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Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jan 2023

29 Jan 2023 – NATO support for the war in Ukraine, designed to degrade the Russian military and drive Vladimir Putin from power, is not going according to plan. The new sophisticated military hardware won’t help.

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Why US-China Trade Is on Track to Break Records despite All the Politics
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jan 2023

24 Jan 2023 – The real needs of global economics trump political scaremongering – for the time being.

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Alberto Portugheis 80th Birthday Concert (Music Video of the Week)
Alberto Portugheis | Pyanek – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jan 2023

Pianist, pedagogue, peace activist and TRANSCEND Member Alberto Portugheis celebrates his 80 years performing Mozart, Beethoven and Chopin at St John’s Church, London. His life is shared between music and his organization, HUFUD, whose mission is the Abolition of Militarism. Recorded on 11 Jun 2021.

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Tribunal in Washington Calls on President Biden to End Prosecution of Julian Assange and to Defend Rights of Journalists and Whistleblowers
Chris Garaffa | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jan 2023

24 Jan 2023 – Nearly 13 years after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange released the video Collateral Murder, over 150 people packed the same room in the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.–just two blocks from the White House–for the Belmarsh Tribunal. Co-chaired by Amy Goodman and Srećko Horvat, it brought together whistleblowers, activists, lawyers in support of Assange.

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The Plague of Social Isolation
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

21 Jan 2023 – The rupture of social bonds and loss of community, caused by the decades-long assault on the poor and working class and the ravages of the pandemic, have resulted in a dangerous social isolation.

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Why War?
Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

Letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud, 1932

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Moderna Wants to Quadruple the Price of Its Covid-19 Vaccine as Hundreds Die per Day
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

18 Jan 2023 – With the US federal government’s stock of vaccines for residents running out, Moderna now plans to raise the cost of its vaccine from $26 to up to $130 in a decision that understandably has North Americans pissed.

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Peru’s Natural Resources: CIA-linked US Ambassador Meets with Mining and Energy Ministers to Talk ‘Investments’
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

20 Jan 2023 – Peru has large reserves of copper, gold, zinc, silver, lead, iron, and natural gas. After a coup overthrew left-wing President Pedro Castillo on 7 Dec 2022, the US ambassador, CIA veteran Lisa Kenna, met with mining and energy ministers to discuss “investments”. Europe is importing Peruvian LNG to replace Russian energy.

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What Price “Defense”?
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

17 Jan 2023 – Going Down the Military Drain– US Costly, Dysfunctional Approach to Security Is Making Us Ever Less Safe

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How Western Sanctions Blow Back, Hurting Europe, Deepening Asian Integration
Renate Bridenthal | Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023

11 Jan 2023 – Western sanctions led Russia to greatly increase trade with Asia, while devastating Europe’s economy. The US tech war against China is damaging its own industry.

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Grandson of Charles de Gaulle, an Old CIA Nemesis, Condemns West’s Policy in Ukraine
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023

11 Jan 2023 – Pierre de Gaulle, grandson of former French President Charles de Gaulle, has said the U.S. and NATO triggered the Ukraine conflict and are making Europeans suffer by fueling and waging a pre-planned economic war against Russia.

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Biden Tramples on Japan’s Post-WWII Pacifist Constitution by Pushing Country’s Rearmament
Sara Flounders | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023

9 Jan 2023 – Main target is China in dangerously provocative policy that faces no visible domestic opposition in the U.S.

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How Safe Can We Really Be?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023

11 Jan 2023 – What is freedom–the freedom to be armed and able to defend yourself? Does one man’s freedom force the rest of us to watch their country turn into a John Wayne movie?… And the strongman may kill his enemies, but he can’t kill the paradox.

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Venezuela: Guaidó Is Gone, but Media Dishonesty Is Here to Stay
Ricardo Vaz | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023

11 Jan 2023 – The latest iteration of Washington’s regime-change efforts against the democratically elected Venezuelan government came to an end. On 30 Dec an opposition-controlled parliament voted to end the US-backed “interim government” headed by Juan Guaidó.

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Yemen War Continues Beyond Media Spotlight
Felix Abt | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Jan 2023

11 Jan 2023 – The Washington Post even gives positive spin by suggesting that the war has improved gender equality in devastated country.

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If You Wouldn’t Ask Hannibal Lecter to Stop Mass Atrocities, Don’t Ask “The International Community”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023

4 Jan 2023 – The hope that the U.S. will intervene anywhere in the world for humanitarian reasons is misguided in the extreme. Claims of concern are always a ruse hiding ulterior motives. Imperialist actions are antithetical to human needs.

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U.S. Spreads Misery across the Globe Imposing Sanctions on a Third of Humanity
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023

The U.S. may try piously to defend sanctions as a ‘response to foreign tyranny,’ but they are really a pretext to steal foreign bank accounts and cripple commercial rivals of U.S. corporations–a true fascist tyranny.

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Russia Offering ‘Korea-style‘ Peace Deal – Kiev
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023

8 Jan 2023 – Moscow wants to formalize the status quo on the ground, Ukraine’s top security official said.

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Brazil’s Ex-President Bolsonaro Fled to Florida
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023

3 Jan 2023 – Lula da Silva returned as Brazil’s president, calling for fighting poverty and hunger, re-industrializing, strengthening the BRICS, and deepening Latin American integration. Far-right leader Jair Bolsonaro fled to Florida, fearing legal consequences for his corruption.

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Ransacking the World Economy until ‘You’ll Own Nothing’ (Part 1): 5,000 Years Setting the Stage
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

Dec 2022 – According to the World Economic Forum, by 2030 ‘You’ll Own Nothing. And You’ll Be Happy.’ If this prediction is to come true many things must happen. Let me identify why the WEF believes it will happen and then investigate these claims.

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Ransacking the World Economy until ‘You’ll Own Nothing’ (Part 2): The Coup de Grâce–>The Great Reset
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

Dec 2022 – Building on millennia of learning how to structure and manage an economy to accumulate and consolidate control and wealth in particular hands (Part 1), the Global Elite launched its final coup in January 2020 under cover of the fake Covid-19 ‘pandemic’.

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If the US Told Rwanda and Uganda to Get Out of Congo, the War Would End
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

14 Dec 2022 – Rwanda and Uganda continue their plunder and destabilization of the Democratic Republic of the Congo as proxies of the United States.

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Russia Dropping US Dollar for Chinese Yuan – And Fast
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

26 Dec 2022 – In response to Western sanctions, Russia’s central bank is dropping the US dollar for Chinese yuan. The yuan’s share of Moscow’s currency trading increased from 1% to 40-45% in 2022, while dollar trade halved from 80% to 40%.

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On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

29 Dec 2022 – A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent. 

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Nobel Peace Prize Winners Have Deep CIA Ties
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

21 Dec 2022 – Far-fetched as it sounds, this year’s winners are all connected to a CIA offshoot, the National Endowment for Democracy and parroted CIA/State Department/Pentagon talking points about Ukraine and Russia in their acceptance speeches.

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The U.S. Military Is Poisoning Okinawa
Pat Elder | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

28 Dec 2022 – Blood testing confirms high levels of carcinogen PFAS in the blood of hundreds living close to U.S. bases in Ginowan, Okinawa (10 Jul 2022). Japanese demand answers while Americans deny responsibility. (Toshio Takahashi).

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The Democrats Are Now the War Party
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

25 Dec 2022 – The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with nuclear war.

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The 60-Year U.S. Blockade on Cuba Is an Abomination just as Guantanamo—with No End in Sight
David Starr | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

14 Dec 2022 – “El Bloqueo” (The Blockade) is what Cubans call it. It is a 60-year-old abomination. It is the U.S. embargo against Cuba imposed by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1962.

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Daniel Ellsberg: Indict Me Too
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Dec 2022

7 Dec 2022 – Daniel Ellsberg has called on the U.S. to indict him for having the same unauthorized possession of classified material as Julian Assange. Ellsberg follows the Cryptome.org founder who has also invited prosecution.

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Judicial Coup in Argentina: Corrupt Judges Conspire with Media Oligarchs to Ban Cristina Kirchner from Office
Ben Norton | Multipolarista - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Dec 2022

9 Dec 2022 – Leaked messages show Argentina’s corrupt judges and prosecutors conspired with right-wing media oligarchs to launch a judicial coup against left-wing ex President and current VP Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, sentencing her to six years in prison and banning her from running in the 2023 elections.

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Our Authentically Fake and Hypocritical Society of Copies
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Dec 2022

4 Dec 2022 – Indeed, to make people into machines is the goal of trans-humanists Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum with its Great Reset and the UN’s 2030 Agenda. Artificial Intelligence for artificial people.  While there are innocent examples of repetition, the use of it is a fundamental tactic of propaganda.

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Why Does U.S. Navy Allow Officers to Commit Gory Murders and Other Atrocities with Impunity?
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

30 Nov 2022 – And even more disturbingly, why are the men who commit these crimes revered in American popular culture? “The thrill of killing [is] like a drug; the greatest feeling I’ve ever experienced in my life.” – Eddie Penney, Navy SEAL Team 6.

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Cryptome Founder Asks to Be Indicted with Assange
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

30 Nov 2022 – John Young, the founder of the Cryptome website, has asked the U.S. Justice Department to also indict him as he published un-redacted State Dept. files before WikiLeaks did.

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David Ray Griffin (8 Aug 1939 – 26 Nov 2022)–The Man and His Work: A Synopsis
Elizabeth Woodworth | AE911truth - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

2 Dec 2022 – From a hopeful common-sense theology to the exposés of imperialist propaganda and false flag operations, to the full extent of the climate crisis, to our evolving perception of the nature of the divine, David Griffin stands with the greats; yet was quiet, humorous, down to earth, and unassuming. RIP

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Hawai’i to Pentagon: Stop Bombing Pohakuloa Toxic Area
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

30 Nov 2022 – Lava Flow from Maunakea Volcano Has Entered Hawaii’s Military Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA) –->Danger of Toxins! There is a massive toxic stew at Pohakuloa from 75 years of bombing and the use of nuclear depleted uranium, spotting rounds, and likely chemical and biological weapons. Pohakuloa is NOT safe for soldiers, residents and visitors to Hawaii Island.

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The Racists Return to Kindergarten
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

30 Nov 2022 – Damn those Marxists! You know their game, right? No doubt they’re in favor of dropping charges against Julian Assange, who (as all real Americans know) deserves 175 years in prison for exposing — with the help of the New York Times, The Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel and El País — embarrassing realities about U.S. foreign policy.

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NATO Narratives and Corporate Media Are Leading to ‘Doorstep of Doom’
Robin Andersen | FAIR-Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

1 Dec 2022 – Corporate media are failing democracy and to disclose our current, stark choice between war, life and the planet. They shout for more war in loud voices. They censor and poison public discourse and position North Americans as targets of propaganda—the denizens of empire—instead of citizen participants in a democracy.

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The US Is Determined to Drive a Wedge between Ethiopia and Eritrea
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

23 Nov 2022 – Thanks to the 21 Nov US-imposed sanctions,  Eritrea has been excluded from the SWIFT system along with Russia, Iran, and North Korea.  Now American Enterprise Institute fanatic Michael Rubin wants it on the US list of state sponsored terrorists along with Cuba, North Korea, and Syria—triggering sanctions that penalize persons and countries trading with Eritrea. 

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Interpol Arrest Warrant Issued for Angolan Billionaire Isabel dos Santos
Fergus Shiel and Micael Pereira | International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

19 Nov 2022 – The daughter of Angola’s former president José Eduardo dos Santos was the subject of the ICIJ 2020 Luanda Leaks investigation. Sources say the warrant relates to allegedly corrupt dealings exposed.

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Maligned in Western Media, Donbass Forces Are Defending Their Future from Ukrainian Shelling and Fascism
Eva Bartlett | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

19 Nov 2022 – Western Media Inverted Reality, Lauding Nazis and Demonizing Defenders: The U.S. is widely understood to be a key instigator behind conflict in Ukraine that has pitted brother against brother.

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A Thanksgiving Reminder
Daniel Medina | TK Editorial Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

24 Nov 2022 – Happy Thanksgiving, sucker…

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The U.S. Military Pledged to Remove Unexploded Bombs from This Island–Native Hawaiians Are Still Waiting
Rob Perez | Honolulu Star-Advertiser/ProPublica – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

26 Nov 2022 – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which is leading the remediation effort, has been plagued by shoddy work and multiple regulatory disputes, according to an investigation by the Honolulu Star-Advertiser and ProPublica.

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Georgian Legion Carries Out ISIS-Style Executions in Ukraine—with Covert U.S. Support
Evan Reif  | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

23 Nov 2022 – U.S. has a long history of subcontracting dirty counterinsurgency operations to brutal proxy forces–the Georgian Legion, which stands out among the many right-wing militias of Ukraine, is but the latest.

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What Does the EU Parliament’s Designation of Russia as a ‘State Sponsor of Terrorism’ Mean?
Rachel Marsden | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Nov 2022

24 Nov 2022 – The European Parliament’s non-binding resolution is a PR effort rooted in political agenda.

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Biden Travels East in Clouds of Mistrust
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

20 Nov 2022 – U.S. Joe Biden and Chinese Xi Jinping met for more than three hours at the G20 conference Nov 14-15 in Indonesia. China “is the only country with both the intent to reshape the international order and… the economic, diplomatic, military and technological power to advance that objective,” Biden wrote in the U.S. Defense Strategy in Oct, a document focused on China and Russia as “threats” to U.S. hegemony.

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Criminals, Terror Financiers, Arms Traffickers, Drug Runners Infiltrated Honorary Consul Ranks
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Shadow Diplomats: Accused terror financiers, arms traffickers and drug runners among hundreds of rogue diplomats, global investigation reveals. Honorary consuls are meant to foster ties between countries. But criminals and others accused of exploiting the position have infiltrated their ranks.

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Shatter Alley
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

I snuggle behind the wheel
and see
shards of glass
scattered across
the seat of my car.

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Hawai’i: The Very First U.S. Regime Change
Jon D. Olsen | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

15 Nov 2022 – Illegitimate overthrow of Polynesian Queen Lili’uokalani of Hawai’i in 1893 marked beginning of more than a century of American regime-change operations.

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Qatar: World Champion Human Rights Violators
Daniel Medina | TK Editorial Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

Bloodied Trophy…

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Corporate Weapons Heaven Is a Hell on Earth
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Nov 2022

17 Nov 2022 – A Hall of Shame of U.S. Weapons Sales

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Attempt to Try Russian Leaders for War Crimes Is Part of the West’s Weaponization of the ICC
Robin Philpot | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

14 Nov 2022 – International Criminal Court continues to serve as a “battering ram for U.S. and NATO policy,” as the former U.S. ambassador-at-large for war crimes in the Clinton administration defined it.

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Trafficking Inc.
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

28 Oct 2022 – An ICIJ investigation examines networks of companies, people and business practices that draw profit from cross-border labor trafficking and sex trafficking.

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Hands off Haiti!!—No Military Intervention!!
Richard S. Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

12 Nov 2022 – The United States and Canada have delivered military machinery to Haiti under the suspicious title of “security equipment”; this “security equipment” includes armored and tactical vehicles to be used to strengthen the police to fight “criminal gangs.” It is reported that, by October 28, Haiti will receive additional delivery of military machinery.

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American-Born Canadian Professor Attacked by Mainstream Media for Opposing NATO Narrative on Ukraine
Aidan Jonah | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

6 Nov 2022 – A highly regarded Russia specialist in Canada, Prof. Michael Carley at the Univ. of Montreal, has refused to support the NATO narrative on the Ukraine conflict and has since been subjected to a vicious smear campaign. The “Carley Affair” can act as a warning of what to expect as the U.S. harbors more Ukrainian refugees.

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Then There’s Only One Choice
Wolfgang Borchert – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

You. Man at the machine in the factory. When they tell you tomorrow to stop making pots and pans and instead make helmets and machine guns, then there’s only one choice:
Say NO!

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More Investment, Less Interference: How China Is Moving into ‘Washington’s Latin Hemisphere’
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

10 Nov 2022 – After decades [centuries?] of abuse by the U.S., some Latin American countries seem to find Beijing’s approach attractive.

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Who Knew: We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here Because We’re Here
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Nov 2022

10 Nov 2022 – My title comes from a song sung by soldiers as they marched to hell in the trenches of World War I. We’re all lucky to still be here. If we continue to celebrate past wars and the soldiers who fought them in a sly homage to the greatness of war, we are doomed.

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Glaring Western Hypocrisy on Human Rights in Africa: Ethiopia and the Democratic Republic of Congo
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

2 Nov 2022 – The US and EU are complicit in the Rwandan and Ugandan incursions into the DRC, as well as in their support of their TPLF proxies against Ethiopia. On a positive note, however, Ethiopians, Eritreans, Congolese, Rwandans, and Ugandans are speaking out about the West’s hypocrisy and interference and building PanAfrican ties.

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Leon Trotsky (7 Nov 1879 – 21 Aug 1940)
Robert V. Daniels | Encyclopædia Britannica - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

In the struggle for power following Vladimir Ilich Lenin’s death, Joseph Stalin emerged as victor, while Trotsky was removed from all positions of power and later exiled (1929). He remained the leader of an anti-Stalinist opposition abroad until his assassination by a Stalinist agent.

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Entire World Votes 185 to 2 against Blockade of Cuba—US and Israel Are Rogue States at UN
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

4 Nov 2022 – For the 30th year in a row, almost every country on Earth voted at the United Nations General Assembly to oppose the illegal six-decade US blockade of Cuba. 185 nations voted against just two: the United States and Israel.

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New U.S. Sanctions Are Designed to Hit Nicaragua’s Poorest Citizens
John Perry | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

4 Nov 2022 – Mainstream media ridiculously claim that Nicaragua is a threat to U.S. national security when it has one of the lowest levels of defense spending in the world.

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Musk Takes Twitter Helm, Enacts Sweeping Change as Deal Closes
Katie Roof, Ed Hammond and Kurt Wagner | Bloomberg - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2022

28 Oct 2022 – Elon Musk wasted no time taking complete control of Twitter Inc. The billionaire appointed himself chief executive officer, dismissed senior management and immediately began reshaping strategy at one of the world’s most influential social media platforms as his $44 billion take-private deal closed.

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The Fed’s Trading Scandal Broadens into a Scandal with the Mega Banks It “Regulates”
Pam Martens - Russ Martens | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2022

The president of the St. Louis Fed, James Bullard, gave a private, invitation-only briefing on Oct 14 2022 to clients of Citigroup, which received the largest bailout from the Fed in banking history–a sum of $2.5 trillion in secret loans according to a government audit.

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My War Never Ends
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2022

Writing on War and Living in a World from Hell

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Ethiopia Nears Victory in Its Civil War, US Scrambles to Control the Outcome
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2022

26 Oct 2022 – War between Ethiopia and the TPLF may be coming to an end, but the US is using sanctions to have the final word despite the apparent defeat of its proxy.

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NATO Rehearsed for an Amphibious Assault on Eastern Ukraine Using Ukrainian Naval Bases Acquired in Agreement with the UK
Arnaud Develay | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2022

26 Oct 2022 – Documents Reveal: Russia felt it had to act in self-defense in special military operation to thwart U.S.-UK-NATO provocations and aggression and save people of the Donbas.

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Strategy to Open the Door for a New UN and for an Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2022

29 Oct 2022 – The United Nation’s primary job is to end war. It hasn’t worked. It could not prevent the devastating criminal invasion of Iraq by the US, and now it’s Russia against US/Ukraine. To add to the frustrating madness, US/NATO promises a future war against China over Taiwan. The UN needs a world federal constitution.

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The Pentagon Loves First-Person Shooter Video Games
Laura Bartkowiak and Brian J. Sullivan | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2022

19 Oct 2022 – Video games are the most popular entertainment media on the planet — and one of the American war machine’s most effective propaganda tools.

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Stop Worrying and Start Loving the Bomb
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2022

23 Oct 2022 – The longer the proxy war in Ukraine continues, the closer we come to a direct confrontation with Russia. Once that happens, the Dr. Strangeloves running the show will reach for the nukes.

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Two New Books Explore Pernicious Impact of U.S. Intelligence Agencies
Dee Knight | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2022

17 Oct 2022 – Credibility is low these days for the U.S. government, politicians and the mainstream media. Sorting through news reports for reliable fact and analysis would make George Orwell weep. How ideologies of American exceptionalism and innocence have inoculated public from human suffering meted out in their name.

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The Last Temptation of Things
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2022

22 Oct 2022 – Let me tell you a story about a haunted house and all the thoughts it evoked in me. Do we believe we can save ourselves by saving things? Or do our saved possessions come to possess their saviors?

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PayPal: Rule of Power
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Oct 2022

11 Oct 2022 – Last week PayPal announced that at its “sole discretion,” $2,500 would be seized from accounts guilty of spreading misinformation–dissent from official narratives–,a policy of thought control like in George Orwell’s «1984». The rule of power, not the rule of law, is what we are up against, and some are slow to realize it.

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Tulsi Gabbard Dares to Challenge Washington’s War Machine
Tony Cox | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Oct 2022

13 Oct 2022 – Tulsi Gabbard’s rapid transformation from rising Democratic star to demonized outcast–culminating this week with her decision to leave the party–has exposed the one thing on which every powerful person in Washington agree: war is good. The former presidential candidate has shown that opposing regime-change policies is the one taboo that the ruling class will not tolerate.

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Pipelines v. USA
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Oct 2022

12 Oct 2022 – Intent, motive and means: People serving life sentences in U.S. prisons have been convicted on weaker grounds than the circumstantial evidence against Washington for the attack on the Nord Stream pipelines.

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Biden Administration Wants Kidnapped Venezuelan Diplomat Alex Saab to “Suffer like Julian Assange,” according to UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights
Ed Rampell | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Oct 2022

12 Oct 2022 – New documentary by Alex Smith explores travails of Saab who faces U.S. wrath because he tried to circumvent Washington’s onerous illegal sanctions levied against Venezuela.

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Death by Nationalism?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Oct 2022

12 Oct 2022 – The irresolvable dilemma facing Western leaders is that this is a no-win situation. How can they militarily defeat Russia, when it possesses 6,000 nuclear warheads and its military doctrine explicitly states that it will use them before it will accept an existential military defeat? If a nuclear war happens, everyone on the planet is no more than a deportee.

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The Greatest Evil Is War
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Oct 2022

29 Sep 2022 – I flew to Kansas City to see Tomas Young. Tomas was paralyzed in Iraq in 2004. He was receiving hospice care at his home. I knew him by reputation and the movie documentary Body of War. He was one of the first veterans to publicly oppose the war in Iraq.

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The Puppets and the Puppet Masters
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Oct 2022

9 Oct 2022 – Merrick Garland and those who work in the Department of Justice are the puppets, not the puppet masters. They are the façade, the fiction, that the longstanding persecution of Julian Assange has something to do with justice. Like the High Court in London, they carry out an elaborate judicial pantomime.

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Imperialism and Capitalism Are ‘Bleeding the World Dry’: At UN, Nicaragua Calls for Global Rebellion
Ben Norton | Multipolarista – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2022

27 Sep 2022 – At the United Nations General Assembly, Nicaragua’s Sandinista government called for a global rebellion against the “imperialist and capitalist system” that is “bleeding the world dry.” Condemning illegal sanctions and war, it urged a new multipolar order.

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Putin Signs Treaties on Accession of Former Ukrainian Regions to Russia
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2022

30 Sep 2022 – President Vladimir Putin has signed treaties on the inclusion of four former Ukrainian regions into the Russian Federation. Today’s ceremony marked the start of the formal process of their accession. The documents must now be verified by the Constitutional Court and ratified by parliament.

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A New UN to Prevent the Sacrifice of Europe to the Nuclear Gods
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2022

The UN is stymied by its fatally flawed Charter.  Despite the fact that the original purpose of the UN is to end “the scourge of war,” it has failed time and time again.  While the UN has done much good, the world has seen over 250 wars since the Charter was signed. 

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Ukraine Reacts to Former Regions Joining Russia
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2022

30 Sep 2022 – Kiev demands ‘accelerated’ admission to NATO, but the bloc’s chief insisted that it’s not party to the conflict.

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The Timing of the Pipeline Attack
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2022

28 Sep 2022 – The U.S. had already forced Germany to shut down Nord Stream 2 but there are signs that an end to the Ukraine war would have put it back online. Why then did someone attack the pipeline on Monday [26 Sep], releasing the gas it contained into the Baltic Sea?

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Only Adult Children Still Believe U.S. Propaganda
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Oct 2022

30 Sep 2022 – It should now be quite clear to any reasonable person that the Biden administration is hell-bent on destroying Russia and will risk nuclear war in doing so.  It has already started World War III with its use of Ukraine to light the final match.  The problem is that reasonable people are in very short supply.

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The Return of Fascism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

24 Sep 2022 – As in the 1930s, a bankrupt liberalism, grotesque social inequality and declining living standards are empowering fascist movements in Europe and the U.S.

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John Pilger’s 2014 Warning about Ukraine
John Pilger | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

24 Sep 2022 – In an article on May 13, 2014 in The Guardian, republished here, John Pilger warned the “U.S. is threatening to take the world to war” over Ukraine, words that have taken on new meaning.

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Survivors Uncensored: Voices from Rwanda and the Rwandan Diaspora
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

21 Sep 2022 – The abuse of the Rwandan catastrophe in service to US/EU/NATO interventionist ideology. The US will never stop defending the narrative because they’ll never admit to having engineered what happened and continues in Rwanda and DRC.

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The Analects of Confucius
Translated by Robert Eno – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

The Analects of Confucius is an anthology of brief passages that present the words of Confucius and his disciples, describe Confucius as a man, and recount some of the events of his life. The book may have begun as a collection by Confucius’s immediate disciples soon after their Master’s death in 479 BCE.

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Reaping the Whirlwind
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022

22 Sep 2022 – “A permanent member of the UNSC invaded its neighbor, attempted to erase a sovereign state from the map,” Biden said. “Russia has shamelessly violated the core tenets of the UN Charter.” History, however, is a harsh mistress, where facts become inconvenient to perception; through the prism of historical fact, the narrative being promulgated by Biden becomes flipped.

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The Historic Collapse of Journalism
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2022

Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters.

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Latin Americans Reject Resource Plundering by Same NATO Countries Fueling Military Conflict in Ukraine
Camila Escalante | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2022

13 Sep 2022 – It’s a witch hunt where Washington is saying either you are with the U.S., NATO and the West, or you’re against us. Anyone trying to be ‘neutral’ becomes ‘pro-Russia’. Meanwhile, no one is sanctioning the U.S. or the EU for their plundering wars or their violent crimes against humanity and war crimes throughout the world.

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All-Day Peace Conference in the UK: The Game of War and the Path to Peace
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

24 September 2022 – 10am to 6pm — Harrogate, Yorkshire. Organized by HUFUD and Harrogate Quakers

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Film ‘I Am Peace’ from Alberto Portugheis Selected
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

The Global Alliance for Ministries and Infrastructures for Peace (GAMIP) Short Film Forum 2022

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Ukraine and the Crisis of Media Censorship
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

2 Sep 2022 – Throughout the Ukraine war, Western news outlets have mindlessly parroted the opinions of a ruling elite and overseen a public discourse that is often unhinged from the real world.

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Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

11 Sep 2022 – No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy.

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Let’s Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

4 Sep 2022 – The U.S. posits itself as a champion of opportunity, freedom, human rights and civil liberties, even as half the country struggles at subsistence level, militarized police gun down and imprison the poor with impunity, and the primary business of the state is war. This collective self-delusion masks who we have become. Under inverted totalitarianism, there is no attempt, unlike fascism and state socialism, to address the needs of the poor.

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Western Media Continues to Ignore Ukraine’s Public ‘Kill List’ Aimed at Those Who Question the Kiev Regime
Eva Bartlett – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

11 Sep 2022 – The Mirotvorets list is an issue trending in independent and Russian media, but not in the mainstream international press.

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Getting It Wrong on Ukraine
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2022

1 Sep 2022 – Bill Arkin and his employers at Newsweek seem to be content with serving as the Defense Intelligence Agency’s stenographers, putting out stories which have not, and will not, stand the test of time. Arkin is a prisoner of his sources, a problem that pervades Western reporting on the conflict in Ukraine.

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Factchecking the Factchecker on Chomsky, Russia and Media Access
John Kempthorne | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2022

30 Aug 2022 – US-based media platforms have made an extraordinary effort to cut Western audiences off from news from a Russian perspective. When social critic Noam Chomsky pointed out how unprecedented this was, Newsweek‘s “factchecker” (26 Jul 2022) declared his criticism “clearly untrue”—a determination that did more to confirm the ideological strictures of US media than to debunk them.

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Thirty Six Percent of Mass Shooters Were Trained by the U.S. Military, but the Media Never Report It
Jack Gilroy | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2022

30 Aug 2022 – Media pundits and politicians blame lax gun laws, social isolation and mental illness for mass shootings, but ignore the advent of a fascist culture that venerates the U.S. military.

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