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Banishing Truth
Chris Hedges - Truthdig, 31 Dec 2018
24 Dec 2018 – The decay of American journalism, captured by corporate power, has marginalized and often silenced its most courageous reporters. Investigative journalism depends not only on reporters such as Hersh, but as importantly on men and women inside the systems of power who have the moral courage to expose lies and make public crimes.
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Neoliberalism’s Dark Path to Fascism
Chris Hedges - Truthdig, 3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 – The financial elites have engineered a monumental con job that threatens to rip away the remainder of our freedoms. Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism, which abolishes civil liberties in the name of national security and brands whole groups as traitors and enemies of the people.
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Crucifying Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | Truthdig - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – The media’s refusal to defend the WikiLeaks publisher is a betrayal of press freedom.
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Conjuring Up the Next Depression
Chris Hedges – Truthdig, 17 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – This manufactured financial tsunami will transform the United States, already a failed democracy, into an authoritarian police state. Life will become very cheap, especially for the vulnerable—undocumented workers, Muslims, poor people of color, girls and women, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist critics branded as agents of foreign powers—who will be demonized and persecuted for the collapse. The elites, in a desperate bid to cling to their unchecked power and obscene wealth, will disembowel what is left of the United States.
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Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth
Chris Hedges – Truthdig, 27 Aug 2018
19 Aug 2018 – Climate change is not simply an environmental problem—it is a planetary transition. We will survive only if we rapidly evolve to create new forms of civilization.
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Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Aug 2018
The corporate capitalist elites, which have seized control of ruling institutions including the government and destroyed labor unions, are re-establishing the inhumane labor conditions that characterized the 19th and early 20th centuries. They want everyone to be temp workers trapped in demeaning, low-paying, part-time, service-sector jobs without job security or benefits.
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The Useful Idiocy of Donald Trump
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Aug 2018
5 Aug 2018 – The problem with Donald Trump is not that he is imbecilic and inept—it is that he has surrendered total power to the oligarchic and military elites. They get what they want. They do what they want. Although the president is a one-man wrecking crew aimed at democratic norms and institutions, although he has turned the United States into a laughingstock around the globe, our national crisis is embodied not in Trump but the corporate state’s now unfettered pillage.
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The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom
Chris Hedges – Truthdig, 23 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018 – The arrest of the WikiLeaks founder, which appears near, would be the first domino to fall. Afterward, thousands of publishers, editors and reporters in the U.S. would be in peril.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig, 16 Jul 2018
8 Jul 2018 – Racial diversity in the hands of the ruling elites—political and corporate—is a tool for preserving white privilege, wealth and power.
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Scapegoating Iran
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2018
The wars in the Middle East are the worst strategic blunders in American history. But don’t expect U.S. politicians and generals to accept responsibility for the mess when they can blame it on Iran.
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Killing Gaza
Chris Hedges – Truthdig, 14 May 2018
“Killing Gaza” will be released Tuesday 15 May, to coincide with what Palestinians call Nakba Day—“nakba” means catastrophe in Arabic—commemorating the 70th anniversary of the forced removal of some 750,000 Palestinians in 1948 by the Haganah, Jewish paramilitary forces, from their homes in modern-day Israel. The release of the documentary also coincides with the Trump administration’s opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.
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The Campaign to Exterminate Muslims
Chris Hedges – Truthdig, 16 Apr 2018
8 Apr 2018 – The Israeli massacre of Palestinians is a prelude to a dystopian, neocolonial world where global elites, hoarding wealth and controlling the mechanisms of power, resort to bloodshed to keep the oppressed at bay. What Israel is doing to Palestinians in the open-air prison that is Gaza, subject to repeated murderous assaults by the Israeli war machine, will be done to desperate climate refugees and citizens who rise up to protest the pillage by global oligarchs. Those who resist will be branded as terrorists. The global elites have a plan for the future. It is visible in the killing fields of Gaza.
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Building the Iron Wall
Chris Hedges – Truthdig, 2 Apr 2018
18 Mar 2018 – The ominous assault on the final redoubts of a free press, through an attempt to brand dissidents, independent journalists and critics of corporate power and imperialism as agents of a foreign power, has begun. Those who challenge the dominant corporate narrative already struggle on the margins of the media landscape. The handful of independent websites and news outlets are the few platforms left that examine corporate power and empire, the curtailment of our civil liberties, lethal police violence and the ecocide carried out by the fossil fuel and animal agriculture industries, as well as cover the war crimes committed by Israel and the U.S. military in the Middle East.
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The Deadly Rule of the Oligarchs
Chris Hedges - Truthdig, 19 Feb 2018
Once oligarchs take power, rational, prudent and thoughtful responses to social, economic and political problems are ignored to feed insatiable greed.
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Thought Police for the 21st Century
Chris Hedges – Truthdig, 5 Feb 2018
The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive, left-wing and anti-war sites, along with demonizing as foreign agents the journalists who expose the crimes of corporate capitalism and imperialism, have given the corporate state the power to destroy freedom of speech.
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Chris Hedges - Truthdig, 2 Oct 2017
24 Sep 2017 – Historians, like journalists, are in the business of manipulating facts. Some use facts to tell truths, however unpleasant. But many more omit, highlight and at times distort them in ways that sustain national myths and buttress dominant narratives. History is what the present chooses to remember about the past.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig, 24 Apr 2017
Talk That Chris Hedges Gave on 17 April 2017 at Princeton University – In the conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, I encountered singular individuals of varying creeds, religions, races and nationalities who majestically rose up to defy the oppressor on behalf of the oppressed. Some of them are dead. Some of them are forgotten. Most of them are unknown.
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Chris Hedges - Truthdig, 12 Dec 2016
The later years—George W. Bush and Barack Obama—are marked by declarations that things are getting better even though they are getting worse. The final years—Donald Trump—see the lunatic trolls, hedge fund parasites, con artists, conspiracy theorists and criminals drop all pretense and carry out an orgy of looting and corruption… We will remove them from power or enter a new dark age.
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Tim Arango and Eric Schmitt – The New York Times, 11 Aug 2014
10 Aug 2014 – When American forces raided a home near Falluja during the turbulent 2004 offensive against the Iraqi Sunni insurgency, they picked up an apparent hanger-on, an Iraqi man in his early 30s whom they knew nothing about.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig, 14 Oct 2013
In dying empires like our own, the people glorify idiotic leaders and blissfully ignore the looming collapse.
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Mr. Fish - Truthdig, 17 Sep 2012
I was determined to be gay, even if I had to sleep with other guys to do it, because, just as it was with racism and sexism, homophobia was not founded in reason so it could not be destroyed by logic. In fact, to merely talk about why it might be wrong to hate gay people made discrimination against homosexuals little more than a matter of opinion, no more substantive than announcing a dislike for argyle or Mexican food or dogs in sunglasses.
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How the Neocons Chose Hegemony Over Peace Beginning in the Early 1990s
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024
As with finance, the West was militarily dominant in the 1990s, and certainly had the means to promote strong and positive relations with post-Soviet Russia. Yet the US was far more interested in Russia’s subservience to NATO than it was in stable relations with it.
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Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” and ‘Monthly Review’: A Historical Introduction
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024
Albert Einstein, the world’s most famous physicist and celebrated scientist, had fled Nazi Germany for the US where he became a citizen in 1940. But for the FBI Einstein remained a dangerous and Un-American figure, threatening the security of the US by his very presence.
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A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won’t)
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024
5 May 2024 – In Washington-Speak, “Palestinian State” Means “Fried Chicken”
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Bharatiya Janata Party: Pseudo Peace Propagation in Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi’s Bharat Hindutva (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024
This paper is written as an objective analysis of the current political climate in India, prior to the general election, being the largest democracy in the world. Readers are invited to Join the Discussion with the author about any statements perceived as biased or prejudiced.
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The Nuclear Energy Dilemma: Climate Savior or Existential Threat?
Leslie Alan Horvitz | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Nuclear power has promise and peril, posing many challenging questions for environmentalists.
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The Empire Strikes Back
𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖋𝖆𝖈𝖊 (𝕾𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖞) | Where Is John Fisher? – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024
6 Jan 2024 – A fantastic piece of analysis.
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Backing Colonial Settler War Crimes & Genocide: Nothing New for the US
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023
Over 75% of the people in Gaza were already registered by the UN as refugees expelled from their villages in what is now southern Israel in the 1948 Nakba (Catastrophe).
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Continuity of the Hawai’ian National Consciousness
Pōkā Laenui (Hayden F. Burgess) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023
21 Aug 2023 – A nation never dies until its national consciousness dies. It dies not by a conquest by another, by a loss of territory, by a takeover of a foreign power, by an overthrow of the government, by a change of its economic system, or by the colonization of a foreign people. It dies when its people have lost consciousness of themselves.
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Temperatures Off the Charts, but More Records Imminent: WMO
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jul 2023
10 Jul 2023 – Global sea surface temperatures reached a record high in May, June and July – and the warming El Niño weather pattern is only just getting started – experts at the UN World Meteorological Organization said today.
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The Bolshevik Color Revolution of 1917 and Prigozhin’s 2023 Gambit: Trotsky, Russell, and the War on Civilization
Matthew Ehret | The Last American Vagabond – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jul 2023
27 Jun 2023 – Now, I don’t know if the events catalyzed by Prigozhin’s are part of a ‘game within a game’ to flush out fifth columnists and provide a headfake to western strategists… OR if this was an authentic coup. But there are historical processes at play which too few recognize and which President Putin understands very well.
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World Refugee Day Marked by 108 Million Being Displaced
Abayomi Azikiwe – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jun 2023
21 Jun 2023 – Mediterranean tragedy involving the Greek coastguard typifies the burgeoning crisis which has its origins in United States wars and imperialist policies. The number of displaced persons today is twice as high as those dislocated at the conclusion of World War II.
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Daniel Ellsberg, Who Leaked the Pentagon Papers, Dies at 92
Harrison Smith and Patricia Sullivan | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Jun 2023
16 Jun 2023 – Leaker of the top-secret history of the Vietnam War that enraged the Nixon administration–serving as the catalyst for White House-directed burglaries and “dirty tricks” that snowballed into the Watergate scandal–died today in California. He was 92. Rest in Peace Daniel Ellsberg.
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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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Martyred…
Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 May 2023
… by the Present Evil Empire
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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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On the Influence of Neo-Nazism in Ukraine
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023
29 Dec 2022 – A short history of neo-Nazism in Ukraine in response to NewsGuard’s charge that Consortium News published false content about its extent.
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(Castellano) Derrotar la Pobreza en Todas las Casas
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Oct 2022
Una vez que se entiende el principio básico aquí destacado –que el empleo y por ende la dignidad no tienen que depender de las ventas, sino que pueden ser también fruto de la solidaridad, hay innumerables variaciones y extensiones posibles.
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On the Ongoing Decline and Fall of the US Empire
Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022
Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a complete configuration, articulated in a statement by a Pentagon planner: “The de facto role of the United States Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing”. In other words, direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.
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Afghanistan, Iraq, and the “War on Terror”
Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov | USFP - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2022
The paper analyzes how the North American people were duped into believing that the proper and necessary response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks was to attack other nations (beyond stateless terrorists); and examines the counterproductive policies pursued in the name of counterterrorism.
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67 Years Late: Machinations of the Lynching Law
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Apr 2022
“Lynching was pure terror to enforce the lie that not everyone belongs in USA, not everyone is created equal.”
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USA: The Post-Cold War Era, 1989-2001
Brian D’Haeseleer, Jeremy Kuzmarov and Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jan 2022
Imperial Self-Deception: There is no shortage of books, articles, and websites addressing the history of US foreign policy. There is nevertheless, within the USA, a dearth of understanding and often knowledge about the subject. This is due in part to popular nationalistic history, which tends to obscure, overwrite, and sometimes whitewash actual history.
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Slanted Truths: Women Characters in Vijay Tendulkar’s Plays
Dr. Bill Bhaneja | The Beacon - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Dec 2021
The philosophy behind Tendulkar’s writing is based upon his perception of society and its values — his life experiences, and observing what he had seen in others around him: “I did not attempt to simplify matters and issues for the audience, though it would have been easier to do so through such a medium. Sometimes my plays jolted the society and I was punished…I was adamant as it is an old habit with me to do what I am asked not to.” (2)
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Homeland or Death! Che Guevara’s Historic Speech at the UN on 11 Dec 1964
Juliana Medeiros, Ernesto Che Guevara | Jornalistas Livres - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021
Che declared, in that historic UN Assembly meeting, the internationalist character of the Cuban Revolution and the non-negotiable willingness to defend its sovereignty — concepts that have become even more urgent and universal due to the coronavirus pandemic that the world faces today.
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U.S. Cold War Interventionism, 1945-1990
Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Nov 2021
The idea that the United States should lead the world, replacing the British Empire, had been advanced by various U.S. leaders and influential citizens since the late 19th century. This ambition was in keeping with age-old aspirations of great states and empires, and also with the trajectory of U.S. history. The U.S. expanded across North America in the 19th century, became an imperial power in Asia in 1899, declared Latin America an exclusive sphere of influence in the early 20th century, and became the foremost global economic power prior to the First World War.
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1901-1934: “Yankee Imperialism” in Latin America
Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Oct 2021
On 20 Jun 1898, as U.S. troops prepared to land in Cuba to “pacify” the island, Assist. Sec. State Francis Loomis writing to his boss, Sec. State William Day, declared, “I think it our destiny to control more or less directly most all of the Latin American countries.” One means to this end was economic domination. “It is possible to attain commercial ascendancy in them in much the same way that England does in China, by lending them money and administering their revenues.”
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A Propaganda Model
Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021
Excerpted from Manufacturing Consent, 1988 – The Five Filters:
1. Size, ownership, and profit orientation of the mass media
2. The advertising license to do business
3. Sourcing mass-media news
4. Flak and the enforcers (according to the authors, Freedom House is a flak)
5. Anticommunism as a control mechanism
Are You a Seeker of Truth or a Believer in Lies?
Michael J. Talmo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Aug 2021
27 Aug 2021 – Truth, facts, and individual freedom don’t seem very important these days. As the COVID-19 epidemic rages on, our little blue planet is drowning in a sea of lies, oppression, and propaganda. Day after day, our weary brains are being saturated with case numbers, death totals, and supposedly overcrowded hospitals while governments and private businesses are coercing and bullying us into taking so called vaccines that are killing and permanently disabling who knows how many tens of thousands. We are told that we must bow to the voice of authority and give up our freedom lest we be accused of being selfish and murdering our fellow earthlings.
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Transnational Activism vs White Saviourism in Myanmar Affairs
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Aug 2021
18 Aug 2021 – As a Burmese who has been angry – very angry – for decades over numerous forms and countless instances of oppression and injustices in Myanmar, and emphatically, around the world, I am less concerned about the morally corrupt desire of revenge and vengeance of the oppressed towards their oppressor or the System than the enveloping White Saviourism with its corrupting coloniality.
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The Ganges Is Returning the Dead. It Does Not Lie.
Om Gaur | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jun 2021
17 Jun 2021 – The Ganges, or Ganga, is the holiest of India’s rivers, and most Hindus believe that dipping their body in it will purify their soul. But when the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic hit this spring, the river also became Exhibit A for the Modi administration’s failures and deceptions.
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Nepo-India Territorial Disputes Transformation by Dialogue Means
Bishnu Pathak - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Mar 2021
March 2021 – A territorial dispute occurs when official government representative of one country release explicit statement(s) claiming sovereignty and integrity over a specific portion of territory that is claimed or administered by another country. It is an explicit contention between two or more nation-states over a specific piece of the terrestrial territory. The ‘Issue Correlates of War Project’ identifies over 800 territorial disputes occurred internationally since 1816.
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Prof Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Feb 2021
21 Feb 2021 – This state-of-the-art paper is prepared based on personal experiences, participant observation, literature review, and exchanging and sharing approaches rather than on theoretical conceptions.
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Rising?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Vaccine apartheid is being practiced and not just in Palestine (Israeli colonizers get it, Palestinians don’t) but around the world as rich (white ruled) countries who became rich because of a history of colonization and oppression get it while developing/poor countries impoverished by the attacks of the West (like Yemen and Syria) do not.
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Bill Gates and Neo-Feudalism: A Closer Look at Farmer Bill
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Feb 2021
4 Feb 2021 – Bill Gates has quietly made himself the largest owner of farmland in the United States. For a man obsessed with monopoly control, the opportunity to also dominate food production must seem irresistible. “Gates has a Napoleonic concept of himself, an appetite that derives from power and unalloyed success, with no leavening hard experience, no reverses.” — Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson, presiding judge in the Gates/Microsoft antitrust-fraud case
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George Galloway: The Brexit Deal Is Done. We Are Now Free to Build a New Britain…If We Want It
George Galloway | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Dec 2020
24 Dec 2020 – Free to decide who can live here and who must leave. Free to say FU to EU demands to sanction others. Free to make friends with the capriciously chosen enemies of both Washington and Brussels – usually the same in any case. We are free to trade on any terms we like with the suns rising in the east. Free to refuse to go quietly into the sunset in the west.
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Fools’ Crusade: Why United States Provocations towards China Will Lead to Disaster
Jeff J. Brown and Jeremy Kuzmarov | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Dec 2020
15 Dec 2020 – On July 21st, The New York Times ran a front-page article highlighting the revival of the Committee on the Present Danger, a Cold War organization that called for greater military spending to meet the Soviet threat, but whose focus is now on China. Joe Biden told Foreign Affairs that the U.S. needed to get tough with China calling Chinese leader Xi Jinping a “thug” who “doesn’t have a democratic bone in his body.” A recent poll by the Pew Research Center found that 73 per cent of Americans had an unfavourable view of China.
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It’s Time to Find Our Common Ground and Fight the Real Deep State
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr | Children’s Health Defense – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Dec 2020
16 Dec 2020 – Big Oil, King Coal, Big Chemical, Big Tech and Big Pharma are titans of a Deep State cartel that is driving our country down the road to plutocracy and environmental apocalypse. We must unite to fight them — and not each other. For decades, the Rockefeller family owned some 80% of the U.S. pharmaceutical industry. Today, the Rockefeller Empire — in tandem with JP Morgan Chase — continues to own half the pharmaceutical industry in the U.S.
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CHD Article on Beneficiaries of COVID Pandemic Accepted by Peer-Reviewed Journal
Children's Health Defense Team - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Dec 2020
14 Dec 2020 – An article by Children’s Health Defense on how the pandemic facilitated a financial, tech, biopharmaceutical and military-intelligence push for centralized, technocratic control has been accepted by the International Journal of Vaccine Theory, Practice and Research.
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Corrupt Science and Elite Power: Your Techno-Slavery Is Now Imminent
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Dec 2020
2 Dec 2020 – Given that the fundamental aim of the coup is to substantially reduce the human population and keep those still alive, subject to permanent surveillance as well as mind and behavioural control, as ‘techno-slaves’ to the global elite, the time to resist is now.
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The COVID Illusion
Michael J. Talmo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Oct 2020
“The Magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.” — Ben Okri. Take a whole bunch of vague symptoms that can be caused by just about anything and that can occur in every human on the planet, put them all into a made-up umbrella term called COVID-19, claim that it’s caused by a virus, real or fake doesn’t matter, include even healthy people with no symptoms as cases, use deeply flawed inaccurate tests, and presto: you have a global pandemic.
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Jeff J. Brown and Jeremy Kuzmarov | Covert Action Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Oct 2020
25 Oct 2020 – On July 4, 2020, the U.S. Navy dispatched an unprecedented two aircraft carriers and four other warships to the South China Sea for naval maneuvers in waters claimed by China. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo subsequently broke with the official U.S. policy of neutrality in territorial conflicts in the South China Sea and declared that China’s claims to most of the Sea were “completely unlawful,” though most of the disputed territories had been part of China prior to being taken over by Japan in the 1895 Sino-Japanese War.
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Prof. Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Oct 2020
[Paper written in 2015] -> Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a complete configuration, articulated in a statement by a Pentagon planner: “The de facto role of the United States Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing”. In other words, direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.
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Open Letter to the British Government
Lawyers for Assange - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 -152 legal experts and 15 lawyers’ associations have today written to UK Prime Minister accusing government authorities of violating “national and international law”. The international group of legal practitioners, professors, judges, doctors of law and eminent jurists has called to bring an end to Julian Assange’s extradition proceedings, and grant his “long overdue freedom”, on legal grounds.
→ read full articleWeaving Pain in Silence: Gender Based Violence (GBV)
Irene Dawa – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Aug 2020
The Lives of Refugee Women in Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement, Arua, Uganda – In contemporary conflict, as much as 90% of causalities are among the civilians, most of whom are women and children. For most women, the end of war and conflict is marked by the excessive effects of trauma and shame as a result of Gender Based Violence (GBV).
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The Canton Speech by Eugene Debs
Eugene V. Debs | Jacobin Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jun 2020
16 Jun 2020 – Today in 1918, Eugene V. Debs delivered the speech that landed him in prison. However pedestrian for Debs, the offending speech is a study in socialist oration, with memorable lines like “The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.” In honor of its anniversary we reprint it here in full.
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Why Bombs Made in America Have Been Killing Civilians in Yemen
Michael LaForgia and Walt Bogdanich | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020
16 May 2020 – President Trump sees arms deals as jobs generators for firms like Raytheon, which has made billions in sales to the Saudi coalition. The Obama administration initially backed the Saudis too, but later regretted it as thousands died.
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The Coronavirus Pandemic as Opportunity in the Midst of Suffering: For a Future of Global Solidarity
Dr. Evelin Lindner | Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 May 2020
2 Apr 2020 – Where do we stand, as humankind? We have dug ourselves into a multitude of perilous crises, both despite and because of what we call progress or economic growth. In service of profit, we practice strategies of development that shred our social fabric while simultaneously plundering our planet – fuelling a toxic combination of sociocide and ecocide that leads to intractable cycles of systemic humiliation. The coronavirus pandemic is one manifestation of this dire predicament.
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COVID-19 Crisis: Crime, Poverty and the Need to Evolve Social Security
Hassanal Noor Rashid | JUST – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Apr 2020
Global inequality and injustice have been heated topics and of deep social concern throughout human history.
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Letter from President Maduro as the U.S. Threatens Venezuela with War
Nicolás Maduro Moros - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020
2 Apr 2020 – In greeting you, with affection, I take the liberty of addressing you on the occasion of denouncing the severe events taking place against the peace and stability of Venezuela, at a time when the concern of the States and Governments should be focused on the protection of the life and health of their citizens, due to the acceleration of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Civilized, Barbarians, Savages
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
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Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Mar 2020
23 Mar 2020 – A civilization or culture is defined as a set of customs, traditions, ethics, values, language, music, dance, gastronomy, clothing, religion, and social and political organization of a people, ethnic group, tribe, or nation.
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Coronavirus Emergency: Here’s What We Know So Far
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Feb 2020
A new strain of coronavirus (officially named 2019-nCoV), which has caused respiratory diseases in China, and spread to at least 23 other countries, has been declared a Public Health Emergency of International Concern by the World Health Organization. Here are the basic facts you need to know about the virus (figures correct as of Feb 3 2020).
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Japan Races to Build New Coal-Burning Power Plants, Despite the Climate Risks
Hiroko Tabuchi – The New York Times, 10 Feb 2020
3 Feb 2020 – It is one unintended consequence of the Fukushima nuclear disaster almost a decade ago, which forced Japan to all but close its nuclear power program. Japan now plans to build as many as 22 new coal-burning power plants — one of the dirtiest sources of electricity — at 17 different sites in the next five years, just at a time when the world needs to slash carbon dioxide emissions to fight global warming.
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Interview with Football Leaks Whistleblower Rui Pinto ‘This Football Mafia Is Everywhere’
Nino Seidel and Michael Wulzinger – Der Spiegel, 3 Feb 2020
2 Jan 2019 – In an interview, Rui Pinto, the Portuguese young man who kept the industry in suspense over revelations from Football Leaks, discusses his life in anonymity, the explosive power of his documents and accusations that he is a hacker.
“I am not a hacker, I am a whistleblower.” – Rui Pinto
Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Ask What You Can Do for Your Country
Stan Shabaz | Zinda Magazine/Assyrian International News Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2020
His most famous work, The Prophet, was first published in 1923. He has been described in many ways: “melancholic romantic”, “existentialist of the right wing”, Nietzschean rebel, revolutionary, renegade, poet-philosopher, “the William Blake of the twentieth century”, the “Lebanese prophet of New York”, a “burning genius”, etc. But who was he really?
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Drug Taxis and Impotent Police: The Avalanche of Cocaine Hitting Europe
Der SPIEGEL Staff *– TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2019
28 Nov 2019 – Drug syndicates are flooding Europe with very pure cocaine. Consumers need only send an encrypted text and a dealer will show up at their doorstep. And the authorities are all but powerless to stop them.
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Hong Kong Is Scared – of the Rioters
Andre Vltchek | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2019
Now, the citizens of Hong Kong are scared. Not of the “government”, not of the police, or Beijing: they are frightened of the so-called protesters, of ninja-like looking young people with covered faces and metal bars in their hands.
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Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report #15 (Oct 2019)
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D., Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2019
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’. At the time of today’s report, we have signatories in 105 countries. We also have 118 organizations/networks from 39 countries. Here is another report of the activities of individuals and organizations who are your fellow Charter signatories.
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March of the Uyghurs
Andre Vltchek | New Eastern Outlook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2019
21 Jul 2019 – The Uyghurs have managed to create a very old and deep culture. Most of them are good, law abiding citizens of the PRC. Also the great majority of followers of Sunni Islam are peaceful people. This work is addressing terrible problems related to extremism and terrorism, most of them crafted and then fueled by the West and its allies. The goal is to damage China. The victims live in various countries. Again, the West tries to destroy China, using religion and terror.
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Under Brazil’s Far Right Leader, Amazon Protections Slashed and Forests Fall
Letícia Casado and Ernesto Londoño – The New York Times, 29 Jul 2019
28 Jul 2019 — The destruction of the Amazon rain forest in Brazil has increased rapidly since the nation’s new far-right president took over and his government scaled back efforts to fight illegal logging, ranching and mining.
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Record Displacement Shows ‘We’re Almost Unable to Make Peace’, Warns UN Refugee Agency Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019
19 Jun 2019 – A record 70.8 million people fled war, persecution and conflict in 2018, UN refugee agency chief Filippo Grandi said today, appealing for greater international solidarity to counter the fact that “we have become almost unable to make peace”.
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Assange – A Dangerous Precedent
Courtenay Barnett – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2019
As defence Attorney and a human rights activist I am acutely aware of the importance of legal protection for the right to speak via the media, both print and electronic, to bring public attention to matters of administrative, governmental and other official wrongdoings.
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The Conflict of Our Time: U.S. Imperialism vs the Rule of Law
Nicolas J S Davies | Intrepid Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2019
11 Mar 2019 – The world faces many overlapping crises: regional political crises from Kashmir to Venezuela; brutal wars that rage on in Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, and Somalia; and the existential dangers of nuclear weapons, climate change, and mass extinction. The underlying crisis of legitimacy and authority that makes so many of our problems almost impossible to solve is the conflict between U.S. imperialism and the rule of law.
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15 Years Ago: US Sponsored Coup d’état. The Destabilization of Haiti
Prof Michel Chossudovsky – Global Research, 11 Mar 2019
29 Feb 2019 – Author’s Note: This article was written 15 years ago, in the last days of February 2004 in response to the barrage of disinformation in the mainstream media. It was completed on 29 Feb 2004, the day of President Jean Bertrand Aristide’s kidnapping and deportation by US Forces. The armed insurrection which contributed to unseating President Aristide was the result of a carefully staged military-intelligence operation, involving the US, France and Canada.
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Burma: The Subaltern in Search of Speech
Radhika Coomaraswamy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Feb 2019
8 Feb 2019 – I would like to thank Mr. Mawng Zarni and his enthusiasm for bringing me here today to discuss one of the most important issues of our lifetime. I speak today as a member of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on Myanmar set up in March 2017 after large scale attacks on the Rohingya civilian population in Rakhine state by the Burmese Security Forces, or the Tatmadaw.
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Venezuela Blitz (Part 2): Press Freedom, Sanctions and Oil
7 Feb 2019 – Press Freedom: Taking a Glance at a Newspaper Stand
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Kahlil Gibran (6 Jan 1883 – 10 Apr 1931): Ask What You Can Do for Your Country
Stan Shabaz | Zinda Magazine – Assyrian International News Agency, 31 Dec 2018
His most famous work, The Prophet, was first published in 1923. He has been described in many ways: “melancholic romantic”, “existentialist of the right wing”, Nietzschean rebel, revolutionary, renegade, poet-philosopher, “the William Blake of the twentieth century”, the “Lebanese prophet of New York”, a “burning genius”, etc. But who was he really?
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Syria – Tell Me It Ain’t So
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Dec 2018
22 Dec 2018 – It is daunting to find polite words for describing American foreign policy- such is its incoherence. Purpose is obscure, logic is invisible. There is no approximation to orderly process – in thought, in deliberation, in decision. These truths have been highlighted by Trump’s stated intention to withdraw (some) American troops from Syria – and by the reaction to it. The harsh reality that it is not the White House alone that lacks anything resembling a strategy in the Middle East. That holds for their critics, too, both inside and outside the government.
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Xi Jinping’s Speech on 40th Anniversary of China’s Reforms, Opening Up–Full Text
China News Service | Xinhua – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Dec 2018
Analysis/Highlights by Xinhua
16 Charts by the Singapore Strait Times
– 18 Dec 2018 – Comrades, friends:
UNGA President Launches New Initiative to Purge Plastics and Purify Oceans
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Dec 2018
The President of the UN General Assembly launched a new global call to action on Tuesday [4 Dec] to help end the scourge of plastic pollution in the ocean.
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The Tragedy of Saudi Arabia’s Slaughter of Yemenis
Declan Walsh – The New York Times, 29 Oct 2018
26 Oct 2018 – The harshest criticism of the Saudi-led war has focused on the airstrikes that have killed thousands of civilians at weddings, funerals and on school buses, aided by American-supplied bombs and intelligence. But aid experts and UN officials say a more insidious form of warfare is also being waged in Yemen, an economic war that is exacting a far greater toll on civilians and now risks tipping the country into a famine of catastrophic proportions.
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An Ode to a Village Postman
Moin Qazi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Oct 2018
A village democracy is a microcosm of the national democracy. The villagers themselves are quaint heroes and most bewildering windows with which to view their world. The postman became my lens for gazing the rural horizon. He was an informal rural sociologist and demographer for all visiting government officials.
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Nonviolence Charter: Progress Report #13 (Oct 2018)
Robert J. Burrowes, Anita McKone & Anahata Giri – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Oct 2018
This is the latest six-monthly report on progress in relation to ‘The People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World’ together with a sample of news about Charter signatories and organizations. Our collective effort to build a worldwide consensus against the use of violence in all contexts continues to make progress, even against rather overwhelming odds!
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New Import Restrictions Risk Triggering ‘Dramatic Deterioration’ in Gaza, Says UN Humanitarian Coordinator
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jul 2018
17 Jul 2018 – Following further restrictions on goods and supplies that can be moved across the border of the Gaza Strip, the top United Nations humanitarian official there has called for urgent measures to prevent an already critical humanitarian situation from getting worse.
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The End of Civil Rights
Vann R. Newkirk II – The Atlantic, 25 Jun 2018
Across immigration, policing, criminal justice, and voting rights, the attorney general is pushing an agenda that could erase many of the legal gains of modern America’s defining movement.
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‘They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption
Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan – The New York Times, 23 Apr 2018
16 Apr 2018 – Corruption that has whittled away at virtually every institution in the country. While Mr. Mandela is still revered in the West, his legacy is regarded more critically in South Africa, especially by some young black people. To them, he sold out the country’s black masses to the white business elite.
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Poison Gas: Weapon of Choice for “False News”
Peter Koenig | Dissident Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Apr 2018
12 Apr 2018 – When such poison gas attacks are mere false flags, or by the new term, “false news”, and are used to provoke war, perhaps an all annihilating war, then humanity has turned to what it never should have become–a lowly-lowly herd of brainless zombies. Is that what we have become, brainless, greedy, selfish beings, no sense of solidarity, no respect for other beings–any living being?
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Insect Decimation Upstages Global Warming
Robert Hunziker - CounterPunch, 2 Apr 2018
27 Mar 2018 – Everybody’s heard about global warming. It is one of the most advertised existential events of all time. However, there’s a new kid on the block. An alarming loss of insects will likely take down humanity before global warming hits maximum velocity.
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A Brief History of the U.S. Relationship to Jihadists and al-Qaeda across the World
Brandon Turbeville – Activist Post, 2 Apr 2018
22 Mar 2018 – Even when many Americans can clearly see that the United States is funding extremists in order to destroy Assad, it is difficult for them to grasp that the most frightening enemy of all, ISIS itself, is also being directed by Western intelligence, the GCC, and Israel.
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A Nasty Business – Why Commercial Whaling Must End
Campaign Whale – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2018
This report presents a compelling case against any resumption of commercial whaling. Sadly, the slaughter of whales is increasing and there is a real fear that a political compromise will be struck that will allow its resumption. That would be a total disaster for whale conservation efforts. Surely, the whales have suffered enough at our hands.
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