Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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The Lib Owners
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
5 Jun 2023 – Meanwhile, in the U.S. of A.
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Haiti: Stop the Destruction of a Nation
Seth Donnelly | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
6 Jun 2023 – What’s going on in Haiti today–with all historical context. It is truly a disaster and atrocity on a massive scale.
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(Italiano) Dichiarazione di Vienna per la Pace
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
11 Giugno 2023 – La società civile internazionale con la Dichiarazione di Vienna per la Pace: “Servono negoziati che possano rafforzare la logica della Pace invece dell’illogica della guerra”.
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A History of Ceasefires & Peace in Ukraine
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
14 Jun 2023 – Negotiations, ceasefires, armistices and peace agreements are as old as wars themselves. Every war ends with some version of one of them. To stop the killing in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, people of conscience must do everything they can to make negotiations for a ceasefire become a reality.
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International Criminal Court Advancing Global Injustice, Unaccountability and Criminal Agenda against Guardians of Peace
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
“Rise, O’ all you intelligent, righteous humanoids”. Just as the war in Ukraine has become a festering sore in the politically motivated, combined, western, proxy war against Russia, the plight of Palestinians is a chronic human rights violation, festering, as an ulcer, already systemic in its manifestations, generated by Israel in its ongoing philosophy of ethnic cleansing. In reality it is a genocide, which is obfuscated by various institutes and governments for their personal support of the Zionist agenda.
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US Tells Another Bedtime Story to Scare Away Normal Relations with China and Cuba
Manolo De Los Santos and Kate Gonzales | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
9 Jun 2023 – Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published an article claiming that China has plans to set up a “spy base” in Cuba to “eavesdrop” on the United States and “identify potential strike targets.”
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Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (5)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
Quoted from the Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi.
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Assange: An Unholy Masquerade of Tyranny Disguised as Justice
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
15 Jun 2023 – Hitler did not need to manufacture lawyers and judges. The majority of German lawyers participated actively in Nazi laws’ development and implementation. Julian Assange’s persecution has nothing to do with the law. It is a simple demonstration of the crushing power of the state.
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John F Kennedy Broke the Rules of the Zero-Sum Game. Will His Nephew Learn How This Was Done?
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
12 Jun 2023 – Recently, presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy Jr delivered an interview where he called upon Joe Biden to follow through on the promise to declassify all reports relating to his uncle’s 1963 assassination…
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Why Is U.S. Media Blind to Washington’s War Atrocities?
Norman Solomon | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
15 Jun 2023 – Nationalism masquerading as journalism covers war in darkness telling us for whom the bell tolls. When Russia invaded Ukraine, the U.S. media were all-hands-on-deck with empathetic, poignant reporting via TV, radio, print, and online outlets. But when U.S. missiles and bombs hit population centers over the previous two decades, the human tragedies rarely got anything more than short shrift in the U.S. media.
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How Torture, Deception and Inaction Underpin the UAE’s Thriving Sex Trafficking Industry
Maggie Michael | ICIJ - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
12 Jun 2023 – An underground network of suspected sex traffickers has taken refuge in the wealthy Gulf nation. The U.S. State Department says efforts to identify and protect victims have fallen short.
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On Today’s Explosive Coronavirus Story
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
13 Jun 2023 – As months-long joint investigation goes public, some additional details and context.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
Biden’s response to the Russian attack on Ukraine was not for a ceasefire and diplomatic compromise but for weaponry and assistance to sustain a prolonged war as a demonstration of US-led NATO resurgence; not motivated by the defense of Ukraine but by an overwhelming interest in humiliating Putin and defeating Russia. Not only this.
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Pseudo-Nationalism Is About Political Desperation and Sure Sign of Economic Collapse
Kedar Neupane - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
15 Jun 2023 – Perception matters. Nepal’s perception in business world is perhaps zero, to say the least. Economic scenarios have completely changed from the time of “baby boomer” generation days of the 50s.
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ICAN: Global Spending on Nuclear Arsenals Increased in 2022 for Third Year in a Row
Rete Italiana Pace e Disarmo | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
15 Jun 2023 – In 2022 the nuclear-weapon states spent five thousand dollars more per minute on their nuclear arsenals than in 2021: US$ 157 664 (or € 149 938).
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Emergence of a New Non-Alignment
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
15 Jun 2023 – A new mood of defiance in the Global South has generated bewilderment in the capitals of the Triad (USA, EU, Japan), where officials are struggling to answer why governments in the Global South have not accepted the Western view of the conflict in Ukraine in its efforts to ‘weaken Russia’.
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Peace by Peaceful Means
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
The 11 Jun 2023 Vienna Declaration for Peace has taken a TRANSCEND Media focus as its title is “Peace by Peaceful Means: Ceasefire and Negotiations”. Some 300 persons from 38 countries met in Vienna on 10-11 Jun to discuss the armed conflict in Ukraine and the possibilities of negotiations in good faith to end it.
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Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92
Harrison Smith and Patricia Sullivan | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
16 Jun 2023 – Leaker of the top-secret history of the Vietnam War that enraged the Nixon administration–serving as the catalyst for White House-directed burglaries and “dirty tricks” that snowballed into the Watergate scandal–died today in California. He was 92. Rest in Peace Daniel Ellsberg.
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Environmental Pollution — Efforts at Reducing Pollution
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
We live in a world today that is highly polluting.
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The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of Journalism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
17 Jun 2023 – Julian Assange’s legal options have nearly run out. He could be extradited to the U.S. this week. Should he be convicted in the U.S., any reporting on the inner workings of power will become a crime. Julian may be imprisoned for journalism, but he won’t be the only one.
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Multiple Articles–U.S. Air Warfare Report
Stephen Losey | Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
19 Jun 2023 – News from the Source of War and Destruction
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The Hegemon Will Go Full Hybrid War Against BRICS+
Pepe Escobar | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
The Hybrid War 2.0 against the Global South has not even started. Swing states, you have all been warned.
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The Fifth Estate
Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
Designed with three purposes in mind. First: a coherent overview of US foreign policies covering the wars, military interventions and major doctrines over 245 years. Each entry draws on the work of experts, summarizing major developments, analyzing causes and contexts, and providing links to additional information and resources. The second one…
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Provocative NATO Undermines Security of the Nordic Region
Jan Oberg | Global Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
NATO has had the time since 1949 to make peace. We know now that it can’t. Joining it is a gift to militarism and future warfare instead of the much-needed and eminently possible peace with human security.
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Rest in Peace Daniel Ellsberg
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
16 Jun 2023 – One of US’ most courageous men, who took on the most powerful government in the world to expose its lies about the Vietnam war, has died at 92.
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Tujh Mein Rab Dikhta Hai (Music Video of the Week)
Roop Kumar Rathod – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
It was filmed in various locations, symbolising the unity and diversity of different religious places. The song showcases the main characters’ journey and their quest for love and spirituality.
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Thank You for Your Service
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
Thank you for your service.
I say this to the peacemakers.
To the truth-tellers.
To the defiant ones.
What Manages the Bilderberg Group?
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
31 May 2023 – I was invited to discuss the real power managing the Bilderberg Group and the peculiar role of Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, Prince Philip Mountbatten, and broader Anglo-Dutch component of the international oligarchy. (2 Parts)
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A New Refutation of Time: Borges on the Most Paradoxical Dimension of Existence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
“Time is the substance I am made of. Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger which destroys me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire which consumes me, but I am the fire.”
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Uprising 1953 and War Today
Victor Grossman – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
17 Jun 2023 – June 17th is a special day in the German calendar. This year it marks the 70th anniversary of the uprising in the German Democratic Republic. On that day in 1953 perhaps a million East Germans left their jobs, marched, seized government buildings, opened prison doors and voiced their demands.
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Partners in Doomsday
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jun 2023
17 Jun 2023 – As Ukraine begins a counter-offensive and Biden’s hawks look on, new rhetoric out of Russia points to a revival of the nuclear threat.
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Guess Who Is the Worst Enemy of the Oceans (and Everywhere Else)?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – Oceans produce 50% of the Planet’s oxygen while absorbing 30% of carbon dioxide produced by humans, buffering the impacts of global warming. The bad news is that, with 90% of big fish populations depleted and 50% of coral reefs destroyed, human beings are taking more than can be replenished by the oceans.
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Journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow & Crimea (Part 3)
Dan Kovalik and Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Reflections on Russia & Crimea: The Hate Goes One Way
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Track Two Diplomacy Efforts Needed to Reduce China-India Frontier Tensions
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
9 Jun 2023 – There has been a buildup of military forces by the governments of India and China along their frontiers. The Indian province of Arunachal Pradesh (called Zangman by the Chinese) with Itanagar as its capital is claimed by the Chinese.
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Dr. Cornel West Announces He Is Running for U.S. President
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
5 Jun 2023 – Dr. Cornel West, in his first interview since deciding to enter the U.S. presidential race, explains why he is a candidate.
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(Italiano) Alcune note sulla teoria dell’Evoluzione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
31 Maggio 2023 – Si fa un gran parlare di evoluzione e pace; avendoci lavorato su di tanto in tanto, ecco alcune note sulla teoria dell’evoluzione.
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Pressure Mounts against US Occupation of Northeast Syria
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
3 Jun 2023 – Russian and Syrian Reinforcements on Their Way to East of the Euphrates – Any Syrian moves to expel the US military from Syrian territory are justified under international law and the US should be aware that its reign of terror is coming to an end.
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Achieving Growth as a Constraint
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Let us take a closer look at the systemic imperative to do whatever must be done to achieve growth.
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Forbidden Stories: The Bruno and Dom Amazon Project
Forbidden Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – “This story must be told.” A collaborative investigation coordinated by Forbidden Stories, which involves over 50 journalists from 16 media organisations to continue the work of Bruno Pereira and Dom Phillips. We pursued their work because our future depends on it.
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Leaks Reveal FBI Helps Ukraine Censor Twitter Users and Obtain Their Info
Aaron Maté | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – The Federal Bureau of Investigation has aided a Ukrainian intelligence effort to censor social media users and obtain their personal information, leaked emails reveal.
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‘We’re the Dirty Little Secret Nobody Wants to Talk About,’ Says Man Injured by COVID Vaccine
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – Injured by the COVID19 vaccine–that his employer forced him to get–Stephen Wenger is now unable to work full-time and is facing more than $70,000 in medical bills: exclusive interview.
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Over 800 Million Trees Felled to Feed Appetite for Beef from Brazil
Andrew Wasley, et al. | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – More than 800 million trees have been cut down in the Amazon rainforest in just six years to feed the world’s appetite for Brazilian beef, despite the climate crisis. A data-driven investigation by TBIJ, the Guardian, Repórter Brasil and Forbidden Stories shows systematic and vast forest loss linked to cattle farming.
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Is the UAE in Control in Somalia?
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – Many Somalis think that the United Arab Emirates is now as much or more in charge in Somalia than the Somali government.
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“Just War” and Just War Theory
Vladislav B. Sotirović | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
4 Jun 2023 – A most disputed topic in regard to wars is the idea of a Just War–a war founded on justice, caused and conducted in the name of humanity such as self-defense or protection of minority groups.
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In China, German Lawmaker Calls for End to Sanctions, an ‘Instrument of War’ (That Backfires on Europe)
Sevim Dağdelen | Geopolitical Economy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
The following is a speech that Sevim Dağdelen, a member of the German Bundestag, delivered at the Shanghai International Studies University in China on 5 Jun 2023. Dağdelen is the coordinator for the Left Party parliamentary group on the Bundestag’s Committee on Foreign Affairs and spokeswoman for international politics. She visited China to promote peace and cooperation.
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Bolero (Music Video of the Week)
Maurice Ravel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Performed by the WDR Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Alondra de la Parra
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African Union Advances Peace Plan for Sudan after the Failure of U.S.-Saudi Mediation
Abayomi Azikiwe – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
6 Jun 2023 – Fighting Reportedly Has Intensified after the Armed Forces Withdrew from Talks in Jeddah
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Doing Harm: How the World’s Largest Psychological Association Lost Its Way in the War on Terror
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Roy Eidelson’s searing and important book tells a sordid chapter in the APA’s history, offering a cautionary tale about how professional organizations can stray to the ‘dark side’ in a climate of fear and conformity.
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Rehearsed Lives and Planned History
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
“Certain lies are too big to fail, for if they did and entered the official histories as truths, they would be preserved, not to be forgotten. Then society could deal with their implications.”
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India and Pakistan: Forbidden Truths of People and Cultures Revive Interwoven Passions
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Legacy of British Colonialism and Loss of Strategic Direction
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Sights and Sounds Galore
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
See the background — hills, mountains, rivers, gardens, forests
All standing, full of colours, sounds, along paths with twists
Requiem for Our Species
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
11 Jun 2023 – The effects of the climate crisis intrude with increasing regularity into our lives and yet we do not act. We are as paralyzed as past civilizations were when facing catastrophic destruction.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Old age is not a curse but one had to be careful to cope up with it. It is not the same for everyone. Some people become authors or musicians or politicians at old age. Whatever you may become, just be honest and lead a good life without fear or distress.
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A Memorial Day to Remember What, Exactly?
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Memorial Day USA [Revisited]
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John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Ethology: The Study of Inherited Behavior Patterns – Charles Darwin’s observations convinced him that in humans, just as in other mammals, the emotions and their expression are to a very large extent inherited universal characteristics of the species.
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Importance of Bhagavad-gita in This Day and Age
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Most everyone hears about the Bhagavad-gita, but do they know how profound is the knowledge it provides? It is the core of the deepest levels of spiritual understanding. It is also a handbook for life, like when you purchase a refrigerator, television or computer you get a manual that teaches you how to use it properly.
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I Came Out to My MIT Classmates as a “Conspiracy Theorist”
Madhava Setty | An Insult to Intuition - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – I decided to drop some truth-bombs at my college reunion last week. Here’s what happened…
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US Anti-tank Weapons Shipped to Kiev Now in Hands of Mexican Gangs
PressTV | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
5 Jun 2023 – A video footage broadcast in a Mexican news report has shown a Mexican gang member carrying a US-made Javelin anti-tank missile launcher, thousands of which were shipped to Ukraine for use against Russian forces.
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UK: Julian Assange Dangerously Close to Extradition Following High Court Rejection of Appeal
RSF/Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023 – RSF is deeply concerned by the UK High Court’s rejection of the WikiLeaks publisher’s appeal, bringing him close to being extradited to the US where he could face life in prison for publishing leaked classified documents in 2010.
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Bridging the Gap between Peacebuilders and Environmentalists
Tia Savarese | Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – Conflict, environmental threats and disasters, climate change, and food insecurity are often separate issues with different solutions. However, they are directly related and it is essential to remove the divisions to create common solutions.
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BRICS New Development Bank De-Dollarizing, Adding Members
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
The BRICS bloc’s New Development Bank, an alternative to the US-dominated World Bank, is de-dollarizing its loans, promoting local currencies, and adding new members: Argentina, Saudi Arabia, and Zimbabwe.
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The Acrimonious and Targeted Destruction of Houses of God: Climax of Religiophobia
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
The targeted vandalisation, demolition, destruction and repurposing of existing religious structures is the final outcome of a total loss of spirituality; humans have reached an abysmal state in their social evolution, defying all norms of civilisation and culture acquired over millennia by humanoids.
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Bubba the Bullet
Monte Wolverton | Cagle Cartoons - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Be Responsible!
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You Sure You Want to Eat That Sentient Being?
Robert Scheer & Peter Singer - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
Peter Singer’s classic work on animal welfare, remastered for the modern age, remains a timeless source of the lessons he has passionately conveyed for the past 50 years.
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Snowden Warns Today’s Surveillance Technology Makes 2013 Look Like ‘Child’s Play’
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023 – “We trusted the government not to screw us,” said Edward Snowden. “But they did. We trusted the tech companies not to take advantage of us. But they did. That is going to happen again, because that is the nature of power.”
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France Is Reportedly Making a Principled Stand against NATO’s Expansion to Asia
Andrew Korybko | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
7 Jun 2023 – The Financial Times cited eight sources who revealed that France is preventing the opening of NATO’s liaison office in Japan. Macron’s position is predicated on his assessment of France’s national interests.
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Quitting Time
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
30 May 2023 – AI Times
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Bangladesh Must Suspend Plans to Return Rohingya Refugees to Myanmar: Rights Expert
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
8 Jun 2023 – Bangladesh must “immediately suspend” a pilot repatriation project for Rohingya refugees to return to Myanmar, where they face “serious risks” to their lives and freedom, a UN-appointed independent rights expert said today.
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56 Years of Israeli Occupation: Explaining the Palestinian ‘Naksa’
Yumna Patel | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
5 Jun 2023 – Today Palestinians mark 56 years of Israeli military occupation. When Palestinians commemorate the Naksa, it is not only loss of life and land but also the military occupation that strips them of their rights to life, freedom, dignity and self-determination.
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As US Considers Reoccupying Haiti, History Shows Occupation Is the Root Problem
Danny Shaw | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
6 Jun 2023 – The tragedy unfolding in Haiti is a direct result of over a century of U.S. political, military and economic coercion.
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15 Reasons Why Media Don’t Do Journalism
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2023
4 Jun 2023 – Mass Media Employees Act Like Propagandists
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Freedom in Diversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Now is the time to reject the industrial agriculture model, a model that came from and behaves like war. Industrial agriculture is destroying life on Earth, the role of women in food and farming, our health, and the health of the planet.
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The U.S. Military in Hawaii: The Dark Side of Paradise!
Jim Albertini | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – The Hawaiian Islands are viewed as the Paradise in the Pacific–image promoted by the tourist industry. But Hawaii has a very different dark side as one of the most militarized places in the world and a long history of illegal U.S. occupation.
→ read full articleOf the Sahel and the Merchants of Death
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – There is a trafficking web across the Sahel spanning 6.000 kilometres–from Atlantic Ocean to Red Sea–home to more than 300 million people in 10 countries: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Chad, The Gambia, Guinea, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, and Senegal.
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Use of ChatGPT to Clarify Possibility of Dialogue of Higher Quality
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Implications for “Yes” and “No” Campaigns on Controversial Issues
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Against Involuntary Death
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – I recently celebrated my 85th birthday, an event that clearly lands me in “the valley of the shadow of death,” as King David so neatly put it. For a self-donated birthday present I gave myself permission to talk publicly about the more general implications of this situation in a way that some people may consider irritating or tasteless.
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International Day of the Oceans
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
8 June has been designated by the UNGA as the International Day of the Oceans to highlight the important role that the U.N. played in the creation of the 1982 Law of the Sea Convention. -Progress on Asian Maritime Delimitations Needed-
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The High Costs of Military Air Shows
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
A Short History: Squandering the Planet’s Increasingly Scarce Fossil Fuels for our Amusement
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Putin, South Africa, and the International Criminal Court
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
31 May 2023 – The Upcoming BRICS Meetings in South Africa – The West has deployed the International Criminal Court in the US/NATO proxy war with Russia in Ukraine.
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U.S. Empire Named Most Murderous Killing Machine in History
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
30 May 2023 – New Study Finds U.S. Responsible for Nearly 300 Million Deaths—and Counting
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Dan Kovalik and Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Eyewitness Crimea – In May of this year, we took the long, 27-hour train ride from Moscow to Crimea to see how life is there and what the sentiment of the people are as the US and Ukraine sharpen their threats to “recapture” this peninsula from Russia.
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Peace Disruption (Part 2): Palestine’s Killing Fields–The End Must Go On
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Endless, 75 years of apartheid Israel’s discrimination, tyranny, oppression, massacres of women and children, targeted ethnic cleansing and displacement of indigenous Palestinians, marked by the total silence of world religious leaders.
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Blinken Dismisses Calls for a Ceasefire–Says US Must Build Up Ukraine’s Military
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – The US will focus on arming Ukraine and not on a negotiated settlement: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken laid out a plan to massively expand Kiev’s military before talks begin.
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(Italiano) Etica nella Ricerca negli Atenei Torinesi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
“Quando ragioniamo di etica della ricerca pensiamo alla sua libertà, al suo pluralismo, a un’etica che non risponde a una qualsivoglia morale ma ai valori costituzionali del nostro Paese”.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
A cliché often repeated is that India is a land of diversities of all types: religious, political, economic, linguistic, geographic, ethnic, cultural, and food or cuisine-gastronomy.
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Iran to Join Shanghai Cooperation Organization in July
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said today that his country’s accession to the SCO will be completed in the next summit on 4 Jul under the chairmanship of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
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(Français) L’Hypocrisie des Sanctions Économiques
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Les sanctions économiques sont-elles une violation des droits de l’Homme ?
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Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Resurrecting the Concept of the Triad – Following the end of the Second World War, the United States built an international system that was premised on the subordination and integration of Japan and Europe.
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Another Look at the U.S. Financial Transactions Tax That Could Eliminate Need for All Others
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – A small financial transactions tax could correct a number of maladies in the US economic system, from the federal debt crisis to the widening wealth divide to the rampant financialization of the economy, while eliminating taxes on income and sales.
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The Hypocrisy of Economic Sanctions
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
1 Jun 2023 – Are economic sanctions a violation of human rights?
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Spirituality Negation in Religions: A Catalyst for Global Peace Disruption
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
This publication discusses Spirituality as one of the multifaceted elements, of the pillars of religious beliefs and ritualistic ideologies of humanoids, since evolution.
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What’s Your Sign
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
26 May 2023 – Say, what?
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Saudi Arabia Set to Join BRICS’ New Development Bank
Ahmed Adel | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
31 May 2023 – The ties between the BRICS bank and Saudi Arabia signals an advancement in the de-dollarisation of the global economy. This week, Saudi Arabia held talks to join BRICS’ New Development Bank as its ninth member, a decision not only economic but also political.
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When Will US Join Global Call to End Ukraine War?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
30 May 2023 – Peace initiatives to end the war in Ukraine being pursued around the world, and the grassroots movement that supports them, as the US is determined to prolong it at great cost in Ukrainian lives and risk of nuclear war.
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USA: Disconnecting War from Its Consequences
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
31 May 2023 – Twenty-two years ago, Congress put sanity up for a vote. It lost in the House, 420-1 and in the Senate, 98-0. Barbara Lee’s was the lone vote against the Authorization for the Use of Military Force resolution. Militarism keeps expanding. If there’s a problem out there, option one is to kill it quickly. Problem solved!
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
I recently discussed Biden’s and U.S. Democratic Party’s foreign policies with a friend in the peace movement. He agreed that to call these policies “imperialist” was, if anything, an understatement: “In the American two-party system, there is no lesser evil to vote for or support.” No lesser evil?
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Consciousness – Viññana Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Monks, eye-consciousness is inconstant, changeable, alterable. Ear-consciousness… Nose-consciousness… Tongue-consciousness… Body-consciousness… Intellect-consciousness are inconstant, changeable, alterable.
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The Polarities of Democracy from Conception to Execution
Bill Benet, PhD | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Abstract: People around the globe have embraced democracy to bring about positive social change to address our environmental, economic, and militaristic challenges. Yet, there is no agreement on a definition of democracy that can guide social change efforts. The polarities of democracy present a unifying theory of democracy to guide healthy, sustainable, and just social change efforts.
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Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Quoted from the Tao Te Ching, a Chinese classic text written around 400 BC and traditionally credited to the sage Laozi.
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The Democratic Party’s Crucifixion of Matt Taibbi
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
28 May 2023 – Extensive government blacklists, revealed by the Twitter Files, are used to censor left-wing and right-wing critics. This censorship apparatus has been turned on the reporter who exposed them.
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