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(Português) Rússia/EUA/Ucrânia: O que Está em Jogo
Federico Fubini, Jeffrey Sachs | Leonardo Boff – Corriere della Sera/TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
3 maio 2022 – Entrevista de Jeffrey Sachs, economista e especialista em desigualdade social, que como poucos articula a economia com a ecologia. Ele criticamente esclarece as posições dos EUA e da Rússia no contexto do conflito na Ucrânia. É importante conhecermos os dois lados para não sermos dependentes só da versão EUA-UE.
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: le due vie
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
I segnali che arrivano dagli sviluppi della guerra in Ucraina – che si sta chiaramente rivelando sempre più come una guerra per procura tra USA/NATO e Federazione Russa – sono contrastanti e prefigurano due diverse vie di sviluppo della situazione.
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Homeland Security’s “Disinformation Board” Is Even More Pernicious Than It Seems
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
4 May 2022 – The power to decree what is “disinformation” now determines what can and cannot be discussed on the internet. It is now in the hands of trained disinformation agents of the U.S. Security State.
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The EU Is Destroying Its Own Energy Security with the Planned Russian Oil Embargo
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
7 May 2022 – With no clear alternatives and surging energy prices, sanctions look set to hurt the bloc more than they will harm Russia.
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(Português) Quando Não Viu mais Sentido em Comer Animais
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
“O que mais me incomodou foi a ideia de corpos que já não se levantam…”
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Jeffrey Sachs Debunks the West’s Narrative and Policy in Ukraine
Jeffrey D. Sachs | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
Jeffrey Sachs tears the entire US/NATO narrative apart. One wonders how much longer he will be invited to appear in Western mainstream media–he simply knows too much, has a macro perspective, speaks with passion, and even uses the ‘p’ word, “peace”: A true menace to the empire system.
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PayPal Cancels Consortium News Account–May Seize Balance
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
1 May 2022 – PayPal has canceled CN’s account without any prior notice or due process and with virtually no explanation. The online payment system gave no warning or reason and indicated that only if “applicable” will the balance be returned.
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Bar None
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
22 Apr 2022 – No Comment
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Full Spectrum Dominance: U.S. Elites’ War to Rule the World
Fritz Pointer | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
4 May 2022 – We can date the beginning of the war in Ukraine to October 2002, when the Project for the New American Century was published for the Pentagon and clearly and unambiguously stated U.S. foreign policy for the 21st century: “Full Spectrum Dominance.” That is, to dominate militarily the nations, peoples and resources of the entire world. Not “Full Spectrum” or Global Peace, Diplomacy or Cooperation, but Domination.
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Notes from Eritrea (Part 1)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
4 May 2022 – Ann Garrison continues her reporting from the Horn of Africa. She is now in Eritrea.
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The Age of Self-Delusion
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
The US and Russia, faded relics of the Cold War, unable to accept their terminal decline, launch futile and self-defeating wars to reclaim their lost imperial power.
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The War in Ukraine: A CLA Analysis
Sohail Inayatullah | Proutist Universal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
19 Apr 2022 – Understanding the Russian Invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of Prout using CLA-Causal Layer Analysis, a technique for strategic planning, futures studies and foresight. We analyzed different perspectives on the causes of the war, possible future scenarios, and how to work towards the best possible one.
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The Legal Psychedelics Industry: Capitalism on Drugs
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
Capitalism is tripping over itself to get people tripping on legal psychedelics.
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PayPal’s IndyMedia Wipeout
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
3 May 2022 – A series of moves against media outlets by PayPal shows the next step in speech control: confiscation. Why won’t the company answer questions?
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Why Won’t Europe Call for an End to This War?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
4 May 2022 – When armed conflicts take place in Africa or in the Middle East, Europe’s leaders are the first to call for a cessation of hostilities and to declare the urgent need for peace negotiations. Why is it then that when a war occurs in Europe, the drums of war beat incessantly, and not a single leader calls for them to be silenced and for the voice of peace to be heard?
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The Defense of Nature: Resisting the Financializaton of the Earth
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
1 Apr 2022 – The rapid financialization of nature that is promoting a Great Expropriation of the global commons and the dispossession of humanity on an unprecedented scale.
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Why Should Russia and the United States Be Enemies When They Have a 240-Year History of International Friendship and Support?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
April 25 marked the 77th anniversary of the “Oath of the Elbe,” when U.S. and Russian soldiers embraced in a historic meeting on the Elbe River in Torgau, Germany, to mark the final end of the Third Reich and pledge mutual understanding, empathy and peaceful relations between the U.S. and Soviet Union.
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Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ Is another Propaganda Tool
Ian Miles Cheong | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
3 May 2022 – The so-called proponents of freedom and democracy have given themselves the right to designate what the ‘truth’ is.
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The Curious Case of PayPal and Consortium News
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
3 May 2022 – The independent news website has been banned from taking donations on PayPal without so much as an explanation. The reason might be as simple as it is chilling.
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Meanwhile on Parallel Earth
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 May 2022
Cartoon – This Modern World – 25 Apr 2022
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Thirty-Six Dramatic Situations Faced by Global Governance?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
Interrelating the Array of Narratives, Plots, Agendas, Stories and Conspiracy Theories
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The Global Suicide Budget
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
In 2021, the human race, in order to keep itself safe, invested $2.1 trillion in the ability to make war — to kill one another, even to end life altogether. We live counter to our deepest values in order to, as Obama put it, “upheld our highest traditions.” Or something like that. The bullets fly in all directions. Sometimes they hit the soul.
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An Intellectual No-Fly Zone: Online Censorship of Ukraine Dissent Is Becoming the New Norm
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – Google has sent a warning shot across the world, ominously informing media outlets, bloggers, and content creators that it will no longer tolerate certain opinions when it comes to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Old Propaganda, New Cold War
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A Nordic Initiative for Peace in Ukraine and Lasting World Peace
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
Oslo, 27 April, 2022 – The war in Ukraine once again shows that the world is like a city with brutal gangs constantly roaming the streets, looting and fighting with loads of heavy weapons. No one will ever feel safe in such a city. The same applies at the international level. No amount of weaponry can make us safe. No country will be safe until also neighboring countries can feel safe. The present international system is broken; to avoid future wars we need deep reforms.
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Getting Back to Work
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
8 Apr 2022 – Amazon
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Peace Portraits: Pathways to Nonkilling
Review by Joám Evans Pim | Center for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
29 Apr 2022 – The Center for Global Nonkilling has just released its latest book, co-published with Creighton University, which artfully explores the intersection between faith, ethics and politics in modern times.
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The Russian Prince Turned Anarchist and Pioneering Scientist Peter Kropotkin’s Advice to the Young
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
The Art of Putting Your Talent in the Service of the World – “Courage, devotion, the spirit of sacrifice, are as contagious as cowardice, submission, and panic.”
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The Second Level Geopolitical War in Ukraine Takes Over
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
30 Apr 2022 – The recent acknowledgement that U.S. goals are secondarily related to the wellbeing of Ukraine, and primarily by the dangerously regressive goals of taking on challengers to the unipolarity, which has guided U.S. grand strategy since the end of the Cold War.
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(Italiano) Abolizione delle armi nucleari: una proposta di iniziativa politica
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
L’ICAN è una iniziativa politica sorta dal basso, che, con la sua proposta di abolizione delle armi nucleari ha saputo arrivare fino all’ONU e da lì ha fatto politica sugli Stati perché proprio quella proposta è diventata legge internazionale (approvazione della interdizione di queste armi dal 22/1/21). Ora occorre farla attuare.
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(Italiano) Negazionismi duplici
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
Man mano che la dipendenza da idrocarburi tende al ribasso e le logiche estrattive si indeboliscono, diventerà meno attraente acconsentire alle monarchie repressive del Golfo – e potremmo anche osservare l’ulteriore indebolimento del sostegno degli Stati Uniti al sionismo, che è stata la sua base principale dal 1947. Sia per alimentare pianeta, e per portare la pace in Palestina, dobbiamo essere pronti con visioni alternative.
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Uprising in Pakistan–Its Significance for the World
Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
20 Apr 2022 – Dr. Chandra Muzaffar, president of JUST, on the current political crisis in Pakistan circa 2022.
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The Different Ways That the U.S. and Chinese Governments Use Their Power to Regulate Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
28 Apr 2022 – As defined by its productive relation of employer/employee, capitalism is now developing its productive forces and GDP growth faster in China’s public form of capitalism than in the United States’ private form. The role of the state is central to this decline and ascent.
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Fossil Fuel Lobbyists Continue to Seize on Russia’s War in Ukraine to Push Long-Term Interests
Lee Fang | The Intercept – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – The unfolding crisis is now a common–and effective–talking point for corporate interest groups seeking regulatory relief.
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(Italiano) Guerra ed estinzione della specie
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
Per pensatori critici le conseguenze a cascata della guerra d’Ucraina sono prove ridondanti di quanto già sapevano prima della guerra: non ci sono soluzioni ai problemi principali dell’umanità entro gli schemi delle strutture legale ed etiche basilari del sistema-mondo moderno.
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The Monopoly on Your Mind (Part 2): Billionaires Bet Big on the News
Rebecca Strong | Down The Rabbit Hole - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
28 Apr 2022 – But What’s in It for Them? – How worried should we be about the oligarchy media model? Can we depend on the media to challenge the powerful when they’re the ones paying writers’ salaries? When Amazon founder Jeff Bezos bought The Washington Post for $250 million in 2013, he made a written promise to employees:
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Democracy in France 2022: Conversation with Sorbonne Constitutional Scholar and Leftist Intellectual Marie Gren
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
29 Apr 2022 – In the fascinating 60-minutes discussion, Professor Gren touched on various aspects of contemporary democracy in France, ranging from the sordid state of the Left and its “caviar socialists” and the increasing acceptability and mainstreaming of Far Right ideologies which Le Pen personifies, to the economic hardships that inflict immense pains on the great majority of the French public.
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Western Claims of Russian Mass Graves near Mariupol another Fake News Hoax
Eva K Bartlett | Resistance Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – According to Western media, now copy-paste reporting the same claims, Russian forces apparently secretly buried up to 9,000 Mariupol civilians in “mass graves” in a town just west of the city. Except, it never happened, there is no mass grave. I Know, I Went To See.
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Emanuel Pastreich | US Provisional Government – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
24 Apr 2022 – We must understand that end of journalism, and the end of justice, are products of the massive concentration of wealth, a process that has produced new political players who are rarely mentioned in the media at all. That is to say that those who most want to punish Assange, are not on trial and in many cases their names are unknown to the public.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
18 Apr 2022 – Comics
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Total War… U.S. Capitalism Is Addicted to War… Not Just Against Russia but Against Workers as Well
Finian Cunningham interviews Bruce K. Gagnon | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
28 Apr 2022 – Neo-feudalism is what we are being offered in place of the “American dream”. This is why we are seeing growing efforts of workers to organize unions.
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Global Divide: 76% of Humanity (All Poorer Nations of Color) Voted to Not Exclude Russia from the UN Human Rights Council
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360° - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
93 IN FAVOR
24 AGAINST
58 ABSTENTIONS
18 NOT VOTING
TOTAL: 193 COUNTRIES
Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend. Boycott the Bay Area Book Festival. That is the least we owe a literary and moral titan.
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(Czech-čeština) Válka na Ukrajině: Porozumění a odolávání hlubší agendy globální elity
Robert J. Burrowes | Oral.sk/Porno Politika – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
Zaměření na některé z obskurnějších aspektů hlubší agendy, která tento konflikt řídí. To odráží můj vlastní dlouhodobý zájem porozumět tomu, jak se elitní moc projevuje ve světě.
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(Français) «Le développement du Sud est à la fois perçu comme une solution et une menace»
François Polet | CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
22 avril 2022 – En quoi consistent les principales critiques du développement aujourd’hui (à savoir les pensées anti-productiviste et décolonialiste) ? Qu’est-ce que l’investissement public mondial, et en quoi diffère-t-il de la notion classique d’aide au développement ?
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We Can Find the Truth, but Where Can We Find Hope?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
1 May 2022 – Devoted to the courageous individuals who dare to seek and publish the truth in the face of the censorship and outright lies of the information war between NATO and Russia.
→ read full article(Français) Nous Pouvons Trouver la Vérité, mais Où Pouvons-Nous Trouver l’Espoir ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
1 Mai 2022 – Consacré aux individus courageux qui osent rechercher et publier la vérité face à la censure et aux mensonges éhontés de la guerre de l’information entre l’OTAN et la Russie.
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It’s About Time
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 May 2022
28 Apr 2022 – Isn’t it always? With the start of World War III by the United States “declaring” war against Russia by its actions in Ukraine, we have entered a time when the end of time has become very possible. I am speaking of nuclear annihilation.
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Al-Aqsa Violence during Ramadan
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
21 Apr 2022 – Once more Israel strikes hard against Palestinian rights when the world has its attention fixed elsewhere, with a mainstream media posture of indifference and inattention compounding the problem . The pro-Palestinian solidarity movement is being seriously challenged not to let this happen.
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The Political Economy of Systemic U.S. Militarism
James M. Cypher | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
The U.S. industrial-military-congressional complex is made up of the interdependent dynamics of military contractor corporations, military forces, intelligence agencies, and the civilian national security state, which take form as strategy, political-economy factors, and international affairs shift.
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Myanmar Mothers’ Cries Do Not Bode Well for the Nation’s Future
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
19 Apr 2022 – The musician of resistance Mun Awng reminded the viewers, “The revolution must prevail, against all odds.” Tain Sway was seen nodding her head profusely when Mun Awng spelled out the pervasive sentiment – that “it is better to die fighting for the cause than living under the boot, again”.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
Ann Garrison continues her reporting from Ethiopia.
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Why Non-Western Countries Tend to See Russia’s War Very, Very Differently
Trita Parsi | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – The West appears blind to its own hypocrisy and narrow interests in calling for a rules-based order.
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The US Military Is Driving Environmental Collapse across the Planet
Sam Carliner | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
24 Apr 2022 – The U.S. military emits more carbon than 140 countries combined, fueling climate change and environmental degradation. Below we examine five ways in which the Pentagon is destroying the environment.
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The Cause, and the Goal, of Israeli Violence
Mark Muhannad Ayyash | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
20 Apr 2022 – Another Ramadan, another attack on Palestinian worshipers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied East Jerusalem. What is the real reason behind Israel’s routine violence against Palestinians?
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Ukraine: The Fakes of Anti-Russian Propaganda
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – The New York Times published on April 4 a satellite photo, dated March 19, showing a street in the Ukrainian city of Bucha strewn with corpses. The photo, disseminated by the mainstream on a global scale, was presented as evidence of a “war crime committed by Russian troops in Ukraine.”
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Renounce the Geopolitical War between the U.S. and Russia
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – Stopping the Geopolitical War being waged by the United States against Russia is a precondition for ending the aggressive war initiated by Russia against Ukraine and also a return to semi-responsible statecraft, which is the most we can expect or hope for in the present. Diplomacy seeking a ceasefire and a political compromise is the only sane path.
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Reparations in Reverse: Afghanistan Pays, Vatican Prays, US Preys
Azeezah Kanji | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
22 Apr 2022 – What better illustration of the perversities of “justice” under colonial modernity, than the grotesquely disparate treatment of Afghanistan versus the Vatican when it comes to exacting recompense for international crimes. The doctrine of ‘sovereign immunity’ is being used to insulate state violence from legal liability.
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How Obama-Biden Team Empowered Terrorists in Syria
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
20 Apr 2022 – Ukraine is the Obama-Biden team’s second major proxy war against Russia. The first was Syria, where US support for the insurgency helped create an Al Qaeda safe haven.
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The Suicidal War on Nature Continues Unabated – International Mother Earth Day
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
20 Apr 2022 – The gloomy picture is drawn from indisputable scientific conclusions and should be already known by everybody, in particular by decision-makers, whether they are politicians… or rather not.
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Officials Manipulated COVID Data to Exaggerate Crisis, Mathematician Tells RFK, Jr.
Susan C. Olmstead | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – “Data was very easily used by influencers and decision-makers to fit particular narratives,” Norman Fenton, Ph.D., a mathematician at Queen Mary University of London, said.
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Noam Chomsky and Jeremy Scahill on the Russia-Ukraine War, the Media, Propaganda, and Accountability
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Noam Chomsky spoke with Jeremy Scahill in a wide-ranging discussion on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
→ read full articleDoing His Own Research
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
11 Apr 2022 – At the Treehouse
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Oxfam Report: Poorer Countries Going from Crisis to Catastrophe
Nick Beams | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
19 Apr 2022 – In the lead up to the semi-annual meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank being held in Washington this week, the global aid agency Oxfam has produced a report detailing the horrendous impact of rising inflation, coming on top of the devastating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, for almost half the world’s population.
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Russian Geoeconomics Tzar Sergey Glazyev Introduces the New Global Financial System
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – The world’s new monetary system, underpinned by a digital currency, will be backed by a basket of new foreign currencies and natural resources. And it will liberate the Global South from both western debt and IMF-induced austerity.
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Skin Deep (Music Video of the Week)
Buddy Guy | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
| Song Across the USA | The song includes over 50 musicians from coast to coast featuring Buddy Guy, Tom Morello, Billy Branch, Chicago Children’s Choir, and Roots Gospel Voices of Mississippi.
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‘Crushing Dissent’ with George Galloway, Chris Hedges, Scott Ritter and Jill Stein
Joe Lauria and Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News Live – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Join us as we examine the information warfare being waged to enforce a single narrative about the war in Ukraine. It may be worse than McCarthyism, which was defeated by its own excesses. Our guests have been targets of censorship and smears in this coordinated assault on freedom of expression.
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Dark Day for Press Freedom: British Court Orders Assange Extradition
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
20 Apr 2021 – Outrage as a British magistrates court ordered the extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States and sent the request for his extradition to Home Office Secretary Priti Patel for approval. He will remain in detention at Belmarsh until Patel’s decision and during any appeal.
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U.S. Commissars
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – Social media platforms are aggressively censoring all who challenge the dominant narrative on Ukraine, the ruling Democratic Party, the wars in the Middle East and the corporate state.
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“One less Traitor”: Zelensky Oversees Campaign of Assassination, Kidnapping and Torture of Political Opposition
Max Blumenthal and Esha Krishnaswamy | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – While claiming to defend democracy, Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky has outlawed his opposition, ordered his rivals’ arrest, and presided over the disappearance and assassination of dissidents across the country.
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Europe Sweeps Away More Refugees, Asylum Seekers – Part I: UK, Greece
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
21 Apr 2022 – In what looks pretty much like an ‘operation clean sweep’ aiming at getting rid of more and more migrants, refugees and asylum seekers by shipping them far away, the process of ‘externalisation’ of millions of victims of wars, poverty, climate crisis and political persecution, is now growing fast.
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Easter Call for Heroic Cease Fire
Thor Magnusson | Peace 2000 Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – Prof. Johan Galtung, the Internationally recognized father of peace studies who correctly predicted the fall of the Berlin wall, said: “We seem to have come to the point that we ourselves, as the major cause of death and being wounded through violence and war, are our own worst enemies. It takes two to make war. And to make peace. If others do the same, those who do have achieved common security.”
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Humanity: Evolving in Spite of Itself
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
As wars rage, cruelty shatters lives across the planet, nuclear Armageddon remains a viable option for all of us — I think that the human race is evolving in spite of itself — evolving beyond war, empire, dominance and conquest, and toward an uncertain future. Most of us already know this, but at a level so deep, so vague, it feels like mere “hope.”
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Europe Sweeps Away More Refugees, Asylum Seekers – Part II: Hungary, Poland
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2022
22 Apr 2022 – This article will deal with how Hungary has been criminalising organisations that provide humanitarian assistance to migrants, and how Poland ‘arbitrarily’ detains thousands of asylum seekers.
→ read full articleTowards Inclusive Multi-Massacre Memorials to Victims of Conflict
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
Interrelating the Opponents, Perpetrators and Victims of Human Tragedy — Known and Unknown
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Give War a Chance
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
12 Apr 2022 – More and more, we’re told outright war isn’t just necessary and right, but the thing that will solve U.S. existential problems.
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America’s Hypocrisy over Ukraine and ‘Spheres of Influence’
Katrina vanden Heuvel | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
15 Apr 2022 – US Secretary of State Antony Blinken stated that he does not recognize “spheres of influence,” and the concept “should have been retired after World War II.” Those are empty words because they obviously do not apply to the Western Hemisphere–or the USA. Take Cuba, for example, or Nicaragua, Venezuela… Hypocrisy is common in international relations.
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Elon Musk Offers $43 Billion in Cash to Buy Twitter in Bid to ‘Save Free Speech’
David Charbonneau, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – The world’s richest person, Elon Musk, yesterday offered $43 billion — cash — to buy Twitter so he can “unlock” its “potential to be the platform for free speech around the globe.”
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Dr. Vandana Shiva: ‘The Evolved Mind Sees Earth as One Family’
David Marks interviews Vandana Shiva | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
6 Apr 2022 – Environmental champion shares her perspective on how the degradation of the planet can be reversed by returning to traditional organic farming practices and compassionate community organization.
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‘It Can Get Very Creepy Very Fast:’ John Oliver Exposes Multimillion-Dollar Data Brokering Industry
Susan C. Olmstead | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
11 Apr 2022 – Data brokering is the multi million-dollar industry of collecting personal information and then reselling or sharing it with marketers and others. Data brokers are “the middlemen of surveillance capitalism.” “They know significantly more about you than you might like and do significantly more with it than you might think,” Oliver said.
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The New Capitalist Gold Rush
William Hartung and Julia Gledhill | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – How Pentagon Contractors Are Cashing in on the Ukraine Crisis
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The Pimps of War
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
11 Apr 2022 – The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.
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The Monopoly on Your Mind (Part 1): Six Media Companies Control 90% of What You Read, Watch and Hear
Rebecca Strong | Down The Rabbit Hole - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
12 Apr 2022 – Ever-mounting media consolidation has narrowed the perspectives the public is privy to. Ownership and funding of these corporations are riddled with conflicts of interest and Big Tech companies are outright censoring and demonetizing independent outlets.
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Elon Musk, Twitter’s Largest Shareholder: We Can’t Let Billionaires Control Major Communications Platforms
Victor Pickard | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Elon Musk, the billionaire Tesla CEO notorious for posting asinine tweets to his 80 million–plus Twitter followers, has purchased himself a position of power within the platform itself by becoming the company’s largest shareholder–and that’s bad news.
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Michigan Bomb Plot: FBI Scheme to Create False ‘Domestic Terror’ Cabal Exposed in Court
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
17 Apr 2022 – Jury finds FBI agents fabricated a kidnapping threat against Michigan governor so they could be heroes by foiling a “crime” of their own creation. FBI director’s use of entrapment is part of a strategy designed to sow public fear and render support for draconian anti-terrorist legislation.
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Jingoistic Journalism Is No Friend of Ukraine
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – Propaganda for a bigger and longer Ukraine war is flooding the media on MSNBC, CNN, Fox News, NY Times, Washington Post, and Wall Street Journal in attempts to manipulate public opinion.
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The Dangerous ‘Truth’ of the Kashmir Files
Sanjay Kak | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – The popular Bollywood film, powered by a visceral demonisation of the Kashmiri Muslim, attempts to construct the truth about Kashmir out of the carcasses of facts.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons and Cranial Winter
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – “The defense industry mobilized a small army of at least 718 lobbyists and doled out more than $67 million dollars pressuring Congress for increased weapons spending generally.”
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Dutch Journalist: ‘We Are Here, in Donbass, to Awaken Westerners Deluded by Propaganda’
Ekaterina Blinova | Internationalist 360º - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
6 Apr 2022 – There are only a handful of Western journalists on the ground in Donbass, while the Western mainstream press is rubber-stamping fake news about the Ukrainian crisis using the same templates it previously exploited in Iraq, Libya and Syria, says Dutch independent journalist Sonja van den Ende.
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The Censorship Campaign against Western Criticism of NATO’s Ukraine Policy Is Extreme
Glenn Greenwald | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – Preventing populations from asking who benefits from a protracted proxy war, and who pays the price, is paramount. A closed propaganda system achieves that.
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How Movements Can Maintain Their Radical Vision while Winning Practical Reforms
Mark Engler and Paul Engler | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
12 Apr 2022 – Forty years of struggle by Brazil’s landless workers movement offers lessons on engaging the system without being co-opted.
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The Role of Capitalism in the War in Ukraine
Richard Wolff | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
14 Apr 2022 – To the motives for war in human history, capitalism added another: profit. Ukraine, per se, is not the issue. It is tragically a war-ravaged pawn in a much larger conflict.
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Palestine’s Widening Geography of Resistance: Why Israel Cannot Defeat the Palestinians
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – If Israel continues to subjugate the Palestinian people under the current system of military occupation and deepening apartheid, Palestinians will surely continue to respond until their oppressive reality is changed.
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Complexities of the Ukraine War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
15 Apr 2022 – This war can be characterized thus:
– Level One: Russia vs. Ukraine
– Level Two: USA vs. Russia
– Level Three: Ukrainian nationalism vs. Russian-oriented separatism
Siding with Ukraine’s Far-Right, US Sabotaged Zelensky’s Peace Mandate
Aaron Maté | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – In 2019, Zelensky was elected on an overwhelming mandate to make peace with Russia. As Stephen F. Cohen warned that year, the US chose to side with Ukraine’s far-right and fuel war.
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More Than 1 Million COVID Vaccine Injuries, Nearly 27,000 Deaths Reported to VAERS, CDC Data Show
Megan Redshaw | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
15 Apr 2022 – VAERS data released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention included a total of 1,226,314 reports of adverse events from all age groups following COVID vaccines, including 26,976 deaths and 219,865 serious injuries between Dec. 14, 2020, and April 8, 2022.
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Peace Train (Music Video of the Week)
Yusuf/Cat Stevens | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media service,
18 Apr 2022
Yusuf/Cat Stevens’ timeless anthem of hope and unity was originally released in 1971. This Song Around The World version features more than 25 musicians from 12 countries, and Cat Stevens singing and playing a beautiful white piano in a tranquil open air setting in Istanbul, Turkey.
→ read full articleNotes from Wartorn Ethiopia (Part 1)
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Apr 2022
13 Apr 2022 – I’m writing from Ethiopia, where the war that began in November 2020 continues, with the US backing their former puppet, the Tigrayan People’s Liberation, which ruled Ethiopia with an iron fist from 1991 to 2018, when they were finally overthrown by a popular uprising.
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“Conflicts Should Be Resolved through Negotiations, Not War”
Reiner Braun | IPB, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Apr 2022 – Interview by Reiner Braun, Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau, by email, with Oleg Bodrov and Yurii Sheliakhenko, peace activists from Russia and Ukraine respectively.
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(Français) La Guerre d’Ukraine Aurait Pu Être Évitée
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 avril 2022 – La guerre en Ukraine est le résultat de décisions politiques erronées des États-Unis et de l’OTAN en 1997 qui ont conduit à l’expansion de l’OTAN jusqu’aux frontières de la Russie.
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The Origins of the Ukraine Crisis and the Need for Collective Security between Russia and the West
Tom Sauer | Global Policy, Wiley Library – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
This paper tries to explain the origins of the Ukraine crisis. It posits that it is only a symptom of a wider conflict between two major powers (or power blocs), whose origins can only be understood by assessing the post-Cold War security architecture in Europe. Instead of having integrated Russia in a collective security organization on an equal level, the West kept NATO alive.
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