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Israeli Soldiers SICKENING War Crimes EXPOSED
Double Down News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

16 Oct 2024 – The Footage the BBC or CNN Won’t Show You

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Over 1.8 million in Gaza Face Extreme Hunger
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

17 Oct 2024 – More than 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing “extremely critical” levels of hunger, with 70 per cent of crop fields destroyed by the Israeli genocidal military offensive, a UN food security assessment released today has revealed.

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UN Troops to ‘Stay in All Positions’ Inside Lebanon Despite Israeli Threats
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

15 Oct 2024 – The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations confirmed yesterday that the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon would “stay in all its positions” after Israeli attacks injured at least five blue helmets.

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Israel’s Proxy War with Iran Leaves Young Children in Gaza and Lebanon Burned from Head to Toe
Debora Patta and Agnes Reau | CBS News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

17 Oct 2024 – Displaced Gazans in a tent camp outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital woke up Tue 15 Oct to a blazing inferno after an Israeli airstrike. Residents and rescue workers scrambled to rescue people from the flames, but they could not save Shaaban Al-Dalou, who was burned alive.

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The Song Israel Doesn’t Want You to Hear (Music Video of the Week)
Double Down News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

8 Oct 2024 – They Really Did All of This

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US Arms Dealers Witness ‘Record Profits’ from Israel’s Year-Long Genocide in Gaza, War on Lebanon
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

10 Oct 2024 – The US and Israel’s ongoing military escalation across West Asia has helped the aerospace and defense industry outperform expectations.

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IDF in ‘Outrageous Threat’ to Irish UN Troops in Lebanon
Mick Hall | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Oct 2024

10 Oct 2024 – Israel continues to isolate itself diplomatically. A diplomatic crisis has been defused after Israel withdrew its invasion force metres from a U.N. post in south Lebanon staffed by Irish peacekeepers.

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Assange: ‘My Naivete Was Believing in the Law, I’m Free Because I Pled Guilty to Journalism’
Julian Assange | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

1 Oct 2024 – Full text of Julian Assange’s remarks to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today on the plea deal, WikiLeaks, the Espionage Act, C.I.A.’s retribution, repression of journalism, and his responses during Q&A.

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‘Orphanage City’ Helps Children in Gaza as the Genocide Grinds On
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Oct 2024

4 Oct 2024 – Some Palestinian orphans in Gaza have gotten a glimmer of hope as the tragedies triggered by the grinding nearly year-long Israeli assault continue to deplete the Strip.

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Assange to Testify at Council of Europe
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2024

24 Sep 2024 – The freed publisher will appear in person in Strasbourg on 1 Oct to address the Council of Europe, WikiLeaks said today.

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Europeans, Arab and Muslim Nations Launch a New Initiative for an Independent Palestinian State
Edith M. Lederer | AP News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2024

29 Sep 2024 – Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said that “there is a growing consensus from Western and Arab countries, and from the Global South, that we need to establish a Palestinian Authority, Government and State, which has to be recognized.”

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UN General Assembly Demands Israel End ‘Unlawful Presence’ in Occupied Palestinian Territory
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

18 Sep 2024 – The United Nations General Assembly today voted overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution that demands that Israel “brings to an end without delay its unlawful presence” in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

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Crisis Intervention: Global Psychotherapy Peace Summit for World Leaders
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | DWF News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

19 Sep 2024 – As I watch the increasing threat of nuclear war due to the war in Ukraine and the nuclear arms race, in desperation I have asked myself if key world leaders need crisis intervention in the form of a special psychotherapy summit conducted by psychologists?

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Israeli Military Strikes Hezbollah Targets as Nasrallah Responds to Wave of Device Blasts in Lebanon
Raf Sanchez, et al. | NBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Sep 2024

19 Sep 2024 – The attack on southern Lebanon today involved airstrikes and artillery, an Israeli official said, after two days of explosions that killed at least 37 people and injured thousands in Lebanon.

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Planetary Cancer: US Militarism a Lead Driver of Climate Catastrophe
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024

13 Sep 2024 – Washington’s military interventions are not just wars on people — they’re also wars on the planet’s climate.

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Akashic Records and Quantum Physics: Exploring the Infinite Truth
North Star News | Read Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024

The Akashic Records represent a cosmic repository of all human experiences and consciousness, paralleling concepts in quantum physics like the zero point field, suggesting an interconnectedness of all beings and events beyond time and space.

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James Earl Jones, Voice of Darth Vader, Dies Aged 93
Graeme Baker and Thomas Mackintosh | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Sep 2024

10 Sep 2024 – U.S. actor James Earl Jones, best known for being the voice of the Star Wars villain Darth Vader, has died early yesterday [9 Sep] morning surrounded by his family.

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Catastrophic Hunger Doubles in 2024; Gaza and Sudan Worst Hit
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024

5 Sep 2024 – The number of people experiencing catastrophic hunger has surged more than twofold in 2024, due largely to the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Sudan, according to new figures released by the UN today.

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FOIA Files: How Academics Identified “Misinformation” Around COVID-19
James Rushmore | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024

5 Sep 2024 – Another 836 pages from the University of Washington shows how researchers and “power users” in media cooperated to identify “misinformation” themes.

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How the Opiate Conspiracy Widened
Matt Bivens, M.D. | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Sep 2024

5 Sep 2024 – Preying on Pain – Many businesses will gleefully sell you a harmful addiction. The sociopathic push by big pharma to cash in on opiate production.

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War Crimes: Does The Talmud Explain Why Jews Have Openly Murdered 17,000 Children?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | The Intel Drop/DWF News- – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Sep 2024

23 Aug 2024 – This brief snapshot of ideology found in the Talmud needs an explanation from theological experts. That is not this author. But in view of the accusations of genocide, might Jewish religious extremism in Israel be partly to blame?

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Journalist Richie Medhurst Arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport under ‘Terrorism Act’
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

19 Aug 2024 – The British journalist revealed on X his treatment by the authorities after being arrested under Section 12 of the U.K.’s Terrorism Act.

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Mpox: What You Need to Know about the Latest Public Health Emergency
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

20 Aug 2024 – The swift spread of a new virulent strain of the Mpox virus across Africa triggered the World Health Organization to declare it once again a public health emergency of international concern last week.

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US Approves $20 Billion Arms Deal for Israel
Natalie Venegas and Jon Jackson | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – The United States today approved more than $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel. Reuters reported that the move was approved by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The deal reportedly includes F-15 fighter jets.

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UN Rights Office Calls for Accountability for Latest ‘Horrific’ West Bank Killing
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

16 Aug 2024 – The perpetrators of a deadly rampage targeting a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank must face justice to deter future attacks, the UN human rights office insisted today.

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EU Foreign Policy Chief Calls for Sanctions against Israeli Ministers for ‘Incitement to War Crimes’
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

12 Aug 2024 – Josep Borrell said yesterday that the bloc must impose sanctions against Israeli far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for “incitement to war crimes.” He called Smotrich’s comments on starving two million Gazans by withholding aid “sinister.”

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A Farewell to Truth
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

16 Aug 2024 – The F.B.I. agents did more than seize my personal electronics when they searched my home on Aug. 7, the author writes. They stole the truth.

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WHO Declares Mpox Virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

14 Aug 2024 – The chief of the World Health Organization declared that the rise in mpox cases constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, following advice from members at today’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee meeting.   

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Israeli Crowds Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, West Bank Villages on Jewish Holiday
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – Israeli crowds have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and villages in the occupied West Bank, as they marked a Jewish holiday. Raid in at-Tawani is part of broader settler violence in the occupied West Bank on Jewish anniversary of temple destruction.

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The Murder of Others
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.

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Sexual Violence and Famine Stalk Sudan’s Displaced
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – Sudan’s deepening humanitarian crisis caused by nearly 16 months of war has left countless women and girls subject to sexual violence and rape and tens of thousands of children at risk of death from hunger, UN aid teams said today.

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FBI Raids Scott Ritter’s Residence
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

9 Aug 2024 – Scott Ritter on the F.B.I.’s search and seizure at his home in New York State yesterday.

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‘Another Day of Horror’: UN Rights Office Condemns Israeli Strikes at Gazan School
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

10 Aug 2024 – The UN Human Rights Office condemned today the increasing frequency of Israeli Defense Forces strikes on schools, where hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians have sought shelter, with the latest attacks killing dozens at a Gaza City school.

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Western Ambassadors to Skip Nagasaki Memorial after Israel Snub
Channel News Asia - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

7 Aug 2024 – Ambassadors from Western countries including the United States will skip a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki after Israel was snubbed, officials said today.

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Gaza: Thousands on the Run again Following New Israeli Evacuation Order
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

8 Aug 2024 – Thousands of people in Gaza have been fleeing west toward Al Mawasi after the Israel military issued a new evacuation order today, UN humanitarian partners on the ground have reported.

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Israeli Military in Spotlight over ‘Incommunicado’ Detention, Torture of Palestinians
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

31 Jul 2024 – A new UN Report published today into alleged abuses carried out against thousands of Palestinians detained by the Israeli authorities since the genocide erupted in Gaza last October has documented a range of serious violations and torture.

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Gazans Need Polio Vaccines Amid ‘Deathly Cycle’ of Hunger, Heat and Disease, Say UN Aid Agencies
Daniel Johnson | UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

30 Jul 2024 – In a bid to prevent a polio epidemic in Gaza, UN humanitarians today repeated calls for a ceasefire to allow mass vaccination “at a time when water, sanitation and hygiene conditions are being further eroded, with infectious diseases on the rise”.

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Where Do We Go Now, Ask Gazans Uprooted by New Israeli Evacuation Orders
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

23 Jul 2024 – Gazans uprooted by the Israeli military’s latest evacuation orders have fled their shelters and homes “running for their lives”, with barely any belongings and little idea where they will end up, UN humanitarians said today.

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Congress: Netanyahu Commands, US Obeys
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

24 Jul 2024 – USA as ‘Savior,’ Israel as ‘Victim’ – Bibi, who addresses a joint-session of Congress today, is the subject of an arrest warrant from the ICC. He has demanded the US shield Israel from criticism while continuing to arm and support its genocide — and the U.S. has answered his call.

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Israeli Killings of Children in West Bank Skyrocket
Julia Conley | Common Dreams/Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

23 Jul 2024 – UNICEF says 143 children are among the more than 500 Palestinians killed in Israeli raids and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank over the last 10 months.

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Gaza City-bound UN Aid Convoy Comes under Israeli Fire, Says UNRWA
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

22 Jul 2024 – A UN convoy has been hit by “heavy shooting” from Israeli forces at a checkpoint while en route to Gaza City, the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said today.

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Dramatic Moment Anti-Whaling Campaigner Paul Watson ‘Ambushed’ and Arrested
Michael Dahlstrom | Yahoo News/RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

22 Jul 2024 – Anti-whaling campaigner, Greenpeace co-founder, and Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson has been reportedly “ambushed,” handcuffed and arrested in Denmark by 14 police and SWAT on an international arrest warrant.

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UN Needs the Earth Constitution to Deal with World Criminals
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

25 Jul 2024 – As we watch helplessly, violators of international law go free, unable to be arrested by the UN, the ICJ (World Court), or the ICC.  Leaders of Bully nations break the Law with impunity. There is no world federal enforcement to protect the citizenry.

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NATO’s Obscure Relations with Israel
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

20 Jul 2024 – On the arms flowing between members of the military alliance and Israel, which despite its small size, ranks as the 15th top weapons importer in the world.

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Israel Bombs Gaza School Killing 30 Palestinians as Truce Talks Continue
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

9 Jul 2024 – Israel ramped up attacks on Gaza killing at least 77 Palestinians, including dozens at a school. Mounting attacks come as mediators travel to Qatar to try and end the bloody conflict.

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Genocide Joe (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

9 Jul 2024 – Lowkey releases his new track ‘Genocide Joe’ featuring Mai Khalil.

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Why the US Let Assange Go
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

12 Jul 2024 – The cumulative factors that led to the United States releasing WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange from prison.

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NATO Summit: Not a Shield but a Bloodied Sword
John Wight | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

12 Jul 2024 – When leaders of the military pact’s member states pontificate about its invaluable role in defending democracy, you can almost hear history guffawing in the background. 

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Gazans Reeling from Closed Hospitals, Malnutrition and Heat Risks, Warns UN Health Agency
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

9 Jul 2024 – In Gaza, overwhelmed hospitals, soaring temperatures, hunger and a lack of even basic sanitation present an ever more deadly threat to a population under constant attack, UN humanitarians warned today.

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Biden: ‘I’m Running the World’
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

6 Jul 2024 – The comment by the sitting U.S. president in yesterday’s interview has been ignored by the mainstream, but its megalomania is at the heart of why Joe Biden is defying his party and remaining in the race.

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Gaza ‘Split in Two’ as Civilians, Humanitarians Reset Lives, Aid Efforts
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

4 Jul 2024 – The Gaza Strip is virtually “split in two”, with blockades not only restricting the movement of displaced people seeking shelter, but also aid workers trying to assist civilians in desperate need, a UN relief official said yesterday.

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Julian Assange Arrives in Australia Back from UK Prison
9 News Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

26 Jun 2024 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had an emotional reunion with his wife Stella and his father as he disembarks from the plane in Australia welcomed by an applauding crowd after more than five years of wrongful captivity at the Belmarsh maximum security prison in England.

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Assange Agreed to Destroy Unpublished Classified Material
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

27 Jun 2024 – As part of his plea deal with the United States, Julian Assange agreed to order the destruction of any unpublished U.S. material in WikiLeaks possession.

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Stand Up for Palestine (Music Video of the Week)
Roger Waters, Yusuf Cat Stevens, Lowkey | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

21 Jun 2024 – Join legendary music legends Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), Yusuf Cat Stevens and iconic rapper Lowkey plus special guests for a one-off concert in aid of peace, freedom and justice for Palestine.

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D-Day 2024
Diana Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2024

14 Jun 2024 – Ceremonies were held last week commemorating the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, the Anglo-American landing on the beaches of Normandy that took place on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day.  For the very first time, the Russians were ostentatiously not invited to take part in the ceremonies. 

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Guantanamo & WikiLeaks
CN Live | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2024

27 May 2024 – Journalist Andy Worthington, author of ‘The Guantanamo Files’ and research collaborator on WikiLeaks’ ‘Detainee Assessment Briefs’, shines a light on the bleak and blunderous history of the US torture camp and the suffering of its forever prisoners.

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Latest EU Election Results on Europe Level and in All 27 Member States
Euronews - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2024

10 Jun 2024 – As millions of voters cast their ballots in the 2024 European Elections, the stakes are high. Catch real-time updates, comprehensive data, and visualizations of the election results.

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More Than 500 Palestinians Killed in Occupied West Bank: UN Rights Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jun 2024

4 Jun 2024 – Violence in the occupied West Bank linked to the atrocities in Gaza passed a deadly milestone with more than 500 Palestinians killed since 7 Oct, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights chief Volker Türk said today.

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‘New Era of Struggle’: Thousands Convene to Strategize Future of Palestine Movement
BreakThrough News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2024

1 Jun 2024 – After eight months of Israel’s genocide, where does the movement for Palestine go? That was the question taken up by the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit attended by thousands from around the world.

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Assange Wins Right to Appeal on 1st Amendment Issue
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

20 May 2024 – The High Court in London ruled today that Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the U.S. on the grounds that he is being denied his First Amendment rights. 

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Colombia to Open Embassy in Occupied West Bank
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2024

Bogota recently cut ties with Israel over the genocidal war in Gaza and has been working with other Latin American nations to grant Palestine full UN membership. The Colombian government announced on 22 May plans to open an embassy in the Palestinian city of Ramallah, the de facto capital of the occupied West Bank.

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The Heroism of David McBride
John Kiriakou | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

16 May 2024 – By 2014 McBride had compiled a dossier into profound command failings that saw examples of potential Australian war crimes in Afghanistan overlooked, and other soldiers wrongly accused. On 14 May he was sentenced to nearly six years in prison.

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Automated Apartheid: Walking through Hebron Smart City | Documentary
Mnar Adley | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 May 2024

7 May 2024 – MintPress director Mnar Adley walks us through the city of Hebron dubbed by Israel as ‘Hebron Smart City’ due to the Draconian surveillance technology on the Palestinian population as part of what is called the Wolfpack surveillance system.

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Listen to the Students!
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024

8 May 2024 – Hopefully, the political movement on US college campuses will be a game changer in stopping Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza.

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UN Vote Was for Palestinian Membership, Not Statehood
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 May 2024

10 May 2024 – In a blow to the U.S., the U.N. General Assembly voted today to give Palestine, whose statehood it has already acknowledged, full U.N. membership, forcing the U.S. into another embarrassing veto at the Security Council.

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Kenya Floods Death Toll at 228 as Crisis Persists
Agence France-Presse | VOA News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

5 May 2024 – Kenya said today that the death toll from weeks of devastating rains and floods had risen to 228 and warned that there was no sign of a let-up in the crisis.

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Israeli Soldier Speaks Out: Why I Turned against the War on Gaza
Channel 4 News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

23 Apr 2024 – It’s rare to hear from soldiers who’ve served on the ground, but an Israeli soldier says that what he witnessed turned him against the genocide. He’s voiced by an actor to protect his identity. And a warning: you may find some images upsetting.

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The One Video Israel Doesn’t Want You to See
Al Jazeera Investigations | Double Down News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

10 Apr 2024 – What Really Happened on October 7

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How Artificial Intelligence Kill-Lists Drive Israeli Genocide in Gaza
Bappa Sinha | NewsClick - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

27 Apr 2024 – A probe report reveals how AI programmes, such as Lavender and The Gospel, were used to target supposed Palestinian militants in Gaza through bombing attacks that resulted in mass civilian casualties.

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Protestors Confront White House Correspondents’ Dinner
News2Share | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

27 Apr 2024 – As corporate media members enter the venue for the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner today, anti-genocide protestors are literally in their faces over the mainstream media covering for Israel.

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Enforcing Silence on Genocide
Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 May 2024

4 May 2024 – The U.S. public should by now be realizing that instead of stopping genocide, U.S. institutional and media authority is actively stamping out cries to stop the mass murder being committed with U.S. complicity.

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DC Police Refuse George Washington University Request to Arrest Students
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

27 Apr 2024 – The Washington, D.C. police turned down a request by GWU president to clear out the anti-genocide encampment on campus.

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Palestinian Genocide: Worse Than You Can Imagine
Craig Murray | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

26 Apr 2024 – The author has no doubt the Western political elite are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians at a much deeper level than the people have yet understood.

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War & Genocide on Earth Day
Melissa Garriga | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

19 Apr 2024 – On Earth Day, Mon 22 Apr, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers about their love for the planet. U.S. military aggression and imperial ambitions leave a trail of natural destruction — all under the guise of national security.

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Senior UN Aid Official Urges Comprehensive Response to Haiti Crisis
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Apr 2024

25 Apr 2024 – The ongoing crisis in Haiti is having a “massive” and “devastating” impact, with over half the population acutely food insecure and more than one million staring at emergency levels of hunger, a senior UN World Food Programme official said today.

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US Vetoes Palestine UN Membership as Russia Walks Out
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

19 Apr 2024 – The USA yesterday vetoed a UNSC resolution granting Palestine full membership in the UN. Palestinian statehood was recognized by the U.N. General Assembly in Nov 2012 when it was given non-member, Observer State status. The U.S. defied 12 council members who voted for full membership. Britain and Switzerland abstained. 

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Nicaragua’s Case against Germany Arming Israel
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Apr 2024

18 Apr 2024 – Unlike Washington, Berlin — Israel’s second-largest arms supplier — has consented to full jurisdiction of the ICJ so it is an easier target for Nicaragua’s lawsuit.

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Israel’s UN Ambassador Holds Up Picture of Hitler with Grand Mufti at Session on Palestinian Statehood
Bradford Betz | Fox News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

8 Apr 2024 – Erdan tries to impress upon diplomats at the UNSC that Muslims were connected with Hitler, saying the Palestinians goal of eradicating Jews predated the UN or the creation of the state of Israel. (See debunking Addendum by TMS Editor)

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United Nations Continues to Face Aid Access Denials in Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

9 Apr 2024 – Israeli authorities have not given a clear reason why, said OCHA Spokesperson Jens Laerke, speaking during the regular briefing by UN humanitarian agencies in Geneva. “They deny and that is it, and it ends there. We do not get an explanation,” he said. 

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Niger to US: Pack Up Your Forever War
Nick Turse | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

3 Apr 2024 – The latest in a series of stalemates, fiascos, or outright defeats in Washington’s Global War of Terror.

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How Can Peace Journalism Grow?
Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

Peace journalism aims to provide news from conflict zones focused on peacebuilding and the work of peacebuilders. This is in stark contrast to mainstream news coverage that focuses on violence, the voice of elites, propaganda and victory framing.

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Gaza: World Court Issues Fresh Measures for Israel as Crisis Deepens
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2024

28 Mar 2024 – The International Court of Justice today issued new provisional measures for Israel as the humanitarian situation in bombarded and besieged Gaza continues to deteriorate.

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Bold Action Needed Now to Address ‘Cataclysmic’ Situation in Haiti
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2024

28 Mar 2024 – Immediate and bold action is required to tackle the “cataclysmic” situation in Haiti, the UN Human Rights Office said in a report issued today. 

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Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests Internationally
Global News Service | TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

19 Mar 2024 – “The Great Israeli Real Estate Event” toured the United States and Canada, exhibiting property for sale on stolen Palestinian land. Each event has been met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists.

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Israel Tells UN It Will Reject UNRWA Food Convoys into Northern Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

24 Mar 2024 – Israeli authorities informed the United Nations today that it will no longer approve the passage of any UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, food convoys into northern Gaza.

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Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

22 Mar 2024 – The future of AI-powered censorship is here, and the early returns are as error-filled and clumsily destructive as Google’s infamous Gemini rollout, which provides an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression and threats of demonetization.

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The Earth Constitution Could Transform the UN General Assembly and the UN Itself
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

If both Russia and the US had not wielded Security Council vetoes in the last few years, the ugly atrocities in Ukraine and Gaza might never have happened. The UN Charter’s grant of the veto to the P5 powers is a mockery of the rule of law and democratic ideals.

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Gaza: 23 Million Tonnes of Debris ‘Will Take Years to Clear’–Acute Malnutrition Doubles in a Month
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

15 Mar 2024 – The genocide in Gaza has left a staggering 23 million tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons scattered across the enclave.

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The Horrors a Rafah Invasion Would Bring
Ramzy Baroud | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

5 Mar 2024 – The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is as old as civilization itself and has existed for thousands of years. An Israeli invasion of Rafah will not alter the battlefield in favor of the Israeli army, but it will be horrific for the displaced Palestinians.

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Yanis Varoufakis Blasts Europe’s Complicity in Genocide
Yanis Varoufakis | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

“In Germany today you can only talk about Genocide if you support it.”

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Haiti Crisis: Is a Gang-led Coup Next?
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

5 Mar 2024 – Haiti is in chaos after a massive prison break and gangs calling for the resignation of its prime minister. How did it get here?

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European Parliament Finally Calls for a Gaza Ceasefire but Rejects Arms Embargo against Israel
Global News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

8 Mar 2024 – The major sponsors of Israel in the U.S. and Europe continue to support the slaughter and the escalation of the conflict in the entire West Asia region. The European Parliament was able to call for a permanent, immediate, and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza only on 28 Feb, more than 140 days after the genocidal war began.

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Grand Delusions
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

20 Feb 2024 – This year’s Munich Security Conference was predictably all about the imaginary danger that Russians intend to proceed westward into Europe as soon as they finish in Ukraine.

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Gaza ‘Buffer Zone’ Possible War Crime: UN Human Rights Chief
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

8 Feb 2024 – Israel’s reported attempt to create a “buffer zone” with Gaza could constitute a war crime, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk warned today.

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Global Law and Order Via the Earth Constitution and the UN General Assembly
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

8 Feb 2024 – Global law and order and democracy are absent and a glaring problem for the United Nations which too often is sidelined when it counts the most, unable to intervene when it is clearly needed. 

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Rafah Escalation Fears – Gaza Massacre Unprecedented Death Rate
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

9 Feb 2024 – The unprecedented population density in Rafah in southern Gaza makes it nearly impossible to protect civilians in the event of ground attacks, the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, warned today.

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Yemen’s Houthis on U.S. Attacks and Their Blockade of Israel
MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

29 Jan 2024 – Mohammed al-Bukhaiti, a senior political official and spokesperson for Yemen’s Ansar Allah, discusses the blockade and Yemen’s escalating tensions with the United States.

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The Hague: South Africa v. Israel – ICJ Order
Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

The International Court of Justice delivers its order in South Africa v. Israel – Streamed live on 26 Jan 2024

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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 International Court of Justice Stops Short of Ordering Gaza Ceasefire to Stop Genocide
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

26 Jan 2024 – The ICJ ruled that Israel’s military shall not commit acts forbidden by Article 2 of Genocide Convention but stopped short of ordering Israel to cease its military operation in Gaza.

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