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Likud Party Charter (1977) – Eretz Israel
Michael Brenner - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) – Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.

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Trials and Tribulations of Palestinian Refugees in Syria & Palestine/Iran/Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

15 Apr 2024 – What will happen with this Israeli effort to get the US involved in a wider war directed at achieving regime-change in Iran remains uncertain, but it raises doubts about the war-prevention capabilities, and even motivations, of the US and to a lesser extent, China and Russia.

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Pivot to Iran? Decoding April 1st
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

18 Apr 2024 – April 1st Pivot from Gaza: Damascus Massacre, Al Shifa Hospital, World Central Kitchen Attack, the Biden/Netanyahu Diplomatic Dance, and Iran’s Retaliation – Developments arising from these convergent incidents on 1 Apr continue to reverberate, making updating a high priority.

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Yale Students Launch Hunger Strike Over School’s Connection to Gaza
Michael Arria | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

15 Apr 2024 – Fourteen student activists at Yale University are on a hunger strike over the school’s connection to arms manufacturers currently supplying Israel with weaponry. They have been pushing the school to divest from Israeli human rights abuses for months, but the administration has ignored their demands.

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(Italiano) Distruggere Hamas? No! Porre fine alla guerra di Gaza e iniziare il processo di pace!
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

Nell’Irlanda del Nord i repubblicani cattolici e gli unionisti protestanti hanno imparato a condividere il potere pur se organizzazioni come l’Esercito Repubblicano Irlandese (IRA) e l’Alleanza di Difesa dell’Ulster avevano entrambe massacrato civili “nemici”. Sudafricani neri e bianchi hanno concordato un nuovo ordine politico benché militanti dell’African National Congress e del Partito Nazionale si erano terrorizzati l’un l’altro per decenni. Distruggere Hamas, pare chiaro, non è la strada per la pace.

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Gaza Ceasefire Petition by International Lawyers
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

This petition offers international lawyers to show solidarity with the grave plight of the Palestinian civilian population of Gaza that is continuing to endure daily onslaught by Israel that causes widespread suffering so far supported to varying degrees by the leading liberal democracies of the West.

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Destroy Hamas? No! End the Gaza War and Begin the Peace Process!
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

In Northern Ireland Catholic Republicans and Protestant Unionists learned to share power even though organizations like the Irish Republican Army and Ulster Defense Alliance had both massacred “enemy” civilians. Black and white South Africans agreed on a new political order even though militants of the African National Congress and the National Party had terrorized each other for decades…. Destroying Hamas, it seems clear, is not the road to peace.

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A.I. Systems That Manipulate the Human Nervous System, Thoughts, Emotions and Perceptions Should Be Banned Outright
Michel Chossudovsky and Mojmir Babacek | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

2 Apr 2024 – They Derogate Fundamental Human Rights – Open Letter to the European Parliament

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Regressive Populism and the Resilience Imperative: Evading Global Challenges
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

This is the foreword I wrote to a recent book on the rise of ultra-nationalist populism around the world by the distinguished British author and historian, Deepak Tripathi. What is depicted in the book is emblematic of the populist and inter-governmental myopia that has become a menacing characteristic of the global setting.

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Dahiya Doctrine: Justifying Disproportionate Warfare—A Prelude to Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

1 Apr 2024 – This essay originated from my responses to questions from a journalist preparing an article on the Dahiya Doctrine. It led me to consider the relevance of the doctrine and link it to the events in Gaza, the Hannibal Directive, antisemitism, and genocide.

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Chosen People or People Who Choose?
Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarmā dāsa) | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

The rich theology of the Vedic literature can end speculative attempts to resolve the apparently contradictory concepts of predestination and free will.

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Biden’s Warning to Netanyahu: Political Maneuver, Not Policy Shift
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

6 Apr 2024 – Critique of Biden’s ‘muscular approach’ to foreign policy, specifically in relation to China, Russia and Israel, at the expense of the peoples of the world, including of the North Americans. Biden is guilty of war-mongering, reluctance to engage in peace diplomacy, and complicity crimes of support given to Israel on its genocide against the civilian population of Gaza.

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The UN Security Council Has Approved a Cease-Fire Resolution for Gaza
Jaclyn Diaz and Michele Kelemen | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2024

25 Mar 2024 – The UNSC has voted 14-0 in favor of a resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza for the rest of Ramadan. The US abstained from the vote, clearing the way for the measure to pass.

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With Its Role in the Ukraine War the European Union May Risk Its Own Political Future
Michael von der Schulenburg and Hans-Joachim Funke – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

18 Mar 2024 – The deteriorating military situation in Ukraine and the United States increasing withdrawal from it created a situation in which the EU is now pushed into the forefront in dealing with this problem.

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The Spiraling Absurdity of Germany’s Pro-Israel Fanaticism
Michael Sappir | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

21 Mar 2024 – As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state’s liberal self-image is fast becoming a tragic story Germans can only tell themselves.

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Gaza and Its Astounding Parallels with 9/11: “A Territory or Country Is Targeted for Previously Established Geostrategic Goals”
Richard Gage | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

17 Mar 2024 – Has the Israeli government betrayed its own people, as well as the Palestinians, with its own “9/11 Moment”?

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(Deutsch) Mit ihrer Rolle im Ukrainekrieg könnte die Europäische Union ihre eigene politische Zukunft riskieren
Michael von der Schulenburg und Hans-Joachim Funke – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

Die für den Westen sich verschlechternde militärische Lage in der Ukraine und der zunehmende Rückzug der USA aus diesem Krieg haben eine Situation entstehen lassen, in der die EU nun aufgerufen ist, eine Führung bei der Lösung dieses Krieges zu übernehmen.

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Pursuing Justice through Law: Edward Said, the Gaza ‘War,’ and Advocacy Jurisprudence
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

9 Mar 2024 – This paper is devoted to several of my recent central concerns. Comments and conversation warmly invited. Adapted from annual Edward W Said Memorial Lecture, the American University in Cairo, 4 Nov 2023.

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The Legacies of David Krieger and Robert Oppenheimer: Iconic Signatures of the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

I stress the comparison between Oppenheimer, the film, and Krieger, the civil society star anti-nuclear activist as well as the personae of these two extraordinary individuals.

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Scientists form a Global Anti-War, Anti-Genocide Network: From Hiroshima to Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

7 Mar 2024 – This is a slightly edited text of a keynote address to an organizational meeting for establishing a worldwide network of Scientists against War and the Destructive Use of Science as stimulated by the Israeli genocide against the civilian population of Gaza.

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A Security Regime for Our Global Village
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Peace Constitutions, the Abolition of War and the “P5” 

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The West’s Reckoning?
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

6 Mar 2024 – Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, their actions show vividly that those sentiments are alien to them – unable to penetrate the entrenched barriers of dogma, arrogance and deep-seated insecurities.

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Not So Special
Richard J. Evans | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

During WWII and afterwards, historians of modern Germany focused on one question: how did Nazism, with its negation of freedom and democracy, its aggressive commitment to war and conquest, its creation of a totalitarian state, and its visceral and genocidal antisemitism, take hold in Germany but not elsewhere in Europe? Review of:
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000, by David Blackbourn. Liveright, 774 pp., July 2023

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Gaza: The Wider Context
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

In Gaza, the West Is Enabling the Most Transparent Genocide in Human History

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Only Peace Negotiations Can Save Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

27 Feb 2024 – The Ukrainian War Must Not Go into a Third Year

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More Anti-Russian Hysteria from the New York Times
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Putin is a ruthless autocrat, but once again the news media get the “Russian threat” all wrong. One can only hope that a few sane leaders will call a halt to jingoist assumptions of our own side’s essential innocence and the other side’s essential aggressiveness.

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Forward, into the Breach
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

1 Mar 2024 – The USA used 9/11 to further a hidden agenda with catastrophic results. Not only did we lose blood and treasure, we lost whatever moral high ground we once had. Israel needs to learn from our mistakes.

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A Security Regime for Our Global Village
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Peace Constitutions, the Abolition of War and the “P5” 

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US Urges UN Court Not to Order Israel Out of Palestinian Lands
Richard Carter, AFP | Digital Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

21 Feb 2024 – The United States told the UN’s top court today that Israel should not be legally forced to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territory without security guarantees.

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Evil Silence
Dietrich Bonhoeffer - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

See no evil…

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Some Wisdom…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

“Being strong does not mean that one never falls down–but that one always gets up again after falling down.”

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Peace, Consciousness, and Applied Amplified Peace Intelligence (AAPI)
Robert Kowalczyk and Klaus Schlichtmann - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

The Normative Current: Abolishing War and Establishing True Collective Security

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The Ukraine War Could Come to an Unexpected End
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Feb 2024

12 Feb 2024 – Even if there is still fighting at the front, recent developments in Ukraine would suggest that the war could end in a way that is completely unexpected in the West – with a Ukrainian-Russian agreement. It all has to do with the fact that the war may now be decided in Kiev rather than on the front line.

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A “False Flag” Operation to Justify the Israel-U.S. Genocide of the People of Palestine
Michel Chossudovsky - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

9 Feb 2024 – From the outset on October 7, 2023, “A Tissue of Lies” has served to justify the killings in the Gaza Strip of more than 30,000 civilians, of which 70% are women and children. The atrocities committed against the People of Palestine are beyond description. At the time of writing, at least 13,000 children have been killed.

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Suzanne Hammad on Embedded Palestinian Resistance in Bil’in in West Bank: Rooted in Land and Home
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

6 Feb 2024 – I wanted to share a foreword that I wrote to an exceptional ethnographic study of everyday resistance by residents of the Palestinian village of Bil’in, quite near Ramallah, based on the Suzanne Hammad three years of residence and informed observation.

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Fake Justice at The Hague: The ICJ “Appoints” Netanyahu to Prevent and Punish Those Responsible for Genocidal Acts
Michel Chossudovsky - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

31 Jan 2024 – While the ICJ has rejected Israel’s attempt to dismiss South Africa’s assertions, the Judgment –which is full of contradictions– is ultimately supportive of the Likud government. Moreover, no ceasefire was declared by the ICJ with a view to saving lives.

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Emergency London Conference to Stop Genocide in Gaza
Richard Falk | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

27 Jan 2024 – Prof. Richard Falk Discusses ICJ Ruling and Implications for Israel

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Threading Peace Together
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

30 Jan 2024 – This is to confirm and assert that there exist strong motivations, real opportunities and adequate means to embark on the transition toward an International Peace based on Justice and Order.

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The Return of Bipolarity: Tom Friedman Prophesies a New Round of Global Conflict (and Mostly Gets It Wrong)
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

To those who remember the Cold War, this good guy/bad guy “analysis” will be familiar. We – the “Free World” – strong and virtuous, were the party of free politics, free enterprise, and free fire zones. They – the Commie Conspirators – stood for nothing except unfreedom. We were the progressive future.

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Why International Law Matters even if Israel Refuses to Comply with ICJ Provisional Measures Ruling
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

17 Jan 2024 – How should we interpret the South Africa allegation that Israel’s military operations in Gaza violate the country’s obligations under the United Nations Genocide Convention and that its actions constitute genocide?

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In Gaza, the West Is Enabling the Most Transparent Genocide in Human History
Richard Falk | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

17 Jan 2024 – This is extraordinary because the states supporting Israel, above all the United States, have claimed the high moral and legal ground and lectured the states of the Global South about the importance of the rule of law.

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How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions from Developing Countries
Nicholas Kusnetz and Katie Surma | Inside Climate News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

14 Jan 2024 – A case in point: When Ecuador placed a windfall tax on foreign oil operations, French and U.S. companies filed claims—and were awarded more than $800 million.

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The Power of Arts in Encountering Individual Unspoken Values within Peacebuilding
Miho Taka and Michaelina Jakala | Coventry University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

When we associate our values with the experiences of pain, grief, regret, guilt and trauma that we live with, many of us may try to find solace and catharsis (consciously or unconsciously) by working with others in similar contexts but without having an avenue to explore why we are doing this.

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The Barbaric Conduct of the Israeli State Must Be Stopped
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar, Joseph Camilleri | SHAPE – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jan 2024

14 Jan 2024 – The genocidal violence unleashed by Israel in Occupied Palestine has produced unspeakable tragedy and suffering for the Palestinian people. Such barbaric behaviour places the State of Israel outside the bounds of a civilized world. Israel has become a pariah state and must be treated as such by the international community.

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Gaza Webinar: Is Israel Cornered?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

Wed, 10 Jan, 7 PM Eastern: The Gaza War, Short & Long-Term Diplomatic Imperatives and Implications for the Middle East and Geopolitics, with panelists Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier, and Assaf Kfoury

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Beyond Hypocrisy
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

4 Jan 2024 – Every resolution, I guess, has its exemptions. Hence, the irresistible impulse to draw attention to a singular example of lying by omission committed by the usual suspects.

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Declaration of Conscience and Concern of Global Intellectuals on Gaza Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – This Declaration calls not only for the denunciation of Israel’s genocidal assault but also for taking effective action to permanently prevent its repetition. The urgency of the moment obliges global intellectuals to stand against the ongoing horrific ordeal of the Palestinian people and, most of all, to implore action by those who have the power, and hence the responsibility, to do so.

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Peace, War and Consciousness
Robert Kowalczyk and Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

The Normative Current: Abolishing War and Establishing True Collective Security

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David Krieger (27 Mar 1942 – 7 Dec 2023): A Life of Dedication to the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Although David Krieger devoted his professional life to anti-nuclear scholarship and activism, his underlying motivations were for a world anchored in dignity for all, respect for international law, and a robust UN. Remembering my long, close, cherished friendship reinforces my sense of loss resulting from David’s death. RIP

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What Kind of World Do We Want to Live in? Dona Nobis Pacem
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

According to the UN, 2022 was the year with the greatest number and longest-lasting armed conflicts and wars in the world since the end of the WWII. This year the situation will be even worse and there are no signs that this may calm down any time soon.

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Israel’s Genocide: Hate Speech or Truth-Telling?
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

The violence unleashed since 8 Oct is only partially directed at Hamas although for credibility reasons this is what Israeli spokespersons emphasize and receives most of the attention… We are left with the imperative of protecting free speech, especially in calling genocide genocide, and with a challenge to take all responsible action to end this scourge.

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The War on Gaza and the Crisis of Zionism
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

Don’t these disproportionate civilian casualties and exaggerated analogies suggest that the real motives for the continuing slaughter of Palestinians are a combination of fear and revenge, supported by a tribal sentiment that one of “us” is worth ten, a hundred, or a thousand of “them”?

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Socialism’s Self-Criticism and Real Democracy
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

5 Dec 2023 – Democracy is incompatible with class-divided economic systems. Masters rule in slavery, lords in feudalism, and employers in capitalism. Whatever forms of government coexist with class-divided economic systems, the hard reality is that one class rules the other.

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US Sabotaged the Kiev-Moscow March 2022 Peace Agreement in Istanbul
Nauman Sadiq and Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

8 Dec 2023 – The End Game is the Destruction and Privatization of Ukraine – Ukrainian negotiators would agree not to join alliances or host bases of foreign troops. The proposals would require a referendum in Ukraine.

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Gaza: After Genocide What Future?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

29 Nov 2023 – My responses waver between fears of a resumed Israeli military operation and hopes of confronting day-after issues of post-genocidal economic reconstruction and scenarios of political transformation.

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Henry Kissinger (27 May 1923 – 29 Nov 2023) War Criminal Finally Dies
Robert Reich – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

30 Nov 2023 – Henry Kissinger has died, at the age of 100. In my humble opinion, he should have been considered a war criminal. One telling illustration was Kissinger’s role in overthrowing the elected socialist government of Salvador Allende in Chile, and encouraging the mass murder of thousands of innocent Chileans under the Operation Condor (war on Communism).

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The Enduring Legacies of Edward Said
Richard Falk | AUC, School of Humanities and Social Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

21 Nov 2023 – The Department of English and Comparative Literature hosted the Edward Said Memorial Lecture given by Dr. Richard Falk, public intellectual and professor of international law.

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Courtship
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

Hungry?

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All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars
Michael Rivero – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

Mini Documentary: What the Private Central Banks DON’T WANT YOU to Know! Truths we are not allowed to learn in school.

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Justifying Genocide, a Shameful Transparent Spectacle
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

Revised version of an interview by Mohaddeseh Pakravan of Mehr News Agency published in the Tehran Times on 16 Nov 2023.

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Interrupting Genocide: Humanity Challenged as Never Before
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

25 Nov 2023 – The ‘pause’ or ‘truce’ as it frequently called in Western media, is detached from the genocide that preceded and closely linked to the Hamas Attack of 7 Oct, which is characterized as ‘terrorism’ whereas Israeli genocidal violence is treated as Israel defending itself on target inflicting massive casualties on Palestinian civilians.

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New Heart
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

A patient urgently needed a heart transplant. The doctor told him,

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Antisemitism and the War on Gaza: Trauma and Ideology
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

Two weeks after the attack, it is still unclear what the alleged “Hamas apparatus” beneath the al-Shifa hospital consisted of. “Minimizing carnage” of the innocent has proved to be a pipe dream; the massacre has taken more than 13,000 Palestinian lives, some 5,000 of whom were children.

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What Israel Wants? Why Genocide?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

16 Nov 2023 – As the genocidal assault on Gaza continues, Israel remains defiant and the US stands firm in support of its supposed goal of destroying Hamas as a presence in Gaza, but also intent on mounting an ethnic cleansing crusade with a West Bank focus but a Gaza subtext.

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Europe-Jews-Muslims
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

15 Nov 2023 – 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 – all in the name of supporting Jews. 

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The Tragic Derailment of Early Peace Efforts to End the War in Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg, Hajo Funke and Harald Kujat – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

7 Nov 2023 – How the Chance Was Lost for a Peace Settlement of the Ukraine War – A detailed reconstruction of events in March 2022

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Can Crimes of Resistance Ever Justify Genocide? The Tragic Reality of Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023

3 Nov 2023 – Israel has seized this opportunity to fulfill Zionist territorial ambitions amid “the fog of war” by inducing one last surge of Palestinian catastrophic dispossession. Whether it is called “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide” is of secondary importance; it qualifies as the predominant humanitarian catastrophe of the 21stcentury. 

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In Love
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023

A young man wrote to his girlfriend the following love letter.

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A Proposed Framework for Thinking about Existential Threats
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023

Today´s existential threats to humanity might perhaps be classified in four categories. Let this be the offer of one among many ways to classify existential threats, followed by ten theses for discussion.

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Slaughter in Gaza: The Failures of International Law and Responsible Statecraft
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Nov 2023

2 Nov 2023 – Israel’s bloodlust shows international law is ‘a manipulated series of norms.’ International Law Professor Richard Falk says Western leadership becomes “self-righteous” to enforce international law “when it’s in their interest” while in other cases, they remain silent.

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Gaza in Real Time: Geopolitics vs Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Nov 2023

31 Oct 2023 – Israel has long been a master of what is called in Hebrew hasbara–the spinning, manipulating and distorting of public discourse so that it either justifies what Israel is doing or diverts attention from the message of critics and skeptics to the supposedly questionable credibility of the messenger. ‘The weaponizing of antisemitism’ is a cynical example of the deployment of hasbara.

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The Math of Murder
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Nov 2023

On Tue 31 Oct 2023, Israel bombed a Palestinian refugee camp with 100,000 inhabitants, producing a hellscape of casualties, buildings in collapse and a massive bomb crater to kill just one single Hamas commander. This annihilation of innocent civilians bombed into “collateral damage” does not support U.S., Israel or the West’s claim for moral high ground.

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Thou Shalt NOT Kill
The Dennis Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Nov 2023

27 Oct 2023 – We are cartwheeling towards a massive East v. West war with religious and ethnic overtones. This seemingly inexorable March of (nuclear) Folly, will ultimately pit the USA/NATO militarily against China, Russia and their allies. Our survival depends upon surmounting moments such as these.

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“Wiping Gaza Off the Map”: Big Money Agenda. Confiscating Palestine’s Maritime Natural Gas Reserves
Felicity Arbuthnot and Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2023

Netanyahu’s 2023 declaration of war against 2.3 million people of the Gaza Strip is a continuation of its 2008-2009 “Operation Cast Lead.” The objective is the military occupation of Gaza and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. However, the ultimate objective consists in confiscating the multi-billion-dollar Gaza offshore Natural Gas reserves.

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Why Capitalism Cannot Finally Repress Socialism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2023

In fact, the capitalism-versus-socialism contest does not really resume because it never really stopped. As changing social conditions changed socialism—a process that took time—it sometimes seemed to wishful thinkers that the systems struggle had ended with capitalism’s victory.

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The Final Scene
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2023

27 Oct 2023 – The USA–its vassal train in tow–is committing moral suicide in Palestine. The political consequences will be profound, and as enduring as the complete discrediting of the country’s standing as a positive presence in world affairs.

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Operation Al-Aqsa: Middle East Scholars Weigh in on Gaza–Israel Conflict
Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

13 Oct 2023 – International relation scholars Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes comment on the politics of Hamas, the role of the press, how international law is applied in the region, human rights for civilians, the nature of terrorism, and the prospects of a Third Intifada.

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G7 Versus BRICS: Power Struggles Are Not Class Struggles
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

16 Oct 2023 – Class struggles interact with but are different from power struggles. The ancient conflicts between city-states Athens and Sparta were power struggles, while within each, slaves and enslavers engaged in class struggles.

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Billionaires Try to Shrink World’s Population
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

3 Sep 2023 – Is Worldwide Depopulation Part of the Billionaires’ “Great Reset?” Secret Gathering Sponsored by Bill Gates, 2009 Meeting of “The Good Club”

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Doctors, Scientists Cry Foul after Nobel Prize Awarded to mRNA COVID Vaccine Team
John-Michael Dumais | The Defender - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

2 Oct 2023 – Scientists and doctors had harsh criticism for the Norwegian Nobel Committee as it today awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine to a pair of biochemists for developing “effective mRNA vaccines against COVID-19.”

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Who or What Will Do What Must Be Done?
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

Given that funds sufficient to solve the employment problem cannot come from sales, and cannot come from taxes, the necessary funds must come from surplus where surplus can be found.

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Two for the road…
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

After eating an entire bull, …

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Ralph Schoenman: Unsung Hero of Progressive Thought and Action (RIP)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

30 Sep 2023 – Ralph Schoenman is a member of a trinity of forgotten heroes of US progressive politics, airbrushed from collective memory by mainstream media and even infrequently notice by online, independent publications. The other two are Tony Russo and David Ray Griffin.

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How Can We Combat Militarism?
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Ridding the U.S. and the world of militarism will take time, no doubt. But it will happen. And, as the sage Hillel asked, “If not now, when?”

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The Real Message from the BRICS Summit
Prince Michael of Liechtenstein | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

28 Sep 2023 – Between 22-25 Aug, the BRICS – a loose association of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – held a summit in Johannesburg where some 30 other developing nations were invited to participate.

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How to Think about the Ukraine War after 18 Months
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

20 Sep 2023 -This text addresses various aspects of the global political setting that has crystallized since the Russian attack of 5 Feb 2022 on Ukraine. The repudiation of diplomacy as an alternative to war, despite the costs and dangers of continuing the Ukraine War, are quite striking.

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Defeat
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

21 Sep 2023 – The United States is being defeated in Ukraine. One could say that it is facing defeat or that it is staring defeat in the face. Neither formulation is appropriate, though. The U.S. doesn’t look reality squarely in the eye. We prefer to look at the world through the distorted lenses of our fantasies.

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A Groundbreaking German Peace Proposal for Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

18 Sep 2023 – At the end of August this year, four highly respected German personalities[i] presented a peace proposal for ending the war in Ukraine through a ceasefire and subsequent peace negotiations.

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Empowering Populism Worldwide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

Modern Populism: Weaponizing for Power and Influence, by Deepak Tripathi (2023) – Foreword by Richard Falk

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G-7 and BRICS Visions of the Future: Coercive Geopolitics or Multilateral Cooperation?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

17 Sep 2023 – A modified version of this post was published in CounterPunch on 8 Sep 2023, which itself is a reconfigured version appearing earlier on TMS (Transcend Media Service) on 4 Sep. Neither version considers the relevance of the Delhi meeting of the G-20, which represents a weaker and somewhat overlapping grouping compared to either G-7 or BRICS.

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What Every Child Should Know about Marx’s Theory of Value
Michael A. Lebowitz | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

September 2023 – The law of value works in mysterious ways. For some Marxists, it underlies everything we need to know about capitalism. But, just as Karl Marx claimed he was not a Marxist, so too might he have said, “that’s not my law of value.”

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Weather Warfare: Beware the US Military’s Climatic Experiments
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

14 Sep 2023 – ‘Climatic Warfare’ Has Been Excluded from the Agenda on Climate Change

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What Must Be Done
Howard Richards – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

Videos produced by The Drawdown Project outline what must be done to prevent more climate catastrophes worse than the ones already happening. The main staff members of the project, including narrator Jonathan Foley, are climate scientists.

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“The War Worth Waging”: Afghanistan’s Vast Reserves of Minerals and Natural Gas
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

6 Sep 2023 – The War on Afghanistan Is a Profit-driven “Resource War” – US-NATO forces invaded Afghanistan more than 20 years ago on 7 Oct 2001. It’s been a continuous war marked by US military occupation. In the wake of the withdrawal of US troops, Afghanistan’s assets were confiscated.

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(Italiano) Niger: il calvario del colonialismo perenne
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

Da allora sono successe molte cose che riguardano il Niger e il modo in cui intendiamo la sua relazione con quel Paese, con la regione del Sahel dell’Africa occidentale, con l’Africa in generale e con la guerra geopolitica di posizione che mette in primo piano la rivalità degli Stati Uniti con Russia e Cina.

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Economic Growth in G7 vs BRICS: A Reality Check
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

7 Sep 2023 – We are confronted with a combination of denials and pretenses by the conjoined decline of U.S. capitalism and its global empire (or hegemony). Those declines have become clear to observers within the old capitalist establishment. For example, …

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Niger’s Ordeal of Forever Colonialism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

27 Aug 2023 – A lot has happened since the coup, which affects Niger and how we understand its relation to that country, to the Sahel region, to Africa generally, and to the U.S. rivalry with Russia and China in the foreground. I have taken ‘liberties’ with my answers to address this awareness of the broader context.

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Roads Taken and Not Taken: Two Visions of the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

When the Cold War ended in 1991, the West, and particularly the United States, found itself at a fork in the road. One road led to peace, justice, cooperation, nuclear disarmament, a revitalized UN, inclusiveness, pluralism, human rights, multilateralism, fair trade, regulated markets, food security, sustainability, and humane governance. The other road led to militarism…

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(Italiano) Vietnam e Palestina/Israele: un confronto tra legge e guerra
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

31 Agosto 2023 – Il testo che segue è la mia prefazione a un confronto di conflitti di eccezionale valore: Vietnam e Palestina/Israele. Queste due regioni mi hanno preoccupato per tutta la mia carriera professionale e nel corso della mia vita di cittadino attivista.

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Multi-Billion Dollar “Directed Energy Weapons (DEW)” Market, for Military and “Civilian Use” (?). Were DEWs Used in Hawaii?
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

29 Aug 2023 – Directed Energy Weapons constitute a $5.3 billion dollar business (2022) slated to increase to $12.9 billon dollars by 2027. This profit-driven military-industrial market is dominated by six “defense contractors” including Raytheon, Northrup Grunman, BAE Systems (plc), Boeing, Lockheed Martin and L3Harris Technologies.

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