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Worthy and Unworthy Victims
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – Dividing the world into worthy and unworthy victims is a tactic used to justify our crimes and demonize our enemies. Conflicts will not be solved until all nations abide by international law and all victims are deemed worthy.
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Nature as a Mode of Accumulation: Capitalism and the Financialization of the Earth
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – From Sep-Nov 2021, overlapping with the UN Climate Change Conference, three major developments in global finance marked a turning point in the financial expropriation of the earth and a shift in the economic paradigm to unlimited accumulation of total capital, which is now seen as including “natural capital.”
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Arms Flood into Ukraine as US, NATO Pursue Proxy War over Peace
Kit Klarenberg | The Dissenter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
8 Mar 2022 – In the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the country has been flooded with weapons and military hardware from Europe and North America. The strategy significantly expands the growth prospects for military companies like Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman.
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Putin’s Criminal Invasion of Ukraine Highlights Some Ugly Truths about U.S. and NATO
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – The fact that Putin is trying to justify the unjustifiable in Ukraine does not mean we must ignore the U.S. actions that fuel his narrative.
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Life Goes on, Right?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
9 Mar 2022 – I had a breakthrough yesterday — and I don’t mean metaphorically. Wars rage, countless humans suffer, the rich get richer, life goes on. I still have my morning coffee. But not yesterday.
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The Russian Invasion of Ukraine through My Burmese Eyes
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
13 Mar 2022 – None of the leading liberal democracies of the West really honours the principles they loudly espouse such as nonviolence, popular and state sovereignty, human rights, or democracy, nor do they support democratic resistance, armed or nonviolent, unless such support serves their hidden interests, whether commercial or geostrategic.
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Owning the Libs
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Current Affairs…
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The Ukraine War: A Geopolitical Perspective
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Talk on 9 Mar 2022 at the Global Studies Colloquium, UCSB. When we agreed on a theme for my presentation, we were in a pre-Ukraine world. Interim developments: the imprudent US-led provocations, Russian aggression against a sovereign state of over 44 million people, the confrontational Western sanctions, and a surging Russophobia produced a win/lose calculus rather than partial win/win political outcomes.
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(Italiano) Da Gaia a Tecno-Gaia… e poi?
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
“Voglio finire presto, perché ho bisogno di staccare la mente e di immergermi nella consapevolezza gloriosa e sensuale delle connessioni tra la grande atmosfera, i germogli primaverili, la profondità del tempo dell’evoluzione e il mio umile respiro. Inspiro. Espiro…
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U.S. and NATO’s Unprecedented Weapons Transfers to Ukraine Could Prolong the War
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – The USA, world’s largest arms dealer, is leading an effort to dramatically increase the flow of weapons to the government in Kyiv. The weapons transfers represent a significant escalation of Western involvement and nations must ask themselves whether it is more or less likely to help end the horrifying violence being imposed on Ukraine’s civilian population.
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Extremely Important Statements by Putin (MUST SEE!)
Andrei | The Saker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – This is such an important statement that I am also posting the transcript below. In this exchange, Putin spells out in quite some details WHAT Russia is doing and WHY she is doing it. — Andrei
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Understanding the War in Ukraine
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
8 Mar 2022 – The United States wants “to organize chaos between Russia and the Europeans.” Peace in Ukraine “is a matter of reconciliation between NATO and the new global powers, Russia and China.”
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It’s Time to Ask: What Would a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal Look Like?
Anatol Lieven | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – The West is morally right to oppose the illegal Russian war and to impose severe sanctions on Russia, but would be morally wrong to oppose an agreement to end the invasion and spare the people of Ukraine terrible suffering. America’s own record over the past generation gives no basis for such self-righteous hyper-legalism.
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Virology of Ideas and Colonialism
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
12 Mar 2022 – This brilliant talk by a Nobel Prize Winner George Smith on “The Virology of Ideas — An Indispensable Pandemic” calls us to a higher level of (re)thinking our world.
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Some Lives Are More Valuable Than Others
Andrew Mitrovica | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
8 Mar 2022 – According to Western Media’s Coverage of the Ukraine War
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How the Great Zen Master and Peace Activist Thich Nhat Hanh Found Himself and Lost His Self in a Library Epiphany
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
“To live, we must die every instant. We must perish again and again in the storms that make life possible.”
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Richard Falk on Peace, War, and the Life of a Citizen Pilgrim
David Swanson | Talk World Radio – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
11 May 2021 – Richard Falk is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and Chair of Global Law, Queen Mary University London. Since 2009 he has been annually nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. His political memoir, Public Intellectual: Life of a Citizen Pilgrim was published by Clarity Press in Feb 2021.
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Follow the Money: US Sanctions–Will Russia Be Able to Bypass Western Economic Warfare?
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The US and EU are over-reaching on Russian sanctions. The end result could be the de-dollarization of the global economy and massive commodity shortages worldwide.
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Vandana Shiva on the Dangers of Philanthrocapitalism
Vandana Shiva | Nonviolence Radio Team – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Physicist, ecologist and prolific author Vandana Shiva discusses her new book, “Philanthrocapitalism and the Erosion of Democracy,“ which identifies a new form of colonialism turning us away from each other and the Earth.
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Severing the Russian Hemisphere as Problematic Global Lobotomy?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – Engendering a Transformative Dynamic through the Potential of Meta-Discourse – 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.
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A Guide for Peace in Ukraine: A Humanist and Nonviolent Proposal from Portugal
Redação Portugal | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – The Centre for Humanist Studies “Exemplary Actions”, the Portuguese branch of the World Centre for Humanist Studies, an organism of the Humanist Movement, is disseminating a non-violent proposal for the restoration of peace in Ukraine, inviting citizens and non-governmental organisations who identify with it to sign it and send it.
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Ukrainian Refugees to Portugal Will Have Over 11,500 Jobs to Choose from
Natasha Donn | Portugal Resident - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – As the government announced earlier this week, bureaucratic details like temporary residence authorisation/social security, fiscal and SNS State health Service numbers, will all be fast-tracked to make this transition for new arrivals as simple as possible.
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Ukraine: A Conflict Soaked in Contradictions and New Patterns in War and Media
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – The world has become used to military interventions by the United States. This is, however, not a U.S. intervention. That in itself is a surprise—one that has befuddled reporters and pundits alike. It is valuable to step back and look at how the rest of the world may perceive this conflict, starting with the West’s ethnocentric interests.
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The Frailty of Peace in the Midst of War
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Prior to any analysis of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, prior to the casting of blame and outrage — at Putin’s hubris, at NATO’s pernicious eastward expansion over the last three decades — there’s this:
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Ukraine: How Close Was the Nuclear Plant Attack to Catastrophe?
Esme Stallard and Victoria Gill | BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – Buildings at the Zaporizhzhia plant–the largest in Europe–were damaged after it was hit by shelling. UN’s nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency says that none of the safety systems at the plant were affected, and there was no release of radioactive material.
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The Risk of Nuclear Disaster in Ukraine
Bennett Ramberg | Project-Syndicate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Of all the obvious dangers that come with war, one of the most far-reaching in the current Russia-Ukraine conflict has been woefully underappreciated. Even if commanders took pains to avoid striking Ukraine’s 15 nuclear power reactors, that might not be enough to avoid a catastrophe.
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The Dangerous Assumption That Violence Keeps Us Safe
George Lakey | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
26 Feb 2022 – A romanticized belief in violence renders people irrational to the point of hurting ourselves, over and over again. One of the most popular — and dangerous — assumptions in the world is that violence keeps us safe.
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So This Is What It Looks Like When the Corporate Media Opposes a War
Jeff Cohen | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Having worked inside mainstream U.S. media during the beginning of the “War on Terror” and run-up to the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the differences in today’s war coverage are dizzying to me. Major American media outlets oppose military aggression… unless the United States is doing it.
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See Saw
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
21 Feb 2022 – Please clarify…
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Toxic Nostalgia, from Putin to Trump to the Trucker Convoys
Naomi Klein | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – War is reshaping our world. Will we harness that urgency for climate action or succumb to a final, deadly oil and gas boom?
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(Français) La Chute de Poutine – Un Déjà-vu
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
J’ai travaillé par intermittence en Union Soviétique dans les années 1970 et 1980 et j’ai observé le crash de l’Empire Soviétique – de l’intérieur. Il y avait trois causes principales: la perte de valeur du rouble, la perte de la guerre en Afghanistan et la perte de confiance du peuple.
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The Curse of NATO
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The war over Ukraine is an example of the curse of NATO. Russia reacted to the possibility of Ukraine being in NATO. This is not irrational in that US/NATO has over 750 military bases around the world, and many of these bases appear to be there to militarily encircle Russia (and China).
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I Want You Back (Music Video of the Week)
The Jackson 5 | The Ed Sullivan Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
The Jackson 5 on The Ed Sullivan Show December 14, 1969
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They Are ‘Civilized’ and ‘Look Like Us’: The Racist Coverage of Ukraine
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Are Ukrainians more deserving of sympathy than Afghans and Iraqis? Many seem to think so.
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Ukraine and the Orwellian “Ministry of Truth”: The Attack Was Launched by NATO Eight Years Ago
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Mar 2022 – Commissioner Ursula von der Leyen announced that the EU is banning Sputnik and Russia Today so that “they can no longer spread their lies to justify Putin’s war with their toxic disinformation in Europe”. The EU thus officially establishes the Orwellian Ministry of Truth.
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Navigating our Humanity: Ilan Pappé on the Four Lessons from Ukraine
Ilan Pappé | The Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – The USA Today reported that a photo that went viral about a high-rise in the Ukraine being hit by Russian bombing turned out to be a high-rise from the Gaza Strip, demolished by the Israeli Air Force in May 2021. Legitimizing internationally the invasion of sovereign countries and licensing the continued colonization and oppression of others, such as Palestine and its people, will lead to more tragedies, such as the Ukrainian one, in the future.
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The Fall of Putin – a Déjà vu
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – Déjà vu. I worked on and off in the Soviet Union during the 1970’s and 1980’s and I watched the crash of the Soviet Empire – from inside. Three main causes: the loss of value of the ruble, the loss of the war in Afghanistan and the loss of confidence of the people.
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Militarism Is Never the Answer
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – The West has always demonized Russia and ignored its border security. The US has successfully stoked another war because NATO always needs an enemy–Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria—and they have now turned their sights back to Russia. It will be the Europeans who reap the fall out of another US/NATO folly.
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(Italiano) La Russia non doveva bombardare l’Ucraina: c’erano alternative
Jan Oberg, Ph.D.| Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Marzo 2022 – Un giorno o due prima dell’attacco russo all’Ucraina, scrissi che la Russia NON avrebbe invaso l’Ucraina. La notizia del mattino del 24 febbraio francamente mi scioccò e mi intristì molto.
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Climate Change: IPCC Report Warns of ‘Irreversible’ Impacts of Global Warming
Matt McGrath | BBC - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
28 Feb 2022 – Many of the impacts of global warming are now simply “irreversible” according to the UN’s latest assessment.
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(Italiano) Quale pedagogia nei conflitti
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
1 Marzo 2022 – Questi appunti su quale pedagogia nei conflitti li ho scritti pensando a Gene Sharp che è stato per diversi anni direttore del Program of nonviolent sanctions del Center for International Affair della Harward University.
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The Four Buddhist Mantras for Turning Fear into Love
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
“When you love someone, the best thing you can offer that person is your presence.”
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The War-Profiteering Gangsters Will Kill Us All Unless We Unite against Them
Roger Waters | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
3 Mar 2022 – Western media simplifies the conflict in Ukraine in ways that divide us. But what if instead, we chose to unite against those who profit from all wars throughout the world?
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What You Should ‘Really’ Know about Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
As tensions began to rise over Ukraine, US media produced articles attempting to explain the situation: “Ukraine Explained” (New York Times, 12/8/21) and “What You Need to Know About Tensions Between Ukraine and Russia” (Washington Post, 11/26/21). But to truly understand this crisis, you would need to know much more than what these articles offered.
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Ukraine versus Iraq — Humanitarian Intervention versus Invasion?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – Russian “Peacekeeping” or another “Forever War” – With the emphasis so emphatically placed on “invasion”, little is said of the possibility of “humanitarian intervention” — let alone of the meaning of any form of “promise” not to invade.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – We continue to be threatened by the culture of war, which, as usual in recent history, is monopolized by the nation states.
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Whistleblower Exposes Credit Suisse’s Bankrolling of Spy Chiefs Involved in CIA Torture
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – A major global journalism project called “Suisse Secrets” revealed the names of criminals and corrupt government officials who had Credit Suisse accounts, including spy agency chiefs implicated in the CIA’s torture program.
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Leak Exposes Ericsson’s Secret Dealings with ISIS amid Iraq Corruption Spree
Sydney P. Freedberg, Maggie Michael and Amir Musawy | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – The embattled Swedish telecom giant concealed years of bribery and fraud in the war-torn nation and grappled with undisclosed corruption allegations in more than a dozen other countries.
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The Situation in Russia and Ukraine – Why Is Ukraine the West’s Fault?
Prof. John Mearsheimer | King’s Politics/The University of Chicago – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
John J. Mearsheimer is Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago since 1982. He graduated from West Point in 1970 and then served five years as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. In 2020 he won the James Madison Award from the American Political Science Association to “an American political scientist who has made a distinguished scholarly contribution to political science.”
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Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Febbraio 2022 – La prima reazione che viene spontanea di fronte a quanto sta accadendo in queste ore non troppo lontano dai nostri confini è lo sconforto, unito a sgomento e dolore. Di fronte alla prospettiva di tante vite distrutte solo il silenzio è adeguato. Poi, però, di fronte alla guerra, segue il bisogno di capire, di riflettere e di agire.
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The ICJ and the Issue of Lawful Representation in The Gambia v Myanmar
John Packer, Gregory Stanton, Nathalie Chaar, Loujain El-Sahli, and Bailey Pelletier | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
18 Feb 2022 – Ahead of the scheduled public hearings in The Gambia v Myanmar (the Rohingya genocide case) at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the University of Ottawa Human Rights Research and Education Centre, Canada, the Genocide Watch of USA and FORSEA release a comprehensive legal analysis. It focuses on the crucial question of who should lawfully speak for Myanmar before the ICJ as Myanmar’s coup resulted in an unprecedented situation with no recognized government or even regime with effective control of the state.
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Assange Affirms the Existence of another Kind of Human Nature
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
** Statement made at the Belmarsh Tribunal on 25 Feb 2022 ** Beyond his great public service with WikiLeaks, it is his unwillingness to surrender his integrity and dignity that is key to understanding why the powers that be continue to crucify him.
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Veganism vs. Cruelty-Free Products: What Is the Difference?
Jason Hughes | VeganLiftz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
It is a common misconception that the term veganism and cruelty-free are synonymous. But there are several factors that differentiate both the terms from each other. When you’re new to the plant-based diet and lifestyle, there is so much information out there that it can be overwhelming.
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How Nanoplastics Enter the Human Body
Erica Cirino | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – If you regularly drink water from plastic bottles, you’re likely ingesting even more plastic than the average consumer.
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Nils Melzer: The Political Persecution of Julian Assange
Saturday Morning | RNZ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being made an example of by the US government to deter investigative journalists from exposing state abuses, the current UN Special Rapporteur on torture says.
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US, UK, France Promised USSR Not to Expand NATO East of Germany, Newly Discovered Document Proves
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Feb 2022 – A newly discovered document provides more evidence that Western governments broke their promise not to expand NATO eastward after German reunification. Notes from a 1991 meeting prove that the US, UK, France, and Germany assured the Soviet Union that NATO would not expand east.
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(Italiano) Industria delle armi: la coda che agita il cane
Jake Lynch | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
24 Febbraio 2022 – Il militarismo è una minaccia negli sforzi di costruzione di un sistema mondiale più pacifico. Ed è spinto dalla forza gravitazionale, che distorce le risposte sia politiche sia mediatiche, del complesso militar-industriale. Opporvisi comporta aver qualcos’altro da proporre, da mettere al suo posto, come fonte di sicurezza come pure di prosperità.
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War Propaganda about Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless
Glenn Greenwald | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – Every useful or pleasing claim about the war, no matter how unverified or subsequently debunked, rapidly spreads, while dissenters are vilified as traitors or Kremlin agents.
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Chronicle of a War Foretold
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
24 Feb 2022 – After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
23 Feb 2022 – Only threat, pain and inflicted hell preserve peace, right? Regarding Ukraine: Both sides in the matter are flawed, and both sides need to listen.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
Life in the Stupidverse
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Ukraine: Understanding the Concern of the Other
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
25 Feb 2022 – Bluntly put, Moscow has now been provoked to act since Washington was not willing to use diplomacy. Moscow’s response is perfectly understandable and rational. Cuba 60 years ago is relevant to the present situation. Just as the US did not want Russian missiles at its doorstep, Russia does not want overwhelming Western military power at its gate today.
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Switzerland at Risk of EU Blacklist after Credit Suisse Leak
Kalyeena Makortoff and David Pegg | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
– 21 Feb 2022 –
* Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians.
* What is the Suisse secrets leak and why are we publishing it?
Welcome to 2030: I Own Nothing, Have No Privacy, and Life Has Never Been Better
Ida Auken | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
[Note from TMS editor: We republish this 2016 piece without approving or subscribing to the author’s or the WEF’s views. It is purely for analysis and context as it was written 6 years ago about 8 in the future. You the judge.]
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The Great Humanistic Philosopher and Psychologist Erich Fromm on Our Human Fragility as the Key to Our Survival and Our Sanity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
An Antidote to Helplessness and Disorientation – “Only through full awareness of the danger to life can this potential be mobilized for action capable of bringing about drastic changes in our way of organizing society.”
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(Français) Les États-Unis et l’OTAN ont-ils promis de ne pas menacer la Russie en déplaçant les forces militaires de l’OTAN vers ses frontières ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 février 2022 – Nous continuons d’être menacés par la culture de la guerre qui, comme d’habitude dans l’histoire récente, est monopolisée par les États-nations.
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The Sacralization of War, U.S.-Style
Kelly Denton-Borhaug | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
22 Feb 2022 – St. Paul’s line from Galatians, “A person reaps what they sow,” sprang into my consciousness with the death of the 95-year-old Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh, who helped encourage Martin Luther King to declare his opposition to the Vietnam War so long ago.
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There Were Alternatives: Why Russia Should Not Have Bombed Ukraine
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
A fundamentally different professional Diagnosis, Prognosis and Treatment/Solution approach that should have been tried – just bits of it – during the last 30 years.
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Fake News Warfare in Ukraine Conflict
José Manuel Blanco Díaz | Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
27 Feb 2022 – The ongoing geopolitical and military conflict situation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Ukraine is being used for fake news production by Western press and social media platforms, as is becoming evident.
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(Français) Avoir confié la politique sanitaire mondiale à Big Pharma est une faute impardonnable
Nick Dearden | Guardian/Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Fév 2022 – Le Covid l’a clairement démontré : Pfizer et ses semblables, asservis aux actionnaires, ne se soucient vraiment que de leurs profits faramineux. C’est ce qu’explique, dans une tribune parue dans le Guardian, Nick Dearden, directeur de Global Justice Now.
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Conflict: Management, Resolution, or Transformation?
Charles Webel, Ph.D. | The New Presence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – What is a conflict? Is conflict always undesirable? What is the range of human conflicts? What are the reasons for conflicts? And when conflicts arise, how should one optimally deal with them? These general issues have particular relevance for understanding and mitigating contemporary conflicts
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Russia Announces Withdrawal of Troops near Ukraine as Drills End
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – Amid the hype around a potential Russian invasion, Moscow announced today that it is withdrawing troops from areas near Ukraine as military drills in the region conclude. The Russian Defense Ministry said the troops are returning to their permanent bases.
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Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin (22 Feb or 1 Mar 1810 – 17 Oct 1849)
Barbara Smolenska-Zielinska | Our Chopin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
The musical talent of Fryderyk became apparent extremely early on, and it was compared with the childhood genius of Mozart. Already at the age of 7, he was the author of two polonaises…. In the summer of 1849, Ludwika Jedrzejewiczowa, the eldest sister of the composer, came from Warsaw to take care of her ill brother. On 17 October 1849, Chopin died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his Parisian flat in the Place Vendôme. He was buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
Exploring Possible Non-Technical and Existential Dimensions
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RAND Corporation Study Calls for Regime Change in Moscow
Bruce Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
13 Feb 2022 – Imagine how Moscow felt when they first read this study. It is clear that there is a method behind US-NATO madness. If you were sitting in Russia’s shoes how would you react to these proposals – many of which have been or are now being implemented?
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On Israel as an Apartheid State: An Interview with Richard Falk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
19 Feb 2022 – An interview David Falcone originally published in CounterPunch on 11 Feb prompted by the Amnesty Report but extending beyond it.
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‘Politics as Usual’ Will Never Be a Solution to the Current Climate Threat (or to Nuclear War)
C.J. Polychroniou interviews Richard Falk | DWF News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – There is an ever-growing consensus that the climate crisis represents humanity’s greatest problem. Indeed, global warming is more than an environmental crisis — there are social, political, ethical and economic dimensions to it. (Commentary added by Roger Kotila)
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Multiple Articles on Militarism, Weapons, War Preparations
Defense News | Military Space Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Thought-provoking News on War and Destruction
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The Mind Control Police: U.S. Government’s War on Thought Crimes and Truth-Tellers
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – The U.S. government, which speaks in a language of force, is afraid of its citizenry. “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell
→ read full articleThe Western Allied Nations Bully the World While Warning of Threats from China and Russia
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – Why the chief of Germany’s navy, Vice Admiral Kay-Achim Schönbach, was sacked? Because while in India he said two things that are unacceptable in the West:
• That “the Crimean Peninsula is gone and never [coming] back” to Ukraine.
• That Putin should be treated with respect.
Activism Uncensored: The Freedom Convoy
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – As Canada Clamps Down on Trucker Protest, American Copycat Event Fails to Materialize So Far – A Balanced Look at the Canadian Protests
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Today’s Crisis over Ukraine
Amb. Jack F. Matlock | ACURA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – Today we face an avoidable crisis that was predictable, actually predicted, willfully precipitated, but easily resolved by the application of common sense. We are being told each day that war may be imminent in Ukraine. (This article is judged “UNFIT TO PRINT” by The New York Times et al. — Prof. Michael Brenner)
→ read full articleAfghanistan on the Brink of Disaster
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Gay rights, women’s rights — in reality, these are a nuisance to many U.S. conservatives, but purporting to protect these rights on the other side of the world is a great excuse to play war.
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Corporate Vaccine Mandates and Vaccine Passports — Brought to You by BlackRock and Vanguard?
Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
16 Feb 2022 – Investment giants BlackRock and The Vanguard Group stand to benefit from their ownership stakes in most of the corporations that imposed COVID vaccine mandates, and in some of the technology firms developing vaccine passports.
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US Democrats, the More Effective Evil
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire, and the primary business is war.
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(Italiano) Ucraina, oltre gli schieramenti…
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Febbraio 2022 – La crisi che sta vivendo l’Europa, con il suo punto focale in Ucraina, è descritta, spiegata, alimentata da dichiarazioni e azioni, mosse e contromosse di molti soggetti interessati, in una complessa e mutua esibizione delle ‘forze in campo’: truppe, aerei, navi; soldati regolari e mercenari; armamenti…
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Pipeline Politics and the Ukraine Crisis
John Foster | Canadian Dimension – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Amid escalating tensions, all eyes are on Ukraine. Canada’s Deputy PM Chrystia Freeland describes it as “a struggle between democracy and authoritarianism.” But Nord Stream 2, a pipeline built to bring Russian gas directly to Germany, is an integral part of the story.
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What Happens When We Die
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
“How can a creature who will certainly die have an understanding of things that will exist forever?”
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‘Nothing More Grotesque than a Media Pushing for War,’ Says Edward Snowden
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill similarly notes that “the talking heads on cable news are almost drooling over the prospect of a ratings-boosting war.”
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Meta’s Facebook to Pay $90 Million to Settle Decade-Old Privacy Lawsuit
Makena Kelly | The Verge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – Meta, Facebook’s parent company, agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of tracking users even after they logged out of their accounts.
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Why Is the White House Stealing $7bn from Afghans?
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Last week, the White House issued an executive order announcing the theft of some $7bn. In a move that can only be described as brazenly immoral and utterly unconscionable, the Biden administration has begun a process to seize the more than $7bn of assets that the Central Bank of Afghanistan has on deposit at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since the Taliban gained control of the war-ravaged country last year, that money has been frozen in place.
→ read full articlePotential for Coherence through Engaging Strategic Poetry
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Memorable Cycles of Subdivision Enabling Viable Governance – Ever increasing quantities pose an ever increasing challenge for governance — its comprehension and its coherence. The matter can be clarified by the following somewhat simplistic exercise.
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Is the Amnesty International Report an Israeli ‘Sharpeville Moment?’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
10 Feb 2022 – This interview followed the release on 1 Feb of the explosive Amnesty International Report finding Israel guilty of the continuing crime of apartheid. How much longer can governments, the UN, and liberal Zionist close their eye in face of the mounting consensus in the international human community on the question of Israeli apartheid?
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NY Times, Washington Post Driving US to War with Russia over Ukraine
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on the Ukraine conflict written by pundits tied to the national security state promoting NATO as a defender of the free world & describing Putin as Hitler incarnate.
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Haiti, San Martin and the Odious Foreign Debt
Miguel Julio Rodríguez Villafañe | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
7 Feb 2022 – The colonising logic of the centres of conditioning capital, from the very beginning, sought to take over Latin America, dominating it in different ways, according to their interests, beyond the principles that were proclaimed and the freedom that was promised.
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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Louis Armstrong | ABC Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Original Spoken Intro Version,1967 – Click on Watch on YouTube, kick back…, enjoy!
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Rather Than Sink Main Street by Raising Interest Rates, the Fed Could Save It. Here’s How.
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Today’s price inflation was triggered not so much by “too much money” as by “too little supply,” due to U.S. lockdowns and mandates. The Fed can help restock consumer supplies using tools that include Open Market Operations to counteract speculation, and the Discount Window to purchase loans from local banks willing to fund Main Street businesses if they had some help from the national Lender of Last Resort.
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Seventy-Seven Years Ago, U.S. and Russia Signed Historic Agreement at Yalta
Jeremy Kuzmarov and Jacques Pauwels | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – With tensions between the U.S. and Russia at historic levels and threat of a hot war breaking out in Ukraine, we would do well to remember FDR’s visionary leadership and pursuit of diplomacy.
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Oliver Stone: American Exceptionalism Is on Deadly Display in Ukraine
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The creator of the Showtime documentary series “The Putin Diaries” speaks to Robert Scheer about the escalating crisis in Ukraine.
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AP Reporter Challenges US Lies about Russian War Preparations
Clara Weiss | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
5 Feb 2022 – In a remarkable exchange on Thursday [3 Feb], US State Department spokesman Ned Price was challenged by Matt Lee from the Associated Press. With just one simple question—“what evidence do you have?”—Lee threw Price completely off and exposed a simple fact: The current press campaign over an allegedly impending “Russian invasion” of Ukraine and “false flag attacks” has no more credibility than Colin Powell’s lies of “weapons of mass destruction” in Iraq.
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