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The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized “Fact-Checking”
Matt Taibbi | TK News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The fact-checkers who flagged Paul Thacker’s British Medical Journal article about a Pfizer subcontractor for Facebook admitted they police narrative, not fact.
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Can Israel Stop the World from Saying ‘Apartheid’? Concealing the Suffering in Palestine
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – Statements by Israeli and Palestinian human rights groups (including B’Tselem, Al-Haq and Addameer) as well as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch—are a reflection of the facts witnessed on the ground, and no amount of Hasbara 2.0 can erase these facts.
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From Havana with Love
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
7 Feb 2022 – Sixty years of US embargo on Cuba have not starved the island into ‘democratisation’, the way Washington hoped.
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The Terrible Fate Facing the Afghan People
Vijay Prashad | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – When the West fled the country at the end of August 2021, a large part of the foreign funding, which Afghanistan’s GDP is dependent on, also vanished with the troops: 43 percent of Afghanistan’s GDP and 75 percent of its public funding, which came from aid agencies, dried up overnight.
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Sustainable Legacy
Fred Dubee | China Daily - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The 2022 Beijing Winter Games are a work-in-progress and will be a learning experience even after the Olympic flame leaves Beijing to begin the journey to Paris. However, its legacy will continue to enrich Beijing, China and the world long into the future.
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Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua: The US-Russia Conflict Enters a New Phase
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
9 Feb 2022 – As the plot thickens in Eastern Europe, Russia’s move in South America promises to add a new component that would make a win-lose scenario in favor of the US and NATO nearly impossible.
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How to End the Ukraine Crisis in 4 Steps
Alexander Dynkin and Thomas Graham | Politico - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
9 Feb 2022 – Two former top policymakers — one Russian, one American — have a plan they think could work.
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Can Peace Be Researched?
Nils Petter Gleditsch | PRIO-Peace Research Institute Oslo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Revisiting a 55-Year-Old TV Program
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What Went Right This Week: Iceland to Ban Whaling, Plus More Positive News
Sarah LaBrecque | Positive News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
10 Feb 2022 – Iceland made moves to ban commercial whaling, a paralysed man walked again, scientists published research into chimpanzees showing each other empathy, …
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Argentina Turns to Russia and Joins China’s Belt and Road
Ben Norton | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Seeking alternatives to US hegemony, President Alberto Fernández traveled to Russia and China, forming an alliance with the Eurasian powers, joining the Belt and Road Initiative. Argentina is trapped in $44 billion of IMF odious debt taken on by corrupt right-wing regimes.
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BREAKING: Joint Russia-China Statement Articulates United Opposition to Western Alliance
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – Today’s joint statement is a historic articulation of the major shift underway from the unipolar world that has existed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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The Moral, Military and Financial Cost of Guantanamo Bay, 20 Years Later
Stefano Kotsonis and Meghna Chakrabarti | WBUR/On Point - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – 20 years ago, the first detainees in the U.S. War on Terror arrived at Guantanamo Bay. Many detainees were innocent, and tortured. Presidents since then have promised to close Guantanamo, and failed. They picked up human beings and moved them halfway around the globe without an idea of how to undo this. They’re stuck with this mission. So, what’s next?
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Major Media Outlets That Use Invasive User Tracking Are Lobbying Against Regulation
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The “surveillance advertising” industry makes online news possible. News outlets entrusted with promoting transparency and privacy are also lobbying behind closed doors against proposals to regulate the mass collection of data.
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The Exit from the Ukraine Crisis That’s Hiding in Plain Sight
Katrina vanden Heuvel | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Is there any way out of this exceedingly dangerous crisis? Perhaps the only hope is the Minsk II agreement, forged in February 2015 between Russia and Ukraine, brokered by Germany and France, and endorsed by the European Union and the United Nations. The agreement essentially called for a recognition of reality in law.
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Russia-Ukraine Standoff: Putin Says US Could Drag Moscow into War with Aim to Impose Sanctions
Vladimir Putin | Global News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – The Ukraine Conflict: Views from the Other Side
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The Problematics of Middle Eastern Diplomacy: The Case of Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – In relation to both Iran, Israel, and Palestine, the essential message sent by the new leadership is continuity when it comes to substance combined with a resumption of the pre-Trump pretension of equi-distance diplomacy when it comes to the search for a sustainable peace.
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Reimagining Guernica to Engage the Antitheses of a Cancel Culture
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Coherence in the Surreal as a Kaleidoscope of Imagery Forming a Hyperobject – There is no lack of commentary and explanation with regard to the surreal nature of the current times. Emphasis is commonly placed on the pervasive sense of meaninglessness — with various parties to be appropriately blamed.
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Press Stunned as Ukraine President Zelensky Points Finger at West
Nury Vittachi | Friday Everyday - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
* Campaign to paint Russia as aggressor is huge, but there are cracks
* Putin placing troops on Ukrainian border is “no different to last year”
* Ukrainian leader tells journalists that Russia isn’t the main problem, the press is
* NATO has continuously broken promises made to Moscow, archives reveal
The Blackwater Is in Ukraine with the Azov Battalion
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – In the Donbass front line is the Azov battalion, trained and armed by the US and NATO. The Azov recruits neo-Nazis from all over Europe under its flag from SS Das Reich. It is not only a military unit, but an ideological and political movement. In addition, there is the $10 billion plan being implemented by Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, now renamed Academy, which has been supplying mercenaries to the CIA, Pentagon and State Department for covert operations (including torture and assassinations).
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Why Amnesty Is Taking Aim at the ‘Root Causes’ of Israeli Apartheid
Edo Konrad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Amnesty International’s Saleh Hijazi elaborates about his organization’s new report, the Israeli government’s harsh response, and why our analysis of Israeli apartheid needs to begin from 1948.
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US National Debt Surpasses $30 Trillion for the First Time
Michael Peterson | teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – On Monday [31 Jan], the U.S. Treasury Department announced that the national debt surpassed US$30 trillion, which included US$23.5 trillion in debt held by the public and US$6.5 trillion in intergovernmental holdings.
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Nobel-Winning Physicist Wolfgang Pauli on Science, Spirit, and Our Search for Meaning
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
“It is only a narrow passage of truth (no matter whether scientific or other truth) that passes between the Scylla of a blue fog of mysticism and the Charybdis of a sterile rationalism. This will always be full of pitfalls and one can fall down on both sides.”
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Stripping Away the Bulls**t: U.S. and Russian Threats over Ukraine—What They’re about and Who’s the Aggressor
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
25 Jan 2022 – Threats and counter-threats flying between Washington and Moscow over Ukraine have caused a flurry of fear and confusion that escalates and expands daily. Is the world on the brink of war? What is it about, who is the aggressor and who is to blame?
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(Français) Guerre à l’étranger, Guerre Dans la Métropole
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 février 2022 – C’est une vieille expression selon laquelle “les poulets sont rentrés chez eux pour se percher”. Les guerres que l’Empire américain a menées à l’étranger arrivent aux États-Unis sur son propre territoire ! L’invasion du Capitole il y a un an a marqué le début d’une seconde guerre civile dans la métropole.
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NPPW Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Shortlist Respecting Nobel’s Antiwar Intention Updated on 5 Feb 2022
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Prosecutors Silence Evidence of Cruel Factory Farm Practices in Animal Rights Cases
Natasha Lennard | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
30 Jan 2022 – The government wants to keep juries from seeing gruesome evidence of animals in distress — the very reason activists are going into farms.
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Is It Time to Bar Coup Leaders from the UN?
Thalif Deen | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – A rash of military coups in Africa has resurrected a long dormant question: should leaders who take power through armed insurrections be barred from addressing the United Nations—an institution which swears by, and promotes, multi-party democracy?
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Beyond Leviathan: Critique of the State
István Mészáros | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – István Mészáros was one of the greatest political theorists of the twentieth century. Left unfinished at the time of his death, Beyond Leviathan focuses on the transcendence of the state, along with the transcendence of capital and alienated labor, while traversing the history of political theory from Plato to the present. Aristotle, More, Machiavelli, and Vico are only a few of the thinkers discussed in depth.
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Reaching COVID-19 “Turning Point of Critical Mass”: Is Nuremberg 2 Next? London Metropolitan Police Criminal Investigation
Joachim Hagopian | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – At least 1,011 scientific studies have proven beyond any doubt that the Covid-19 non-vaccines are in fact lethal. The deceivers are realizing that regardless of how many times they repeat their lies to those no longer buying it, it will only lead to their own downfall sooner than later. The despots’ narrative is quickly falling apart smashed by real science.
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War Abroad, War at Home
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – There is an old expression that “the chickens have come home to roost.” The wars that the American Empire waged abroad have come to the continental USA. The invasion of the Capitol one year ago has signaled the beginning of a second civil war at home.`
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Nostalgic for the Future
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – Nostalgia is always about time and space. In that sense, it is equivalent to all human experience that also takes place within these dimensions. And when technology has radically disrupted our human sense of limits in their regard, it becomes harder and harder to feel at home, to dwell enough to grasp what is happening in the world.
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A Night with the Untouchables
David Maybury | The Reformed Physicist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
I live in downtown Ottawa, right in the middle of the trucker convoy protest. They are literally camped out below my bedroom window. They moved in on Friday [28 Jan] and they seem determined to stay. They are our moral conscience reminding us – with every blow of their horns – what we should have never forgotten: We are not a country that makes an untouchable class out of our citizens.
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Ukraine and the Nuclear Paradox
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – There is a paradox here the size of the whole planet. The essential point here, as far as I can tell, is that the signatories are confessing that, yes, we possess the weapons that could destroy all life, and yes, we think using them would be wrong, but we have no idea how to make them go away and so we’ll just use them to scare each other, a.k.a., serve defensive purposes.
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(Italiano) Il paradosso della crisi ucraina e le possibilità della pace
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Gennaio 2022 – Lo scenario della crisi ucraina presenta elementi molto allarmanti e contraddittori, ma anche concrete vie di uscita per il ristabilimento della pace nel cuore dell’Europa. Ecco il paradosso della crisi ucraina.
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The Blockade against Cuba Turns 60
Rosa Miriam Elizalde | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – It’s easy to say, but it’s been six very hard decades that began with disconcerting lightness and the belief that the United States government’s blockade of Cuba would not last long—a couple of years, maybe.
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The News Is Not That Israel Has Apartheid, but That Amnesty Dares Say So
Ari Paul | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
3 Feb 2022 – Does the state of Israel now endorse cancel culture? AP (1/31/22) disclosed that its government called on Amnesty International not to release a report (2/1/22) that defines that nation’s legal structure as a form of apartheid. Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid said the report endorses “lies shared by terrorist organizations.”
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Heeding James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – A century after its publication, the timeless novel warns us about the poisons of nationalism and idolatry and the commonality of our sojourns between birth and death.
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Whose Body Is It?
Ron Hauge | The Nation OppArt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
Choice on the Line Again
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The USA Is in Danger of Having More Rivals Than It Can Handle
Tom Fowdy | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 – The US wants a world in which everyone – Russia, China and Iran included – bows down to it. But the days of a single superpower are gone. As the Ukraine crisis rolls on, there is a growing fear among Western commentators and foreign policy elites that a “China-Russia” axis is consolidating.
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USA: The Post-Cold War Era, 1989-2001
Brian D’Haeseleer, Jeremy Kuzmarov and Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
Imperial Self-Deception: There is no shortage of books, articles, and websites addressing the history of US foreign policy. There is nevertheless, within the USA, a dearth of understanding and often knowledge about the subject. This is due in part to popular nationalistic history, which tends to obscure, overwrite, and sometimes whitewash actual history.
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Theranos Verdict: In the U.S., It Is Fine to Lie to Consumers but Not to Investors
Prabir Purkayastha | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Jan 2022 – Hyper-capitalism has systematically weakened regulations to help capital at the cost of consumers. The verdict on the Elizabeth Holmes case simply illustrates the growing post-’90s disregard for consumers.
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(Italiano) Ostaggi del militarismo
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Gennaio 2022 – I nostri “Ministeri della Difesa” ci difendono davvero? Assolutamente no! Il lor stesso nome è una bugia. C’è pericolo che il nostro mondo, con tutta la sua bellezza e la preziosità che contiene, venga distrutto da questo cinico gioco per il potere e il denaro in cui i civili sono ostaggi del militarismo. Lasceremo che succeda?
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Let’s Not Have a War
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
25 Jan 2022 – The U.S. foreign policy establishment, chasing decades of failures, appears to be seriously considering the unthinkable in Ukraine.
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The Bird Site
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
(Italiano) Thich Nhat Hahn [Thay]: La morte per l’impermanenza, la vita per la pace
Cinzia Picchioni | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
È talmente famoso che mi «vergogno» un po’ a scrivere qualcosa, qualsiasi cosa, in occasione della morte di Thich Nhat Hahn, Thay come era affettuosamente chiamato. Ma d’altra parte, con qualche notizia in più, potrebbe nascere l’interesse ad approfondire la vicenda umana, l’insegnamento, l’impegno per la pace di questo piccolo-grande uomo che ha smesso di camminare sulla Terra nella notte, alle 00.00, del 22.1.22, al Tempio T? Hi?u a Hu?, Vietnam.
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Will the Iran Nuclear Agreement Be Restored?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
26 Jan 2022 – An interview with Mojtaba Majidi of the Mehr News Agency (Tehran) on the Vienna Talks that are seeking to restore the Iran Nuclear Agreement of 2015 reached during the Obama presidency.
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Dreams, Consciousness, and the Nature of the Universe
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
“Perhaps dreams are an arena that can enable supracognitive powers to perform calculations and perceptions of reality that may be incomprehensible in our wake state.”
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Honoring Thich Nhat Hanh
Paul R. Dekar | Fellowship of Reconciliation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
22 Jan 2022 – The renowned 95-year-old Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh has passed away, leaving behind a legacy of interconnection.
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What You Should Really Know about Ukraine
Bryce Greene | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
28 Jan 2022 – These “explainer” pieces are emblematic of Ukraine coverage in the rest of corporate media, which almost universally gave a pro-Western view of US/Russia relations and the history behind them. Media echoed the point of view of those who believe the US should have an active role in Ukrainian politics and enforce its perspective through military threats.
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International Neutrality Project
Edward J. Horgan | Veterans Global Peace Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
The UN Charter opted for a more pragmatic system of ‘collective security’, a bit like the Three Musketeers – one for all and all for one. The three musketeers became the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, sometimes known as the five policemen, who were tasked with maintaining or enforcing international peace.
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Germany Blocks NATO Partners from Supplying Their Weapons to Ukraine
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022 – Despite being a lead NATO country and close US ally, it’s become clear Berlin has sought to avoid unnecessarily provoking Moscow, also as the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is soon to come online. German government spokesman reaffirmed “The principle governing arms exports” which “is always the same—whether they come directly from Germany or from third countries—and no permission has been issued at this stage.”
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White House Discusses Plans to Send up to 50,000 Troops to Eastern Europe
Johannes Stern and Alex Lantier | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
24 Jan 2022 – Yesterday the New York Times reported that the Biden administration is discussing plans to deploy tens of thousands of troops to the borders of Russia and Ukraine. Despite the administration’s threadbare attempt to present this as a defense of Ukrainian sovereignty against Russia, it is apparent that Washington is preparing a military escalation aiming to provoke Russia, a major nuclear power, into a war.
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Peace Now in Ukraine
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
27 Jan 2022 – Is a Russian invasion of Ukraine imminent? At the heart of this avoidable catastrophe is Moscow’s concern over the ever-increasing U.S. military threat on its doorstep. Since the Soviet Union fell, the U.S, through its NATO allies, has pushed troops and arms closer to Russia. Grassroots movements must demand peace and diplomacy, now, before the outbreak of war.
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Green Gaslighting: Another Face of Climate Denialism
Vijay Kolinjivadi | Aljazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
25 Jan 2022 – All the talk about ‘net zero’ measures and ‘climate resilience’ investments is just a mass deception. According to the Oxford Dictionaries, the word “gaslighting” means “the action of manipulating someone by psychological means into accepting a false depiction of reality or doubting their own sanity”.
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Iran-Russia Hit Maximum Strategy
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022 – Three ain’t a crowd: The Iran-Russia summit this week, concurrent with RIC military drills in the Sea of Oman, in advance of a Xi-Putin meeting in two weeks, suggests a rapidly-advancing strategic vision for the three Eurasian powers.
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Asia-Pacific: Just 5% of the Region’s Population Owns 70% of Its Total Wealth
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
18 Jan 2022 – The Asia-Pacific region is experiencing growing inequality even while registering impressive economic growth and poverty reduction. Such sharp inequalities continue to be persistent in the region, with nearly 2 in 4 people still unable to afford a healthy diet.
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
16 Jan 2022 – Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. With JFK Revisited, Oliver Stone has truly honored this fallen hero.
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Introduction to Conflict Transformation
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Language: Arabic. Author: Abbas Aroua. Publisher: Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – The Arab/Muslim world is one of the regions with the highest densities of conflict in the world (intra- and interstate). Yet it is one of the poorest ones in terms of conflict transformation resources, both theoretical and practical.
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How WHO Chief Tedros Violated UN Rules to Advance TPLF Interests in Ethiopia
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
18 Jan 2022 – In leaked audio, UN staffers accuse World Health Organization Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus of violating UN code to further the objectives of his political allies in Ethiopia’s conflict.
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At Doom’s Doorstep: It Is 100 Seconds to Midnight
John Mecklin | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
To: Leaders and Citizens of the World
Date: 20 Jan 2022
The Doomsday Clock is set every year by the Bulletin’s Science and Security Board in consultation with its Board of Sponsors, which includes 11 Nobel laureates. The Clock has become a universally recognized indicator of the world’s vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and disruptive technologies in other domains.
ICJ Must Not Allow Myanmar’s Coup Regime to Leverage Genocide Hearings as a Source of Legitimacy
Maung Zarni | Anadolu News Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
20 Jan 2022 – Court’s failure to deal head-on with highly contested issue of legitimacy of regime will hamper efforts of other int’l state actors to deny mass-murderous military international acceptance, legitimacy.
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‘The World’s Most Evil Company’ May Lose a Few Court Fights—but Will Keep on Poisoning and Killing Millions of People with Its Carcinogenic Pesticide ‘Roundup’
Mitchel Cohen | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – Monsanto (now part of Bayer AB) had to pay $78 million in 2018 and $10 billion more in 2020 to settle 100,000 cancer lawsuits. But that won’t stop a company whose 2021 revenues will top $49.991 billion…which is why Roundup is still being profitably sprayed in 160 countries around the world.
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Skin Deep (Music Video of the Week)
Buddy Guy | Playing For Change – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Playing For Change and Buddy Guy united to record and film his anthem, “Skin Deep” across the USA. Originally, this was going to be a song across Chicago to bring light to all the violent shootings across the city but as time marched on, along with various shootings across our country, we realized we needed to expand our vision and use this song as a tool to unite our divided nation.
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Palestine/Israel: The Smearing of Emma Watson
Sut Jhally and Roger Waters | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – A Classic Blunder and Smear against an Outspoken Activist
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Inequality, Class, and Economics
Eric Schutz | Montly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic exposed the economic inequalities pervading every aspect of society—and then multiplied them to a staggering degree. A mere nine months into the lockdown, the net worth of the infamous Forbes 400 increased by one trillion dollars. In a single year the US poverty rate rose by the largest amount ever since record-keeping began sixty years ago.
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(Italiano) Capaci di immaginare, incapaci di credere
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Gennaio 2022 – In questi giorni ho avuto occasione di leggere e vedere alcuni documenti – apparentemente scollegati – che mi hanno portata a riflettere sul fatto che la nostra società è diventata capace di immaginare l’inimmaginabile: soprattutto con l’esplodere della realtà virtuale.
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Starving Afghans Use Crypto to Sidestep U.S. Sanctions, Failing Banks, and the Taliban
Lee Fang | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – NGOs looking to provide emergency aid to Afghanistan are turning to cryptocurrency.
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The Annual Resurrection of a Fake Dr. King
Black Alliance for Peace | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
17 Jan 2022 – It is January, and in the U.S. this means it is time for the annual ritual of revisiting the white-washed, de-radicalized, pro- “American” M.L. King fairy tale as part of the official celebration of King’s birthday.
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This One-Two Punch from China and Russia Marks the End of U.S. Adventurism
Bradley Blankenship | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – Syria’s inclusion in the Belt and Road Initiative is the final act in a long saga against American imperialism that shows how China and Russia can effectively counter U.S. intervention in the future.
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Chemical Pollution Has Passed Safe Limit for Humanity, Say Scientists
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
18 Jan 2022 – Study calls for cap on production and release as pollution threatens global ecosystems upon which life depends. Plastics are of particularly high concern along with 350,000 synthetic chemicals including pesticides, industrial compounds and antibiotics.
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How Nonviolent Action Is Protecting the Earth
Rivera Sun | Waging Nonviolence – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
18 Jan 2022 – Nonviolence toward the Earth is neither a lofty dream nor a utopian vision. It is practical, necessary and our only choice.
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Got MLK?
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
17 Jan 2022 – MLK Day in Anglo America
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Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
January 2022 – Nobel Peace Prize Watch hereby presents its list of nominations for the 2022 Nobel Prize “for the champions of peace”. The overarching purpose of the prize, specified in the Nobel testament, is to liberate all nations from weapons, warriors and war.
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Six Things the Media Won’t Tell You about Ukraine
Ted Snider | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – Western media and political analysts have cast Putin’s demands that NATO not expand further east to Ukraine and that NATO not establish military bases in former Soviet states as bold and impossible. Here are six crucial pieces of background that the western media will not tell you.
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Hawaii’s Red Hill Disaster: The Latest Episode in 200 Years of Colonialism
Lowkey | The Watchdog, MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – In November, a huge underground US Navy fuel storage facility at Red Hill near Honolulu burst, leaking 14,000 gallons of jet fuel, contaminating the water supply, poisoning scores of people and driving thousands of Hawaiian families from their homes.
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A Citizen of the World (Still) Speaks
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
19 Jan 2022 – I decided to honor Martin Luther King Day this year by reading — and trying to absorb, more fully than ever before — the entirety (nearly 7,000 words) of the iconic speech he gave at Riverside Church a year to the day before his assassination.
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Billionaires ‘Had a Terrific Pandemic’ While Inequality Killed Millions: Oxfam
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
17 Jan 2022 – A new report explains how inequality contributed to the death of 21,000 people each day of the pandemic while the wealthiest collectively got $1.2 billion richer every 24 hours.
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Dangerous Gaps: Knowledge, Action, and Justice
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
16 Jan 2022 – This essay was published on 13 Jan 2022 on This View of Life, which brings to bear the views of science and evolutionary biology on a series of global challenges increasingly overwhelming the capabilities of civilizational modernity.
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The Rule of Law Must Finally Evolve into the Rule of Justice
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
14 Jan 2022 – Many politicians, academics, media pundits are wont of invoking the “rule of law”, a “rules-based international order”, “values diplomacy,” etc. But what do all these benevolent-sounding slogans actually mean in practice? Who makes the rules, who interprets them, who enforces them? What transparency and accountability accompany these noble pledges?
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Introducing TRANSCEND and TMS
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – Can We Transcend Covid? Some Perspectives on Mass Psychology – I would like to introduce you to TRANSCEND, A Network for Peace Development Environment, near to my heart. I encourage you to subscribe to TRANSCEND Media Service (TMS)
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Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
14 Jan 2022 – While absolutely ready to kill, with the biggest military powers spending in 2020 nearly two trillion US dollars on weapons, the world is shockingly unprepared to save the lives of millions of unarmed, innocent civilian victims of wars… and other man-made catastrophes.
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Structures of Oppression
Kheya Bag & Susan Watkins | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
Querying recent analogies of ‘race’ and ‘caste’, the authors ask what parallels and divergences a more systematic comparison of African-American and Dalit predicaments might reveal.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
14 Gennaio 2022 – Tempi sospesi per l’umanità: problemi planetari, tragedie globali, guerre, cambiamento climatico e pandemia… e il nucleare?
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
3 Jan 2022 – Pandemic Real Talk with the invisible hand of the free market.
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Cattle Boom in Brazil’s Acre Spells Doom for Amazon Rainforest, Activists Warn
Sarah Brown | Mongabay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – With about 80% of its forests still untouched, Acre is one of Brazil’s least-deforested Amazonian states. But in the past three decades, the thriving cattle industry has become a major threat to Acre’s forests, with livestock now outnumbering the state’s human population by a factor of four.
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#Ethiopia #TigrayGenocide #ExcuseForRegimeChangeWar
Ann Garrison | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Ethiopia’s growing ties with China and Russia and the Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Cooperation Between Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea so threaten U.S. global hegemony that a U.S. “regime change” campaign is well underway. One of the first stages of any such campaign is, of course, massive disinformation.
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The Day CNN’s Jake Tapper Sold His Soul to Pharma
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | The Defender – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – There’s a reason CNN’s Jake Tapper is intent on branding me a “menace” and “a liar,” and why he refuses to debate me on the merits of facts and scientific evidence. Here’s the back story.
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None Dare Call It “Encirclement”
Michael Klare | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Washington Tightens the Noose around China
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Washington Pursues RAND’s Plan in Kazakhstan, Then in Transnistria
Thierry Meyssan | Voltaire Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
11 Jan 2022 – The events that have been unfolding for the past week in Kazakhstan are the fifth part of a plan by the RAND Corporation, the sixth of which will take place in Transnistria. The four previous episodes took place over the last two years in Ukraine, Syria, Belarus and Nagorno-Karabakh. The aim is to weaken Russia by forcing it to over-deploy.
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Evangelicals in Brazil Are Stronger Today Than Ever Before
Raphael Tsavkko Garcia | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
7 Jan 2022 – The appointment of André Mendonça to the Supreme Federal Court was a turning point for the evangelical movement in Brazil.
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‘Jaw-Dropping’ Targeting: How Pegasus Was Used against Critical Journalists in El Salvador
Phineas Rueckert | Forbidden Stories - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – A new report by Citizen Lab and Access Now, shared with Forbidden Stories, shows how investigative journalists at El Faro and GatoEncerrado, two independent media outlets in El Salvador, were repeatedly and aggressively targeted with Pegasus spyware.
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The Mauling of Tennis Player Novak Djokovic
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Asia-Pacific Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – Tennis World Number One Novak Djokovic’s treatment by Australian authorities, and his subsequent detention as an unlawful arrival despite being granted a visa to participate in the Australian Open, had the hallmarks of oppression and incompetent vulgarity; another example of provincial opportunism and crass stupidity.
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Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Fight to Contain Them
Rebecca Gordon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
9 Jan 2022 – The continued construction and deployment of killer robots is not inevitable. Let’s give U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres the last word: “Machines with the power and discretion to take human lives without human involvement are politically unacceptable, morally repugnant, and should be prohibited by international law.” I couldn’t agree more.
→ read full articleAre Western Wealthy Countries Determined to Starve the People of Afghanistan?
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
14 Jan 2022 – A few days after the Taliban took power in Afghanistan in mid-August 2021, the U.S. government announced the seizure of $9.5 billion in Afghan assets that were being held in the U.S. banking system. Under pressure from the USA, the IMF also denied Afghanistan access to $455 million of its share of special drawing rights.
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Communing with Albert Camus in 2022
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It’s just the way it is. I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself” way, or in any deep psychoanalytical sense, but very simply. We have our own thoughts and feelings that come and go like breaths, most of which never get expressed in words.
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Syrian Extremists Had Free Access to Western Media, Says Award Winning Syrian Photographer
Patrik Paulov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
15 Jan 2022 – Issa Touma, photographer from Aleppo, has portrayed the Syrian people before, during and after the war. But it was only when he moved to Sweden that he understood why the Western world’s image of Syria was so distorted.
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Why Is Joe Biden Discreetly Looking the Other Way as His AFRICOM Commander Commits War Crimes for Which He Would Have Been Hanged at Nuremberg?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Townsend Oversaw Army Unit in Syria That Committed Myriad Atrocities and Helped Cover Up Crimes – He claims that the U.S. was “never a colonizing power in Africa,” that AFRCOM’s motto is “African solutions, for African problems,” and that countries “drowning in poverty” frequently “ask for U.S. help.” These words mask the imperial underpinnings of U.S. foreign policy.
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What Went Right This Week: Defending Democracy, Plus More Positive News
Gavin Haines | Positive News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Analysis suggested autocrats are losing their grip on power, child marriage was banned in the Philippines, gorillas got a boost, plus…
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
12 Jan 2022 – “You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.” The words are those of Albert Einstein. He adds, pointing out a truth: “The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war.”
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James Baldwin on Resisting the Mindless Majority, Not Running from Uncomfortable Realities, and What It Really Means to Grow Up
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
“We ought to try, by the example of our own lives, to prove that life is love and wonder and that that nation is doomed which penalizes those of its citizens who recognize and rejoice in this fact.”
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