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How the US Crushed the Struggle for a Somali Nation
Ann Garrison | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – As Somalia struggled to hold its first real national elections since the country collapsed in 1991, the US and its allies pushed separatism and undermined democracy so as to militarily dominate the country and plunder its resources.
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Inside the Iron Cage
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – I would prefer not to relay the following very strange story given to me by a fellow sociologist, but I feel obligated. I don’t know what to make of the whole thing. Below you will find the manuscript he handed me. I realize you are getting this third hand, but there’s nothing I can do about that. I don’t know his friend. So here it is.
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Feeding the Beast That Feeds on You
Monte Wolverton - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
A Symptom of the ‘Superior’ Intelligence of Humans
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Barcelona Mayor Cuts City’s Ties with Israel over ‘Crime of Apartheid’
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau yesterday announced her city is cutting ties with Israel and ending its symbolic 25-year-old “twin cities” relationship with Tel Aviv over the Israeli government’s violent anti-Palestinian policies. “We cannot be silent,” said Colau.
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How to Be Less Harsh with Yourself (and Others): Ram Dass on the Spiritual Lessons of Trees
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
A simple perspective shift that reorients the roots of being. Hermann Hesse believed that trees are our greatest spiritual teachers. Walt Whitman cherished them as paragons of authenticity amid a world of mere appearances.
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Rage against the War Machine Rally
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
This is the text of a talk I gave in Washington, D.C. on Sunday 19 Feb at the Rage Against The War Machine rally.
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Juxtaposition
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
When peace and language we juxtapose…
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Sy Hersh & the Way We Live Now
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – It is a clear indicator of the disappearance of freedom from our so-called Western democracies that Sy Hersh cannot get the monumental revelation of US destruction of the Nordstream pipelines on the front page of The Washington Post or The New York Times, but has to self-publish on the net.
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Gods, Goddesses and Their Tales
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
As many of us would know, India is a country with several different religious faiths. Apart from well known Christianity and Islam, India is home to various forms of Hinduism and many other beliefs and faiths–Jains, Sikhs, etc. We gave birth to Buddhism.
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Nord Stream: What Hersh Got Wrong
Mike Whitney | Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – There’s something not-quite-right about Sy Hersh’s report on the destruction of Nord Stream 2. There are a number of inconsistencies in the piece that lead me to believe that Hersh was less interested in presenting ‘the unvarnished truth’ than relaying a version of events that advance a particular agenda.
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Over the Rainbow (Music Video of the Week)
Ella Autti | World Dignity University Workshop – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – The First World Dignity University Initiative Workshop, “For People and the Planet: Learning for a Future of Dignity,” has been hosted online on 9 Dec 2022.
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Harold Pinter’s Acceptance of Nobel Literature 2005
Harold Pinter, Nobel Literature Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Art, Truth & Politics: The truth is to do with how the US understands its role in the world and how it chooses to embody it. I believe it is obligatory upon us some kind of scrutiny. [TMS republishes Pinter’s speech due to its relevance and immediacy in 2023.]
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(Norsk-Norwegian) USA – et militarisert samfunn
Richard E. Rubenstein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
I regnskapsåret 2021 gikk 11 prosent av USAs statsbudsjett til militære formål, litt mindre enn før koronaepidemien. Militærbudsjettet utgjorde $754 milliarder (omkring 7 500 milliarder kroner) og foreslås økt til $773 milliarder i 2023. I 2022 var utgiftene større enn totalen for de neste ni landene i verden, og i 2020 var militærbudsjettet drøyt 20 prosent av alle føderale inntekter.
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Prof. Howard Richards - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Acceptance of the Lifetime Commitment Award from the Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies Association
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Cuba Is Not a State Sponsor of Terrorism
Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Cuba, with 11 million people, has been under an illegal embargo by the USA for over six decades. Despite this, Cuba’s people have been able to transcend the indignities of hunger, ill health and illiteracy, social plagues that still troubles much of the world.
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How Spin and Lies Fuel a Bloody War of Attrition in Ukraine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – How U.S. officials and corporate media have buried the U.S. role in the crisis in Ukraine under a “white hats vs black hats” narrative, in which Russia’s guilt for the invasion doubles as proof of the West’s innocence and righteousness, and how this fuels a bloody war of attrition.
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‘Hate Speech Loads the Gun, Misinformation Pulls the Trigger’ – And It Is Profitable
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
17 Feb 2023 – In this world of wars, massive weapons production, sales and use; of sharpening inequalities and deadly climate emergencies, hate speech and its inhumane impact is being amplified at ‘unprecedented scale’ by new technologies.
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Human Rights Rapporteurs Express Concern on Education of Tibetan Students
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
17 Feb 2023 – Three UNHRC Special Rapporteurs have recently highlighted the quality and methods of education of Tibetan students. When the reply of the government is non-existent or superficial, then the SR can “go public.”
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Ukraine, Rethinking Global Security—Webinar
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar, et al. | SHAPE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Our second webinar on 23 Feb 2023 draws lessons from the Ukraine war and sets new pathways to global security. An initiative to address the multiple crises that brought us to the brink of the precipice. Doomsday Clock: 90 seconds to midnight.
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Brazil: Pres. Lula Knows How to Fight the Far Right. We Should Listen.
Craig Johnson | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – Brazilian president Lula da Silva knows the dangers of the far right all too well, and during his visit to the US last week he laid out exactly how to defeat such reactionaries: not by striving for a false unity but by confronting the foes of democracy head-on.
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United States Tells Citizens: Leave Russia Immediately
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – The United States has told its citizens to leave Russia immediately due to the war in Ukraine and the risk of arrest or harassment by Russian law enforcement agencies. “Do not travel to Russia,” it added.
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ChatGPT: Boon for the Lazy Learner
Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – Launched on 30 Nov 2022 by OpenAI, ChatGPT is open to the curious, the lazy and the opportunistic. In January, the Manchester Evening News reported that a student asked the bot to put together a 2,000-word essay on social policy. Within 20 minutes, the work was done.
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Chopin Recital
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Piano concert by Alberto Portugheis to celebrate Chopin’s 213th birthday on 22 Feb 2023.
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Israel Continues to Block Passage of Vital Medical Supplies to Gaza
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – Leading medical professionals have written an open letter pointing out that the Israeli occupation continue to block the passage of vital medical supplies to the Gaza Strip, which has been under a blockade imposed by Israel and its allies for seventeen years.
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How to Understand God
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Sometimes people say that they want to see God, or that God is not perceivable. This is confirmed in the Vedic Scriptures, but with additional points of instruction on how we can perceive Him/Her/It. This is the means by which we can reach the stage of understanding the Supreme Being.
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(Italiano) Gli scienziati sono in affanno? Ai confini tra scienza, politica e società
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
10 Febbraio 2023 – Come anticipato nell’articolo Le crescenti incertezze della scienza, gli scienziati sono in affanno perché sempre più spesso alla scienza viene chiesto di fornire risposte chiare e univoche su questioni sanitarie o socio-ambientali, in contesti di per sé ad elevata complessità e incertezza, e in cui è urgente prendere decisioni o predisporre politiche regolatorie.
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‘Cleansing’ Palestinians from Palestine
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – Israel’s new extremist regime — the most anti-Palestinian in history — seems to be aiming at incorporating all of the occupied Palestinian territories into Israel.
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Zelensky Signs Agreement with JP Morgan on Ukraine’s Reconstruction
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – Bankers from JP Morgan Chase visited Ukraine last week and signed a memorandum of understanding with President Volodymyr Zelensky and plan to help raise private capital for a new fund for Ukraine’s reconstruction.
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Valentines for 2023
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Sigh!
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Einstein & Freud Agree: Ending War Requires World Government
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
16 Feb 2023 – A new form of global governance will be needed to end war between nations according to Einstein and Freud in their 1932 exchange of letters. They describe a governing system consistent with what world federalists describe as world government.
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Media: Objectivity and Its Discontents
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
14 Feb 2023 – It is one thing for reporters and editors to abandon the principle of objectivity as they hurl their hatchets at those who provoke their prejudices—Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, whomever. It is another for the retired coots now posing as the profession’s wise men to elevate these derelictions to the principle of there-are-no-principles. How far down the crater of corruption are those running US media’s newsrooms going to cascade?
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Whatever They Decide These UFOs Are, the Answer Will Be more US Militarism
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
13 Feb 2023 – US war planes shot down three unidentified objects in last three days. Yesterday, an octagon-shaped object was shot down over Lake Huron. The day before, a cylindrical object was downed over Canada’s Yukon territory by an American F-22, and on 10 Feb an object “about the size of a small car” was reportedly shot down over Alaska. Unlike the Chinese balloon, there’s no consensus as to what they were or where they came from.
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‘Finally’ The Lancet Acknowledges Natural Immunity Superior to mRNA COVID Vaccines
Brenda Baletti Ph.D. | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
Immunity acquired from past COVID-19 infection provides strong, lasting protection against severe outcomes from the illness at a level “as high if not higher” than that provided by mRNA vaccines, according to a study published Thursday [16 Feb] in The Lancet.
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Exile and Mama
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – A post about exile and my mama in a series of posts I will start weekly on positive role models. This is post 1.
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Alone and Unafraid: How to Prepare to Fight and Win the Next War
U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Ernest “Nest” Cage | Defense News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – A near-peer conflict between the U.S. and China will be a nightmare in real life. Just how scary it might be is dependent on what is done now. Man is not perfect and is a reliable creature of habit, so we must prepare to win today.
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WATCH: Roger Waters at UN Security Council on Ukraine (Full Text)
Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2023 – The British rock star was invited by Russia to address the Council. The Pink Floyd co-founder has been an outspoken critic of U.S. policy in Ukraine and has called for an end of arms shipments to Kiev.
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(Português) A Ética de um Capitalismo Selvagem: A Corrupção das Americanas
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 fev 2023 – No Brasil, os cristãos são apenas cristãos culturais que não aprenderam nada do Jesus histórico que estava sempre do lado da vida, do pobre, do cego, do coxo e do desprezado. Por isso há tanta desigualdade social, das maiores do mundo. Porque falta sensibilidade, solidariedade, sentido humano.
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The New York Times Is Orwell’s Ministry of Truth
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
It doesn’t take a genius to realize that if all were reversed and Russia had put troops and weapons in Mexico and Canada that the United States would respond forcefully.
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The Moral and Intellectual Disconnect between the Memories of Shoah and Today’s Jewish State
Maung Zarni | Islamic Renaissance Front – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – Every time I hear about the Shoah or the Nazi genocide of the Jews, I can’t help but make a sad and rage-filled link between it and the present day Israel – the officially Jewish State with echoes of the ideology that served as the foundation of Nazi Germany.
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The Story of Electronics
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
The Story of Electronics explores the high-tech revolution’s collateral damage—25 million tons of e-waste, poisoned workers, and a public left holding the bill. Annie Leonard takes viewers from the mines and factories where our gadgets begin to the horrific backyard recycling shops in China and beyond.
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Outraged again!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Meanwhile, in the USA
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Food Industry Exposes Five Billion People to Toxic Chemicals That Kill
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – The food industry continues to intensively use toxic chemicals in their products, some of them provoking heart diseases and death. Trans fat is just one of them, adding to contaminating fertilisers, pesticides, microplastics and a long etcetera.
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TRANSCEND Members February Birthdays
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
We at TRANSCEND Media Service wish our distinguished members a HAPPY BIRTHDAY with many returns. We take this opportunity to thank them for all their contributions to the world and to TMS. Bless your lives!
* Richard E. Rubenstein 24 Feb 1938 –> 85 years
* Antonio C. S. Rosa, 8 Feb 1946 –> 77 years
The FBI Paid a Violent Felon to Infiltrate Denver’s Racial Justice Movement
Trevor Aaronson | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – Mickey Windecker encouraged violence, accused activist leaders of being police cooperators, and tried to draw demonstrators into elaborate stings.
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(Castellano) Johan Galtung: Estudios de la Paz – Trascender los Conflictos
ULEPICC-España – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
27 Enero 2023 – El maestro Galtung conversa con Eva Aladro y Joan Pedro sobre su vida y su obra dedicadas a los Estudios de la Paz.
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The Atlantic Realists
Felix Rösch | E-International Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Attempting to broaden our understanding of international relations but failing to classify the theoretical schools to which key actors belong. The role of German-speaking scholars forced by Fascism to emigrate from Central Europe in 1920s/30s vis-à-vis North American scholarship should not be underestimated.
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Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
“If we are brave enough often enough, we will fall; this is the physics of vulnerability.”
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Royal Commission of Inquiry: Investigating War Crimes in the Hawaiian Islands
Dr. Keanu Sai | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – The RCI was established by Proclamation of the Hawaiian Kingdom Council of Regency in 2019, yet there has been no coverage in either the mainstream or alternative media. Most people are not aware that the Hawaiian Islands have been under a prolonged and illegal occupation by the USA since 17 Jan 1893.
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Hi-Tech Military Weapons Breed New Danger
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – New Report Unpacks Dangers of Emerging Military Tech: AI Nukes, Killer Robots, Artificial Intelligence, Lethal Autonomous Weapons, Hypersonic Missiles, Cyber Battles
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Apocalypse: The End of the Current Humanoid Civilisation on Earth–Armageddon Guaranteed
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
The Doomsday Clock as a universal symbol that represents the likelihood of human-made global catastrophes, in the opinion of the members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, resulting in Armageddon and the final, mortal destination of humanoids.
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Lift Sanctions against Syria to Lessen Sufferings from the Earthquake
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
The International Movement for a Just World urges the North American, British, Australian, Canadian, Swiss and some European Union and Arab League governments to lift the unjust, immoral sanctions against Syria in order to lessen the immense sufferings of the people caused by the massive earthquake of 6 Feb 2023.
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How the USA Took Out the Nord Stream Pipeline
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2022 – The New York Times called it a “mystery,” but the United States executed a covert sea operation that was kept secret—until now.
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There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – If we do not build left-right coalitions on issues such as militarism, health care, a living wage and union organizing, we will be impotent in the face of corporate power and the war machine.
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Untouchable
Dr Usha Roopnarain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Wretched Caste System
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Three factors seem far more important than ageism: the advantages of an open fight for the nomination, Biden’s deficit of charisma, and, most important, this President’s uncritical commitment to a bellicose, imperialist foreign policy.
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The Warrior (1 and 2): Yodhajiva Sutta
Buddha Sutra – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
“Monks, there are these five types of warriors who can be found existing in the world. Which five?
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Febbraio 2023 – Nell’ambito della rassegna di ‘Biennale Tecnologia’ organizzata dal Politecnico di Torino a novembre del 2022 una nota studiosa americana, Naomi Oreskes, ha tenuto una lezione dal titolo “Perché fidarsi della scienza?”. Nella locandina di presentazione dell’evento si leggeva:
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The Use of Child Soldiers: Children of Conflict
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
12 Feb is the UN sponsored International Day Against the Use of Child Soldiers. Forced to learn to kill instead of pursuing education, they lack the knowledge and skills needed to build their futures and of their communities. For a society, the lives destroyed could have a devastating effect on long-term stability and development.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
India and France do not now have any commonalities in politics, cuisine or social behaviour, but in language one occasionally finds strange relationships.
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ARD’s (German Public Television) Fact Finder, Genetic Engineering and Vandana Shiva
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – Those who buy “organic” do so in order to obtain food and products that are free of genetic engineering and pesticides and that have also been produced in a more environmentally friendly and sustainable way. The organic market has grown enormously in recent decades and continues to rise.
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Decommission US Land-Based Nuclear Missiles NOW!
Leonard Eiger | Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – There has not been any international outcry over the launch of the Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile that would carry a thermonuclear warhead. No discussion anywhere by the news media about the test and its implications regarding control of the proliferation of nuclear weapons and disarmament.
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US-Laid Trap for Russia Has Trapped West Instead
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – A month before the Feb. 24, 2022 Russian invasion, CN wrote that the U.S. was laying a trap to lure Russia into an economic, information and proxy war. All three have failed for the U.S.
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For Palestine, Justice Is Not a Question of Law
M Muhannad Ayyash | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2023 – As we work towards Palestinian liberation, we should not forget that international law is itself a form of imperial violence.
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(Português) Por Que a Violência Contra os Animais Deve Ser Combatida
David Arioch | Vegazeta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
3 fev 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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Just Beneath
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Don’t let the fraudulence of this civilization eclipse the supernova of authenticity hidden just beneath that thin membrane.
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Sanctions Imposed by US and Allies Hamper Relief and Rescue Work in Earthquake-Devastated Syria
Defend Democracy Press | Delphi Initiative - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – The head of the Syrian Arab Red Crescent demanded that the US and its allies lift their siege and sanctions on Syria so that rescue and relief work can proceed after the devastation of a 7.8-magnitude earthquake yesterday. Over 5,000 people have been reported dead so far and thousands more injured in Turkey and Syria.
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The New Geopolitics
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Horizons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Winter 2023 – Understanding the forces that are refiguring the international ‘system’ and what outcomes we can imagine.
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The Ukraine War in the Light of the UN Charter
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – Whether or not the West considers NATO’s expansion a provocation, what is crucial is how NATO expansion is perceived by those who feel threatened by it. In this context we must remember that article 2(4) of the UN Charter prohibits not only the use of force but also the threat of the use of force.
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On the History of the Black Power Movement in the USA
Mark Whitaker | CBS News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Wallace: “Mr. Carmichael, if you had the chance to stand up in front of the white community and say to them, ‘Understand me, white man,’ what would you say?” Carmichael: “I would say, ‘Understand yourself, white man. You are the savages. Yes, it is you who have always been uncivilized. Civilize yourself.'”
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Romanza (Music Video of the Week)
Al Marconi – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Romance d’Amour played with feeling on Spanish classical guitar.
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Poverty amid Plenty
Liz Theoharis | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – A World Fragmented by Inequality
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The US Is Legitimizing Jewish Terrorism against Palestinians
Miko Peled | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
6 Feb 2023 – There is one line at the very end of the State Department’s statement that is particularly cynical: “We look to both sides not to take steps that actually make things worse.” This comment is noteworthy because Blinken did make one proposal that will make things far worse and will without doubt bring about more violence.
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White House-Linked Venture Capital Fund Boasts China War Would Be Great for Business
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – A representative from America’s Frontier Fund said that a “kinetic event” in the Pacific would be very good for its bottom line.
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Mechanistic and Non-mechanistic Science
The Hieronimus Show | Vedic Science – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
Thompson defines the soul (jivatma) as a “distinct quanta of consciousness”, and argues convincingly that this basic principle of life cannot logically arise from matter. He affirms the need for intelligence in some of nature’s more intricate designs.
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Nestlé’s Blatant Misconduct Shows Us the Darkness of Capitalism
Ashley Gjovik | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
7 Feb 2023 – From inventing the need for mass-scale baby formula leading to the deaths of infants, to redirecting much needed water from impoverished areas to bottle and sell back to the same communities, to exploiting child labor and slavery, Nestlé will stoop to any moral low to make a buck.
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U.S. Hypocrisy on War Crimes Is a Gift to Putin
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – The failure to prosecute American officials and other powerful nations for war crimes has created a jurisdictional mess.
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Three New Books by Former Soldiers That the US Military Doesn’t Want You to Read
Steve Early and Suzanne Gordon | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
5 Feb 2023 – Several new memoirs from disillusioned military veterans reflect on the horrors of war. They’re essential tools for challenging US empire.
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Can Europe Survive This Moment?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
9 Feb 2023 – A new-old ghost is hovering over Europe—war. The most violent continent in the world in terms of the number of deaths caused by warfare during the last 100 years is heading for a new war.
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Russia-Ukraine Lessons to Boost US Electronic Warfare, Sen. Reed Says
Colin Demarest | C4ISRNET - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
8 Feb 2023 – “We are in a tremendously dynamic situation,” said Sen. Jack Reed, “where technology is changing rapidly, techniques are changing rapidly.”
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The Progenitor of Inequalities – Corporate Personhood vs. Human Beings
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – The word “inequality” is everywhere in the media. It usually refers either to race, gender, rich vs. poor, or other differences between human beings. Absent from the public debate is the biggest perpetrator of “inequality” against human beings – the corporate entity itself.
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The Leopard’s Tale: U.S. Weapons Makers on a Marketing Spree
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Feb 2023
10 Feb 2023 – When western Europe depleted its armory by shipping everything to Ukraine to get blown up by the Russians, it created a huge market opportunity for the U.S. weapons industry due to a concerted media and political humbug campaign to trap the world as a purchaser of U.S. armaments. In fiscal 2022, U.S. weapons sales increased 48.8 percent. War is good business, and blood-soaked war profiteers are making out like the mafiosi they are.
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Antony Blinken Plays the ‘Two Sides Game’: Getting Netanyahu/Israel off the Hook
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
31 Jan 2023 – Antony Blinken is the most lightweight Secretary of State, a fitting complement to the overweight Mike Pompeo. Together they could do a late night TV comedy routine on the ‘arrogance of decline’ when it comes to US foreign policy in the Trump/Biden years.
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The Doomsday Clock: Deceptive and Rather an Indicator of US Foreign Policies
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
26 Jan 2023 – Like the Nobel Prizes, the Doomsday Clock of the Bulletin of the Atom Scientists attracts enormous media attention. It simplifies a very complex issue into a time measure: How close is the world to global catastrophe?
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Peace Negators: A Litany of Abduction, Torture, Deprogramming, Rendition and Murder by First World Governmental Security Agencies
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
The extra judicial excesses of the US government’s security apparatus and how the workings of the organization impacts upon the lives of ordinary people globally.
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Ukraine: Rethinking Global Security–Saving Humanity and Planet Earth
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Saving Humanity and Planet Earth (SHAPE) is an initiative to address the multiple crises that have brought us to the brink of the precipice. This, our second webinar to be held on 22/23 February 2023, draws lessons from the Ukraine war and sets new pathways to global security.
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‘Obscene’: Exxon Posts Record $56 Billion in Profits — But Keeps Gouging Consumers
Brett Wilkins | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – ExxonMobil on Tuesday [31 Jan] joined other U.S. oil companies in reporting record 2022 earnings amid rising gas prices, sparking renewed calls by consumer and climate advocates for a Big Oil windfall profits tax.
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WATCH: Swedish Prosecutors Destroyed Assange Documents
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
3 Feb 2023 – A 35-minute interview with Stefania Maurizi. Swedish prosecutors destroyed copies of email correspondence related to the extradition case against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
To TMS editor Antonio C.S. Rosa – Dear Antonio, thinking of your Birthday on 8 Feb and your friendship, I came up with the following poem.
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Lola
Sumeet Grover – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Love is
in her dough as she
kneads it with both hands,
mixes za’atar spice;
Revealed: Sweden Destroyed a Substantial Part of Its Documents on Julian Assange
Stefania Maurizi | Il Fato Quotidiano - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – Almost six years after the British Crown Prosecution Service destroyed key emails, the Swedish Prosecution Authority also destroyed a large part of the documentation–as Assange’s life hangs in the balance.
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Ilhan Omar Is Not Mama Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – The new Speaker of the House announced he will remove Congresswoman Ilhan Omar from the Foreign Affairs Committee. The attack from Republicans has given her image a boost, but her record shows the credibility is not deserved.
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Wishful Thinking
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
What took them so long?…
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War and Peace: Animosity and Insanity Destroying the Earth and Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
In Search of Moral and Intellectual Human Consciousness
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Missing Links in Textbook History: Indigenous Peoples
Jim Mamer | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – By the time I started high school I had come to see the world in Manichaean terms, full of good guys and bad guys. We, North Americans, were the good guys, often presented as settlers defending our families against hostile Indians. It was dangerously easy to accept the notion that history is pretty simple.
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Nobel Peace Prize Watch: Watchdog Suspends Screening of Nobel Peace Prize Candidates
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – After 15 years studying the award’s intention, finding out who should have received the NPP over 120 years, and who are the most suitable recipients in our time, we have concluded that the Committee does not contribute for elimination of wars; rather, it takes sides.
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Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
Men, Women
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How US Marines Are Being Reshaped for China ‘Threat’
Jonathan Marcus | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
1 Feb 2023 – The US military commitment to the Pacific was underlined in a White House meeting between the leaders of the US and Japan. But behind the scenes, this renewed focus on Asia has sparked a fierce debate within one of its most fabled military forces.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Nobel Peace Prize Watch avslutter sine årlige anbefalinger til Nobelkomiteen
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
6. februar 2023 – Etter ti år har vi i år besluttet å ikke publisere vår årlige anbefaling til Nobelkomiteen, en liste over de som er både nominert og kvalifisert til å motta Nobels fredspris. Så lenge Den norske Nobelkomite fortsetter å sabotere Nobels intensjon om fred ved global nedrustning har vårt arbeid med å få frem gode kandidater ingen hensikt opplyse.
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Shell Makes ‘Obscene’ $40bn Profit—Highest Ever
Alex Lawson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
2 Feb 2023 – Sunak government under pressure after gas prices fuel ‘outrageous’ doubling of profits at Anglo-Dutch group
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Palestinians Are Not Liars: Confronting the Violence of Media Delegitimization
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Feb 2023
30 Jan 2023 – Palestinian journalists pay a heavy price for carrying out their mission of spreading the truth about the Israeli oppression of Palestinians. Their work is critical not only to balanced media coverage but to the very cause of justice and freedom in Palestine. However, the harm inflicted on Palestinian journalists is not only physical and material. They are also constantly exposed to a very subtle but equally dangerous threat: the constant delegitimization of their work.
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