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The Threat of Para-state Power Called International Banking
Partido Humanista de Chile/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Banking is the main accumulator of resources and the real power behind formal power. It has become the most powerful sector of Big Capital, being an area of the economy that produces nothing and should have only an instrumental role.
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Climate Carnage: Things Can Only Get Worse
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – Please stop repeating all this softened wording, such as climate change, climate-related hazards, climate crisis, or extreme weather events… And just call it what it really is: climate carnage.
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Beethoven’s Ode to Joy (Music Video of the Week)
Sabadel Flashmob – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
A Spanish Flashmob of 100 Musicians in a Touchingly Human Reminder of Our Capacity for Ecstasy, Transcendence, and Collective Felicity
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Fossil Fuels, Tipping Points, and a Viable Solution
Steve Hoffman | Freedom Socialist Party - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Jun 2023 – A condemnation of the capitalist overuse of fossil fuels–and a solution.
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The Slow Ethnic Cleansing of Ein Samiya’s Bedouin Community
Mariam Barghouti | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
31 May 2023 – Israeli settlers and military systematically made life unbearable for the Bedouin community living in the West Bank’s Ein Samiya region. On May 22 they were forced to leave their lands and were displaced for the fourth time since 1969.
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Judge Finds Australian War Hero to Be a War Criminal
Graham Hryce | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
2 Jun 2023 – Canberra’s most-decorated living soldier loses the “defamation case of the century” over alleged murder of Afghan civilians.
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“Talk of War with China is Total Insanity—Everybody’s Finished if It Takes Place,” Says Noam Chomsky
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
26 May 2023 – “Major world powers need to shift from confrontation to accommodation soon; otherwise, we’ll go off the precipice together.”
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The Accounting Crisis
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
29 May 2023 – Sigh!
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The Wars We Don’t (Care to) See
David Barsamian and Norman Solomon | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Aggression Made Easy
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Experts Urge Action to Mitigate ‘Risk of Extinction from AI’
Kenny Stancil | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
30 May 2023 – It “should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war,” says a new statement signed by dozens of artificial intelligence critics and boosters.
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The Human Consequences of Economic Sanctions: Event Summary
Francisco Rodríguez and Mark Weisbrot | Center for Economic and Policy Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
23 May 2023 – On 19 May, the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) brought together leading experts in the study of economic sanctions to help to answer a critical, but often-ignored, question: What are the human consequences of US economic sanctions?
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How a Tour of Russia Showed Me That Propaganda Perverts Reality in the Minds of US Citizens
Scott Ritter | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
‘Waging Peace’: My month-long tour of the country was an eye-opening experience, and so was the hostility that met me back home in the US.
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African Unity and the New Cold War
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jun 2023
Imperialism extends its destabilization efforts against China and Russia across the continent. This year’s 60th anniversary of the Organization of African Unity occurs at an important point in international relations. Africa and its people were essential in the rise of western colonialism due to the Atlantic Slave Trade, 15th to 19th century.
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Coherence of Sustainable Development Goals through Artificial Intelligence
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Elaboration of Strategic Sonnets as Memorable 14-Fold Modes of Aesthetic Presentation
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(Português) Um Humanismo Radical
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
23 maio 2023 – Um dos problemas mais angustiantes na cultura mundial é a falta de humanidade. Não olhamos para o outro em suas dores, buscas e necessidades. Consideremos os imigrantes do Oriente Médio e de África que buscam a Europa por causa de guerras e da fome. São rejeitados e fizeram do Mediterrâneo um cemitério. O mesmo destino trágico sofrem os milhares de Latino Americanos que procuram atravessar as fronteiras dos Estados Unidos.
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Assessing Big History at a Time of Global Crisis
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
27 May 2023 – To achieve positive forms of change at a time of multiple converging crises imperiling the human species and its natural habitat is the ‘crisis of crises’ facing humanity at this time.
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Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in China
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
24 May 2023 – Eritrea can chart an exciting new development path through mutually respectful collaboration with China.
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G7 Owes the Poor $13 Trillion in Unmet Pledges. Meanwhile…
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
The G7 countries owe low- and middle-income countries US$ 13.3 trillion in unpaid aid and funding for climate action when one billion people risk cholera because of the reduction and non-payment of committed assistance.
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Journey to St. Petersburg, Moscow & Crimea (Part 1)
Dan Kovalik and Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
24 May 2023 – At the end of April of this year, the two of us ventured together to Russia. We went with the purpose of fact-finding and also to make a point that we do not believe that Russia should be isolated from the world through sanctions and travel bans.
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Can the Global South Build a New World Information and Communication Order?
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
It is remarkable how the media in a few countries are able to set the record on matters around the world. The European and North American countries enjoy a near-global monopoly over information; their media houses vested with a credibility and authority inherited from colonial times plus their command of the neocolonialist structure of our times.
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NATO’s Dirty War in Ukraine
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
25 May 2023 – Connecting dots between illegal weapons in Ukraine and Syria.
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Censorship at the American Psychological Association
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
There’s more than a little irony in the APA’s decision to quash Arrigo’s article; it examines the damage and danger of letting military-intelligence interests covertly interfere in the proper functioning of psychological science.
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(Italiano) Munizioni
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Con il comunicato stampa del 3 maggio 2023 la Commissione Europea riunita a Bruxelles annuncia l’adozione di una nuova legge che consentirà ai Paesi dell’Unione di produrre rapidamente una quantità crescente di munizioni e di missili.
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ChatGPT Imagines a World Where Power Structures Are Reversed
Joe Martino | The Pulse – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
If our current ideas of a society were truly suspended, what type of world would we envision?
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(Português) Se Lula Rifar o Meio Ambiente Seu Governo Acaba
Eliane Brum/Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Um grito de alarme sobre as funestas consequências da exploração de petróleo na foz do Rio Amazonas. Não se trata de vantagens e lucros, mas de colocar a vida do planeta e da humanidade em risco. Eliane Brum vê o desastre que pode significar se este projeto de exploração vingar. Precisamos reagir e nos opor renhidamente a este ataque à vida e negação da ciência.
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Tao Te Ching on Peace and Nonviolence (3)
Lao Tzu – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 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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Agricultural Seasons in India
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
In India there are basically two agriculture seasons — Kharif and Rabi. In the Kharif season there is a lot of rainfall especially in the southern states. On the other hand, the Rabi season does not have too much rainfall but has more of sunlight.
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Another Regrettable Incident
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
15 May 2023 – Meanwhile, in the US of A
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Tina Turner, Queen of Rock & Roll, Dead at 83
Brittany Spanos and David Browne | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
24 May 2023 – Legendary Singer “Died Peacefully” Today in Switzerland after a Long Illness
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Reflections on the G7 Summit in Hiroshima
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
27 May 2023 – Following is a series of thoughts and reactions to the G7 Summit in Hiroshima. Now is a time to share positive, balanced solutions to help prevent the grim possibilities of a future world war; these thoughts and actions are offered in that spirit.
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Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
21 May 2023 – We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti, use you forgetty.” The adults had no idea what they meant. Many still do not.
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An Interview with Satan on the Eve of His Retirement
Emanuel E. Garcia, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
“You seem surprised,” he purred. His voice was light and easy on the ears. “You didn’t expect horns and a tail, did you?” he chuckled. He grasped my hand warmly and offered me a seat opposite. It was dusk and we looked out, from our chairs on the balcony, over a quiet harbor.
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Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
A husband tells his wife triumphantly,
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Why Is the African Union Absent in Sudan?
Tafi Mhaka | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
25 May 2023 – In Sudan, ‘African solutions to African problems’ is proving to be a hollow mantra.
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CIA Front Company Extends Intrusive Surveillance Operations in Lithuania under Pretext of New Cold War
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
22 May 2023 – Creation of Orwellian surveillance apparatus belies claim that the U.S. is upholding democracy in the face of Russian authoritarianism.
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Hiroshima Spring
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
In the Twentieth Epoch of Love
we pulled on the rubbery face
and found the luminous skull
turning around in its place,
wearing the grin of our race,
Global South Aims to Fix the UN
Ramzy Baroud | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
23 May 2023 – Calls to reform the Security Council have been made many times in the past, but Beijing’s position is particularly important in both language and timing.
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What’s the Use of William Blake?
Stephen F. Eisenman | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
26 May 2023 – What’s the use of William Blake? Or for that matter, of any art and literature in an age of climate change, proxy wars, nuclear threat, pandemic, rise of fascism? Rather than study long dead poets or painters, shouldn’t we focus on the emergency?
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Rearmament & Europe’s Welfare
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
17 May 2023 – Farewell to the Welfare State? Not Just Yet. Let’s see how Europeans respond when they are told their peace dividend is to be spent on the machinery of war — when it’s “howitzers instead of hospitals” now, as a New York Times article puts it.
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Revisiting the G-7, Ukraine-Russia War, Hiroshima, and the Cruelty of Wars
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
22 May 2023 – How do you cure political cynicism with intellectual foresights? The G-7 used to be a G-8 including Russia but since 2014, it was changed to an exclusive club of the like-minded USA-European think-tanks for their own politics and future-making.
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Comparative Economic Advantage of Asia: South Asian Diaspora Impact in the USA
Kedar Neupane - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
The Context and Prospect for Economic Progress
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USA: $1.1 Trillion – or 62% – of the Federal Budget Spent on Militarism and War
Institute for Policy Studies - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
May 24, 2023 – “When we invest so heavily in militarism at home and abroad, we deprive our own communities and people of solutions to problems that pose immediate security threats.”
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Sudan Instability Pushes Refugees to Chad
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
26 May 2023 – It is difficult to know how long the struggle for power between the generals will go on and how it will impact different parts of the country. We must hope that some of the mediation proposals already made can lead to a halt to the violence.
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Japan’s Fukushima Water Release Plan Falls Short of Full G7 Support
KBS World/Global Times/Pacnews | Islands Business – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
18 Apr 2023 – Japan failed to secure unanimous support from the G7 for its release of radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean due to Germany’s opposition.
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British Warmongering Is Driving Europe Towards Catastrophe in Ukraine
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
24 May 2023 – From lobbying for fighter jets to supplying depleted uranium, the UK is making sure escalation is the only way forward.
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The War in Ukraine Was Provoked—and Why That Matters to Achieve Peace
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
24 May 2023 – By recognizing that the question of NATO enlargement is at the center of this war, we understand why U.S. weaponry will not end this war. Only diplomatic efforts can do that.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
There is much talk about evolution and peace and, having worked on it off and on, here are some notes.
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1st Trimester 2023: Shell Profited US$ 9.6 BILLION or US$ 106 MILLION/day
Lisa Göldner | Greenpeace Germany – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Shell is raking it in whilst linked to unlawful activities and extreme weather wreaks havoc across the world. They’re literally profiting off people’s pain. Please can you sign our urgent petition calling on fossil criminals like Shell to stop their climate-wrecking activities and pay for the damage they have caused?
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Peace Dollars: Putting U.S. Economic House in Order
John Rachel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
27 May 2023 – The total federal deficit at $31+ trillion? Maybe it’s time for some creative thinking . . . a totally unique strategy that benefits all North Americans, not just capitalist predators. Special use currency is not unprecedented.
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Seeing Spiritual India
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
India, like other places in the world that have unusual mystical traditions, can be both physically and mentally demanding. India is an exotic, beautiful, and wondrous country, depending on what aspects you see. Living and traveling there can be pleasant and exciting, but it is also likely to provide you with many trying situations. (Photos)
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Why Are We [USA] in Ukraine?
Benjamin Schwarz and Christopher Layne | Harper’s Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
June 2023 Issue – The armed camps of NATO and the Russian Federation menace each other across a new Iron Curtain. Unlike the long twilight that characterized the Cold War, the current confrontation is running decidedly hot. As former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and former secretary of defense Robert Gates acknowledge approvingly, the United States is fighting a proxy war with Russia.
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Chopin Nocturne (Music Video of the Week)
Tiffany Poon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 May 2023
Chopin Nocturne in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
12 May 2023 – A much needed break amidst so many alarming news, with a brief story of a tree, a bottle of liquid gold, and a wedding gift.
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War Prevention Depends on Respecting Invisible Geopolitical Fault Lines
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
18 May 2023 – ‘Rule-governed’ seems to be a synonym to international law. But Blinken makes no such claim to rationalize U.S. international behavior as ‘law-governed,’ but rather believe, following Thucydides, ‘that strong do as they will, while the weak do as they must.’
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A Timely Call for Peace in Ukraine by U.S. National Security Experts
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
16 May 2023 – The intervention by a group of 15 U.S. national security experts from the Eisenhower Media Network (named “The U.S. Should Be a Force for Peace in the World”) comes when Ukraine delays its spring offensive to avoid “unacceptable” losses; a return to the negotiating table could save countless lives.
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New Rules of Engagement: How Palestinians Defeated Netanyahu and Redefined ‘Unity’
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
17 May 2023 – It is the unity of those resisting on the ground, from Gaza to Nablus, and from Jenin to Sheikh Jarrah, that matters most.
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The Coca-Cola-ization of “God Bless America”
Gary Corseri – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
Can we make the best choices without sufficient information and imagination? Governments and media seem hell-bent on suppressing adequate information! Can we work together to imagine a better world: to honor truth, inquiry, dialogues and expositions?
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China, India, and the Emerging New World Order
Michael T. Klare | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
What was once the North American century is now potentially the century of the G-3: China, India, and the US.
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Digital Privacy Legislation Is Civil Rights Legislation
Paige Collings and Adam Schwartz | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
18 May 2023 – Our personal data and the ways private companies harvest and monetize it plays an increasingly powerful role in modern life. Corporate databases are vast, interconnected, and opaque. The movement and use of our data is difficult to understand, let alone trace.
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Guidelines for Living a Spiritual Life
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
1. Awareness
I resolve to be more aware and responsive to the spiritual dimensions of my being and my nature.
(Italiano) Tolstoj: la Guerra e la Pace
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
18 Maggio 2023 – Questa mia relazione consiste solo in appunti modesti su un grande ampio tema, la guerra e la pace, visto nell’opera e nella persona di Lev Tolstoj. Questa lettura, fatta alla luce degli avvenimenti in corso nel 2023, porta la coscienza a concludere: l’umanità deve mettere al bando l’omicidio statale come l’omicidio privato.
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A Century of Censorship
Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
19 May 2023 – A painstaking timeline of over a hundred years of U.S. information suppression, secret bureaucracies, and “anti-disinformation” scares.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
In India, rich people have everything–good homes, more than enough to eat, lots of warm clothes for the severe winters in the north. Their celebrations for birthdays, marriage anniversaries, etc. are noisy affairs with music, food and frills. On the other hand, the poor are bereft of all things mentioned above… But there are positive things also that make one wonder.
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Exploring the History of the Hippie Movement and Its Impact on Society
Hanan Ackerman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
Mar 2023 – As told by an AI Robot – Looking back on the 1960’s Hippie Movement, it’s hard to imagine that a small group could change how an entire generation thought and dressed.
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75 Years of Israeli Violence against Palestinians
Sam Carliner | Left Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
14 May 2023 – 75 years since the Nakba, it is increasingly clear that Israel is a violent occupier of the Palestinian people. In the last three quarters of a century, it has also served the interests of U.S. imperialism and trained and aided other capitalist states in methods of violence and repression.
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Give the Defense Innovation Unit a Slice of Ukraine Funds
Maj. Gen. John Ferrari (ret.) and Charles Rahr | Defense News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
16 May 2023 – Calls to make Ukraine a laboratory and a testing ground for U.S. weapons and platforms are the right ones. Ukraine presents a tremendous opportunity for the Pentagon, industry, and our allies to learn how our weapons fare under real-world, high-intensity combat. But Ukraine should also be an accelerator, speeding up technologies with military applications.
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Post-9/11 US Armed Conflicts Killed over 4.5 Million–Estimates
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
15 May 2023 – Death Outlives War: “The US government has a significant obligation to invest in humanitarian assistance and reconstruction in post-9/11 war zones,” said a new report.
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The False Promise and Bitter Fruit of Neoliberalism
Thomas Palley - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
Neoliberalism is a political economic philosophy that consists of two claims, one economic and the other political. The economic claim is free market laissez-faire economies are the best way to organize economic activity as they generate efficient outcomes that maximize well-being. The political claim is free market economic arrangements promote individual liberty. This paper argues both claims are problematic.
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US Empire of Debt Headed for Collapse
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
15 May 2023 – To paraphrase Gramsci, the old geopolitical and geoeconomic order is dying and the new one is being born at breakneck speed. It’s no wonder “socialism with Chinese characteristics” spooks the Hegemon creditor oligarchy to the point they are even risking a Hot War.
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Consciousness, Artificial Intelligence, and Our Search for Meaning: Oliver Sacks on ChatGPT, 30 Years before ChatGPT
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
“We read excitedly of the latest chemical, computational, or quantum theory of mind, and then ask, ‘Is that all there is to it?’”
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Nonviolence: A Force More Powerful (Parts 1-2)
ICNC International Center on Nonviolent Conflict – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
Part 1 (India 1930, USA 1960, South Africa 1985)
Part 2 (Denmark 1940, Poland 1980, Chile 1983)
Climate Breakdown, Extinction and ‘the Most Stupid Boast’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
16 May 2023 – Politics and ‘democracy’ are broken. It is now up to us, the public, to save ourselves.
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North American Colonization of Indigenous People, Cultures, and System of Social Welfare
Mohammad Momin Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
History Speaks to Clarify the Facts of Life
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China and the Axis of the Sanctioned
Juan Cole | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
16 May 2023 – How U.S. Divide-and-Rule Strategy in the Middle East Backfired
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Peace Disruption (Part 1): Palestine’s Killing Fields–Ignominious Beginnings
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
The entities of Love, Hope, and Joy have been most elusive for the Oppressed Palestinians, for 75 long years. Now their very essence for sustained life and Peace are dispelled forever, within the Killing Fields of Palestine, due to the ongoing Peace Disruptions by Apartheid Israel.
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Got Titers? New Test Makes It Easy, Inexpensive to Find Out if You’re Immune to 11 Infectious Diseases
Brian S. Hooker | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
15 May 2023 – ImmunoProfile®, a new at-home test kit available online, simultaneously measures antibody titers for 11 infectious diseases, allowing individuals to determine quickly and inexpensively if they already have immunity to the diseases.
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Russia to Resume Regular Flights to Cuba
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
19 May 2023 – Russian Deputy PM Dmitry Chernyshenko told reporters today that as of July 1 Russia will resume regular flights with Cuba. Currently, only tourist charter flights are conducted between the two countries.
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Deewangi Deewangi (Music Video of the Week)
T-Series – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
Om Shanti Om is a Bollywood movie released in 2007 starred by Shah Rukh Khan and Deepika Padukone. It is a glamorous, romantic drama and comedy with high energy song and dance. Enjoy! Please click on Watch on YouTube
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Russia Responds to US Sanctions Announced at the G7 Summit
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
19 May 2023 – Today, the Kremlin responded to new U.S. sanctions by banning 500 U.S. citizens from entering Russian territory. Among them is former President Barack Obama. Washington set over 300 sanctions against companies and individuals located in more than 20 countries or jurisdictions.
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Nakba at 75: Israel’s State-Building Project Is Unraveling – From Within
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
17 May 2023 – Israel’s undoing will not be an attack from Arab states or international sanctions. Rather, its leaders have created a monster they can no longer tame.
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Escaping Debt Slavery: Ethiopia, Africa, and the IMF
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
17 May 2023 – In 1987, at the Organization for African Unity, Thomas Sankara said, “Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa.” Ethiopia might actually be better off if the US keeps the IMF from signing off on its latest loan request.
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The Ukraine Refugee Question
Seymour M. Hersh | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
19 May 2023 – Ukraine’s neighbors push for Zelensky to pursue peace as millions of displaced people flow into Europe.
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Ukraine’s ‘Press Freedom’ Score Increases Despite Martial Law, Banned Media
Bryce Greene | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting FAIR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
9 May 2023 – Now you know why Ukraine is fighting for “our values” – meaning something terrible has happened to those “our values.”
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Hiroshima’s Nuclear Lesson: The G7 Must Push for Peace in Ukraine
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
18 May 2023 – President Joe Biden is attending this year’s G7 summit, with Russia’s war in Ukraine and President Vladimir Putin’s threats to use nuclear weapons there at the top of the agenda. The G7 comprises Japan, Italy, Canada, France, the US, the UK, and Germany.
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Hmm…
Curtis Spangler - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
Really?
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Stepping over the Border, onto Planet Earth
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
17 May 2023 – “. . . we belong to the Earth rather than to a nation . . .” These words stick in my heart like a wedding ring. At the same time, I feel surrounded by a cynical “realism”: Don’t be a fool. A marriage like that isn’t possible. Be grateful you’re a US citizen. Arm yourself! We’re being invaded.
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Confessions of a CIA Terrorist
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
“This book is my attempt to correct the misperceptions that make the Agency one of the least understood and most mistrusted institutions in the US today. The reality we faced on the ground in places from Muslim Africa to East Asia, to our own streets here at home, is one of persistent threats that must be countered to keep our people safe.”
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Squeezed by the Shorts: Time to Ban Short Selling?
Ellen Brown | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
17 May 2023 – Short sellers have made a killing in the recent banking crisis, scalping $14.3 billion from bank stock owners just in March of this year. Short sellers “borrow” stock they don’t own and immediately sell it, driving the price down. Then they buy it back at the lower price, return the stock, and pocket the difference.
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To Meet EV Demand, Industry Turns to Technology Long Deemed Hazardous
Rebecca Tan, Dera Menra Sijabat and Joshua Irwandi | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
10 May 2023 – Indonesia is richly endowed with nickel, but refining this crucial mineral poses a daunting environmental challenge.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 May 2023
The word “crisis” draws its meaning from medicine. When a patient is in crisis, life and death hang in the balance. When the crisis is over, although the patient may not have recovered yet, the prognosis is that s/he will recover. Below I suggest (1) that business civilization is in crisis too, and (2) a way forward.
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Why War?
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Albert Einstein’s Letter to Sigmund Freud – In 1931, Albert Einstein decided to write to Sigmund Freud asking his opinion about how humanity could free itself from the curse of war.
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A Certain Form of Thieving: The US Banksters Strike Again
Binoy Kampmark | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – It looks like 2008 all over again. Economic and financial mismanagement feature in scorching, consuming brilliance. The culpable, bungling banksters, have returned with their customary, venal incompetence. In the customary script, they habitually seek the role of the public purse to socialise their losses. Along the way, they will avoid richly deserved prison sentences, lie low, and return to repeat their sins.
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Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
8 May 2023 – An end to US regional resource piracy is finally in sight with the Russia-Iran alliance.
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Ilhan Omar Voted to Withdraw from Somalia, but She’s No Anti-Imperialist
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
10 May 2023 – Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is not the progressive she is thought to be. She follows US policy regarding her native Somalia and has connections there that compromise her actions. True anti-imperialist politics are needed to counteract the US interference that has devastated the country.
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A God Consults the Buddha
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
Sakka’s Questions (Sakkapanha Sutta)
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The Normative Current
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Klaus Schlichtmann - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
13 May 2023 – Dr. Klaus Schlichtmann [Short-Listed for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022] on a Natural and Continued Flow towards Rebuilding World Peace
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The Way
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
How ‘The Way’ Continues to Inspire Over a Decade after Its Release – Emilio Estevez co-stars with his father Martin Sheen. It is about a father’s pilgrimage on the Camiño de Santiago following his son’s death.
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The Current Collapse of Ethics
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
13 May 2023 – I perceive two main factors, among others, that strike at the heart of ethics: the globalization of predatory capitalism and the commodification of society.
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Time (Music Video of the Week)
Pink Floyd – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
50th Anniversary of Pink Floyd’s ‘The Dark Side of the Moon’
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Brazil: Amazon Rainforest Deforestation Fell 67.9% in April
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 May 2023
12 May 2023 – The Brazilian Institute for Space Studies reported today that deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest fell 67.9 percent in April compared to the same month in 2022.
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