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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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Family 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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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.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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La Grande Sortie
Bruce K. Gagnon | Organizing Notes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
The collapsing US military/economic empire is making Washington/NATO even more dangerous. The USA could not beat the North Koreans, the North Vietnamese or the Taliban but thinks it can take on China-Russia-Iran… a sign of psychopathology for sure.
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World Leaders Who Would Not Make Peace but Wars Disdained Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
8 Mar 2023 – Modern economies are embedded in producing weapons of extinction and political leaders’ heavy investments support the industrialized nations’ war economies. We, the Conscientious People of the world, do not foresee time and history, no matter how you define it, being on our side.
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Identified: The Boating Crew That Blew Up Nordstream
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Alas!
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Clandestino (Music Video of the Week)
Manu Chao – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
Official Video of the Outstanding Argentinean Singer/Composer/Satirist Manu Chao
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Artistic Perfection…
Arthur Compton, Nobel Physics Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Mar 2023
… Intelligent Design
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Analyses, Comments and Opinion Pieces in Various Chinese Media
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
I encourage you to go visit China Daily and see for yourself. We need to be curious and learn. Ignorant condemnations – particularly by people who have never studied or visited China – is wrong. Period. I accepted the invitation to be a contributing writer because I believe in dialogue and diversity.
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US Exceptionalism and the Wars in Syria and Ukraine
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, neoconservatives said it was time for US interests and priorities to be dominant. This was to be a New American Century with no challengers. It became US foreign policy: The US should not permit any country to challenge US supremacy and dominance.
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From the Gulf of Tonkin to the Baltic Sea
Seymour M. Hersh | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
22 Feb 2023 – The secret and incomplete history of US-Norway collaboration in covert operations.
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Wildlife Is Much More than a Safari. And It Is at Highest Risk of Extinction
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – Wildlife is indeed far much more than a safari or an ‘exotic’ ornament: as many as four billion people –or an entire half the whole world’s population– rely on wild species for income, food, medicines and wood fuel for cooking.
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Sleepwalking to Armageddon: World Divides over the Ukraine War
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – As the US, NATO and Russia escalate the war in the Ukraine, the risk increases for a global nuclear war that could destroy most life on the planet, corresponding to the mythical battle of Armageddon mentioned in the Bible.
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Quoth the Vultures “Evermore”
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
It was an intentional genocidal war waged to torture, kill, and maim as many Vietnamese as possible and to use North American boys to do the killing and suffer the consequences. Its Phoenix Program, the CIA’s assassination and torture operation, became the template for Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo, CIA black sites, hybrid wars, terrorist actions, etc. up to today.
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Ukraine: The Tunnel at the End of the Light
Robert Freeman | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – The U.S. abused its providential anointment as the exceptional nation. That abuse has been recognized, called out and is now being acted against by most of the other nations of the world.
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The Vital Difference between Work and Labor: Lewis Hyde on Sustaining the Creative Spirit
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
“The gifts of the inner world must be accepted as gifts in the outer world if they are to retain their vitality.”
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The Scale of El Salvador’s New Prison Is Difficult to Comprehend
León Krauze | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, unveiled his latest project: a massive, “first-world” prison, the largest penitentiary in the world, with a capacity for 40,000 inmates.
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Munich Security Conference: “Intensifying Authoritarian Revisionism”
Renee Parsons | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – MSC 2023 Attracts Historic Number of US Congressional Attendees – It is ironic that the Munich Security Conference is set in the site of Adolf Hitler’s return in 1920. Home to the Munich Putsch of 1923, Munich became the location from which the Workers Socialist Nazi party grew into a mass movement and political force throughout Germany.
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Evil Empire: House Overwhelmingly Approves Resolution to Maintain Syria Sanctions after Earthquake
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – The resolution received 51 cosponsors. It passed in a vote of 414-2. Only Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) voted against the measure.
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Numbers around Us
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
We discuss easy concepts of numbers by simple examples below. So, enjoy the romance of numbers and sing along.
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(Italiano) Verso un nazionalismo «cosmopolita»?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
3 Marzo 2023 – «Il nazionalismo è la modalità dominante di legittimazione politica e soggettività collettiva dell’era moderna». «Lo Stato-nazione è la realtà politica dominante del nostro tempo». Nonostante questa realtà, fino al 2020 nessuno studio accademico ha affrontato il tema del cambiamento climatico dalla prospettiva delle teorie sul nazionalismo.
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Nuclear Remembrance Day: A Day to Say Abolish Nuclear Weapons NOW!
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1Mar 2023 – Today is Nuclear Free and Independent Pacific Day (‘Bikini’ Day) marking the anniversary of the infamous 1954 US ‘Bravo’ nuclear bomb detonation at Bikini Atoll, Marshall Islands, where the US tested its first deliverable hydrogen bomb.
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Kiev Flooding Black Markets with NATO-Sourced Weapons
Drago Bosnic | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
2 Mar 2023 – It has been at least 1,5 years since the West intensified weapons shipments to Ukraine. Ever since, black markets have been flooded with Western-made arms and munitions, some of which running out from NATO stocks. There’s fierce competition among Kiev institutions for the right to control the arms smuggling business.
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Where We’re Going
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
Scared Yet?…
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Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – For what’s probably the first “anti-war” protest of their lives, US liberals gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to condemn the leader of a government thousands of miles away joined by empire managers like Samantha Power who spoke at the rally opposing Russian warmongering at the capital of the most warlike nation on the planet.
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A Photo Is Worth a Billion Words
Author Unkown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
No comment…
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The Security Apparati (Part 2): Peace Disruption by Pegasus
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
Hear All, See All, and Do All Evil – Digital Technologies like Pegasus have infringed ethics and human rights. They bestowed super powers to oppressive regimes in an unbridled manner.
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Twitter Files—GEC, New Knowledge, and State-Sponsored Blacklists
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
Global Engagement Center: North Americans have been paying taxes to disenfranchise themselves, as government agencies and subcontractors undertake a massive digital blacklisting project.
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Covid Vaccines: Facts, Fears, Fraud
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
March 2023 – Vaccinating senior citizens was right; vaccinating young and healthy people was wrong; pressuring people into vaccination was criminal; omicron degraded vaccine protection after just one year; the value of additional “boosters” remains questionable; and potential long-term health effects of vaccination need to be monitored closely.
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United Nations General Assembly Divides over Ukraine Resolution and Belarus Amendment
CPNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
25 Feb 2023 – Of the 91 votes that defeated the Belarus amendment condemning arms shipments to Ukraine, 45 were cast by Europe and the US/Canada while 46 by all the rest of the world.
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(Français) Somnambules vers Armageddon : Le Monde se Divise Sur l’Ukraine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 mars 2023 – Alors que les États-Unis, l’OTAN et la Russie intensifient la guerre en Ukraine, le risque augmente d’une guerre nucléaire mondiale qui pourrait détruire la plupart des vies sur la planète, correspondant à la mythique bataille d’Armageddon dans la Bible qui marque la fin du monde.
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Success
Ralph Waldo Emerson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
To laugh often and much
to win the respect of intelligent people
and affection of children
West Is Out of Touch with Rest of World Politically, EU-Funded Study Admits
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
26 Feb 2023 – A study by the elite EU-funded European Council on Foreign Relations found the West is out of touch politically with the rest of the world. Most people in China, India, and Türkiye see Russia as an important ally, and they want multipolarity, not continued “American global supremacy”.
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China’s Turn
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – The U.S. Hyper-Financialized Economic System Is No Match for China’s Government-Directed Investment Model–Regrettably, China’s Explosive Growth Is Pushing a Desperate Washington Closer to War
→ read full articleAlternatives to War: Renewal and Impact
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
One year into the Russia-Ukraine War, one has a “been there, done that” feeling. To settle arguments by war is not a new idea. For those of us working on alternatives to war, it is imperative that we renew our efforts and find ways to increase our impact. Present governments cannot to be trusted to deal with conflicts nonviolently or build peace by peaceful means. These became Civil Society’s tasks. Like war, peace is too important to be left to the generals.
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Defending a Democracy Is Not the Same as Imposing One
Vern Loomis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
If it’s true, as Applebaum suggested, that North Americans are “less willing to die in order to inflict violence, cruelty, and terror on other people,” it somehow didn’t stop several administrations from offering up the lives of US military men and women abroad simply to forestall political unpleasantness at home.
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Prodigy Plays Mozart Concerto # 23 (Music Video of the Week)
Elisey Mysin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
Oct 2021 – Symphony Orchestra of the Dagestan State Opera and Ballet Theater – Elisey Mysin was born in 2010 in Russia. He is currently a student at the Central School of Music at the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory.
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Kapicam Now a Place for the Dead
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
Poem inspired by the mass graves in Turkey after a 7.8 earthquake devastated parts of Turkey and Syria on 6 Feb 2023.
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Belarus Court Sentences Nobel Peace Laureate Ales Bialiatski to 10 Years
Yuras Karmanau | AP/The Philadelphia Enquirer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
3 Mar 2023 – Belarus authorities arrested Bialiatski and two of his associates after massive protests over a 2020 election that gave authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko a new term in office.
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Battle for the Earth
Fred Hageneder | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
6 Mar 2023 – An accurately researched [10-part] account of the effort by industry to cover up the impact of fossil fuels to the environment and public health and to manipulate public opinion. The networks behind this and the truth between big media influence and so called conspiracy theories–and those who truly benefit from them.
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China Meets American Hegemony Head-On
Timur Fomenko | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
23 Feb 2023 – In a rare scathing essay, Beijing’s foreign ministry has blasted Washington’s continued attempts at world domination.
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The Deafening Silence of Intellectuals in the Face of Growing Global Armed Conflicts
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
1 Mar 2023 – Intellectuals do not have a monopoly on culture, values or truth, much less on the meanings attributed to any one of these “domains of the spirit.” But intellectuals should not shrink from denouncing what they see as destructive of culture, values and truth, notably when it is carried out in the name of these “domains of spirit.”
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Activist Dan Ellsberg, Pentagon Papers Whistleblower, Has Terminal Cancer
Daniel Ellsberg | Twitter - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Mar 2023
2 Mar 2023 – I wrote this letter recently to my friends in the antiwar and anti-nuclear movements. I see it’s being circulated, so I’ve decided to share it here. For all of you working on these issues, thank you, and please keep going! — Dan
→ read full article‘Ticking Time Bombs’ for the Most Defenceless: The Children (I)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – Today, there are more children in need of desperate humanitarian assistance than at any other time since World War II.
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‘Ticking Time Bombs’ for the Most Defenceless: The Children (II)
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – While the world’s biggest powers and their giant private corporations continue to attach high priority to their military –and commercial– dominance, both of them being shockingly profitable, entire generations are being lost to deadly armed conflicts, devastating climate catastrophes, diseases, hunger and more imposed impoverishment.
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Provocation of “Unprovoked Aggression” by Varieties of Encroachment
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Challenge of Insensitivity to Collective Historical Amnesia – Expression of alternative perspectives on the USA/NATO-Russia-Ukraine armed conflict has been limited–and actively suppressed as “disinformation” whenever possible. Those articulating such perspectives have been discredited and personally condemned, if not actively sanctioned in some manner.
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Malcolm X: His Struggle Continues
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Malcolm X was assassinated 58 years ago, on 21 Feb 1965, standing at the podium before a crowd in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. His wife Betty Shabazz, pregnant with twins, and his four daughters were in the ballroom looking on.
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International Investigative Commission into the Terrorist Attacks on Nord Stream
MP Sevim Dagdelen (Germany) - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
German Lawmaker Calls for Nord Stream Probe on a 10 Feb 2023 Speech to the Bundestag – MP Sevim Dagdelen takes the Scholz government to task for its lack of “strength and will” in responding to Seymour Hersh’s reporting on the U.S. sabotage of the Russian pipeline.
→ read full articleUkraine: 1 Year of War on Top of 30 Years of Conflict Escalation
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – The Only Re-Armament Needed Is Intellectual and Moral – on All Sides – Beyond Russia, NATO/EU policies will prove morally wrong, unrealistic, dangerous and self-destructive.
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Putin Suspends START Nuclear Pact with USA
AP News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – Vladimir Putin suspended Moscow’s participation in the last remaining nuclear arms control pact with the US, announcing the move yesterday in a bitter speech in which he made clear he would not change his strategy in the war in Ukraine.
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US Power Alliance Says It’s Preparing an “Information War” against China
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
24 Feb 2023 – In an article published last week titled “US working with ‘Five Eyes’ nations, Japan on information warfare” C4ISRNET, a military intelligence and communications publication, reports that the US and its allies are collaborating “to share and sharpen information-warfare techniques in the Indo-Pacific” with the goal of “countering” the “increasingly aggressive China.”
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Cry Uncle
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Like with everything else…
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China Report Excoriates ‘US Hegemony’, War Crimes, CIA Coups, 400 Foreign Interventions
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – China’s Foreign Ministry published a lengthy report condemning “US hegemony” and its crimes around the world, including wars with millions of victims, coups and “regime change” against elected leaders, and 400 foreign military interventions.
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The Security Apparati (Part 1): Tentacles of Global Peace Disruptors
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
25 Feb 2023 – This publication discusses the global strategies, after the two world wars, when the great powers, suspicious of foreign ones, entered into a phase of Cold War using subterfuge, covert operations, and secret, double or triple agents, to gain access to strategic information.
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Can Public Comments Penetrate FDA’s Illusory Parallel Universe?
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
On 26 Jan 2023, the 178th Meeting of Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee met to pretend to have a process before unanimously “voting” to authorize a simplified annual Covid shot in order to not confuse the public.
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The Ukraine War Viewed from the Global South
Krishen Mehta | ACURA American Committee for US Russia Accord – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – In October 2022, about eight months after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, the University of Cambridge harmonized surveys that asked the inhabitants of 137 countries about their views of the West, Russia, and China: different perspectives.
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Lessons from Majid Khan’s Release from Guantánamo
David Rosen | The Progressive Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – An interview with the attorney for the former al Qaeda operative, who testified to the CIA’s ‘enhanced interrogation’ and more torture at the prison camp.
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Who Really Started the Ukraine Wars?
Ted Snider | The Libertarian Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – The Four Interrelated Wars in Ukraine
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Free Speech Is for Fighting the Empire
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
22 Feb 2023 – My research has led me to conclude that there’s an elite conspiracy to enslave us all and turn us all into brainwashed automatons mindlessly enacting the wishes of our rulers in a cruel dystopia built by the powerful, for the powerful. Haha, just kidding. That already happened.
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The 20th Anniversary of the Sociocide of Iraq by Bush/Cheney
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
23 Feb 2023 – Will President Biden, Congress and other North Americans recognize the massive war crimes committed against the Iraqi people with appropriate declarations and actions on 19 Mar 2023?
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Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara (Music Video of the Week)
Nathalie Cardone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
Song in honor of the great revolutionary leader, Ernesto Che Guevara, by Cuban composer Pablo Cuebras. Viva Che !!!
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Seymour Hersh on “How the US Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline”: Exclusive TV Interview
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – When the Nord Stream pipelines carrying natural gas from Russia to Germany were damaged last September, U.S. officials were quick to suggest Russia had bombed its own pipelines. But according to a new report by the legendary investigative journalist Seymour Hersh, it was the U.S. Navy that carried out the sabotage, with help from Norway. “The fear was Europe would walk away from the war,” he says.
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U.S. Hegemony: At War with China’s Global Security Initiative
Moon of Alabama - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
24 Feb 2023 – Over the last week China released a flurry of papers and statements accusing the U.S. of hegemony while contrasting it with China’s peace initiatives. As ‘western’ media rarely communicate what the Chinese say I find it necessary to give the Chinese standpoint some extended space.
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From South Africa to Israel, the Three Pillars of Apartheid
Na’eem Jeenah | Orient XXI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
How does a South African and former anti-apartheid activist feel about visiting Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories? Classification of the population, freedom of choice of residence and movement, importance of security: based on the three central drivers of separation, Israeli apartheid is worse than South Africa’s.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Feb 2023
I think it was the successful branding of the 9/11 skeptics as ‘wacky’ that proved more useful in squelching their influence than by labeling them as ‘dangerous,’ ‘subversive,’ and ‘radical’ or ‘socialist.’ It might be understood as the advent of a more advanced, more sophisticated version of McCarthyism, a discrediting ploy that George Orwell would have immediately understood.
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