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(SPANISH) IRÁN, CUBA, AMÉRICA LATINA… ¿A DÓNDE VA OBAMA?
Fernando Montiel T. – Miembro de TRANSCEND, 3 May 2009
Alguien dijo alguna vez que, cansada de inventar, la historia tiende a repetir. Los apretones de mano y las sonrisas que atinadamente critica James Petras (Rebelión, Abril 27, 2009) ya se han visto antes: se vieron en los sesentas cuando los Estados Unidos presentaron la Alianza para el Progreso; se vieron en los setentas […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) EUA SUSPENDEM RESTRICÕES A VIAGENS E REMESSAS PARA CUBA
BBC Brasil, 14 Apr 2009
A Casa Branca anunciou nesta segunda-feira [13 Abril] o fim de certas restrições nas relações do país com Cuba – entre elas, os limites impostos a cubano-americanos interessados em viajar à ilha e ao envio de dinheiro aos seus parentes no país caribenho. As medidas haviam sido uma promessa de campanha do presidente americano, Barack […]
→ read full article(PORTUGUESE) EL SALVADOR VAI RESTABELECER RELACÕES COM CUBA APÓS 48 ANOS
Raúl Gutiérrez, 13 Apr 2009
O presidente eleito de El Salvador, Mauricio Funes, vai restabelecer relações com Cuba 48 anos depois do rompimento de todos os vínculos com a ilha. A quebra se deu no contexto da Guerra Fria, quando os Estados Unidos faziam pressão sobre os países latino-americanos para que isolassem o regime de Fidel Castro. Funes, eleito por […]
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CNN, 19 Mar 2009
The president of Costa Rica announced Wednesday [Mar 18, 2009] that he is re-establishing diplomatic relations with Cuba more than 47 years after one of his predecessors severed them. "The time has arrived for direct and open dialogue, for official and normal relations that should permit us to tackle our agreements and our disagreements, talking […]
→ read full articleTIME TO RETHINK US SANCTONS ON CUBA: TOP REPUBLICAN SENATOR
Agence France-Presse, 23 Feb 2009
The time is right for reevaluating US sanctions on Cuba, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says in a new report, calling for allowing Cuba to buy US goods on credit, US media reported Sunday [Feb. 22]. Republican Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana’s opinions are attached to a report due to be […]
→ read full articleUS-CUBA: BUSINESS SUPPORT FOR DISMANTLING EMBARGO
Jim Lobe, 8 Dec 2008
If U.S. President-elect Barack Obama wants to begin dismantling Washington’s nearly 50-year-old trade embargo against Cuba, it appears he will have widespread support for doing so. Not only have some major foreign policy heavyweights recently called for ending the embargo if, for no other reason, than to create desperately needed goodwill elsewhere in the Americas […]
→ read full articleCUBA HAS LOWEST AIDS RATE IN CARIBBEAN
Brazil Sun, 6 Dec 2008
Cuba has the lowest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate at 0.1 percent of the population in the Caribbean, the National AIDS Prevention Center (NAPC) said. While AIDS-related mortality is low in the island, and mother-to-child transmission is negligible, the epidemic shows a sustained growth, mainly among the male population, NAPC chief Rosaida Ochoa told journalists on Thursday. […]
→ read full articleRIO GROUP ACCEPTS CUBA – GROUP DEMANDS ROLE IN GLOBAL ECONOMIC ORDER
Raul Cortes, 18 Nov 2008
Argentina, Brazil & Mexico to Go to Washington for World Economic Summit The Rio Group club of Latin American and Caribbean nations agreed to join forces in order to deal with the current economic crisis and to defend their rights in a possible new world financial order, on the same day it approved the inclusion […]
→ read full articleMASSIVE UN VOTE IN SUPPORT OF LIFTING US EMBARGO ON CUBA
AFP, 30 Oct 2008
The UN General Assembly on Wednesday voted overwhelmingly for the 17th year in a row in favor of lifting the 46-year-old US trade embargo on communist-ruled Cuba, as Havana hoped for better ties with a new US administration. Some 185 of the assembly’s 192 members approved a resolution, which reiterated a "call upon all states […]
→ read full article20BN BARREL OIL DISCOVERY PUTS CUBA IN THE BIG LEAGUE
Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent, 20 Oct 2008
• Self-reliance beckons for communist state • Estimate means reserves are on a par with US Friends and foes have called Cuba many things – a progressive beacon, a quixotic underdog, an oppressive tyranny – but no one has called it lucky, until now . Mother nature, it emerged this week, appears to have blessed […]
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Humiliation Everywhere All at Once!
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025
Power Point Presentation – Deep Dive Meditation on Humiliation through Psychology, History and Culture
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Peace Disruptors: Diplomats and Diplomacy-Declaration of Persona Non Grata, a Global Tool in the Present Era
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Mar 2025
Persona Non Grata: The Ultimate Diplomatic Rejection
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The Evolution of the Militarized Data Broker
Mark Goodwin | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025
16 Jan 2025 – Mythologized as created to champion human freedom, the internet and many of its companies were birthed out of the national security apparatus of the USA. What appeared as a guiding light towards free speech and financial freedom is Uncle Sam’s boot making its next step.
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How the West Hides Its Gaza Genocide Guilt behind Holocaust Day Remembrance
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025
31 Jan 2025 – The ghosts of thousands of Palestinian children crushed by Israeli bombs loomed over this year’s Auschwitz commemorations.
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The Christian Zionist Leading the International Court of Justice
Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2025
24 Jan 2025 – Julia Sebutinde is a Christian Zionist who stood alone in rejecting South Africa’s genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. Now the court’s new president, the Ugandan judge plagiarized sections of her dissenting opinion justifying Israel’s occupation of Palestinian Territories.
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(Italiano) Nucleare silenziato… ma non domato
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025
Il 22 gennaio 2025 si festeggia il quarto anniversario dell’entrata in vigore del Trattato sulla Proibizione delle Armi Nucleari: armi immorali, illegittime e illegali. Ebbene: nonostante l’evidenza che le armi nucleari costituiscono una minaccia crescente per l’umanità.
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Happy 1984!
Baher Kamal | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025
Jan 2025 – In his master-piece, 1984, George Orwell amazingly predicted how today’s world would be: war is now called peace; the killing of unarmed civilians is called an act of self-defense…
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BRICS Expands to 54.6% of World Population by Adding Nigeria, Africa’s Most Populous Country
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025
19 Jan 2025 – BRICS added Nigeria with the 6th-biggest population on Earth. BRICS+ now has 10 members and 9 partners, which make up 54.6% of the world population and 42.2% of global GDP.
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How the Human Rights Industry Manufactures Consent for “Regime Change”
John Perry | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025
According to the UN, “human rights” range from the right to life to rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty, but this has become distorted both by the UN and what Alfred de Zayas calls the “Human Rights Industry.”
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Eyes on the South: Low Intensity Conflict and Escalation-Risk in Lebanon
Sammy Ismail | Al Mayadeen English - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025
To analyze and contextualize the burgeoning war in south Lebanon, this paper borrows the theoretical concepts of Galtung’s conflict theory.
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Dr Abu Safiya Symbolized Humanity in Gaza–Israel and the West Are Destroying It
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – Israel isn’t eradicating ‘the terrorists’. It’s turning Gaza into a wasteland, a hellscape, where doctors no longer exist, aid workers are a memory, and compassion a liability.
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BBC Middle East Editor Collaborated with CIA, Mossad
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025
7 Jan 2025 – The connections of Raffi Berg, now at the center of a scandal over the BBC’s systematic pro-Israel bias, to the U.S. national security-state and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.
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Federico Mayor Zaragoza (27 Jan 1934 – 19 Dec 2024): A Tribute
UNESCO - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024
A Legacy for Peace and Education: The former director of UNESCO (1987-1999), passed away at the age of 90. RIP
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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: An Exercise in Omnicidal Duplicity
Dr. Glen T. Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024
28 Dec 2024 – An overview of the paradigm-shift that took place on our human self-understanding resulting from the scientific breakthroughs since the works of Max Planck and Einstein in the early 20th century. The two aspects of our world system: interface of capitalism and sovereign nation-states.
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Israelis Invade Syria: Who/What Will Stop Israel?
Nicolas J. S. Davies - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024
23 Dec 2024 – Israel’s latest land-grab in Syria, and the UN and the rest of the world’s inability to stop Israel ignoring and violating the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.
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BRICS Expands with Nine New Partner Countries
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – Now It’s Half of World Population, 41% of Global Economy
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(Français) Fusillades dans les Écoles aux États-Unis
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024
18 décembre 2024 – La dernière liste des fusillades dans les écoles montre qu’en 2024, on a déjà atteint un nouveau record de 83 fusillades.
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U.S. School Shootings
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – The latest list of shootings in US schools shows that in 2024 there is a new record: 83. What is the cause of this violence? The list from 2008 to 2024.
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A Massive Database of Evidence Compiled by a Historian Documents Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
Nir Hasson | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – Historian Lee Mordechai links to a video showing a large dog gnawing something amid bushes. “Wai, wai, he took the terrorist, the terrorist is gone – gone in both senses,” says the Israeli soldier who filmed the dog eating a corpse in Gaza.”
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The Counter Narrative to US Foreign Policy by Establishment Defectors
Ann Robertson | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024
NYT, WaPo and other MSM banished criticisms of US foreign policy: Putin is a dictator that will invade other European countries, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked, Hamas’s Oct 7 attack was unprovoked, Israel is a democracy not committing genocide in Gaza, and its military actions in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran are for self-defense.
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Which Foreign Policy Paradigm for the USA? Hegemony and Annihilation or Restoration of Sanity?
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – Compared to the great initiatives of the past 260 years, the USA of the past several decades is a strange and foolish creature running roughshod over the dignity of people and nations in a race for mass nuclear extermination.
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Syria Is Absorbed into the US Empire
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Bashar al-Assad fled Syria to Moscow, receiving asylum from Russia. Al-Qaeda affiliates declared victory for the “mujahideen.” Biden and Netanyahu took credit for the regime change, and Turkey’s Erdogan deserves a share of credit as well.
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Sovereignty, Modernization, and Cooperation Championed at Global South Forum in Shanghai
Shiran Illanperuma | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – The forum concluded: “Without socialism, independence movements among weaker nations during the imperialist era cannot address issues of new and old colonialism.”
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From ‘Terrorist’ to ‘Freedom Fighter’: How the West Rebranded Al-Qaeda’s Jolani as Syria’s ‘Woke’ New Leader
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – Corporate media is heralding the emergence of Abu Mohammed al-Jolani as Syria’s new leader, despite his ties to al-Qaeda and ISIS. “How Syria’s ‘diversity-friendly’ jihadists plan on building a state,” runs the headline from the Daily Telegraph UK suggesting he will construct a new Syria.
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Humanity Imperiled
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024
8 Dec 2024 – The Path to Disaster – What is the future likely to bring? Try to look at the human species from the outside. Imagine that you’re an extraterrestrial observer trying to figure out what’s happening here or imagine you’re a historian 100 years from now.
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The Forces on the Offensive in Syria Are Today’s Khmer Rouge
John Wight | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – The common denominator behind the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s and Salafi-jihadism in our time is Western foreign policy.
“History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’” – Eduardo Galeano
Lena Herzog: You Cannot Win a Nuclear War
Robert Scheer - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024
6 Dec 2024 – “The word ‘war’ is disorienting, because in war, you can have a battle, you can lose a battle, you can win a war. You cannot win a nuclear exchange. It’s omnicide. It’s not war.”
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6th International Conference for World Balance
Submitted by Diane Perlman - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024
Following the high level of attendance at the 2023 edition – over 1,100 delegates from 89 countries – the José Martí International Solidarity Project announces the planned holding of the 6th International Conference FOR WORLD BALANCE, in Havana on January 28-31, 2025.
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The United States Raises a Middle Finger to the International Criminal Court
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – As the ICC finally issues arrest warrants for Israeli leaders Netanyahu and Gallant, the US confirms it has no regard for international law or a genuine rules-based order.
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Washington Post Attacks Eritrean Americans for Organizing in Their Own Defense
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – The Washington Post’s latest anti-Eritrea propaganda demonizes Eritrean immigrants defending themselves in the West.
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From Genocide Joe to Omnicide Joe
Norman Solomon | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – Whether heralded or reviled, Biden’s supposed restraint during the Ukraine war has steadily faded, with more and more dangerous escalation in its place.
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Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous US Secretary of State
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – Trump’s nomination of Sen. Marco Rubio for Secretary of State and the many reasons it would be a disastrous choice for the US and the world.
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The Machu Picchu Declaration of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation-APEC 2024
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – The APEC Leaders’ Machu Picchu Declaration
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A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024
I reviewed a film – Four Died Trying – about four men assassinated by the U.S. government because they opposed their wars: President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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UN Arms Embargo on Israel: Dead on Arrival
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – When the United Nations imposes sanctions or penalizes a member state – be it the General Assembly or the Human Rights Council – the resolutions are “non-binding” and often remain unimplemented. But the Security Council resolutions are “binding.”
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Everybody Knows: Do They?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – When the polls closed on Tue 5 Nov, I was sound asleep. Every presidential election is a contest between two sides of the ruling monied elite, chosen to represent their interests. It is corrupt beyond repair.
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Everybody Wants to Join BRICS
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – The world is changing, but Washington remains frozen and indeed left behind in its post-1991 delusion as the unipolar global godfather.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – We can look forward to more bad news. No matter who wins the election in the US, the results will be disastrous for the US empire, including Europe. And no matter who gets attacked next in Israel’s war against the world, they are likely to get more death and destruction.
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A No-Win Dilemma for US Peace Voters
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024
Green Party candidate Jill Stein: “Our day-one agenda includes telling Netanyahu that our proxy war is over. We control the armaments, the funding, the diplomatic cover, the intelligence, etc., so we can end this in the blink of an eye. That’s day one.” Meanwhile, neither of the only two candidates who can win, Trump or Harris, offers any real hope for a peaceful future.
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(Français) Pour de Bonnes Nouvelles, Voir les BRICS
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024
1er novembre 2024 – Nous pouvons nous attendre à d’autres mauvaises nouvelles. Quel que soit le vainqueur des élections aux États-Unis, les résultats seront désastreux pour l’empire américain, y compris pour l’Europe. Et quel que soit le prochain pays attaqué par Israël dans sa guerre contre le monde, il est probable qu’il subira davantage de morts et de destructions.
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Israel’s Genocidal Policy to Destroy North Gaza Hospitals Unchecked amid International Inaction
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024
23 Oct 2024 – The Israeli military is currently besieging and targeting the three main hospitals in the North Gaza Governorate—Al-Awda Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, and the Indonesian Hospital—ordering everyone inside to leave the facilities.
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The BRICS Summit in Kazan: A Manifesto for a Rational World Order
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024 – There is hope in the air, a certain optimism that we can gradually change the paradigm, marshal the world disorder, move away from bloc-mentality, abandon confrontational politics, phase out dependence on the US-dollar,…
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Nihon Hidankyo’s Bittersweet Receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize
Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024 – The 2024 NPP to Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, sent waves of elation through the peace and disarmament movements worldwide. We have been nominating them for the Nobel for years.
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Empowering the UN, Disempowering Militarist Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024
22 Oct 2024 – A review of the recently published ‘Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope’ appearing in Foreign Affairs, the most influential journal for mainstream foreign policy analysis. The book was written by Hans von Sponeck, former Assistant Secretary General of the UN, and myself.
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Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, Yahya Sinwar: Freedom Fighters
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024
In 1959, Che visited Gaza and transformed the Zionist colonization into a global struggle against colonialism. Mandela said, “But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. “
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Why Brazil Opposes Venezuela Joining BRICS
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024
The Brazilian government’s advisor for international affairs, Celso Amorim, announced on 21 Oct that Brazil would seek to prevent Venezuela from joining BRICS. The instruction came from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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BRICS Expands to 13 ‘Partner Countries’ at Historic Summit in Kazan, Russia
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024
27 Oct 2024 – BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These are the most important takeaways from the historic meeting.
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BRICS Plans ‘Multi-Currency System’ to Challenge US Dollar Dominance: Understanding Russia’s Proposal
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024
20 Oct 2024 – The BRICS Cross-Border Payment Initiative will use national currencies, instead of the US dollar. Russia’s finance ministry and central bank released a report detailing plans to transform the international monetary and financial system.
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Cash Will Soon Flow: The New Climate Colonialism
Joshua Frank | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Robbing Africa’s Riches to Save the Climate (and Power AI) – The Portuguese were the first Europeans to lay claim to Angola in the late sixteenth century.
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How Blinken Turned the US Diplomatic Corps into a Wing of the Military
Ted Snider | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – Henry Kissinger asserted that little can be won at the negotiating table that isn’t earned on the battlefield. U.S. officials have echoed that approach. In 2021 the administration said it would pursue ‘relentless diplomacy.’ They call it something else today in Ukraine.
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(Italiano) La Guerra Fredda come metafora
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024
24 Settembre 2024 – La Guerra Fredda vale la pena rammentarla. C’è molto da imparare sul conflitto e il meta-conflitto. Per l’Occidente vs. l’Islam.
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October’s Surprise Party
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024
28 Sep 2024 – As another October approaches, the beautiful season of colors begins. Yet as November nears, I think we might expect what for many will be the unexpected. A Black Swan event or the expected?
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Cold War II: US Congress Passes 25 Anti-China Laws in One Week, Funds Propaganda Campaign
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2024
22 Sep 2024 – In what it called “China Week,” the US House of Representatives approved 25 anti-Chinese laws in bipartisan votes. CWII fervor is reaching fever pitch in Washington.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024
The Cold War is worth remembering. There is much to learn about conflict and meta-conflict. For West vs. Islam.
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(Italiano) Sud globale: Il cambio-marce assistito
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024
18 Settembre 2024 – Arriva il Sud Globale con – o si spera senza – una voglia di rivalsa.
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Why Nations Are Rushing to Join BRICS+
Monica Johnson | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024
12 Sep 2024 – Comprising in 2009 of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, BRICS added Iran, Egypt, Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia and the UAE in 2024. BRICS+ now: 45% of world’s population, 25% of global trade, 40% of global oil production, 28% of world’s GDP, and more than one-third of global GDP in purchasing power parity (PPP) terms.
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Young People Will Save the World, Because We’re the Last Generation That Can
Keara Sosa | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024
13 Sep 2024 – The past 20 years have been critical in the fight for bold and sustainable climate solutions. The next five years will be even more vital — and young people like me are fighting hard to make sure our leaders get it right.
→ read full articleThe Power-Shift to the Global South
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024
The Global South is coming, with or–hopefully without–a vengeance. Look at the basic facts in the power distribution.
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Colonial Empires by European Powers from the Vienna Congress to WWI (1815−1914)
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024
11 Sep 2024 – The period from the end of the Napoleonic Wars (1815) to the Great War (1914) is labeled as the “golden age” of the European imperialistic expansion and the making of the greater national states and overseas colonial empires in Africa and Asia.
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US Seizes Venezuelan Jet Plane: Confirming Who Is the Rogue Nation
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024
On 2 Sep 2024 US officials seized a plane belonging to the Venezuelan government in the Dominican Republic and flew it to Florida. Contrary to a false report in the NY Times, the plane was not “owned by Nicolas Maduro” but by the Venezuelan government and used for travel by the president and various Venezuelan officials.
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Ten Theses on the Far Right of a Special Type
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024 – Fascism is an insufficient term, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. We present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type.
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Interrogating the Venezuelan Victory of Nicolás Maduro
Murat Sofuoglu | Richard Falk/Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024
6 Aug 2024 – “If Maduro manages to hold on, and especially if he gains support from Brazil and other moderate governments, it will be interpreted as a setback for ideologically motivated US coercive diplomacy, including an effort to exert political influence by imposing sanctions unilaterally,” Richard Falk said.
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An Attack on Venezuela’s Democracy
Leonardo Flores | CodePink - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024
The reactionary attacks on Venezuela are accelerating, including the propaganda by the corporate press. The accusations are coming out faster than anyone can counter them.
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The Uncounted Gaza Victims: Why Hundreds of Thousands Are Being Allowed to Die
Eva Bartlett | – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024
23 Jul 2024 – The Lancet published an article estimating that the number of Palestinian civilian deaths could be five times higher than the official death toll. “Up to 186 000 or even more; this would translate to 7.9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip.”
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200 Years of Solitude: Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024
There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a painting, a theorem — is to find the voice in the silence that has something to say to the world. In solitude, …
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The Money War: How Four U.S. Presidents Unleashed Economic Warfare Across the Globe
Jeff Stein and Federica Cocco | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – The US imposes three times as many sanctions as any other country, targeting a third of all nations with financial penalty on people, properties or organizations. Sanctions have emerged as the key instrument of U.S. foreign policy.
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NATO Summit: Alliance’s Endgame Appears to Be Nuclear War
Chris Wright | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – It is downright puzzling that millions of people aren’t protesting in the streets every day to deescalate the crisis between the West and the Rest pulling humanity back from the brink.
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A Month Traveling in China
Stansfield Smith | Orinoco Tribune/Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – My Chinese-speaking wife and I recently traveled to nine different cities and towns in China over the course of a month, our fourth trip since 2005. Of our most significant impressions of China…
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Stephen Bryen | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024
Is Washington Extending the Nuclear Umbrella to Ukraine?
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Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024
23 Jun 2024 – It’s not that there are no alternatives. The alternatives just aren’t being taken. That’s dangerous. So if you ask what the world is going to look like, it’s not a pretty picture. Unless people do something about it. We always can.
→ read full articleThe US List of Countries Allegedly Sponsors of Terrorism: Another Imperialistic Scam
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the US State Department’s toolkit, unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) are used to blackmail, bully and intimidate States that do not readily accept US hegemony.
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The 1823 Monroe Doctrine and Its First Consequence for Global Politics: Making the U.S. a Global Empire
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024
The focal slogan of the Monroe Doctrine – “America to Americans” inspired U.S. colonial imperialism and became “Americas to the U.S.A.”. President Monroe promulgated his doctrine as an opportunity for the special geopolitical role of Washington in the Americas from Alaska to Patagonia.
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Why Won’t the US Help Negotiate a Peaceful End to the War in Ukraine?
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – For goodness’ sake, negotiate!
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Time to Renew an Old Promise? A Brief History of Global South Solidarity with Palestine
Bidisha Biswas | The Cairo Review of Global Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2024
Spring 2024 – Anti-colonial and post-colonial politics have shaped global understandings of the Israel-Palestine conflict for decades, beyond the narrow vision of many Western countries.
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Strive to Be like Che Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Carlos L Garrido and Edward Liger Smith | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre called Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara the “most complete human being of our age” who proclaimed courageously with his unforgettable last words: “Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man!”
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If The Wars Go On
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – It’s a long hard road, this anti-war business. During the first Cold War and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the early sixties when Kennedy and Khrushchev narrowly avoided blowing the world to smithereens, Bob Dylan put it right.
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Biden Allows Ukraine to Strike Russian Nuclear Defenses with US Weapons
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024
31 May 2024 – Any of these three new developments has the potential to lead to unpredictable events which spiral out of control into a nuclear war between NATO and the Russian Federation, which would be the single worst thing that could possibly happen on planet Earth.
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The Writing Was on the Wall for Israel’s Torture of Prisoners
Janan Abdu | The Landline/+972 Mag – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024
14 May 2024 – The government has ensured that horrific practices in sites like Sde Teiman can continue with impunity, in violation of international law and medical ethics.
→ read full articleWhat Is Critical Global Geopolitics?
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024
9 May 2024 – For overwhelming Western political analysts, journalists, scientists, etc., the disappearance of the USSR in 1990/91 was symbolized overdramatically by the physical destruction of the Berlin Wall… This geopolitical change called for a new world order in international relations
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Nonviolent Strategy to Halt the Genocide in Gaza, Liberate Palestine and Defeat the Global Technocracy
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024
While this article will focus on the genocide in Gaza, it is important to recognize that this genocide against the Palestinians – second only in its severity to the original Nakba in 1948 – is simply exploiting longstanding Zionist aspirations to play a key part in fulfilling a wider Elite program.
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Palestinians as “Human Dust”: Israel’s Genocide and Its Anglo-American Imperialist Patrons
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – Israel Uses the Holocaust as a Cover for its Ongoing Genocide in Gaza – Israel has institutionalized a national policy of ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine while progressively depopulating the land with people to establish the Jewish majority state, from its very inception in 1948.
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Israel Lost the War and the US Betrayed Humanity in Gaza
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024
Global Mankind vs. Political Wickedness
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Beyond Palestine: A Burmese Activist Salutes Anti-Genocide US Campus Protestors
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024
5 May 2024 – US students’ courageous and passionate activism is inspiring their peers in other institutions of higher learning in places as diverse as Waseda University in Tokyo, the universities of Sydney and Melbourne, the Sorbonne and Sciences Po in Paris, and Britain’s universities at Warwick and Bristol.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024
Hans Küng gives a number of examples of misguided policies by the present US and Israeli administrations. Not difficult to agree. But something even more basic than a new ethos also has to happen, like coming to terms with conflicts where the USA is involved. And exactly with the term conflict, how to think about conflict, let alone solving it.
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Eighty-Six Percent of Guantanamo Bay Inmates Were Sold to US Troops in Response to $5,000 Bounty Offer
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – I Am Gitmo spotlights the story of an Egyptian man who was incarcerated in notorious torture chamber for a decade after being wrongfully accused of being part of 9/11 plot.
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Sermon for Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024
This is a sermon I gave Sunday April 28 at a service held at the encampment for Gaza at Princeton University. The service was organized by students from Princeton Theological Seminary.
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How the CIA and US Special Forces Manufactured a Migrant Crisis and Orwellian Police State in Vietnam Before Going to the Americas
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – If such tactics continue, it is possible that an enlargement of such a program could lead to a pacification program of areas of the United States, such as the CIA and the US Army have carried out in Indochina.”
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The New German Chauvinism (Part 1)
Bue Rübner Hansen | Lefteast - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024
In Germany, people are currently forced to choose between two critical and profound commitments: to accept their government’s complicity in the mass murder of civilians or to be accused of antisemitism.
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(Italiano) Gesù, Giuda e Che Guevara
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024
8 Aprile 2024 – C’è un esercizio detto Civiltà Occidentale, e una narrazione drammatica al centro di tale esercizio con due personaggi nei ruoli chiave, Gesù e Giuda. Il periodo pasquale attuale è qui per rammentarci del dramma.
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The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Andreas Malm | Verso Books - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – The last six months of genocide in Gaza have ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. A true understanding of the present crisis requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine’s subjugation to fossil empire.
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