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Negotiate Peace in Ukraine Now!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
Interestingly, most news sources in the U.S. and Europe continue to attribute Russia’s military difficulties in Ukraine to their own incompetence or Ukrainian heroism, but seldom to the $3.2 billion worth of high-tech weapons that the U.S. has shipped to Kyiv since 2014. Joe Biden, of course, is an architect of this de facto Western alliance with Ukraine. What his end game is nobody can say.
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The Future Is Here: Dystopian Movies Fit for a Dystopian World
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
22 Mar 2022 – We have arrived into the dystopian future dreamed up by George Orwell, Aldous Huxley, Margaret Atwood and Philip K. Dick. Much like Orwell’s Big Brother in 1984, the government and its corporate spies now watch our every move. Much like Huxley’s A Brave New World, we are churning out a society of watchers who “have their liberties taken away from them, but … rather enjoy it.
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Expectations…
George Bernard Shaw - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Mar 2022
True.
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(Italiano) Guerra in Ucraina: una prospettiva geopolitica
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
18 Marzo 2022 – Ripresa modificata di una conferenza tenuta il 9 marzo 2022 a una sessione dei Colloqui su Studi Globali all’Università di California – Santa Barbara convocata dal professor Jan Nederveen Pieters, purtroppo priva di una serie di domande impegnative a seguito del mio intervento, fra cui da vari partecipanti in Europa.
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Ukraine War: Three Academic Perspectives
Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
17 Mar 2022 – The following discussion resulted from three separate interviews. There was no interaction among the three of us. I wonder whether this war is best described as ‘Russo-Ukrainian War’ or simply as ‘Ukrainian War’ or ‘Russo-U.S. Proxy War.’ It seems an amalgam of all three.
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What a Wonderful World (Music Video of the Week)
Louis Armstrong | ABC Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
Original Spoken Intro Version – 1970
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On the Edge of a Nuclear Abyss
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
10 Mar 2022 – To grasp this possibility within the context of Ukraine, we need to put aside all talk of morality, rights, international law, and think in terms of great power politics. When a great power feels its existence is threatened, might makes right. You simply can’t understand world politics without thinking at this level. It is a means of clarifying the causes of wars.
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Stop the Ukraine War — Now!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
11 Mar 2022 – The war in Ukraine can and must be stopped now, before any more Ukrainians or Russians are killed and maimed, by declaring a ceasefire and then negotiating a peace. A decisive victory or defeat for either party is highly unlikely. Now – right now! — is the time for a ceasefire. There simply is no alternative to a negotiated peace.
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Ruling Out Social Democracy as an Option and a Way to Rule It Back In
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – A decisive misunderstanding prolonging today´s mega crisis is the lingering belief that social democracy, as it existed in Europe during the thirty glorious years after World War II, and in a different form in the USA during the four terms of Franklin Roosevelt´s presidency, is a viable option in today´s world.
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The Ukraine War: A Geopolitical Perspective
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
Talk on 9 Mar 2022 at the Global Studies Colloquium, UCSB. When we agreed on a theme for my presentation, we were in a pre-Ukraine world. Interim developments: the imprudent US-led provocations, Russian aggression against a sovereign state of over 44 million people, the confrontational Western sanctions, and a surging Russophobia produced a win/lose calculus rather than partial win/win political outcomes.
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It’s Time to Ask: What Would a Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal Look Like?
Anatol Lieven | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – The West is morally right to oppose the illegal Russian war and to impose severe sanctions on Russia, but would be morally wrong to oppose an agreement to end the invasion and spare the people of Ukraine terrible suffering. America’s own record over the past generation gives no basis for such self-righteous hyper-legalism.
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Ukraine: How Close Was the Nuclear Plant Attack to Catastrophe?
Esme Stallard and Victoria Gill | BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
4 Mar 2022 – Buildings at the Zaporizhzhia plant–the largest in Europe–were damaged after it was hit by shelling. UN’s nuclear watchdog International Atomic Energy Agency says that none of the safety systems at the plant were affected, and there was no release of radioactive material.
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They Are ‘Civilized’ and ‘Look Like Us’: The Racist Coverage of Ukraine
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
2 Mar 2022 – Are Ukrainians more deserving of sympathy than Afghans and Iraqis? Many seem to think so.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Markets command governments more than governments command markets. Governments, whatever their ideology, in practice devote themselves to attracting investment and to discouraging disinvestment. “When investors choose not to invest, policymakers are powerless to force them.”
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Ending Poverty by Rethinking Thinking
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
Ending poverty would benefit everyone. It would be relatively inexpensive. It would open paths to sustainability. Rethinking thinking is needed to see why ending poverty is feasible…
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Nils Melzer: The Political Persecution of Julian Assange
Saturday Morning | RNZ – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
12 Feb 2022 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is being made an example of by the US government to deter investigative journalists from exposing state abuses, the current UN Special Rapporteur on torture says.
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Switzerland at Risk of EU Blacklist after Credit Suisse Leak
Kalyeena Makortoff and David Pegg | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
– 21 Feb 2022 –
* Credit Suisse leak unmasks criminals, fraudsters and corrupt politicians.
* What is the Suisse secrets leak and why are we publishing it?
The Paused Quest for Humane Governance in the Arab World: Is It Time ‘to fail better’?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
The acceleration of history foreshortens our memory of past events, especially when disillusionment displaces hope. This happened a decade ago when uprisings were celebrated as ‘the Arab Spring.’ The role of activist youth, the spontaneous displays of populist strivings for a better political future, created the feeling that something irreversible, and for the better, was taking place. Yet it was not to be.
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(Français) Avoir confié la politique sanitaire mondiale à Big Pharma est une faute impardonnable
Nick Dearden | Guardian/Investig'Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
21 Fév 2022 – Le Covid l’a clairement démontré : Pfizer et ses semblables, asservis aux actionnaires, ne se soucient vraiment que de leurs profits faramineux. C’est ce qu’explique, dans une tribune parue dans le Guardian, Nick Dearden, directeur de Global Justice Now.
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On Israel as an Apartheid State: An Interview with Richard Falk
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
19 Feb 2022 – An interview David Falcone originally published in CounterPunch on 11 Feb prompted by the Amnesty Report but extending beyond it.
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‘Politics as Usual’ Will Never Be a Solution to the Current Climate Threat (or to Nuclear War)
C.J. Polychroniou interviews Richard Falk | DWF News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
17 Feb 2022 – There is an ever-growing consensus that the climate crisis represents humanity’s greatest problem. Indeed, global warming is more than an environmental crisis — there are social, political, ethical and economic dimensions to it. (Commentary added by Roger Kotila)
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The Mind Control Police: U.S. Government’s War on Thought Crimes and Truth-Tellers
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
15 Feb 2022 – The U.S. government, which speaks in a language of force, is afraid of its citizenry. “In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.”— George Orwell
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Why Is the White House Stealing $7bn from Afghans?
Moustafa Bayoumi | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Last week, the White House issued an executive order announcing the theft of some $7bn. In a move that can only be described as brazenly immoral and utterly unconscionable, the Biden administration has begun a process to seize the more than $7bn of assets that the Central Bank of Afghanistan has on deposit at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Since the Taliban gained control of the war-ravaged country last year, that money has been frozen in place.
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Is the Amnesty International Report an Israeli ‘Sharpeville Moment?’
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
10 Feb 2022 – This interview followed the release on 1 Feb of the explosive Amnesty International Report finding Israel guilty of the continuing crime of apartheid. How much longer can governments, the UN, and liberal Zionist close their eye in face of the mounting consensus in the international human community on the question of Israeli apartheid?
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The United Nations: Beyond Reform?
Edward J Horgan, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
The Collective Insecurity of the International System and the Prospects for Sustainable Global Peace and Justice
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Louis Armstrong | ABC Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
Original Spoken Intro Version,1967 – Click on Watch on YouTube, kick back…, enjoy!
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This Ukraine Crisis Was a George W. Bush Mistake
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
George W. Bush and his neo-con administration made an awful lot of foreign policy blunders. This Ukrainian crisis is just the latest of many mistakes.
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The Problematics of Middle Eastern Diplomacy: The Case of Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – In relation to both Iran, Israel, and Palestine, the essential message sent by the new leadership is continuity when it comes to substance combined with a resumption of the pre-Trump pretension of equi-distance diplomacy when it comes to the search for a sustainable peace.
→ read full articleUkrainian Sovereignty Means Not Joining NATO
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
1 Feb 2022 – Taking international law seriously requires looking at the world in a particular way. And this view of the world is very different from the view presented to Americans by their foreign policy establishment.
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Prosecutors Silence Evidence of Cruel Factory Farm Practices in Animal Rights Cases
Natasha Lennard | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
30 Jan 2022 – The government wants to keep juries from seeing gruesome evidence of animals in distress — the very reason activists are going into farms.
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Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
2 Feb 2022 – Nostalgia is always about time and space. In that sense, it is equivalent to all human experience that also takes place within these dimensions. And when technology has radically disrupted our human sense of limits in their regard, it becomes harder and harder to feel at home, to dwell enough to grasp what is happening in the world.
→ read full articleDeath and Destruction on the Highways: A Global Disaster Hiding in Plain Sight
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
What accounts for the indifference to a calamitous loss of life and millions of serious injuries? Johan Galtung points to an answer in his 1969 essay on structural violence, where he notes that, unlike personal violence in which people intentionally and visibly injure each other, the violence generated by a social system can seem so natural and inevitable that it virtually disappears from people’s consciousness.
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One Person Can Change the World (and Prevent a Nuclear War)
Leonard Eiger and Glen Milner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – The very real risks created by the relatively new, low-yield nuclear warhead introduced by the Trump administration, and the story of Vasili Arkhipov who prevented WWIII in a tense moment during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
→ read full articleWill the Iran Nuclear Agreement Be Restored?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
26 Jan 2022 – An interview with Mojtaba Majidi of the Mehr News Agency (Tehran) on the Vienna Talks that are seeking to restore the Iran Nuclear Agreement of 2015 reached during the Obama presidency.
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Us and Them (Music Video of the Week)
℗ Pink Floyd Records – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
From The Dark Side of the Moon – Released March 1973
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International Neutrality Project
Edward J. Horgan | Veterans Global Peace Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
The UN Charter opted for a more pragmatic system of ‘collective security’, a bit like the Three Musketeers – one for all and all for one. The three musketeers became the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, sometimes known as the five policemen, who were tasked with maintaining or enforcing international peace.
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Germany Blocks NATO Partners from Supplying Their Weapons to Ukraine
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
21 Jan 2022 – Despite being a lead NATO country and close US ally, it’s become clear Berlin has sought to avoid unnecessarily provoking Moscow, also as the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline is soon to come online. German government spokesman reaffirmed “The principle governing arms exports” which “is always the same—whether they come directly from Germany or from third countries—and no permission has been issued at this stage.”
→ read full article(Castellano) Borrador de Propuestas para Construir la Paz en Chile
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
20 enero 2022 – Quisiera decir algo concretando unos sueños de paz que han venido a vivir en mi alma, con la finalidad de hacerlos concretos con acciones que mi mente y otras mentes consideran inteligentes, y también con otra finalidad mayor. La finalidad mayor es contribuir a un sueño colectivo que nace, compartido entre numerosos individuos y numerosas instituciones tanto privadas como públicas.
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JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass by Oliver Stone
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
16 Jan 2022 – Two of the greatest speeches ever delivered by an American president bookend this extraordinary documentary film. With JFK Revisited, Oliver Stone has truly honored this fallen hero.
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Introduction to Conflict Transformation
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
Language: Arabic. Author: Abbas Aroua. Publisher: Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – The Arab/Muslim world is one of the regions with the highest densities of conflict in the world (intra- and interstate). Yet it is one of the poorest ones in terms of conflict transformation resources, both theoretical and practical.
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(Português) “Eu só sou eu através de você”. Ubuntu: Uma Saída da Barbárie
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
18 Jan 2022 – A pandemia mostrou uma abissal desigualdade mundial e uma falta cruel de solidariedade. Não abandonamos ainda o mundo da barbárie e se já a havíamos deixado, retornamos a ele. O nosso mundo não pode ser chamado de civilizado porque um ser humano não reconhece e acolhe um outro independente do dinheiro que tem no bolso ou no banco, da sua visão do mundo, ou da sua inscrição religiosa.
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Chemical Pollution Has Passed Safe Limit for Humanity, Say Scientists
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
18 Jan 2022 – Study calls for cap on production and release as pollution threatens global ecosystems upon which life depends. Plastics are of particularly high concern along with 350,000 synthetic chemicals including pesticides, industrial compounds and antibiotics.
→ read full articleDangerous Gaps: Knowledge, Action, and Justice
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
16 Jan 2022 – This essay was published on 13 Jan 2022 on This View of Life, which brings to bear the views of science and evolutionary biology on a series of global challenges increasingly overwhelming the capabilities of civilizational modernity.
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Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems and the Fight to Contain Them
Rebecca Gordon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
9 Jan 2022 – The continued construction and deployment of killer robots is not inevitable. Let’s give U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres the last word: “Machines with the power and discretion to take human lives without human involvement are politically unacceptable, morally repugnant, and should be prohibited by international law.” I couldn’t agree more.
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Communing with Albert Camus in 2022
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
10 Jan 2022 – The person with whom we are all most intimate is oneself. It’s just the way it is. I don’t mean that in some oracular Delphic “know thyself” way, or in any deep psychoanalytical sense, but very simply. We have our own thoughts and feelings that come and go like breaths, most of which never get expressed in words.
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(Italiano) L’ascesa sorprendente della Cina
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
4 Gennaio 2022 – L’ascesa sorprendente della Cina: dovuta a un ‘socialismo con caratteristiche cinesi’ o a un ‘capitalismo con facciata cinese? O a un po’ di entrambi?
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(Français) Mauvaise foi, mauvaises nouvelles et Julian Assange
Edward Snowden | Le Grand Soir - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
24 décembre 2021- Edward Snwoden explique pourquoi la décision de la Haute Cour britannique en faveur de l’extradition d’Assange pourra créer un précédent extrêmement dangereux pour le métier de journaliste.
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The US Military Is Polluting Hawaii’s Water Supply – and Denying It
Wayne Tanaka | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
4 Jan 2022 – The Hawaiian governor issued an emergency order to de-fuel the Red Hill Facility. The US Navy has enlisted top lawyers to make sure its 600m liters of petroleum stay perched above our water supply.
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January 6th: A Year Later
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jan 2022
6 Jan 2022 – In retrospect, the attempted insurrection at the Capitol was about a great deal more than an angry expression of disappointment by the populist side of gun culture America. The coup attempt of January 6th failed, yet it succeeded in undermining the unwritten, yet vital, social contract that brought high levels of stability to United States since the republic was established in 1789.
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Hey There Delilah (Music Video of the Week)
Plain White T | HollywoodRecordsVEVO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
(Official Video) Please click on WATCH ON YOUTUBE kick back and enjoy!
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Musings on Olympia by Emanuel Garcia
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
31 Dec 2021 – If you are a lucky reader, you chance upon a book that makes your hair stand on end in wonder and sends a shiver down your spine. This book does that, for it is deft, digressive, and capricious in ways that leave you wondering what whim set the author’s mind so ablaze to dare to set this story to paper.
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What’s Ahead for Palestine in 2022
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
2 Jan 2022 – To begin with, we will witness a growing awareness that traditional diplomacy will not bring stability, much less peace with justice to this struggle that has gone on for more than a century.
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Private Prescriptions for a Better Life in 2022
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
1 Jan 2022 -A thoughtful Indian friend in Paris sent this list as her prescription for a better life in 2022. I adopted her list and added to it. I invite readers to propose their own additions and subtractions.
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Was China’s Amazing Rise Due to ‘Socialism with Chinese Characteristics’ or ‘Capitalism with a Chinese Facade? Or a Little of Both?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – There has in recent months many discussions centering around the proper characterization of China from an ideological point of view. The Chinese leadership has its own reasons for doing this, seeking to present what it deems a glorious self-image.
→ read full articleA Proposal to Humanity: A Path to Surviving Today`s Megacrises
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
After WWII it was believed that the formula for peace, dignity, and sustainable prosperity had been discovered. It was called “Development.” Its ingredients included the rule of law, human rights including those declared in the Universal Declaration of 1948, and–crucially–mixed economies like those pioneered in Scandinavia. Now the dreams of 1948 have turned into the nightmares of 2021. Why?
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Everything Going Great
Edward Snowden | Continuing Ed - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Dec 2021
23 Dec 2021 – Gospel, a word from Old English, is a compound that means “good news.” And it’s gospel that’s been in short-supply as we head into the Christmas season. Whenever this fact gets me down, I remember that finding evil, malfeasance, and even suffering in the headlines is just a sign that the press is doing its job. I don’t think any of us wants to wake up in the morning and read “Everything Going Great!”
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(Italiano) Creare sussistenze dignitose che non dipendano da vendite
Howard Richards | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
Si dissolvono i principali ostacoli al salvarci dalle sei minacce all’umanità trattate in Project Save the World; per chi non ne sappia abbastanza, le 6 minacce sono: Guerra e armi, riscaldamento globale, fame, pandemie, contaminazione radioattiva, e rischi cibernetici.
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Breaking Down the State
James M. Jasper, Clifford Bob and Jack Goldstone | Amsterdam University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
This text concentrates on interactions between protestors and the various players who comprise the state, from courts to police, legislators to bureaucrats. Again, some remarkable contributors are helping to develop a new language for describing political interaction.
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Covering Up Failure: Ignoring the Record of Regime-Changing Interventions
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – The militarized U.S. political class rejects the record of failure with respect to regime-changing interventions since suffering defeat in the Vietnam War, which ended in 1975.
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Robert Francis Kennedy, Jr.’s Heroic Resistance to the CIA’s Continuing Covid Coup D’état
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
7 Dec 2021 – With his extraordinary new book, RFK, Jr. has made it very clear that he will not allow Orwell’s 1984 totalitarian boot to stamp on his face. His is a very rare moral courage, and he is asking us to join him, before it is too late and we enter into a new dark age.
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Rohingya Sue Facebook for £150bn over Myanmar Genocide
Dan Milmo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – Facebook’s negligence facilitated the genocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar after the social media network’s algorithms amplified hate speech and the platform failed to take down inflammatory posts, according to legal action launched in the US and the UK.
→ read full article(Norwegian-Norsk) Overskuddsdeling – etisk atferd i praksis
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
13. desember 2021 – De siste tiårene har noen hundre mennesker i Norge blitt ufattelig rike, en tendens vi ser i en rekke land. Globalt kontrollerer noen styrtrike familier praktisk talt alle økonomiske sektorer over hele verden. Man kan undre seg over at rike mennesker er så uvillige til å dele av sin overflod med folk som ikke får dekket sine mest grunnleggende behov.
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How Google Advances the Zionist Colonization of Palestine
Yarden Katz | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
8 Dec 2021 – Software engineers at Google and Amazon have objected to providing services to the Israeli government because of the harm it would bring to Palestinians, yet these companies are already contributing to Israel’s colonial project in many ways.
→ read full articleCreate, or Help Create, Dignified Livelihoods That Do Not Depend on Sales
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
Project Save the World’s six threats to humanity: War and Weapons, Global Warming, Famine, Pandemics, Radioactive Contamination, and Cyber Risks. Question: “Where do we start?”
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‘We Have Fallen into a Trap’: Qatar’s World Cup Dream Is a Nightmare for Hotel Staff
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
18 Nov 2021 – I spent weeks waiting at the Kathmandu Airport. Among the returning migrant workers were coffins bearing the bodies of young men who had paid the ultimate price in search of work overseas. They were being flown home from Qatar, host of the 2022 football World Cup.
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New Study Links Major Fashion Brands to Amazon Deforestation
Laura Pitcher | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
29 Nov 2021 – LVMH, Zara, Nike and others at risk of contribution to destruction of rainforest based on connections to leather industry.
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Hasta Siempre Che Guevara (Music Video of the Week)
Nathalie Cardone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Subtitles English/Spanish
→ read full article(Italiano) Baloccarsi mentre Roma brucia: mentre USA e Cina si preparano alla guerra, i soloni USA esitano
Richard E. Rubenstein - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Coloro che negli USA battono i tamburi di preparazione alla guerra sono mossi da preoccupazioni di cui possono essere inconsapevoli, come timori che il proprio tessuto sociale stia disintegrandosi, che il dominio bianco a livello globale come negli USA sia obsolescente e che il ruolo della propria nazione da egemone globale (o “leader”, come direbbero) sia alla fine
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Pride and Poverty: Qatar’s World Cup Fever Tempered by Legacy of Labour Abuses
Pete Pattisson | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
18 Nov 2021 – With a Year to Go, the New Stadiums, Hotels and Roads Are Finished and Locals Are Excited, but the Low-Paid Workers Who Built Them Are Ambivalent
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The Role of Value Systems in Conflict Resolution
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Dec 2021
Understanding, “right-sizing,” and adequately respecting the role of value systems in conflict transformation avoids both over- and under-emphasis. It aims at a better understanding of the interplay between tangible conflict issues and religious or secular value systems.
→ read full articleOn the Collective Will of the Human Species to Survive
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – The human will to survive is often uncritically taken for granted, which was of little consequence prior to the advent of the nuclear age in 1945. That the first atomic explosion was the event chosen by the scientific community agreed to signal the advent of the age of the Anthropocene is of added significance.
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Climate Change in an Unjust World
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
23 Nov 2021 – It is a great pleasure to participate once again in this annual Congress on Agricultural and Food Ethics. The fact that it coincides with the UN COP-26 Summit on CC taking place is especially appropriate.
→ read full articleFiddling as Rome Burns: While the U.S. and China Prepare for War, USA Pundits Dither
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Nov 2021
Those in the USA beating the drums of war are driven by concerns they may be unaware: fears that the social fabric is disintegrating, that white rule on a global level is obsolescent, or that their nation’s role as a global hegemon (or “leader”) is ending. The main task of US peace advocates today is to help citizens to understand that preparing for a war with China will not allay any of these fears or solve the problems, which can only happen by confronting the homeland elites that monopolize wealth, power, and social status for their own agendas.
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President John F. Kennedy: His Life and Public Assassination
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
22 Nov 2021 – Despite a treasure trove of new research and information having emerged over the last fifty-eight years, there are many people who still think who killed President John Fitzgerald Kennedy and why are unanswerable questions.
→ read full article(Português) O Fracasso da COP26: Ausência da Razão Cordial e Sensível
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
17 nov 2021 – O sistema e o capitalismo são expressões de algo mais profundo, o verdadeiro deslanchador das mudanças climáticas que ganham corpo dentro do referido sistema e do capitalismo. Por detrás do referido sistema e do capitalismo está um tipo de racionalidade que ganhou feições monopolísticas e, por vezes, tirânicas, pois impôs-se a todas as demais formas como a única válida.
→ read full articleClimate Challenge Cannot Be Overcome in an Unjust World
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
16 Nov 2021 – Climate Change, Survival, and Justice in Relation to Agricultural and Food Security – The UN COP-26 delivered mixed messages that disappointed a worried world public. Only the future will tell us whether Glasgow was a welcome new beginning or, in Greta Thunberg’s rhetoric, “more blah, blah, blah.”
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(Italiano) Cambiamento Climatico, Sopravvivenza e Giustizia
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
18 Nov 2021 – Il Raduno sul Cambiamento Climatico ONU COP-26 recentemente concluso a Glasgow ha rilasciato messaggi misti a un pubblico mondiale preoccupato.
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After Daniel Ortega’s Victory in Nicaragua, Biden Signs RENACER Act and OAS Votes to Condemn
Julie Varughese | Toward Freedom - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
14 Nov 2021 – The “RENACER ACT-Reinforcing Nicaragua’s Adherence to Conditions for Electoral Reform Act of 2021” slaps sanctions on Ortega government officials, attempts to restrict multilateral financing to Nicaragua, monitors Nicaragua’s relationship with Russia, punishes the country for alleged human-rights violations and targets reported corruption inside Nicaragua.
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(Castellano) 5º Tribunal Internacional de Derechos de la Naturaleza–Veredicto Oficial sobre el Amazonas
Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
12 nov. 2021 – Derechos de la Naturaleza y el Amazonas, Una Entidad Viva Amenazada – Aquí publicamos los veredictos de la Quinta Corte Internacional de Derechos de la Naturaleza, que tuve el honor de presidir. Tuvo lugar de forma híbrida en Glasgow en la COP26.
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‘I Just Can’t Believe It Exists’: Peter Jackson Takes Us into the Beatles Vault Locked Up for 52 Years
Andy Welch | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
20 Nov 2021 – Ahead of his epic series Get Back, the director reveals the secrets of 60 hours of intimate, unseen footage of the Fab Four – and why it turns everything we know about their final days upside down.
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Cultural Revolutions
Edward Snowden | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
10 Nov 2021 – Freedom Is Not a Goal, but a Direction
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Science Fiction Has Become Fact: The Metaverse Is “Big Brother in Disguise”
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
9 Nov 2021 – Freedom Meted Out by Technological Tyrants – Welcome to the Matrix (i.e. the metaverse), where reality is virtual, freedom is only as free as one’s technological overlords allow, and artificial intelligence is slowly rendering humanity unnecessary, inferior and obsolete.
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Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
The recently concluded UN COP-26 Climate Change Gathering in Glasgow delivered mixed messages to a concerned world public. Only the future will tell whether Glasgow was a welcome new beginning or, in Greta Thunberg’s well-chosen rhetoric, “more blah, blah, blah.”
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Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Nov 2021
7 Nov 2021 – A Review of David Lorimer’s Book – This is a fascinating and beautiful book, one of those gems you serendipitously discover and shake your head at your good fortune.
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Julio Gambina | Leonardo Boff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
3 Nov 2021 – Coinciden este fin de semana dos cónclaves mundiales que se concentran en el debate sobre el “calentamiento global”, la COP 26 en Glasgow, Escocia y el G20 en Roma, Italia.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
6 Nov 2021 – US Military Interests Are Promoting a Culture of Fear With China – This is a slightly modified interview with Daniel Falcone. It attempts to challenge the pathological geopolitics that diverts attention from climate change and the global justice agenda in a period of growing dangers.
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(Português) As ameaças sobre a Terra presentes na COP26 em Glasgow?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Nov 2021
2 Nov 2021 – Em Glasgow, nesse final de 2021, com a COP26 se discute como reduzir os níveis de gases de efeito estufa para não chegarmos em 2030 a 1,5 graus Celsius e então a um caminho sem retorno. A maioria está cética, pois os grandes emissores não cumpriram o Acordo de Paris. Reduzirem apenas até 7% e o Brasil, ao contrário, cresceu em 9% sua emissão. Dada a engrenagem do processo produtivo mundial de viés capitalista que tende a não assumir nenhum limite em seus ganhos, provavelmente não alcançaremos esta meta.
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(Português) Alterações climáticas e elites suicidas
Manuel Casal Lodeiro | Esquerda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
30 out 2021 – Se o Painel Intergovernamental sobre Alterações Climáticas finalmente censurar o aviso de que o capitalismo é insustentável, ou se os governos se recusarem a cumprir este diagnóstico, estaremos a caminhar para uma guerra de uma minoria contra toda a vida atual e futura.
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Criminals
The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
Indeed!
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Colin Powell: In Life and Death
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Colin Powell died on Monday [18 Oct 2021] at the age of 84. Richard Falk reflects on Powell’s life and the US reaction to his passing including the relevance of identity politics, the question of moderation, his contribution to the horrors of Vietnam and Iraq, and US governmental hypocrisy in the wake of its January 2020 assassination of the comparable Iranian general, Qasem Soleimani.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
18 Oct 2021 – This post reflects on the brutal frankness of this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, Professor Joshua Angrist, unqualified rationale for leaving his faculty position at Hebrew University in Jerusalem for a higher paying professorship at MIT. The put down of literature is mindlessly irresponsible and civilizationally obtuse.
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Has Interpol Become the Long Arm of Oppressive Regimes?
Josh Jacobs | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
17 Oct 2021 – Once used in the hunt for fugitive criminals, the global police agency’s most-wanted ‘red notice’ list now includes political refugees and dissidents.
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Iraq/Afghanistan: Same Fate?
Kilian Bello | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
In February 2020, an agreement by the Trump administration and the Taliban was signed in Doha, Qatar, for complete withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan in May 2021.
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Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
For we are living in a world of endless propaganda and simulacra where vast numbers of people are hypnotized and can’t determine the difference between the real world of nature, the body, etc. and digital imagery. Reality has disappeared into screens. Simulation has swallowed the distinction between the real world and its representations. Meaning has migrated to the margins of consciousness. This process is not yet complete but getting there.
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The Story of Cap and Trade
Annie Leonard | The Story of Stuff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
A fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution discussed at the Copenhagen 2009 UN Climate Change Conference. The energy traders and Wall Street financiers at the heart of this scheme; the “devils in the details” in current cap and trade proposals.
→ read full articleThe Rebranding of Antisemitism after the Holocaust
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – This post is concerned with the legacy of the Holocaust as providing antisemitism as a policy tool exploited by Israel and Zionist activists to intensify Palestinian suffering and deflect attention from Israeli wrongdoing. My main contention is that the Holocaust experience accentuated the tendencies of the Zionist movement to be opportunistic in the course of its long effort to attain, little by little, its territorial and ideological goals.
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Tyrants of the Nanny State: When the Government Thinks It Knows Best
John W. Whitehead and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
12 Oct 2021 – We labor today under the weight of countless tyrannies, large and small, carried out in the so-called name of the national good by an elite class of governmental and corporate officials who are largely insulated from the ill effects of their actions. We, the middling classes, are not so fortunate.
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(Português) O Grande Engodo: O Capitalismo Verde
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
11 outubro 2021 – Os grandes mega capitais estão reunindo centenas de economistas e politólogos documentados no The Economist (principais acionistas: as famílias Rothschild e Agnelli), sob o título:”O futuro que nos espera”. Se lemos os seus 20 pontos ficamos estarrecidos: apresentam um projeto onde só eles entram, deixando fora o resto da humanidade controlada por uma inteligência artificial destinada a desarmar e liquidar qualquer reação em contrário.
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Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
Given today´s economic science and common sense assume, jobs for everybody, paid for by the products the employees contribute to making, will never happen. There will never be enough employers finding it profitable to hire workers and pay them well to create sustainable good jobs for everyone who needs one.
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(Italiano) Iron Dome Israeliane: la farsa del finanziamento USA
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
4 Ottobre 2021 – Che gli Stati Uniti paghino il conto per ricostituire la scorta di missili nel sistema difensivo israeliano Iron Dome (Cupola di Ferro) utilizzato durante l’attacco a Gaza in maggio è una caricatura di legalità e giustizia.
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