Articles by Daniel Horgan
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What Is UNRWA? Why Has Israel Long Sought Its Demise? What Is the US Actually Supporting in Defunding UNRWA?
Daniel Horgan - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Following the 1948 War between Israel and Arab neighbors, UNRWA was established by United Nations General Assembly Resolution 302 (IV) on December 8th, 1949 to carry out direct relief and works programmes for Palestine refugees. The Agency began operations on May 1st, 1950.
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The Muted Global Calls for Peace in the Middle East
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
6 Dec 2023 – UNICEF called the Gaza Strip “The most dangerous place on earth to be a child.” WCNSF-Wounded Child with No Surviving Family is a new medical term unforeseen in the history of human medicine. This acronym has surfaced in the first weeks of the conflict from medical personnel at Gaza hospitals.
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Selling a Genocide
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023 – In the mainstream western media coverage of the conflict Israel-Hamas, you will only see pictures and hear commentary approved by the State of Israel. Additionally, most reporters are reporting from Israel, not Gaza (or the West Bank).
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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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Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jun 2016
4 Jun 2016 – Born Cassius Clay in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1942, no one would have known that he would not only become the Boxing Champion of the World 3 times, but also a champion of racial & religious rights as well as a champion of the struggle against armed conflict.
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Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2015
In 2009 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous People, a bill of rights attempting to guarantee political autonomy, religious freedom, access to health care, control over one’s education and conflict resolution mechanisms.
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Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
The year 1968 had also seen the assignation of MLK and it touched off racial unrest in over 100 cities in the country. Baltimore did not escape this unfortunate fate. Nor did it escape that fate in this year when yet another case of American police brutality hit on its doorstep. From MLK to Freddie Gray, we have to wonder what has changed in America (and Baltimore)?
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Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Feb 2015
Selma. An intriguing 2015 film about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his push to secure voting rights for African Americans who had been disenfranchised by a post-slavery, Jim Crow segregated society. Powerful. Yes! Moving. Yes! Convincing. Yes! Truthful. Not entirely.
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Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jan 2015
Today, January 19, 2015, is Martin Luther King Day here in the US. The world has changed quite a bit since our former great civil rights leader was with us.
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Daniel Horgan and Hibak Hussein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2014
Hibak is grateful for everything she has in the U.S., but as a young Muslim woman who wears a hijab in a Western society, she strives to have her religion, culture, and identity understood and respected.
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Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
That’s what life, and peace education looks like in Boston. It also serves as a stark reminder that the citizens, teachers, and students of any nation are often far removed from the militarism and violence that their federal governments promote in their foreign (and/or domestic) policies.
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Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service(1),
3 Oct 2011
Both Palestine and Israel claim that the other is denying their right to security. However, the Palestinians have also been denied in some shape or form every other internationally recognized human right, and that is so because the US has monopolized the mediator role, producing no tangible results according to the 1967 guidelines set forth by the UN.
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