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How Does GPT4 Work and How Can You Start Using It in ChatGPT?
Mohammed Haddad | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Launched on 14 Mar 2023, GPT-4 is the successor to GPT-3 and is the technology behind the viral chatbot ChatGPT. All you need to know about this technology–gone viral.
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Iraq Plus 20 (Part 2): From Iraq into the Abyss?
Dennis Kucinich | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – In Part 1, I detailed the careful lies to ignite the war on Iraq. The US military attack on Iraq commenced on March 20, 2023, after a highly structured domestic and international media campaign of misinformation and disinformation, by the Bush Administration, which succeeded in getting major media and Congressional support.
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Rage against the War Machine: What Rage? ‘When Will They Ever Learn?’
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
In his iconic 1950s anti-war hit song ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?’, Pete Seeger posed the eternal question about war: ‘when will they ever learn?’ primarily to those who participate in the fighting. But it might equally have been directed at those in the ‘anti-war’ movement.
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Hersh: US Bombed Nord Stream to Prolong the Ukraine Proxy War
Aaron Maté interviews Seymour Hersh | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – Seymour Hersh joins Aaron Maté to discuss his report on how the Biden administration bombed the Nord Stream gas pipelines, a vital Russian-German infrastructure project and a key off-ramp to peace in Ukraine.
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U.S. Act of War against the European Union: Biden Ordered the Terror Attack against Nord Stream
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
23 Mar 2023 – High Treason against the People of Europe
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Aaron Maté at UN: OPCW Cover-up Denies Justice to Douma Victims
Aaron Maté | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
25 Mar 2023 – At the United Nations, Aaron Maté debunks the OPCW’s latest attempts to whitewash the cover-up of its investigation into the alleged April 2018 chemical attack in Douma, Syria.
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My Childhood Connection with Nalanda and Its Uncompromising Tradition of Intellectual Freedom
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
14 Mar 2023 – Buddhist intellectual tradition institutionalized Freedom of Inquiry and Debate 2,600 years ago. Nalanda was an institutional embodiment of this principle… The Pursuit of Knowledge and Human Understanding based on ‘Reason’ and what is termed ‘empiricism’ took place outside the Greco-Romanic World, typically presumed to be the philosophical cradle of Western Civilization and the European Enlightenment.
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The Transcendent Brain: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Spirituality for the Science-Spirited
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
A largehearted invitation to “stand on the precipice between the known and the unknown, without fear, without anxiety, but instead with awe and wonder at this strange and beautiful cosmos we find ourselves in.”
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Why Would China Be an Enemy?
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
21 Mar 2023 – To react to Beijing’s growing economic power by increasing Western military power is hopeless. It is harder to think of a more stupid example of lashing out in blind anger.
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Ukraine and the ‘Thucydides Trap’
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
22 Mar 2023 – The importance of Ukraine, in the eyes of US officials, goes far beyond the country’s intrinsic geopolitical or economic value. The crisis is rooted in Washington’s preoccupation with Russia. It has very little to do with Ukraine per se. That benighted country has provided the occasion, not the cause of the current confrontation.
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Banking Crisis 3.0: Time to Change the Rule[r]s of the Game
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Bail In, Bail Out, or “Socialism for the Rich”?
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US Banks Want Socialism for Themselves–and Capitalism for Everyone Else
Robert Reich | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – When banks like Silicon Valley Bank collapse, money floods to bigger ones like JPMorgan. Clients know they’re ‘too big to fail.’
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Our Global Water Crisis
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
In its home-page on World Water Day, 22 Mar 2021, the United Nations pointed out the following facts.
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Magnificent Russian Music (Music Video of the Week)
Zevnikov | Youth Symphony Orchestra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
Astonishing, Marvelous, Exquisite
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Gods and Goddesses of Vedic Culture
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
One of the most confusing topics to people who are new or unfamiliar with the Vedic tradition is the number of Gods there seems to be within it. This is not really so difficult to understand. So here is a quick guide with brief descriptions that may help to bring some clarity to how they fit into the scheme of things.
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(Português) A Importância Fundamental da Vida do Espírito
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
24 Mar 2023 – O conhecido e apreciado piloto e escritor Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, autor do Pequeno Príncipe, num texto póstumo escrito em 1943–Carta ao General “X”–antes que seu avião se precipitasse no Mediterrâneo, afirma com grande ênfase, ”Não há senão um problema, somente um: redescobrir que há uma vida do espírito que é ainda mais alta que a vida da inteligência, a única que pode satisfazer o ser humano”.
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How to Survive Hopelessness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
“You can expect good and bad luck, but good or bad judgment is your prerogative.”
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Endless Wars: US Escalation to the East
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Mar 2023
20 Mar 2023 – Unable to prevent the “decline” with political and economic tools, the U.S. and its allies are increasingly resorting to military ones. This includes the “landmark agreement with Australia and Britain,” announced by President Biden.
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‘Outright Hatred’ towards Muslims, Has Risen to ‘Epidemic Proportions’
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – “Terrorism and violent extremism cannot and should not be associated with any religion, nationality, civilization, or ethnic group.”
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The Looming Quadrillion Dollar Derivatives Tsunami
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
On10 March Silicon Valley Bank, the 16th largest in the country, collapsed. This was the second largest bankruptcy in U.S. history, following Washington Mutual in 2008. Despite its size, SVB was not a “systemically important financial institution” as defined in the Dodd-Frank Act, which requires insolvent SIFIs to “bail in” the money of their creditors to recapitalize themselves.
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The Lords of Chaos
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
19 Mar 2023 – The politicians and shills in the media who orchestrated 20 years of military debacles in the Middle East, and who seek a world dominated by U.S. power, must be held accountable for their crimes.
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Food Inglorious Food: Children’s Health Defense Attack on Food Summit
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
5 Mar 2023 – Yesterday Dr. Meryl Nass–with assistance, comments and summaries by Alexis Baden-Mayer–convened a magnificent, important 7-hour Attack on Food Symposium + Solutions to Fight Back
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U.S. and NATO Allies Were Responsible for Nearly 65% of Global Arms Exports in 2018-22
Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
14 Mar 2023 – The US share in global arms exports increased from 33% to 40% in 2018-22, and its ally France, the third-largest exporter of weapons, had its share increasing from roughly 7.1% to 11%.
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Haiti: “The Truth Speaks for Itself”
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
With a defunded health care system, Haiti is once again confronting a cholera epidemic. Food insecurity threatens 5 million people, including 2.4 million children, in a country of 12 million. Government-supported paramilitary groups continue to terrorize opposition neighborhoods, with kidnappings at an all time high. These crises have their roots in the 2004 coup and the subsequent imposition of foreign occupation, coordinated through the UN.
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Forever Wars vs. Armageddon
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The call for the U.S. to end military involvements is often made in order to advocate for new wars against more powerful countries. It appears that the only choices are forever wars or the end of the world.
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What Follows US Hegemony
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Rebirth of the Dream of Global Peace and Mutual Respect – The USA remains a powerful country, but it has not come to terms with the immense changes taking place in the world order.
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Providing Education to Handicapped Students
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Mahatma Gandhi contributed to the freedom of India in diverse ways including in the field of education. He stressed the role of learning appropriate skills along with formal education; simple tasks such as electrical fittings, repair work, housekeeping (for girls), animal care, etc.
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Atrocity Fabrication and Its Consequences: How Fake News Shapes World Order
A. B. Abrams | Clarity Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Atrocity fabrication, the invention and reporting of atrocities committed by an adversary, has a long history in propaganda and power politics as an effective means of moving public opinion. It provides pretext for hostile measures against targets, transforming wars of aggression into wars of liberation of the oppressed.
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Jeffrey Sachs Testimony on COVID Origins
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
6 Mar 2023 – My reasons to believe that SARS-CoV-2 may have emerged from a laboratory are straightforward. If indeed that is the case, it reveals the remarkable danger of ongoing gain-of-function research unknown to the Congress and public. Key questions include the following.
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Anything to Say? Assange, Snowden & Manning in Sydney
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 – The three bronze statues that have been touring the world have arrived in Assange’s home country, Australia.
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The Saudi-Iran Détente and Its Regional Implications
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
12 Mar 2023 – What the normalisation between two regional powers means and does not mean.
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A Sane Voice amidst the Madness
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – Former Australian PM Paul Keating has eviscerated Australia’s deal to buy nuclear submarines from the U.K. and U.S., saying there is no Chinese threat to defend against, despite the war hysteria stirring in Australia.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
I got the idea of checking what the AI-based ChatGPT had to say about the war in Ukraine and its answers were a pleasant surprise from the perspective that I hold dear: peace. Here is what I asked and what it answered within a couple of seconds.
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Frankfurt Undermines Human Rights by Canceling a Concert by Roger Waters
Katie Halper and Vijay Prashad | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Roger Waters will take his “This Is Not a Drill” tour to Europe. But on 24 Feb, Frankfurt’s city council cancelled the concert for “persistent anti-Israel behavior” calling Waters an antisemite. In response, Peter Gabriel, Julie Christie, Noam Chomsky, Susan Sarandon, Alia Shawkat, Glenn Greenwald and others signed a petition calling on the German government to uncancel the concert.
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Eight Contradictions of the Imperialist ‘Rules-Based Order’
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
9 Mar 2023 – This is a qualitatively new phase of world history with significant global changes since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008, which can be seen in a new phase of imperialism. We hope to stimulate debate and discussion in our broader Battle of Ideas against toxic social philosophies that seek to suffocate rational thought about our world.
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Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
13 Mar 2023 – FORBES Has a New List of the World’s Richest People
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To the Brahmin Sela: Sela Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
I heard thus: At one time the Blessed One was touring the country of Anguttaraapa with a large community of Bhikkhus, about one thousand two hundred and fifty and entered a hamlet named Aapana. The matted hair ascetic Keniya heard “The good recluse Gotama, son of the Saakyas touring the country of Anguttaraapa.”
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Iraq Plus 20 (Part 1): Lies as Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The Script for the Lead-Up to War
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Why the Banking System Is Breaking Up
Michael Hudson | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The collapses of the Silvergate and Silicon Valley Banks are like icebergs calving off from the Antarctic glacier. The financial analogy to the global warming causing this collapse is the rising temperature of interest rates. Most media reports reflect a prayer that the bank runs will be localized, as if there is no context or environmental cause.
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The US/UK Submarine Deal Crosses Nuclear Red Lines with Australia
Prabir Purkayastha | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – If submarine nuclear reactor technology and weapons-grade (highly enriched) uranium are shared with Australia, it is a breach of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) to which Australia is a signatory as a non-nuclear power. Even the supplying of such nuclear reactors by the U.S. and the UK would constitute a breach of the NPT.
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G20, the Ukraine War, and the Global Economic Crisis
Abayomi Azikiwe | Pan-African News Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
18 Mar 2023 – United States and Its Allies Accused of Hampering Progress within the Global South
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The Pentagon’s B-Movie: Looking Closely at the Sep 2001 Attacks
Edward Curtin and Graeme MacQueen | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – Graeme MacQueen: The Indispensable 9/11 Writer’s Latest Book – Leftists, no matter what they say in their defense, bear great moral responsibility for the so-called War on Terror, the Patriot Act, the invasion of Iraq, the deaths of Muslims, etc., all of which emanate from the insider attacks of September 11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks.
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Peace Conference: A World without Militarism
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Sat, 25 Mar: 9am to 5pm, University of London, In-person & Online, Free Entry
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The Travesty of “International Justice”
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
18 Mar 2023 – The Latest ICC Attempt to Criminalise a World Leader Who Challenges UK, US Supremacy
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Lovers’ Kiss…
Carlos Latuff | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
7 Mar 2023 – Joke? No Joke
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(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Não é um argumento especista se digo que a violência contra outros animais deve ser combatida por causa das consequências para humanos?
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(Italiano) Antifascismo e Costituzione
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
16 Marzo 2023 – Appunti scritti dopo l’assemblea antifascista del 6 marzo, nel tentativo di concentrare intorno ad alcuni valori programmatici anche la nostra attività di cultura positiva della pace.
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An Open Call for Genocide in Palestine
Jafar M Ramini | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Theodore Herzl, founder of Zionism, in his 1895 vision of a Jewish State in Palestine: “We shall have to spirit the penniless population across the border … while denying it any employment in our country…Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discreetly and circumspectly.” (Source: Theodore Herzl Complete Diaries, June 12, 1895) “It must be clear that there is no room in the country for both peoples … If the Arabs leave it, the country will become wide and spacious for us. The only solution is a Land of Israel … without Arabs.”
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WCPA’s Two Track Strategy for Earth Federation Government or a ‘New UN’
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
16 Mar 2023 – Einstein noted the absence of enforceable world law in the UN Charter. Bully nations violate international law with impunity as leaders responsible for world crimes, especially from the UN Security Council (U.S., Russia, China, UK, France) are untouchable, never held accountable, even by the ICC or the ICJ.
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Peace Propagators (Part 2): The Legacy of the Dead Poets
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Poetry Has Propagated Peace but the Heeders Are Indeed a Rare Species about to Become Extinct
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Bertrand Russell on the Secret of Happiness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
“Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.”
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Huwara Reels after Night of Settler Terror under Israeli Army’s Watch
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Palestinians in the West Bank town were left to deal with burned-out buildings and cars after hundreds of settlers ran riot while soldiers protected them.
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16 Mar 1968: The My Lai Massacre in Vietnam by US Invading Forces
Richard Kreitner and The Almanac | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
“The obsolete pretensions of sovereign prerogative and military necessity had better be challenged soon if life on earth is to survive,” — Richard Falk
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China’s Great Leap in the Middle East
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
14 Mar 2023 – What Beijing just sponsored and got done, putting two millennia of diplomatic craft to work, is an exquisite example of what can be accomplished once this imperative is fully realized.
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Will Humans Become an Extension of Their Machines? ChatGPT May Have Irrevocable Consequences for Learning and Decision-Making
Dr. Mathew Maavak | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
13 Mar 2023 – We already rely on digital crutches in numerous aspects of our lives – will we delegate even our essential faculties to AI?
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Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung performing the famous anti-militaristic ode, Le Déserteur, composed by Boris Vian in 1954. The exquisite artwork is by Xiaonan. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway.
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A Donbas Diary: Looking Back at the Early Stages of the Conflict in Ukraine
Fergie Chambers | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
17 Mar 2023 – It is evening in Bucharest, the capital of Romania, one of NATO’s easternmost members. I am waiting at the edge of Izvor Park in the city center to meet with a young friend who has fled Ukraine. In the backdrop of the park is the Palace of the Parliament, the brutalist architectural crown jewel of the Ceaușescu era, and the heaviest building on earth.
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AI Robots Invade the Classroom — So What?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – As long as the system of artificial education focuses on “teaching to the test” by insisting on reducing individual intelligence to a number and belittling the potential of each student, we have a problem. AI isn’t the cause; it helps expose it.
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The Not-So-Winding Road from Iraq to Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
15 Mar 2023 – The continuing influence of the neocons architects of U.S. aggression against Iraq and the double standard between blanket impunity for aggression by US/NATO/allies and the Western military response to Russian aggression against Ukraine.
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Pakistan: Firing in Flood
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Mar 2023
They Want to Arrest Imran Khan and Destabilize the Country
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Time for a Remedial Global Nuclear War?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Recognizing an Unconscious Collective Need for Disastrous Cathartic Experience
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How Stupid Do They Think We Are? A Small Pro-Ukrainian Group in a Yacht Did Whaaaat?
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – Western “intelligence” and the New York Times in deeper waters than usual, offering us a devious spin and fake story – sadly swallowed by the same media that omitted Hersh’s analysis. Ominous.
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Beware the “Cides” of March
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – Reflections on Human Frailties, Virtues, and Betrayal: Finding Solace in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar”
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‘They Were Burning Our House with Kids Inside–the Army Didn’t Let Us Through’
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
2 Mar 2023 – Children trapped by settlers. A mutilated pet. Checkpoints blocking aid. A Palestinian family recounts the horrifying night of the Huwara pogrom.
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Open Letter from ‘Diverse Women for Diversity’ to World Leaders
Navdanya International Press Office – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – ¨Diverse Women for Diversity¨, meeting together in Dehradun, India, representing 17 nationalities and multiple cultures, welcome and support the decision of the Mexican government to phase out GMOs and glyphosate. We are outraged and dismayed that the US government is bullying Mexico to impose GMO transgenic corn in violation of Mexico´s sovereignty.
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Does It Take a War?
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – There is an inevitable gap between what a president tells us about a war—even a proxy war—and the reality on the ground. It is true today as Joe Biden struggles for public support for the war in Ukraine, and it was true six decades ago as Jack Kennedy struggled to understand the war he chose to pursue in South Vietnam.
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In Bulldozing Israeli Democracy, Netanyahu Could Become the BDS Movement’s Greatest Ally
Daniel Boguslaw | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
5 Mar 2023 – Capital is beginning to flee Israel in the wake of the prime minister’s judicial overhaul.
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Message from Dr Vandana Shiva for Holi and Women’s Day
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – Women of the world are the primary guardians and custodians of biodiversity and life. They are holding and protecting the ancient and precious knowledge on how to use and preserve biodiversity for healthy food, healthy communities and healthy environments.
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Media Ignore Seymour Hersh Bombshell Report of US Destroying Nord Stream II
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Seymour Hersh published an in-depth report about Biden deliberately blowing up the Nord Stream II gas pipeline but corporate mainstream media have ignored the Pulitzer Prize reporter’s bombshell. In the US, only four mentions were found among the 20 most influential publications.
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Why Do 800 Mothers a Day – 1 Every 2 Minutes– Die from Preventable Causes?
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
7 Mar 2023 – The answer is that there are alarming setbacks for maternal health care and, in many cases, even a total lack of maternity services, which threaten to further raise the number of these tragic preventable deaths one million or more a year by 2030.
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Holi: The Colours of Biodiversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – This year, International Women’s Day falls on the same day of Holi, the festival of colours, joy and diversity: 8 March. On this day, millions of people take to the streets to celebrate the coming of spring by throwing coloured powders.
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The Disturbing Groupthink over the War in Ukraine
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen asserted that U.S. support for Ukraine “is motivated, first and foremost, by a moral duty to come to the aid of a people under attack.” Why this supposed moral duty does not apply to the Palestinians or disappears when the U.S. wages offensive wars and campaigns of mass slaughter throughout the world?
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The U.S. Must Stop Threatening China!
John Scales Avery, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
The US Aggressive Military-Industrial Complex – The great danger is that the escalation of the Ukrainian conflict will result in nuclear war. However, politicians from both U.S. political parties are so blinded by nationalism that they believe the risks to be necessary in order to “weaken Russia”, thus asserting American global hegemony.
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Peace Propagators (Part 1): The Sufi Spiritual Masters
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
“Spirituality, Not Religiosity, Is the Strongest Pillar of Peace”
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No Solution in Sight for Palestinians
Mohammad Amjad Hossain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – The leaders of the world as of now have shown little interest in resolving conflict between Jews of Israel and Palestinians. The situation in Israel is probably by design to destroy the aspirations of Palestinians now.
→ read full articleFamily Ties in India
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Most people in the world have strong family ties that may consist of grand parents or even great grandparents. They are sometimes referred to as grannies.
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Yanis Varoufakis Brutally Attacked by Group of Thugs in Athens
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
12 Mar 2023 – Last night Yanis Varoufakis, secretary of the Greek Party MeRA25 and founder of DiEM25, was attacked in Athens and taken to hospital with injuries. The condemnation of the violence towards the Greek MP came from (almost) everywhere.
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John Pilger Speaks about Julian Assange in Sydney 10 Mar 2023
John Pilger - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023 – Australia, the ultimate betrayer of Julian Assange.
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Mother’s Day
Kristin Y. Christman - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
In Honor of International Women’s Day, 8 Mar 2023
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US Occupation of Syria Will Continue
M. K. Bhadrakumar | Indian Punchline – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
6 Mar 2023 – According to eyewitness accounts, as recently as 27 Feb US troops transported at least 34 tankers filled with stolen Syrian oil through the illegal Al-Mahmoudiya border crossing to their bases in Iraq.
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(Italiano) “La pace è l’unica vittoria di cui abbiamo bisogno” e non ha bisogno di armi
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
5 Marzo 2023 – Scriveva nei giorni scorsi il Financial Times che “le azioni delle aziende del settore della difesa sono salite negli ultimi mesi, perché gli investitori scommettono sulle promesse di un aumento della spesa militare da parte dei governi occidentali per aiutare lo sforzo bellico dell’Ucraina contro la Russia”.
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Lynching the Deplorables
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
5 Mar 2023 – The criminal investigation undertaken by the federal government against hundreds of participants in the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol is polarizing the country and shredding civil liberties.
→ read full articleWill the Circle be Unbroken? Reviving the Spirit of Bandung and Panchsheel
Marilyn Langlois – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
“I hate the US empire, and I love the US republic.” — Johan Galtung. Economic colonization continues, backed up by financial networks, covert CIA/MI6 operations and hundreds of US military bases that dot the globe in over 85 countries. The sun still never sets on the modern Anglo-American empire. Implementation of the Panchsheel principles would set the stage for peaceful coexistence in a nuclear weapons-free world.
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Imperial Narrative Managers Always Try to Make Peace Seem Unnatural
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
12 Mar 2023: Peace as an ABERRATION? – “Australia must prepare itself. Most important of all is a psychological shift. Urgency must replace complacency. The recent decades of tranquillity were not the norm in human affairs but an aberration. Australia’s holiday from history is over. Australians should not feel afraid but be alert to the threats we face, the tough decisions we must make and know that they have agency. This mobilisation of mindset is the essential prerequisite to any successful confrontation of China.” — ‘The Sydney Morning Herald’ and ‘The Age’
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Against the Cult of Originality: Emerson on the True Nature of Genius
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
The best things in life we don’t choose — they choose us. A great love, a great calling, a great illumination — they happen unto us, like light falling upon that which is lit. We have given a name to these unbidden greatnesses — genius, from the Latin for “spirit,” denoting the spirit of a universe we can only submit to but cannot govern.
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Wikipedia: A Disinformation Operation?
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Is Wikipedia an open encyclopedia or a covert disinformation operation?
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My Fifty Years with Dan Ellsberg
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – I think it best that I begin with the end. On March 6, I and dozens of Dan’s friends and fellow activists received a two-page notice that he had been diagnosed with incurable pancreatic cancer and was refusing chemotherapy because the prognosis, even with chemo, was dire. He will be ninety-two in April.
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Ukraine’s Death by Proxy
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 – Proxy wars devour the countries they purport to defend. There will come a time when the Ukrainians will become expendable to the U.S. They will disappear, as many others before them, from U.S. national discourse and popular consciousness.
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Seismic Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Isolates US
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
11 Mar 2023 – The Chinese-brokered diplomatic deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran not only opens the way for resolution of region-wide conflicts, but foils U.S. Mideast divide-and-rule designs based on Saudi-Iranian enmity. The success of the normalization and its effect on the Middle East remains to be seen. But it is a start that few thought they’d ever see as long as the U.S. stood in the way.
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Segregation of Roma Children in Schools: A Challenge for Slovakia
Katarina Spisak | Euroviews Impact - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
According to a survey published in 2021 by the Fundamental Rights Agency, between half and two-thirds of Roma children attend segregated schools in Slovakia. It is the largest number among 10 countries surveyed.
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US Shoots Itself in the Foot in Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – In Africa as in the rest of the world, US machinations undermine its goals and bring other nations together as they seek to protect themselves from a desperate empire. The US can’t seem to understand that the rest of the world, including Africa, doesn’t like to be pushed around.
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US House of Representatives Votes to Defeat Resolution Demanding Troop Withdrawal from Syria
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023 – The US has built an illegal base and deployed nearly 900 soldiers in Syria, who have helped prolong the war in the country and facilitated the loot of its natural resources especially oil by the US.
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Kevin Gosztola, Daniel Ellsberg, Julian Assange: ‘Guilty of Journalism’
Shadowproof – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
7 Mar 2023 – Shadowproof and Project Censored present a conversation between Kevin Gosztola and Daniel Ellsberg to celebrate the release of Kevin’s book, ‘Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange.’
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The “Snipers’ Massacre” on the Maidan in Ukraine
Ivan Katchanovski, Ph.D. | University of Otawa - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Abstract: The massacre of almost 50 Maidan protesters on 20 Feb 2014 was a turning point in Ukrainian politics and a tipping point in the conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine. This mass killing of the protesters and the mass shooting of the police that preceded it led to the overthrow of the pro-Russian government of Viktor Yanukovych and gave a start to a civil war in Donbas in Eastern Ukraine, Russian military intervention in Crimea and Donbas, and an international conflict between the West and Russia over Ukraine.
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CIA and Mossad-linked Surveillance System Quietly Being Installed throughout the US
Whitney Webb | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
10 Mar 2023 – Under the guise of stopping mass shootings, a surveillance system backed by top Mossad, CIA and FBI officials is being installed in schools, houses of worship, and other civilian locations throughout the country, much of it thanks to the recent donation of an “anonymous philanthropist.”
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The Pentagon’s Artificial Intelligence
GNspace4peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
The War Racket Machine: Unstoppable
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Peace Delivery
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Captionless…
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Twitter Files: My Statement to the US Congress
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
9 Mar 2023 – “Hearing on the Weaponization of the Federal Government on the Twitter Files” for the House Judiciary Committee. We release a “Twitter Files Statement to Congress” for the record. It contains some surprises. My opening:
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Prisoners Donating Organs to Get Time off Raises Thorny Ethical Questions
Austin Sarat | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
In January 2023 two Democratic representatives, Judith Garcia and Carlos Gonzalez, proposed a bill that would offer prisoners in Massachusetts a new way to win reduction in their sentences: by donating their bone marrow or vital organs.
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Holi, the Festival of Colors, 8 Mar 2023
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Like other festivals, Holi brings people together and they sing and dance wishing each other a happy and eventful life. Some relate the festival to the refreshing story of Lord Krishna and His beloved Radha.
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