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Biden Administration Budgets Record $27.6 Billion for Militarization of Outer-Space
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – As homeless rates skyrocket and public education flounders, the Biden administration has proposed a record $27.6 billion budget for the militarization of outer space in 2023—a 25% increase from the 2022 budget. New cold war provides continued backdrop for misallocation of public resources into weaponry right out of science fiction films.
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Sparkman & the Blinkster
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – This Modern World
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Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr | Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 1967 – I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam
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An Appeal for Peace
Thomas Daffern | World Intellectual Forum/International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
As intellectuals, philosophers, academics, scientists and teachers, we issue this peace appeal to all the citizens of Russia, Ukraine and other countries from today, February 25, 2022, we call for:
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: capire l’agenda sottostante dell’élite globale e resisterle
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Aprile 2022 – In un comunicato televisivo del 24 febbraio 2022, il presidente russo Vladimir Putin ha annunciato la sua decisione di ordinare alle forze militari russe di invadere l’Ucraina in quella che ha denominato una ‘operazione militare speciale’ per difendere le neo – autoproclamate repubbliche di di Donetsk e Luhansk e ‘smilitarizzare e […]
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The Coming Global Financial Revolution: Russia Is Following the American Playbook
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
5 Apr 2022 – No country has successfully challenged the U.S. dollar’s global hegemony—until now. How did this happen and what will it mean? it could well mean the end of the petrodollar as sole global reserve currency, and the end of the devastating petroleum wars it has funded to maintain its dominance.
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Europe Is Sleepwalking into another World War
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – How can we trust countries that created SWIFT—a financial transfer system aimed at protecting economic transactions against political interference—only to end up removing from that system a country on political grounds? Countries that arrogate to themselves the power to confiscate the financial and gold reserves of sovereign nations like Afghanistan, Venezuela, and now Russia? Countries that trumpet freedom of expression as a sacrosanct universal value, but resort to censorship the moment they are exposed by it?
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The Ukraine Crisis: Past, Present, and Future?
Charles Webel | The New Presence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
Mar 2022 – Is the Ukraine crisis a turning point in world history? And is this also a potential wake-up call for the “liberal U.S.-dominated Western world order,” due to a conflict whose significance is comparable to and potentially greater than 9/11?
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The Ukraine War Could Have Been Avoided
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – The Ukraine war is the result of mistaken policy decisions by the United States and NATO in 1997 which led to the expansion of NATO up to the borders of Russia.
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Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
5 Apr 2022 – The lack of objective, principled coverage of the war in Ukraine is a degenerate state of affairs. The one thing worse is the extent to which it’s perfectly fine with most North Americans.
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Trumping Environment
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
8 Apr 2022 – Under colonization and during conflicts (rackets for money/profit of the elites) environmental declines accelerate. For those like me who study and write about these things, the most disheartening aspect is the way common people who suffer are duped to be partisan to conflict thus enriching the oligarchs who oftentimes profit on both sides of conflicts. For example, the oligarchs of the Rothschild and Bush families who got enriched from both sides on WWII.
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Neither Victims nor Executioners: Albert Camus on the Antidote to Violence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
“If he who bases his hopes on human nature is a fool, he who gives up in the face of circumstances is a coward.”
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Was Alleged Russian Army Massacre of Civilians at Bucha Actually a False Flag Event Staged by Ukrainian Nazis?
Evan Reif | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
6 Apr 2022 – Why was Nazi Butcher Botsun at Bucha? This story raises an important challenge to the official storyline of the Bucha massacre promoted in the mainstream media.
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Animal Crossing: World’s Biggest Wildlife Bridge Comes to California Highway
Katharine Gammon | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – Unprecedented overpass will allow fauna of the Santa Monica mountains to safely cross a dangerous 10-lane stretch.
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Noam Chomsky: “We’re Approaching the Most Dangerous Point in Human History”
George Eaton | The New Statesman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
The US professor, now 93, on the climate catastrophe and the threat of nuclear war.
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An Antidote to the ‘Split’ in the US Peace Movement: Anti-Interventionism
John V. Walsh | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
7 Apr 2022 – No more US Arms to Ukraine. End the Racist Sanctions. Stop the Russia Bashing. Once upon a time anti-interventionism by the hegemonic US empire was a point of principle for progressives and peace advocates. Sadly, that is no longer the case.
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The Corporate Push for Synthetic Foods: False Solutions That Endanger Our Health and Damage the Planet
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International– TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – Fully artificial food is an increasingly popular trend focused on developing a new line of synthetically produced, ultra-processed food products by using recent advances in synthetic biology, artificial intelligence, and biotechnology. These new products seek to imitate and replace animal products, food additives, and expensive, rare, or socially conflictive ingredients (such as palm oil).
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My First Aid Kit: Turmeric
Horacio Mesón | REHUNO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
10 Apr 2022 – Our healers, our shamans and witches, our “curanderos” used these medicines for millennia and today science is beginning to vindicate them through the force of reason and a return to the origins, the path of the heart. Originally from India and Southeast Asia, the use of turmeric dates back more than 4,000 years.
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The Military Situation in the Ukraine
Jacques Baud | The Postil Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – For years, from Mali to Afghanistan, I have worked for peace and risked my life for it. It is therefore not a question of justifying war, but of understanding what led us to it. I notice that the “experts” who take turns on television analyze the situation on the basis of dubious information, most often hypotheses erected as facts—and then we no longer manage to understand what is happening. This is how panics are created.
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Let Us Now Praise Amazon Unionists
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – The only way to halt the global assault on the human rights of workers is to unionize.
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This Geopolitical War Is a ‘Geopolitical Crime’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
9 Apr 2022 – There is no doubt that atrocities have been committed in Ukraine, seemingly yet not exclusively by Russian attacking forces, and in a perfect world those who so acted would be held responsible. But the world is highly imperfect when it comes to accountability for international crimes.
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Cyclic Representation of Coherence as Knots and Otherwise
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – Cyclic themes include the circular economy, environmental cycles, recycling, business cycles, domestic cycles of violence, and the cycles of conflict. Exploration of the cyclic representations of coherence considering their significance separately, or however they may be combined with others.
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Oliver Stone Documents the Past to Illuminate the Present
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While Kennedy was the last U.S. president to genuinely seek peace at the cost of his life, his successors have all been lackeys in love with war and in full awareness that the promotion of war and the military industrial complex were at the top of their job description. They have gladly served the god of war and ravaged countries around the world with the glee of sadists and madmen.
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The Cost of War: 23 Million Afghans Suffer Acute Hunger, 95% Don’t Eat Enough Food
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
24 Mar 2022 – Following 20 long years (2001-2021) of brutal war on Afghanistan by the US-led military coalition, 23 million Afghans now face severe and acute hunger, economic bankruptcy, healthcare system collapse, unbearable family indebtedness, and devastating humanitarian crisis.
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(Italiano) Ucraina: non mandiamo armi ma un esercito di volontari in soccorso degli abitanti
Paolo Maddalena | Il Fatto Quotidiano - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Marzo 2022 – “C’è bisogno di ripudiare la guerra, luogo di morte dove i padri e le madri seppelliscono i figli, dove gli uomini uccidono i loro fratelli senza averli nemmeno visti, dove i potenti decidono e i poveri muoiono. Ogni giorno di guerra peggiora la situazione per tutti. Perciò rinnovo il mio appello: basta, ci si fermi, tacciano le armi, si tratti seriamente per la pace!”.
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Ukraine and the Global Economic War: Is This Barbarism or Civilization?
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
The West’s actions against Russia since the war in Ukraine could signal an emerging new order that shuns the U.S. for weaponizing the dollar and Western control over the global financial system.
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Save the Planet, Behead the Military Budget
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – Why, why, why, as our ecosystem collapses, as millions flee the horrors of war and poverty, as the pandemic continues, as WWIII and a nuclear Armageddon rears its evil head, does ever-expanding, global militarism remain our primary national purpose? This question stabs me as President Whoever announces his proposed military budget, as Congress increases it, as the media shrugs.
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Maya Angelou (4 Apr 1928 – 28 May 2014): Identity and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | Brain Pickings – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
The light of the world has grown a little dimmer with the loss of the phenomenal Maya Angelou, but her legacy endures as a luminous beacon of strength, courage, and spiritual beauty.
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(Italiano) Verso un’Abbondanza Frugale. Gaia e l’Umanità: Esperimento in Corso
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
La situazione mondiale è critica: la popolazione umana ha raggiunto la cifra di 8 miliardi, e il suo impatto sul pianeta ha alterato i processi e le dinamiche del nostro pianeta a tal punto, da innescare una trasformazione dell’ecosistema globale.
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South Sudan: Oil Underground, Blood on the Surface
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – While politicians and media have been viewing the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan as a “civil war” between ethnic groups, there are some facts that should be considered. One of them is that this country is rich in oil.
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Make Peace, Not War, in Ukraine
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – There were a series of provocations by NATO that aroused security concerns in Moscow, including the expansion of NATO after the Cold War was over, the threat from the Soviet Union had disappeared, and promises were made by Western leaders to Gorbachev of no further NATO expansion. Such geopolitical behavior amounted to imprudent statecraft by the West,
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Wars Lie!
Eduardo Galeano | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – Wars always invoke noble motives. They kill in the name of peace. In the name of God. In the name of civilisation. In the name of progress. In the name of democracy… And just in case, if so many lies are not enough… the mass media are ready to invent imaginary enemies to justify the conversion of the world into a great madhouse and an immense slaughterhouse.
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How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – The title comes from a speech by Vladimir Posner at Yale Sept 27, 2018. Posner was the spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev in the latter years of the 1980’s and has continued over the years to provide independent, informed journalism from his base in Russia.
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While You Were Distracted by Will Smith, the International Elite Met at the World Government Summit
Derrick Broze | The Last American Vagabond - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – While much of the world spent the last days obsessing over the celebrity spectacle of actor Will Smith slapping comedian Chris Rock ‘live,’ the international elites were meeting in Dubai for the 2022 World Government Summit. Guests included Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum and Kristalina Georgieva of the International Monetary Fund.
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Ukrainians Could Defeat a Russian Occupation by Scaling Up Unarmed Resistance
Jørgen Johansen, et al. | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – As scholars of nonviolent resistance, we see four key ways Ukrainians can organize and expand the civil resistance that’s already happening.
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Geopolitics and the Rise of China
Anna Jaguaribe | OpinionSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Let’s start with a reverse order as the rise of China has a direct impact on how we perceive geopolitics today. It is unique by the historical situation in which it is couched.
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(Castellano) “Las Guerras Mienten”
Eduardo Galeano | Promotores No Violencia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
“Ninguna guerra tiene la honestidad de confesar: Yo mato para robar. Las guerras siempre invocan nobles motivos, matan en nombre de la paz, en nombre de dios, en nombre de la civilización, en nombre del progreso, en nombre de la democracia y si por las dudas, si tanta mentira no alcanzara, ahí están los grandes medios de comunicación dispuestos a inventar enemigos imaginarios para justificar la conversión del mundo en un gran manicomio y un inmenso matadero.”
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Biden Confirms Why the US Needed This Ukrainian War
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
27 Mar 2022 – In a moment of candor, Joe Biden has revealed why the U.S. needed the Russian invasion and why it needs it to continue.
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2022 Global Policy Institute Book Award to Richard Falk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Dr. Falk is now a Santa Barbara resident. After four decades at Princeton, he has served as Visiting Distinguished Professor in Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and has lectured widely around the world as one of America’s most recognizable and relentless crusaders for international justice.
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Corporate Profits Soar to Record $2.8 Trillion
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
31 Mar 2022 – Federal data released yesterday shows U.S. corporate profits jumped 25% to record highs in 2021, even as COVID-19 wreaked havoc on the nation’s economy and CEOs bragged on corporate earnings calls about jacking up consumer prices.
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My Sweet Lord “Live” (Music Video of the Week)
George Harrison | Federico Perlingieri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
A Tribute to George Harrison by “Family & Friends”
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The U.S. Has Its Own Agenda against Russia
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 Apr 2022 – Ukraine is ground zero for the expansion of the U.S.-Russia proxy war, simultaneously a war of aggression being waged by Putin and a larger geopolitical battle between the U.S., NATO, and Russia. “It’s a proxy war with Russia, whether we say so or not,” said Leon Panetta, former CIA director and defense secretary under Obama.
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Really??
Carlos Latuff | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
No Shame…
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Comedians’ Tragedy: The Global Shortage of Cynicism in the Russian-Ukrainian War
Michimi Muranushi | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – The world has no choice but to condemn the Russian aggression against Ukraine. It has no choice but to help the Ukrainians to end the war with honor. But it is the role of the Ukrainians to produce statesmen who understand that the Ukrainians need to suspect not only the Russians but also the Americans and the Europeans.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
1 avril 2022 – Le titre de ce blog vient d’un discours de Vladimir Posner à Yale le 27 septembre 2018. Posner était le porte-parole de Mikhaïl Gorbatchev dans les dernières années des années 1980 et a continué au fil des ans à fournir un journalisme indépendant et informé depuis sa base en Russie. .
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BioBiden
María Zakharova | Pressenza Argentina – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
29 Mar 2022 – An idea of the US political elites’ involvement in the military biological activity in Ukraine. Below is an attempt to reconstruct the chronology of this involvement, though not a comprehensive one. There are many gaps in this truly diabolical plan that are still to be filled.
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Resisting Militarism: Mission Impossible?
Sean Howard | Cape Breton Spectator – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
30 Mar 2022 – “I don’t think the country should be militarized… but we live in the moment when the Army matters.” — Ukrainian peace activist Nataliya Gumenyuk. But denying millions the right to conscientiously object or leave the country is criminal. Overall problem: war. Pseudorealities lead to war. All lines lead to the war. It may be a mission impossible, but can pacifism help lead us back?
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
Now you see… Now you don’t…
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On Being Disappeared
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – The entire archive of On Contact, the Emmy-nominated show I hosted for six years for RT America, has been disappeared from YouTube. I received no inquiry or notice. I vanished. In totalitarian systems you exist; then you don’t. Are we a more informed and better society because of this wholesale censorship?
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – “Hundreds of thousands have been killed, more than half of the pre-war population has been displaced. More than 100,000 are missing or forcibly disappeared. Syria’s cities and infrastructure have been destroyed. The poverty rate is 90 percent; 14.6 million people depend on humanitarian aid.”
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Obituary: How Madeleine Albright’s ‘Munich Mindset’ Turned into Uninhibited Interventionism
Daniel Larison | Responsible Statecraft – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
24 Mar 2022 – Madeleine Albright, the first female U.S. Secretary of State, a prominent liberal interventionist, and promoter of NATO expansion, died on 23 Mar from cancer at the age of 84. A refugee who rose to the highest levels of government, she became a well-positioned advocate of American exceptionalism.
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Reporting from Moscow: Sanctions May Achieve the Opposite of Biden’s Stated Long-Term Goals
Glenn Greenwald and Dimitri Simes Jr. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
27 Mar 2022 – In Russia, sanctions have taken a bite out of the Russian economy, but interviews and data suggest they cannot fulfill the West’s strategic motives for imposing them.
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Washington Is Driving the World to Nuclear War
Paul Craig Roberts | Institute for Political Economy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Aug 2022 – Washington dumped three more provocations simultaneously on the Kremlin. The signal it consistently sends is aggression. Why has no government and no presstitute in the West pointed this out? Why provoke a country concerned with its security with more security concerns unless you are trying to widen the war?
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The Marriage of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – I was in London as a guest of Julian Assange and Stella Moris for their wedding, but even on that day the authorities continued their relentless campaign of cruelty against Julian.
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Yemen: The Largest Humanitarian Crisis That No One Discusses
Martin Armstrong | Armstrong Economics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The media rarely reports on Yemen and most journalists likely would not be able to recognize Yemen’s flag. The public does not discuss or shed tears for the people of Yemen who live in unfathomable conditions because they are not a piece of the larger agenda and no one can profit off of their suffering at this time.
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Confession
Raymond Nat Turner | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
“When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators.” —P. J. O’Rourke
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Marzo 2022 – Di recente è stata approvata una modifica della Costituzione Italiana, all’articolo 9. L’inserimento della biodiversità e degli ecosistemi è un passo avanti rispetto al ‘paesaggio’. Viene riconosciuta almeno una parte di Gaia – il nostro pianeta vivente – tra i soggetti da tutelare, anche se c’è ancora qualche ambiguità.
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Ice Shelf Bigger than New York City Breaks Off Eastern Antarctica
Jason Samenow | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
26 Mar 2022 – The first major shelf to collapse in more than four decades of satellite observations. The Conger Ice Shelf, spanning about 460 square miles, shattered off the continent on March 15. Its disintegration has alarmed scientists, who have long considered ice in eastern Antarctica as relatively stable.
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Ukraine Déjà Vu 1984: Political Egocentrism, Nuclear Narcissism and Political Maturity
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – In 1984 I went to the USSR with the Association of Humanistic Psychology as a citizen diplomat during the height of the Soviet-American nuclear arms race. That was the good old days when Reagan called the USSR “the Evil Empire.” I put aside my shyness to become a speaker for Physicians for Social Responsibility on the psychology of the arms race.
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Putin’s Invasion of Ukraine
Ray McGovern, John Mearsheimer | Salon, Committee for the Republic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – To a hammer, everything looks like a nail. To an empire, everything looks like a crisis to justify a multi-trillion-dollar military-industrial-security complex as dictatress of the world. The crisis du jour for the American empire is Russia‘s aggression against Ukraine.
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The Future Is Here: Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – We have arrived into the dystopian future dreamed up by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick. Much like Orwell’s Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate spies now watch our every move. Much like Huxley’s A Brave New World, we are churning out a society of watchers who “have their liberties taken away from them, but … rather enjoy it.
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UN Condemnation of Russia Endorsed by Countries Run by the Richest, Oldest, Whitest People on Earth
Roger Stoll | Internationalist 360° - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
24 Mar 2022 – The statistics below show that only 41% of the world’s people live in countries that joined the US in voting for the UN resolution: Divided World
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Facing Severe Repression, Russians Are Turning to Antiwar Graffiti
Colleen Wood and Alexis Lerner | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – As the Kremlin cracks down on antiwar protests, subversive street art critiquing the war in Ukraine is proliferating across Russia.
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(Italiano) Conflitto NATO/Russia in Ucraina
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – La reazione “rettiliana” dell’Occidente si dimostrerà estremamente autodistruttiva: una lettura di Jan Oberg del conflitto NATO/Russia in Ucraina.
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Biden’s Reckless Words Underscore the Dangers of U.S. Use of Ukraine as a Proxy War
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
27 Mar 2022 – The central question from the start of the war in Ukraine was what role, if any, should the U.S. government play in it? If the U.S. is going to involve itself in this war, what objectives should drive that involvement? Those questions were never considered and it may be too late for them to be examined. But given the stakes, this is as clear a case of better late than never.
→ read full articleThe Evolving Narrative
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – Current Affairs
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U.S. Lied about Funding “Dangerous Pathogen” Research in Secret Ukrainian Biolabs, Newly Leaked Documents Reveal
Dilyana Gaytandzhieva | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – Newly Leaked Documents Reveal Pentagon Contractors Worked Under $80 Million Program Funded by Defense Department but Kept Hidden from Public
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World’s Dullest Editorial Launches Panic
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
23 Mar 2022 – In an inane sequel to the Harper’s Letter fiasco, a New York Times editorial ignites a fury proving its anodyne thesis.
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2021 Amazon Deforestation Map Shows Devastating Impact of Ranching, Agriculture
Maxwell Radwin | Mongabay - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The Andean Amazon Project found that around 1.9 million hectares (4.8 million acres) of primary forest were lost in 2021, mostly as the result of cattle ranching and other agricultural activities.
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The Lie of North American Innocence
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. Our hypocrisy makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible.
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: una prospettiva geopolitica
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Ripresa modificata di una conferenza tenuta il 9 marzo 2022 a una sessione dei Colloqui su Studi Globali all’Università di California – Santa Barbara convocata dal professor Jan Nederveen Pieters, purtroppo priva di una serie di domande impegnative a seguito del mio intervento, fra cui da vari partecipanti in Europa.
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NATO Is Arming and Training Nazis in Ukraine, as US Floods Russia’s Neighbor with Weapons
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
11 Mar 2022 – NATO is sending weapons and trainers to help neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s white-supremacist Azov movement fight Russia. This follows numerous reports of Western government support for Ukrainian far-right extremists.
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Ukrainian Leftist Criticizes Western War Drive with Russia: US Is Using Ukraine as ‘Cannon Fodder’
Yuliy Dubovyk | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – A left-wing peace activist raised in Ukraine explains how the US government created the crisis, backing two coups in a decade, fueling a devastating civil war, and exploiting his nation as a proxy against Russia.
→ read full articleUnited Nations as a Potemkin Institution Faced with Potemkin Crises?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Potential of AI to Enable a Transformative Dynamic through Meta-Discourse – As noted previously, the current global campaign of sanctions against Russia curiously recalls the psychosurgical procedure of lobotomy — much favoured in the USA and the UK subsequent to World War II during the Cold War period.
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From Kyiv to Kabul: The ‘Blessings’ of Civilisation
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – It’s time to put an end to a long history of violence in the name of benevolence.
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A Commune Called ‘Che’: A Socialist Holdout in the Venezuelan Andes
Chris Gilbert | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – Just as the independence struggle had different resonances in the Andes, so too does Venezuela’s project of communal socialism. The region is home to one of the most successful communes in the country and has a solid productive basis (a chocolate factory and coffee cooperative). However, the Che Guevara Commune is markedly different from others.
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(Italiano) Se lo stato abdica alle sue leggi, i comuni hanno il diritto/dovere di disobbedire
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Stavo pensando ad alcune esperienze di resistenza civile in cui la pubblica amministrazione (PA) locale (Comuni) è intervenuta nei conflitti armati e non armati.
→ read full article(Italiano) Centrali nucleari – una ‘tassonomia’ controversa?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Pochi giorni fa, l’11 marzo, in sordina, ricorreva l’undicesimo anniversario della tragedia di Fukushima (in Giappone) Il 26 aprile prossimo saranno trascorsi 27 anni dal disastro di Chernobyl (in Ucraina)
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Transcending the Certainties of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Can we stare into hell and refuse to see . . . an enemy?
→ read full articleBiggest Oil Giants Made ‘Eye-Popping’ $205 Billion in Profits in 2021: Report
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – While millions have been hurt by surging gas prices, a new report from a government watchdog group shows 25 of the world’s biggest fossil fuel corporations in 2021 collectively pulled in $205 billion in profits. Now, fossil fuel giants are trying to “cash in on inflation and the crisis in Ukraine,” said one critic.
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Barcoding Nature: The Largest Global Land Grab in Human History
Meleni Aldridge and Melissa Smith | ANH International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – The commoditization of nature is justified as being driven by the protection of natural resources. But scratch beneath the surface and the greed and avarice is clear to see. Is the largest corporate land grab in recent history hiding in plain sight?
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Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – The Cold War, 1945-1989, was a Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another, and the global corporations able to equate predatory capitalism with freedom. The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives then–and now.
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The UK Supreme Court Won’t Listen to Assange, but the Legal Battle Is Still On
Sara Chessa | Bella Caledonia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
19 Mar 2022 – What are Assange’s lawyers’ options after the Supreme Court refused to listen to his appeal. Why US diplomatic assurances are unacceptable from a human rights point of view.
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Bias(?)
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
In the eyes of the beholder…
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Lockheed and Raytheon–Today’s ‘Masters of War’
Betsey Piette | Workers World -TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Mar 2022 – That the U.S./NATO-instigated war in Ukraine could result in a WWIII is of major concern for all of humanity. Yet for some global billionaires — today’s ‘masters of war’ — this conflict is an opportunity to further boost profits.
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Escaping the Trap of Efficiency: The Counterintuitive Antidote to the Time-Anxiety That Haunts and Hampers Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
“Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster… Since finitude defines our lives… living a truly authentic life — becoming fully human — means facing up to that fact.”
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UK Supreme Court Slams Door on Assange Appeal, Extradition May Be Authorized
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – Without any explanation, the British Supreme Court denied WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange “permission to appeal” a decision by the British High Court. If the British Home Office approves extradition, Assange’s defense may submit an appeal on the issues of freedom of the press.
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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Louis Armstrong | ABC Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Original Spoken Intro Version – 1970
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The Amazon, Undone: Death in the Forest
Terrence McCoy | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
17 Mar 2022 – The groups, which dominate this stretch of the forest, had unleashed a wave of fire and destruction that was transforming much of southern Amazonas state into smoldering pastureland. The way they solve problems is with violence.
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Say Hello to Russian Gold and Chinese Petroyuan
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
15 Mar 2022 – It was a long time coming, but finally some key lineaments of the multipolar world’s new foundations are being revealed. The Russia-led Eurasia Economic Union and China just agreed to design the mechanism for an independent financial and monetary system that would bypass dollar transactions.
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(Italiano) Si può fare la pace con le armi?
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Nei giorni scorsi sono comparsi diversi articoli di autorevoli intellettuali quali Vito Mancuso su «LaStampa»o di politici impegnati come Luigi Manconi su «La Repubblica», in difesa della scelta etica dell’invio di armi all’Ucraina.
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On the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – To grasp this possibility within the context of Ukraine, we need to put aside all talk of morality, rights, international law, and think in terms of great power politics. When a great power feels its existence is threatened, might makes right. You simply can’t understand world politics without thinking at this level. It is a means of clarifying the causes of wars.
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Unique Resource on the Russia/Ukraine Conflict 2022
Rachael Mellor | Better World Info - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Mar 2022 – Better World Info provides a unique peace perspective on the current developments. At over 4,000 links, and growing daily, they feature the conflict from a Western/NATO perspective, Russian perspective, and independent viewpoints.
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Noam Chomsky on Hope and the Barcelona World Conference
Noam Chomsky | IPB International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Second IPB World Peace Congress: Campaign for Peace, Disarmament & Common Security Apr 2021
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A Proposed Solution to the Ukraine War
Greg Mello | Los Alamos Study Group – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – An end to the invasion and war in Ukraine can only be guaranteed if Russia’s security is itself guaranteed. Security is largely indivisible. Security for one state requires security for others, says the Los Alamos Study Group.
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Nation-States Are Destroying the World – Could ‘Bioregions’ Be the Answer?
Shrishtee Bajpai, Juan Manuel Crespo and Ashish Kothari | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – From the border regions of South Asia to the Amazon rainforest, people are seeking new ways to organise societies that respect humans and nature.
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Ukraine, It Was All Written in the Rand Corp Plan
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – How to Destroy Russia–2019 Rand Corporation Report: “Overextending and Unbalancing Russia.” Rand is “a global research organization developing solutions to [USA] policy challenges”: it has an army of 1,800 researchers from 50 countries, speaking 75 languages in North America, Europe, Australia, and the Persian Gulf: more than 25 countries.
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Business as Usual in Munich: White Men Rule the World
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – A photograph from a CEO lunch at this year’s Munich Security Conference yet again demonstrated who continues to run the world.
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Orwell Was Right
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
13 Mar 2022 – From free speech to “spheres of influence” to our passion for endless war, we’ve become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted.
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Victoria Nuland: Ukraine Has “Biological Research Facilities,” Worried Russia May Seize Them
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
9 Mar 2022 – The neocon’s confession sheds critical light on the U.S. role in Ukraine, and raises vital questions about these labs that deserve answers.
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