a new “organism.” This new species of “transhuman” will be liberated from all outdated ideas of Soul, morality, freedom, free will or any relationship with the Divine.
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Haitians Protest UN Occupation and Pending Foreign “Intervention”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
19 Jul 2023 – The US and Canada argue for a multilateral military intervention in Haiti, possibly led by Rwanda, to support the puppet regime they installed. They are using “gang violence” as the excuse, but there are actually more gang killings in Jamaica or El Salvador.
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Boosting COVID Clarity
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
July 2023 – New insights into excess mortality, COVID vaccines, vaccine passports, and COVID origins.
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In Sicily, Top of the Mountain, Watching the New Barbarians
Pepe Escobar | TheAltWorld – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
18 Jul 2023 – NATO, already humiliated in Afghanistan, is now being demilitarized, a process running in parallel to the state of the economy prevailing amongst all NATOstan members. War? Against a nuclear, hypersonic superpower? Give us a – Thucydides – break.
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Takeaways from the UN Special Rapporteur Report on Guantanamo
Scott Roehm | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
On 26 Jun 2023–the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture–,the UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights and Counter-Terrorism released the final report of her technical visit to the Guantanamo detention facility. It covers the rights of victims of terrorism, the rights of detainees at Guantánamo, and the rights of former detainees–with a fair amount of detail.
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Argentina’s Yuan Lifeline Is Sign of Brinkmanship between China, US
Natalie Alcoba | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2023
17 Jul 2023 – Buenos Aires has been looking for ways to safeguard its dwindling dollar reserves and has found a willing partner in Beijing.
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Colonialism or Sovereignty? How the Global Financial System Traps Countries in Debt
Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Serevice,
24 Jul 2023
12 Jul 2023 – Political economists Radhika Desai, Michael Hudson, and Ann Pettifor discuss how the international financial system traps Global South countries in debt, reinforcing a neocolonial order.
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