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How a Tour of Russia Showed Me That Propaganda Perverts Reality in the Minds of US Citizens
Scott Ritter | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jun 2023

‘Waging Peace’: My month-long tour of the country was an eye-opening experience, and so was the hostility that met me back home in the US.

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Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki in China
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

24 May 2023 – Eritrea can chart an exciting new development path through mutually respectful collaboration with China.

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ChatGPT Imagines a World Where Power Structures Are Reversed
Joe Martino | The Pulse – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

If our current ideas of a society were truly suspended, what type of world would we envision?

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Death’s Secretary Tries to Forget on Cape Cod
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

21 May 2023 – We have come to Cape Cod for a few days to forget the man-made world that is too much with us. I have asked my forgettery to get to work. As my childhood friends used to say to me, “Eddy spaghetti, use you forgetty.” The adults had no idea what they meant.  Many still do not.

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Reflections on the G7 Summit in Hiroshima
Robert Kowalczyk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

27 May 2023 – Following is a series of thoughts and reactions to the G7 Summit in Hiroshima. Now is a time to share positive, balanced solutions to help prevent the grim possibilities of a future world war; these thoughts and actions are offered in that spirit.

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CIA Front Company Extends Intrusive Surveillance Operations in Lithuania under Pretext of New Cold War
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

22 May 2023 – Creation of Orwellian surveillance apparatus belies claim that the U.S. is upholding democracy in the face of Russian authoritarianism.

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Global South Aims to Fix the UN
Ramzy Baroud | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 May 2023

23 May 2023 – Calls to reform the Security Council have been made many times in the past, but Beijing’s position is particularly important in both language and timing.

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Digital Privacy Legislation Is Civil Rights Legislation
Paige Collings and Adam Schwartz | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

18 May 2023 – Our personal data and the ways private companies harvest and monetize it plays an increasingly powerful role in modern life. Corporate databases are vast, interconnected, and opaque. The movement and use of our data is difficult to understand, let alone trace.

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Escaping Debt Slavery: Ethiopia, Africa, and the IMF
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

17 May 2023 – In 1987, at the Organization for African Unity, Thomas Sankara said, “Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa.” Ethiopia might actually be better off if the US keeps the IMF from signing off on its latest loan request.

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Ukraine’s ‘Press Freedom’ Score Increases Despite Martial Law, Banned Media
Bryce Greene | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting FAIR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

9 May 2023 – Now you know why Ukraine is fighting for “our values” – meaning something terrible has happened to those “our values.”

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Hmm…
Curtis Spangler - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

Really?

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Stepping over the Border, onto Planet Earth
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 May 2023

17 May 2023 – “. . . we belong to the Earth rather than to a nation . . .” These words stick in my heart like a wedding ring. At the same time, I feel surrounded by a cynical “realism”: Don’t be a fool. A marriage like that isn’t possible. Be grateful you’re a US citizen. Arm yourself! We’re being invaded.

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Ilhan Omar Voted to Withdraw from Somalia, but She’s No Anti-Imperialist
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

10 May 2023 – Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is not the progressive she is thought to be. She follows US policy regarding her native Somalia and has connections there that compromise her actions. True anti-imperialist politics are needed to counteract the US interference that has devastated the country.

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The Normative Current
Robert Kowalczyk interviews Klaus Schlichtmann - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

13 May 2023 – Dr. Klaus Schlichtmann [Short-Listed for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022] on a Natural and Continued Flow towards Rebuilding World Peace

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Senate Report: Nearly 700 Former High-Ranking Pentagon and Other Government Officials Now Work at the Top 20 Defense Contractors
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

12 May 2023 – Ideally, Warren’s report would precipitate a much larger congressional investigation of the military-industrial complex modeled after the 1934 Nye Committee hearings.

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There Is No Escape from Telling
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023

A new Dark Age is closing upon us, as Max Weber noted more than a century ago when he described the people who run our societies and educational institutions as “specialists without spirit, sensualists without heart; this nullity imagines it has attained a level of civilization never before achieved.”

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China, the Peacemaker? PODCAST
Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

3 May 2023 – Historian Alfred W. McCoy discusses China’s rapid economic and political rise and how Beijing is well positioned to broker an end to the war in Ukraine. PODCAST

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Killing Our Way to the Truth
Robert C. Koehler – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

War is minimally questioned — taken for granted — in the mainstream consciousness, or what I would call the consensus groupthink, which is quietly structured into mainstream reporting. Conflict between nations instantly summons the possibility of war; that’s just the way it is, no matter the certainty of “collateral damage.”

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Nobody for President Campaign
Curtis Spangler - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

‘None of the above’ should be a valid choice on voter ballots. The ‘Birthday Party’ provided an easy, cost-effective way to restore political balance

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Shock Doctrine: Industry Exploiting Ukraine War for Liquefied Natural Gas Expansion
Olivia Rosane | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

28 Apr 2023 – In an investigation targeting the “shock doctrine” practices of the gas industry, Greenpeace is calling on policymakers in both the U.S. and EU to move away from expanding LNG infrastructure before it’s too late.

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As US Grip on Middle East Slips, Peace Breaks Out
Robert Inlakesh | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

2 May 2023 – Washington’s poor decision-making is starting to catch up with it, as nations choose to pursue peace without US interference.

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Chilean President Plans to Nationalize Lithium Industry
Gabriel Boric | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

28 Apr 2023 – The initiative, which will be sent to Congress later this year, is designed to boost the economy of the nation, which has some of the world’s largest reserves of the high-demand metal.

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WWIII on the Installment Plan
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

4 May 2023 – The Invention of a Wartime Presidency to Save the Biden Administration

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Calling for the Immediate Release of Julian Assange on World Press Freedom Day
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 May 2023

4 May 2023 – Talk I Gave in New York City at a Rally for Julian Assange – “This legal lynching marks the official beginning of corporate totalitarianism.”

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Taiwan—A Pawn for U.S. War on China
Sara Flounders | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

27 Apr 2023 – While the U.S.-NATO war against Russia in Ukraine continues unabated, the U.S. is preparing at breakneck speed for war with China, using Taiwan as the excuse. Taiwan, like Ukraine, is a pawn. Surrounding China with military bases, nuclear weapons and military vessels is a highly dangerous provocation. U.S. wars are for corporate profit. 

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US Corporations Cash in on Ukraine’s Oil and Gas
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

28 Apr 2023 – As Ukraine sells off public assets in a privatization spree, US fossil fuel corporations like ExxonMobil, Chevron, and Halliburton are in talks to run its oil and gas industry, and the IMF imposes the Washington Consensus.

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Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.: To Heal the Great Divide
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

Despite a family actively opposed to his candidacy, despite all the media lies about him, and despite the oddsmakers giving him little chance, RFK, Jr. is entering the race.  It is an act of supreme moral courage.  Like his father in ’68, he is the only candidate who can heal this nation’s great divide. 

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The Enemy from Within
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

1 May 2023 – The US war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China.

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Western Media’s Peculiar Incuriosity about Nord Stream
Jonathan Cook | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

26 Apr 2023 – Seymour Hersh’s investigation is filled with details that could be checked ­— and verified or rebutted — if anyone wished to do so.

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Facebook Censors Journalist Seymour Hersh’s Report on Nord Stream Pipeline Attack
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

25 Apr 2023 – Facebook censored a report by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh on the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines between Russia and Germany, forcing users to instead read a website funded and partially owned by NATO member Norway.

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(Italiano) Come opporre una resistenza efficace all’élite tecnocratica?
Robert Burrowes | Come Don Chisciotte – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

21 Aprile 2023 – Come ampiamente documentato, sotto le mentite spoglie della narrativa “virus”/”vaccino”, l’Elite Globale sta attuando cambiamenti profondi e a lungo pianificati in 200 aree della vita umana.

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Syria Comes in from the Cold
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 May 2023

24 Apr 2023 – After the Chinese-brokered rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran, another diplomatic coup is unfolding in the Middle East. This one is orchestrated by the Russians.

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Peru’s Coup-Plotting Congress Has 6% Approval, 91% Disapproval (but Full US Backing)
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

17 Apr 2023 – Peru’s coup-plotting, right-wing-controlled congress has 6% approval and 91% disapproval. Unelected leader Dina Boluarte has 15% approval and 78% disapproval. But they have the full support of the US, Canada, and foreign mining corporations.

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The Perpetual War Alarm
Brian Martin - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

There is an alarm in Australia about a Chinese military threat. This is a typical feature of the war system.

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Our Tech Overlords Offer another Climate Solution without Sacrifice
Kurt Cobb | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

17 Apr 2023 – My expectations are never disappointed when I read that the solutions to problems created by technology are in more technology. It will solve our problems without us having to make any substantial change in our way of life. We cannot wait for our tech overlords to solve our problems; their kind of thinking only perpetuates them.

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US/EU/NATO Meet with Somaliland Secessionists
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

19 Apr 2023 – As Somaliland forces continue to fire on Somali nationalists, US/EU/NATO officials held a joint call with secessionist Somaliland President Muse Bihi Abdi.

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Leaks Spelling the End for Ukraine
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

17 Apr 2023 – Leaked U.S. intelligence documents have exposed Western disinformation  about Ukraine winning the war. Now the heavy fighting moves to Washington.

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Denmark Refusing to Engage on Nord Stream Probe
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

17 Apr 2023 – Denmark has rejected all contact regarding the investigation, the Russian ambassador has warned. US Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh claimed in February that Washington had orchestrated the sabotage with help also from Norway.

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(Dutch) Wij worden politiek, economisch, medisch en technologisch vermorzeld door de “Grote Reset” van de Elite
Robert J. Burrowes | The Love Factory - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Apr 2023

Sinds het begin van de menselijke beschaving, 5000 jaar geleden, zijn gewone mensen zoals u en ik verwikkeld in een eindeloze strijd tegen de pogingen van elites, lokaal, nationaal, internationaal of wereldwijd, om volledige controle over ons en de middelen om ons heen te krijgen.

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(Français) Brésil : La « malédiction de l’or » en territoire Yanomani–une tragédie préméditée
Laurent Delcourt  | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

3 avril 2023 – Riches en ressources minérales, les terres indigènes du Brésil, malgré les protections légales, sont soumises à une pression intense. Les mineurs illégaux, en quête d’or, ont multiplié les incursions, les exactions contre les communautés et les atteintes à l’environnement, dans une dynamique qui rappelle les pires heures de la conquête coloniale.

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U.S. Hypocrisy toward the World Is another Way of Saying, ‘Don’t Do as We Do, Do as We Say’
David Starr | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

7 Apr 2023 – The U.S./NATO alliance’s ulterior motives have been evident, for those who care to directly look at the situation and to directly understand it.

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The Cup of Life – La Copa de la Vida (Music Video of the Week)
Ricky Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

Official Song Soccer World Cup France 1998 – Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin opens the Festival de Viña del Mar 2014 in Chile in a big way.

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If the U.S. Can’t Boss the World, It Will Spitefully Destroy It
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

13 Apr 2023 – Unable to accept the reality of a growing multipolar world order, U.S. elites are willing to risk nuclear war.

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Ukraine a ‘Non-Existent Country’ Financially – Orban
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

14 Apr 2023 – The conflict will end as soon as the West stops giving money to Kiev, the Hungarian PM has insisted.

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Policing the Elite’s Technocracy: How Do We Resist This Effectively?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

14 Apr 2023 – As has been carefully documented, under cover of the ‘virus’/‘vaccine’ narrative, the Global Elite is implementing long-planned and profound changes to 200 areas of human life. Hence, our persistence in presenting the information, while listening well when appropriate, is crucial to mobilizing the resistance we need to succeed.

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BRICS Bank De-dollarizing, New Chief Dilma Rousseff Says
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Apr 2023

16 Apr 2023 – The new chief of the BRICS bloc’s New Development Bank, Brazil’s leftist ex-President Dilma Rousseff, revealed they are gradually moving away from the US dollar, promising at least 30% of loans in local currencies of members.

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The Republican Martyr
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Apr 2023

Right!

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The Passing of Benjamin Ferencz (11 Mar 1920 – 7 Apr 2023) RIP
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Apr 2023

Easter 2023 (9 Apr) was marked by the passing of a remarkable man–Benjamin Ferencz. He died on 7 Apr at the age of 103. Ben was the last living Nuremberg WWII war crimes prosecutor. I met him in 1972.

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US Uses Rusesabagina’s Release to Whitewash Its Decades of Support for the Kagame Regime
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Apr 2023

5 Apr 2023 – Paul Rusesabagina is free after being kidnapped and taken to Rwanda in 2020. The US claims credit for pressuring Rwanda to release him, hoping to distract the world from its decades of support for President Paul Kagame and his human rights crimes in Rwanda and neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.

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The Israeli Government Doing What They Do Best
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Apr 2023

6 Apr 2023 – Israeli apartheid police brutality beat Palestinian worshipers inside the sacred al Aqua mosque during Ramadan.

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(Português) Brasil: Lava-Jato, Essa Desconhecida
Leneide Duarte-Plon e Leonardo Boff | RED – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

2 abril 2023 -Publicamos este texto-pesquisa que revela o escondido da Lava-Jato e mantido escondido pela grande imprensa empresarial e conservadora do Brasil. Foi preciso que pesquisadores estrangeiros pusessem esse escondido à luz e assim refutar tantas afirmações de jornalistas nacionais que não se comprometem com a verdade dos fatos mas servem aos interesses do grande sistema nacional e norte-americano.

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The Iinternational Criminal Court’s Selective Prosecution
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

29 Mar 2023 – The ICC’s double standard in the treatment of Ukraine and Palestine is largely due to political coercion by the U.S., which isn’t even a party to the court’s Rome Statute.

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Human Rights Watch Deliberately only Scratched the Surface in Exploring Ukraine’s Use of Banned ‘Petal’ Mines
Eva Bartlett - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

29 Mar 2023 – Since Ukraine dropped thousands of mines on the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in July, 104 people have fallen victim to the internationally-banned PFM-1 ‘petal’ (otherwise known as ‘butterfly’) devices. Nine of them are children. Of which three died.

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“Facing Clear Evidence of Peril” in a Country of Lies
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

28 Mar 2023 – Perhaps silence is the best response to the endless cavalcade of official lies that is United States history. The Internet and digital technology have allowed those lies to increase exponentially in number and frequency with the result that people’s minds have become like 7-Eleven stores, open 24/7 for snack-crap “news.”

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China and Brazil Deal a Blow to US Dollar-powered Bullying
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

1 Apr 2023 – Ditching the American currency in trade will diminish Washington’s ability to impose its will.

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How EU Leaders Destroyed Relations with Russia – and Denied Their Citizens Access to Reliable Cheap Energy
Tyler Kay | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

2 Apr 2023 – The West destroyed over a half-century of cooperation in the energy sector and hasn’t any affordable prospects in sight.

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2023 Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza Democracy and Peace Prize Awarded to John Williams Ntwali and Kambale Musavuli
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Apr 2023

29 Mar 2023 – The Prize for Democracy and Peace is awarded to people who work for democracy, peace, and freedom in the Great Lakes Region of Africa.

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The Fabulist Arrogance of US Power
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023

22 Mar 2023 – The U.S. reserves for itself the right to commit crimes all over the world. Yet it also refuses to participate in any war crimes prosecution and even passed a law giving itself the right to invade the International Criminal Court at the Hague should a North American or an ally face justice.

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The Mafia: BP Stole £15 Billion of Iraqi Oil after British/West Invasion
Matt Kennard | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023

23 Mar 2023 – Shell, the other U.K. “super-major” oil company, also re-entered Iraq in 2009 after an invasion in 2003 that was widely denounced at the time as a war-for-oil on the part of the U.S. and U.K.

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G7 vs BRICS — Off to the Races
Scott Ritter | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023

22 Mar 2023 – BRICS Surpasses G7 in PPP-Adjusted Global GDP – An economist digging below the surface of an IMF report found something that should shock the Western bloc out of any false confidence in its unsurpassed global economic clout.

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U.S. War for Oil Turned 20!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023

Fascism?!  What?!

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Rage against the War Machine: What Rage? ‘When Will They Ever Learn?’
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023

In his iconic 1950s anti-war hit song ‘Where Have All the Flowers Gone?’, Pete Seeger posed the eternal question about war: ‘when will they ever learn?’ primarily to those who participate in the fighting. But it might equally have been directed at those in the ‘anti-war’ movement.

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US Banks Want Socialism for Themselves–and Capitalism for Everyone Else
Robert Reich | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Mar 2023

19 Mar 2023 – When banks like Silicon Valley Bank collapse, money floods to bigger ones like JPMorgan. Clients know they’re ‘too big to fail.’

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The Lords of Chaos
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

19 Mar 2023 – The politicians and shills in the media who orchestrated 20 years of military debacles in the Middle East, and who seek a world dominated by U.S. power, must be held accountable for their crimes.

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Haiti: “The Truth Speaks for Itself”
Robert Roth | Haiti Action Committee – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

With a defunded health care system, Haiti is once again confronting a cholera epidemic.  Food insecurity threatens 5 million people, including 2.4 million children, in a country of 12 million. Government-supported paramilitary groups continue to terrorize opposition neighborhoods, with kidnappings at an all time high. These crises have their roots in the 2004 coup and the subsequent imposition of foreign occupation, coordinated through the UN. 

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Forever Wars vs. Armageddon
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

15 Mar 2023 – The call for the U.S. to end military involvements is often made in order to advocate for new wars against more powerful countries. It appears that the only choices are forever wars or the end of the world.

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Anything to Say? Assange, Snowden & Manning in Sydney
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

11 Mar 2023 – The three bronze statues that have been touring the world have arrived in Assange’s home country, Australia.

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A Sane Voice amidst the Madness
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

17 Mar 2023 – Former Australian PM Paul Keating has eviscerated Australia’s deal to buy nuclear submarines from the U.K. and U.S., saying there is no Chinese threat to defend against, despite the war hysteria stirring in Australia.

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Billionaires Shouldn’t Exist
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

13 Mar 2023 – FORBES Has a New List of the World’s Richest People

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Iraq Plus 20 (Part 1): Lies as Weapons of Mass Destruction
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

15 Mar 2023 – The Script for the Lead-Up to War

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Peace Conference: A World without Militarism
Alberto Portugheis | HUFUD – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

Sat, 25 Mar: 9am to 5pm, University of London, In-person & Online, Free Entry

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The Pentagon’s B-Movie: Looking Closely at the Sep 2001 Attacks
Edward Curtin and Graeme MacQueen | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

15 Mar 2023 – Graeme MacQueen: The Indispensable 9/11 Writer’s Latest Book – Leftists, no matter what they say in their defense, bear great moral responsibility for the so-called War on Terror, the Patriot Act, the invasion of Iraq, the deaths of Muslims, etc., all of which emanate from the insider attacks of September 11 and the subsequent anthrax attacks.

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WCPA’s Two Track Strategy for Earth Federation Government or a ‘New UN’
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

16 Mar 2023 – Einstein noted the absence of enforceable world law in the UN Charter.  Bully nations violate international law with impunity as leaders responsible for world crimes, especially from the UN Security Council (U.S., Russia, China, UK, France) are untouchable, never held accountable, even by the ICC or the ICJ.

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Will Humans Become an Extension of Their Machines? ChatGPT May Have Irrevocable Consequences for Learning and Decision-Making
Dr. Mathew Maavak | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

13 Mar 2023 – We already rely on digital crutches in numerous aspects of our lives – will we delegate even our essential faculties to AI?

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AI Robots Invade the Classroom — So What?
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Mar 2023

8 Mar 2023 – As long as the system of artificial education focuses on “teaching to the test” by insisting on reducing individual intelligence to a number and belittling the potential of each student, we have a problem. AI isn’t the cause; it helps expose it.

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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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Ukraine’s Death by Proxy
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023

11 Mar 2023 – Proxy wars devour the countries they purport to defend. There will come a time when the Ukrainians will become expendable to the U.S. They will disappear, as many others before them, from U.S. national discourse and popular consciousness.

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Seismic Iran-Saudi Rapprochement Isolates US
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023

11 Mar 2023 – The Chinese-brokered diplomatic deal between Saudi Arabia and Iran not only opens the way for resolution of region-wide conflicts, but foils U.S. Mideast divide-and-rule designs based on Saudi-Iranian enmity. The success of the normalization and its effect on the Middle East remains to be seen. But it is a start that few thought they’d ever see as long as the U.S. stood in the way. 

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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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Artistic Perfection…
Arthur Compton, Nobel Physics Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Mar 2023

… Intelligent Design

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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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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 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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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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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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We Are Being Smashed Politically, Economically, Medically and Technologically by the Elite’s ‘Great Reset’: Why? How Do We Fight Back Effectively?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

21 Feb 2023 – Since the dawn of human civilization 5,000 years ago, ordinary people like you and me have been engaged in an endless struggle to resist efforts by elites, whether local, national, international or global, to assert complete control over us and the resources around us.

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US Admits Chinese Balloon Was off Course–It Shot down a $12 Balloon in $2M Missile Attack
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report  – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

19 Feb 2023 – US officials acknowledged the Chinese balloon they shot down on 4 Feb had likely been blown off course by unexpected weather. The US Air Force later spent $2 million using missiles to blow up what appeared to be a $12 hobbyist balloon.

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Free Thought and Official Propaganda
Bertrand Russell | Project Gutenberg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

Delivered at South Place Institute on 24 Mar 1922 by the Hon. Bertrand Russell, M.A., F.R.S.

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Meditation in Sunlight
May Sarton – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

A beguiling reflection on the relationship between presence, solitude, and love.

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The Trump-Russia Saga and the Death Spiral of US Journalism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

25 Feb 2023 – The media caters to a particular demographic, telling that demographic what it already believes — even when it is unverified or false. This pandering defines the coverage of the Trump-Russia saga.

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Totalized Censorship
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

20 Feb 2023 – Content warning, canceling, de-platforming, denying access: The fate of Sy Hersh’s Democracy Now! interview on YouTube is the latest indication of how much rougher press suppression is in this new media era. 

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Story Killers (Part 1): In the Age of False News–A Journalist, a Murder, and the Pursuit of an Unfinished Investigation in India
Phineas Rueckert | Forbidden Stories/Story Killers – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

In 2017, journalist Gauri Lankesh was assassinated in Bangalore days before she planned to publish an article about disinformation. Over five years later, Forbidden Stories pursued Lankesh’s work on fake news and explored new leads in her murder case.

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Israeli Security Forces Carry Out Massacre in Jenin, Palestine
Richard Dunn | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Feb 2023

13 Feb 2023 – Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have vowed to make it easier for Israelis to carry guns. Ben-Gvir: “I want weapons on the streets, I want Israeli citizens to be able to protect themselves.” It follows the Zionist narrative of demonizing the victim and sanctifying the aggressor [remember Hitler & Nazism?].

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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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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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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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‘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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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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