Peace Journalism Perspective
EDITORIAL
The ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant: Winning the Legitimacy War
#876 | Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThe ICC delayed the issuance of ‘arrest warrants’ for Israeli leaders directing the genocide in Gaza for six months although it responded to a request involving Putin’s criminality in Ukraine in less than a month. Double standards to be sure...
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TRANSCEND VIDEOS
These 10 Companies Run the US ‘Democracy’
Scheer Intelligence - TRANSCEND Media Service1 Nov 2024 - Many think that choosing one or another candidate will better represent their values, but there is only one group that matters: the “titans of capital.” Dr. Peter Phillips studied the economic trends following the COVID-19 pandemic and how the wealth concentration in the world took a dramatic turn towards the already ultra-wealthy elites.
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FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER
Henry Kissinger, Johan Galtung and the Nobel Peace Prize
Prof. Syed Sikandar Mehdi | Pakistan Horizon – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Aug 2024 - The following discussion on the life and works of Henry Kissinger and Johan Galtung attempts to understand why Kissinger was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and Galtung was denied the same.
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Other Commentaries
TRANSCEND News
Fundraising Appeal
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media ServiceThere is no way to continue producing our TMS Weekly Digest without an increase in readers' financial contributions. Sad reality. Since 2008 promoting Johan Galtung’s legacy of Peace by Peaceful Means – Solutions Oriented Peace Journalism. The end? I have faith…
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SPECIAL FEATURE
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media ServiceParental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 25 Nov 2024
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CONFLICT RESOLUTION - MEDIATION
Progress in the Overall Solution of the Middle East Problems
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media ServiceAttempts centered on the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah (Lebanon), are progressing further. Russia and Iran are being invited into the ceasefire and reconciliation negotiation.
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TRANSCEND MEMBERS
Strategic Paralysis through Ignoring Higher Dimensional Articulation
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service25 Nov 2024 - AI Assistance in Engaging Meaningfully with Complexity Beyond Oversimplification - The future may characterize the present period as one of strategic paralysis in the face of a polycrisis.
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Lucid Summations of Fundamental Issues
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media ServiceU.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote that ordinary people feel trapped and overwhelmed by the glut of information available. They have great difficulty to make sense of the connections between their personal lives and society, the links between biography and history, self and world.
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Let’s Join Our Hands to Speed Up the Demise of the US-led Imperialist World
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Nov 2024 - I can’t tell my 15-year-old that their future will be more peaceful and the law and institutions will offer them protection, let alone Palestinian or Myanmar or Sudanese teenagers who don’t know whether they will live or get blown up before their next meal.
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Association of World Citizens’ Lebanon Appeal: Protect Cultural Heritage in Time of War
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service19 Nov 2024 - This appeal concerns the protection of cultural heritage as Israeli attacks have already harmed cultural heritage sites in Baalbek and Tyr as well as other cultural sites. Lebanon has a rich past going back to biblical and Roman times.
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The Collapse of Empire
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media ServiceWhat we most loved about these countries despite their bloody colonial history is a character that is now being destroyed: freedom of thought and action that allowed for expansion of human knowledge, logic, and development unencumbered by dogma and narrow interests.
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ENVIRONMENT
COP29: The Dictatorship of the Petroletariat
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Nov 2024 - The world’s oil addiction began here in Baku where in 1846 the first industrial oil well was drilled. As in 1848 Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto reminded workers that they had nothing to lose but their chains, humanity was busily chaining itself to fossil fuels.
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JUSTICE
ICC Rejects Israel’s Challenges to Jurisdiction and Issues Arrest Warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
International Criminal Court - TRANSCEND Media Service21 Nov 2024 - The Chamber issued warrants of arrest for two individuals, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest.
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Are Netanyahu and Gallant Immune from ICC Arrest Warrants under International Law?
Sondos Asem | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service22 Nov 2024 - The short answer is no. But states have previously flouted their obligations to surrender leaders like Vladimir Putin and Omar al-Bashir to the ICC by invoking immunity.
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Brazil Police Formally Accuse Bolsonaro of Alleged Coup Plot [Trump Redux]
Amy Walker | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service22 Nov 2024 - Ex-Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies have been formally accused of allegedly plotting a coup, after he lost the 2022 presidential election.
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IN FOCUS
G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service22 Nov 2024 - This G20 in Rio was all about the power of the Global South, with poverty eradication and genuine economic progress trumping the old G7 agendas of war, profit, and arm-twisting.
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The ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu Is also an Indictment of US Policy and Complicity
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Nov 2024 - Ultimately, this is the story of how the Israel lobby undermined the US, wrecked the Middle East, and set a series of international crimes against humanity in motion.
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AFRICA
Rwanda, DRC and the New Scramble for Africa (Part 4): Africa’s Israel and the BRICS/NATO Punch and Judy Show
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service27 Oct 2024 - The early formation of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) as an underground movement was as close in character to a mafia family as it was to a political and military movement. Members took an oath on joining.
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Imperialism and the Destabilization of the Alliance of Sahel States
Abayomi Azikiwe | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Nov 2024 - Since the formation of the ASS in 2023 France, the US and their surrogates have sought to undermine their political and economic objectives. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger remain targets of the western capitalist mining firms and their state sponsors.
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ANGLO AMERICA
Who Is Authorizing Biden’s Nuclear Brinkmanship while the President’s Brain Is Missing?
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Nov 2024 - The Biden administration is using its lame duck months to skyrocket hostilities between nuclear superpowers and we don’t even know who’s really making these decisions because the president’s brain is cottage cheese.
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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 Service18 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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UNITED NATIONS
In 14-1 UN Security Council Vote, Lone US Veto Kills Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Nov 2024 - The U.S. government, said one human rights lawyer, "proves once again to the world that it is fully committed to the continuation of the genocide in Palestine."
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BRICS
What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding?
Mariel Ferragamo | Council on Foreign Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service18 Oct 2024 - As BRICS grows in both membership and global sway, its expansion comes with divisions among its members old and new on how to set the stage for a revised world order.
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EUROPE
Trump Will Exploit Fear of Russia to Dominate Europe’s Security Policies, Says Academic Maung Zarni
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal | Anadolu Ajansi - TRANSCEND Media Service18 Nov 2024 - "US policy towards Europe will be anchored in the attempt to make Europeans feel insecure about Russia. I think it’s going to create major internal societal upheavals within European society.”
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Moral Suicide
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Nov 2024 - Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it shunned them, despised them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few decades, it condemns and abuses Muslims in a similar way – in the name of supporting Jews.
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MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
The Effects of Israeli Barbarity
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service20 Nov 2024 - Reporting from Lebanon
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PALESTINE - ISRAEL
Gaza Bombardment Worsens Superbug Outbreaks
Misbah Khan | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Nov 2024 - Israeli blockades and bombings have left doctors without basic medicines to treat infections.
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‘I Would Have Dropped Three Nuclear Bombs’
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service21 Nov 2024 - Talking to Israelis about the War in Gaza
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Facing Genocide while Disabled
Yousef Aljamal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service19 Nov 2024 - The genocide in Gaza is a mass disabling event. Palestinians with disabilities have experienced immense suffering due to displacement and the collapse of the healthcare system.
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Organized Oblivion
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Nov 2024 - Gaza is destroyed. It will not, at least for the Palestinians, be rebuilt. Those who lived there will spend their lives, like survivors of the Armenian genocide, desperately trying to protect memory.
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The Real Israel
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service21 Nov 2024 - One of the very few good [if painful] things coming out of the relentless nightmare happening in Gaza is that at long last the world is getting a clear look at Israel. The real Israel.
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Israel and USA Pursued Fraudulent Scenarios of Peace and Ceasefire in War on Gaza
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Nov 2024 - Warmongers Defy Truth, Peace and Human Values - At today’s UNSC meeting on Gaza, the US once again used the veto power to reject the majority supported resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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MEDIA
NY Times Killed Investigation of Israeli Hooligans, Internal Email Reveals
Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service18 Nov 2024 - The NYT has killed an investigation into Israeli mob violence in Amsterdam. Journalist Triebert wanted to set the record straight regarding the false narrative advanced by his newspaper – that the Israeli fans were victims of mob violence motivated by anti-Jewish hatred.
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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-AI
The Intercept’s Lawsuit against OpenAI Advances on Claim It Removed Reporters’ Bylines
Shawn Musgrave | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service22 Nov 2024 - In an order today, a federal court rejected OpenAI’s effort to toss a lawsuit filed by The Intercept over using its journalists’ work to train ChatGPT without permission or credit.
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REVIEWS
It’s Not You, It’s CAPITALISM
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service20 Nov 2024 - Malaika Jabali’s book explains our toxic relationship with capitalism and says it’s time to break up.
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POETRY FORMAT
The Bodhisattva Poem
Shantideva – TRANSCEND Media ServiceBy the virtue amassed by all that I have done, May the pain of every being be completely healed. May I be doctor and medicine, and may I be nurse, For all sick beings in the world, till all are well.
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INSPIRATIONAL
Rebecca Solnit on Hope in Dark Times, Resisting the Defeatism of Easy Despair, and What Victory Really Means for Movements of Social Change
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media ServiceNo writer has weighed the complexities of sustaining hope in our times of readily available despair more thoughtfully and beautifully, nor with greater nuance, than Rebecca Solnit.
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FOOD FOR THOUGHT
Now What?
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media ServiceUS of A - 18 Nov 2024
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JOKE OF THE WEEK
Here We Go
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service18 Nov 2024 - Soap Opera Continues...
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IN-DEPTH VIDEOS
Transhumanist Technocracy Continues
Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD/PhD | Humanity United Now -– TRANSCEND Media Service16 Nov 2024 - Conversation with Peter Koenig. Despite a leadership change, the technocratic transhumanist agenda continues. Geopolitics is not what is seems; there is more collaboration among world powers to continue digital money, digital enslavement and the rise of AI.
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SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
Palestinian Surgeon Brutalized before Being Killed in Israeli Prison, Says Eyewitness
Sky News/Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service15 Nov 2024 - During the Israeli military’s siege of al-Shifa Hospital, surgeon Dr Adnan Al-Bursh was detained and taken to Ofer Prison, where he was beaten and tortured to the extent that he could not go to the bathroom unaided. “He had clearly been assaulted with injuries around his body. He was naked in the lower part of his body. The prison guard threw him in the middle of the yard and left him there.”
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Mourning in North America (Music Video of the Week)
Brother Ali | Rhymesayers Entertainment – TRANSCEND Media ServiceA critique of US culture of death and murder--from actual war zones around the world to our inner cities that rival war zones—and of our national hypocrisy regarding violence. We have a zero-tolerance of violence committed against us, but a lot more lenient and patient with our violence against others.
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