Articles by Popular Resistance
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Our Tech Overlords Offer another Climate Solution without Sacrifice
Kurt Cobb | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Apr 2023
17 Apr 2023 – My expectations are never disappointed when I read that the solutions to problems created by technology are in more technology. It will solve our problems without us having to make any substantial change in our way of life. We cannot wait for our tech overlords to solve our problems; their kind of thinking only perpetuates them.
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Loneliness and Rachel
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Apr 2023
10 Apr 2023 – On this day, Rachel Corrie’s Birthday, I reflected on her message which mentions loneliness (see message below). In my 65 years on this earth I talked to more than 120,000 people and I continue to find difficulty understanding connectivity and loneliness.
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Exile and Mama
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Feb 2023
15 Feb 2023 – A post about exile and my mama in a series of posts I will start weekly on positive role models. This is post 1.
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Israel Authorizes Military to Kill Palestinians with Drones in West Bank
Marjorie Cohn | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Oct 2022
15 Oct 2022 – Commanders of the Israeli Occupying Forces have been authorized to use armed drones to kill Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. Journalists who report the truth about Israel’s crimes incur the risk of being fired or even assassinated. Neither Israel nor the U.S. government and its corporate media will tolerate any criticism of the illegal Israeli occupation.
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Julian Assange Files His Perfected Grounds of Appeal
Assange Defense | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Aug 2022
Today, 26 August 2022, Julian Assange is filing his Perfected Grounds of Appeal before the High Court of Justice Administrative Court. The Respondents are the Government of the United States and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Priti Patel.
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Key Takeaways from BRICS Summit
Orinoco Tribune | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jul 2022
29 Jun 2022 – Last week the 14th BRICS Summit took place virtually, chaired by Chinese President Xi Jinping. The BRICS bloc (Brasil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) represents a key political, economic, and scientific force in the international arena. These nations represent half of the world’s population and their collective GDP is greater that $20 trillion.
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Nakba at 74
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
16 May 2022 – On this 74th anniversary of the beginning of our Nakba (catastrophe) we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more. But we also pledge it as a day of dedication, meditation, and work towards return (al-awda) and liberation.
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Biden Redeploys Troops to Somalia While Humanitarian Crisis Looms
Abayomi Azikiwe | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 May 2022
20 May 2022 – U.S. war policy in Ukraine and Eastern Europe has prompted hyperinflation, food deficits and economic underdevelopment around the world. The military maneuvers in the Horn of Africa as well will prove detrimental to the people of the region and throughout the world.
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Tears and Hope from the Last Few Days
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 May 2022
14 May 2022 – World renowned journalist Shireen AbuAqleh was intentionally murdered by an Israeli sniper in Jenin. We planted ten trees in her honor. The constellation of events and circumstances and her background actually were so amazing that it provided a huge dose of sadness but also a big ray of hope for us.
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Trumping Environment
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Apr 2022
8 Apr 2022 – Under colonization and during conflicts (rackets for money/profit of the elites) environmental declines accelerate. For those like me who study and write about these things, the most disheartening aspect is the way common people who suffer are duped to be partisan to conflict thus enriching the oligarchs who oftentimes profit on both sides of conflicts. For example, the oligarchs of the Rothschild and Bush families who got enriched from both sides on WWII.
→ read full articleVirology of Ideas and Colonialism
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
12 Mar 2022 – This brilliant talk by a Nobel Prize Winner George Smith on “The Virology of Ideas — An Indispensable Pandemic” calls us to a higher level of (re)thinking our world.
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Argentina Turns to Russia and Joins China’s Belt and Road
Ben Norton | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
6 Feb 2022 – Seeking alternatives to US hegemony, President Alberto Fernández traveled to Russia and China, forming an alliance with the Eurasian powers, joining the Belt and Road Initiative. Argentina is trapped in $44 billion of IMF odious debt taken on by corrupt right-wing regimes.
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The Annual Resurrection of a Fake Dr. King
Black Alliance for Peace | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
17 Jan 2022 – It is January, and in the U.S. this means it is time for the annual ritual of revisiting the white-washed, de-radicalized, pro- “American” M.L. King fairy tale as part of the official celebration of King’s birthday.
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#Ethiopia #TigrayGenocide #ExcuseForRegimeChangeWar
Ann Garrison | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jan 2022
13 Jan 2022 – Ethiopia’s growing ties with China and Russia and the Joint Declaration on Comprehensive Cooperation Between Ethiopia, Somalia and Eritrea so threaten U.S. global hegemony that a U.S. “regime change” campaign is well underway. One of the first stages of any such campaign is, of course, massive disinformation.
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The Choking of the Global Minotaur
James K. Galbraith | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Nov 2021
21 Nov 2021 – The supply disruptions plaguing the US economy are not the result of “excessive demand,” “central planning,” or a lack of efficiency. Rather, it is that a logistics ecosystem that was developed to feed the beast of American consumption was not designed for a pandemic.
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Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
Poetic Reflection – 17 Oct 2021
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The United States Is Doubling Down on Deadly Sanctions
Sanctions Kill Coalition | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Oct 2021
The 2021 Sanctions Review Report ordered by President Biden and released on 18 Oct 2021 is an ominous warning. It shows US is intensifying its economic warfare despite the covid-19 pandemic.
→ read full articleChanging Ourselves
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
29 Jun 2021 – Changing others? Changing ourselves! Is it possible to have revolutionary change such as the one needed to change course on climate change or corruption of our political systems? Does that require drastic behavioral change by many individuals ill-structure to do so? Sometimes I think like that and then sometimes I do see drastic changes in individuals that are amazing.
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Talking Points
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
17 May 2021 – Draft seven simple talking points:
1) Palestine was colonized and replaced by a colonial settler state called “Israel”. The ideas was simply to take a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural, multi-religious country and transform it to a “Jewish state.” The core of this project (Zionism) is ethnic cleansing which started under British Rule (to fulfill the illegal Balfour declaration).
Dignity
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
12 May 2021 – The Tormented Dance of the Zionist Colonizer – I was interviewed in many media outlets in the past 48 hours about the events here. My message, beyond telling what is really happening on the ground [Jerusalem bombings, killings by IDF], is simple: This is not a “conflict,” neither it is a border dispute nor a tribal or religious issue. It is simply the last tantrums of the unsettled settler colonial system.
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Urgent Solidarity with Haiti Is Needed
Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2021
14 Feb 2021 – A long-brewing crisis in Haiti, created through intervention by the United States, United Nations and allied western imperialist countries, has now come to a head. The Biden administration is openly backing a violent, corrupt and fraudulent leader, Jovenel Moïse, and maintaining the policies of previous presidents, including Donald Trump, in Haiti.
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Rising?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
3 Feb 2021 – Vaccine apartheid is being practiced and not just in Palestine (Israeli colonizers get it, Palestinians don’t) but around the world as rich (white ruled) countries who became rich because of a history of colonization and oppression get it while developing/poor countries impoverished by the attacks of the West (like Yemen and Syria) do not.
→ read full articleCentenary
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
The British empire was complicit with the Zionists in the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in these 100 years (and killing over 100,000 natives and injuring nearly a million) and that is precisely why we have 7.5 million displaced or refugee Palestinians and the rest squeezed into 8% of their historic lands and living under racist apartheid policies. The prosperity of the Israeli economy–like that of the US or Australia–is baptized by the blood of the native Palestinians. Lest we forget, the latest “Israeli” nationality law calls the whole land the land of the Jews and only Jews have a right to “self-determination” in this land (Palestine).
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ICC Clears Way for War Crimes Probe of Israeli Actions
Josef Federman | Toronto Star/Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
6 Feb 2021 – The International Criminal Court said Friday [5 Feb] that its jurisdiction extends to territories occupied by Israel in the 1967 Mideast war, potentially clearing the way for its chief prosecutor to open a war crimes probe into Israeli military actions. The decision was welcomed by the Palestinians and decried by Israel’s prime minister, who vowed to fight “this perversion of justice.” The U.S., Israel’s closest ally, said it opposed the decision.
→ read full articleBethlehem, Biden, and Biology
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
8 Jan 2021 – Readers asked me to comment on events in the US (including the storming of Trump supporters. Israeli commentators worried because some Trump supporters waved American flags. And a congresswoman from Florida promised to put the Israeli flag next to the American flag in front of her office. Trump did deliver for Zionism.
→ read full articleChristmas 2020
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2020
25 Dec 2020 – Despite the difficulties we tried to enjoy the night of 24 December 2020 at the nativity square. We are not just contending with colonial occupation but also a pandemic. The Palestinian Jesus (yes he was born in a country then called Palestine and has been called Palestine for four millennia) went on to challenge the occupation of his time and the hypocrisy of the local and foreign “leaders”.
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A Brief History of US Military Poisoning of Hawai’i
Ann Wright, Kyle Kajihiro and Jim Albertini | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
U.S. military contamination in Hawai’i comes from the military bases on four of the islands. The island of Kauai has the large Pacific Missile Test Facility. The Big Island of Hawai’i has the massive 130,000 acre firing range. The island of Kahoʻolawe is still contaminated from being bombed for decades. 43,000 active duty military personel, 9,600 Guard and Reserve, 60,000 dependents and 20,000 military employees live in Hawai’i. The military complex population of 132,600 comprises 10% of the 1.4 million population of the state.
→ read full articleIs There any Hope for the USA?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Nov 2020
19 Nov 2020 – I left the US in 2008 not because of pressure but because I thought I could serve humanity better in Zionist occupied Palestine than in Zionist occupied USA. I hope to die in Canada and atone for my stupidity and culpability in paying taxes to the USA, the most well-oiled killing machine in history, by teaching peace studies and promoting pacifism, which I think is the only force powerful enough to overcome the US’ super weapons.
→ read full articleQuestions
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2020
12 Nov 2020 – Many Gaza Palestinians lost hope. Many young people are committing suicide. It is not only a pandemic of a virus but the pandemic of systematic racism and colonialism that spread. While Zionists spread hate and divisiveness to advance its goals around the world (via Hollywood, Bloomberg and Fox News etc), even they are starting to rethink what world are they making and will it be livable even for the billionaires.
→ read full articleLessons on Productivity
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2020
6 Oct 2020 – How do we manage to be productive and efficient while engaged in many projects and constantly getting interruptions? Being asked this question frequently by students, staff, volunteers and others, let me give my humble personal reflections. First, I start by saying that Einstein was right about theory of relativity not just in physics but in life.
→ read full articleOld Enough
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2020
16 Sep 2020 – You can join the side of murdering dictators and war criminals (monarchs of the Gulf + Netanyahu + Trump) who are waging war on humanity, self-determination, and justice or you find your alternative by WORKING for humanity, self-determination and justice. We must stand with the oppressed people of Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE, Egypt, Palestine and elsewhere. Millions are standing with us against these tyrants. History will judge.
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Rest in Power, Kevin Zeese
Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
7 Sep 2020 – It is with a sad heart that I report the sudden and unexpected death of Kevin Zeese early Sunday [6 Sep] morning. Kevin was working up until the end and died in his sleep of a possible heart attack. There will be an online tribute to Kevin on Saturday, September 19 at 3:00 pm Eastern/12:00 pm Pacific on Zoom.
→ read full articleTruths
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
11 Sep 2020 – George Orwell said “in a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” So let us all tell the truth:
→ read full article12 Years
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
29 Aug 2020 – I returned to Palestine in 2008 (after a quarter of a century in the US) and it is good to reflect on these 12 years. Below this is the message from August 2008 explaining why I came back and what I had planned to do here. Much of course happened in […]
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Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
22 Aug 2020 – Perceptions Are Driven by Experiences
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US Space Force Faults Russia, China for ‘Militarizing Space’, which Pentagon Did Decades Ago
Morgan Artyukhina | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
14 Aug 2020 – US defense leaders have firmly pointed the finger at Russia and China as the raison d’etre for the US Space Force, claiming the nations have “militarized space,” requiring the US to respond. However, what is really threatened is US space superiority, as the Pentagon has tested space weapons for decades.
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Julian Assange’s Next Hearing on Monday, July 27
Don't Extradite Assange | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
26 Jul 2020 – Julian Assange is expected to appear over video link at Westminster Magistrates’ Court’s hearing on Monday (27 July), despite medical advice that he risks contracting COVID-19. A lung infection combined with a pre-existing condition and the risk of exposure to COVID-19 had prevented him from attending recent hearings.
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Knowing How Small We Are Helps You/Us Achieve Big Things
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
25 Jul 2020 – Each of us individual human beings is a very small part of a vast universe. We do big things with help, but they are still small things in the universe…..
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Trump’s Harsh Sanctions Lead to Iran-China Partnership
Marjorie Cohn | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2020
15 Jul 2020 – China and Iran have drafted a “sweeping economic and security partnership.” China will get a regular supply of Iranian oil for the next 25 years and an expanded role in Iranian banking, ports, railways, telecommunications and other projects. They will also increase their military cooperation. This is the result of Trump’s sanctions against Iran and Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, favors the partnership.
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Suicidal Empire
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
23 Jun 2020 – But it is indeed the land of hypocrisy that no longer can be covered by fancy Hollywood movies of good cowboys-bad indians, good Israel-bad terrorist Muslims, good capitalists-bad communists. For decades while claiming the moral high grounds, the US government has supported dictatorial regimes around the world that torture, disappear, and kill so many. Many books have been written on this (e.g. by Noam Chomsky, Edward Said and others).
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Politicians Call on UK to Release Assange
Consortium News | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Servivce,
22 Jun 2020
16 Jun 2020 – A group of members of the European Parliament, and former members of Congress and local legislatures have written to Britain’s secretary of state for justice urging that Julian Assange be released from Belmarsh prison on compassionate grounds. The text of the letter signed by former British MP Chris Williamson, former U.S. Mike Gravel and former Congressman Ron Paul among other political leaders:
→ read full articleLight a Candle
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2020
21 Apr 2020 – Israel has over 13,000 COVID-19 cases and close to 200 deaths. Yet, the Israeli regime keeps thousands of Palestinian political prisoners in crowded prisons (and using them as guinea pigs to test drugs to profit its pharmaceutical industry). The regime shuts down a Palestinian clinic in occupied East Jerusalem (Silwan) that is fighting the pandemic.
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Global Call
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Apr 2020
24 Mar 2020 – A global call from Palestine Action for the Planet. More and more people realize that the current global political and economic structures are unable to deal with global climate crisis, the endless conflicts, proliferation of WMD, and the increased frequency of pandemics. This is no longer just a question of morality and rights but a question of our survival as a civilization and as a planet facing mass extinction.
→ read full articleQuestions and Curfews
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2020
The two choices before us (collectively): We keep the old ways (greed, rampant capitalism and die together) or care for each other and for our planet. Our health and the health of the planet are at stake. This is yet another stark reminder. Let us hope we make the right choices, pressure politicians, and choose life. We cannot act like lemmings going towards the cliff.
→ read full articleWill Humanity Fail?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
Obviously human beings are being tested: pandemics spreading around the world, coronavirus, the collapse of oil prices that led to financial market collapses, the climate change, the technology gone rampant and killings and nature (5G, chemical and biological weapons), the accelerating risk of nuclear war, and much more. There are bad signs and good signs. Let us give some examples of both and then of areas where we could go either way. Please Join the Discussion and post other good and bad news in comments section.
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Doctors of Assange Reveal Reports on Mistreatment Have Intensified the Abuse
Angel Fox | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Mar 2020
13 Mar 2020 – Doctors 4 Assange, who are the many doctors who sent a letter to the Home Secretary in Great Britain, tweeted a concerning statement today. According to them, Craig Murray’s reporting on the trial of Assange only escalated his mistreatment
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Battling Roundup Weedkiller: ‘Round and Round’ We Go
Katherine Paul | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
21 Feb 2020 – It seems forever that we’ve been trying to get Monsanto’s Roundup weedkiller off the market, and out of our food. It’s a battle that’s had more than its share of highs and lows. Where are we today? Fighting a new company—Bayer now owns Monsanto.
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WHO Expert Explains Why China’s Cases of COVID-19 Are Declining
Julia Belluz | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2020
4 Mar 2020 – There’s one country in the world that currently has the most knowledge of and experience with Covid-19: China. “It’s all about speed”: the most important lessons from China’s response.
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Mistrial Is another Blow to U.S. Coup in Venezuela–Our Work Continues
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2020
16 Feb 2020 – Last week, we along with Adrienne Pine and David Paul were unsuccessfully prosecuted by the Trump administration for our protection of the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC from April 10 to May 16, 2019. The jury was unable to reach a unanimous decision and so we remain innocent of the charge of interfering with the protective functions of the US Department of State. The judge declared a mistrial.
→ read full articleBat and Hyena
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
15 Feb 2020 – What a baseball bat and a murdered pregnant hyena have in common? Please read on…
→ read full articleOur Collective Survival
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2020
5 Feb 2020 – I have never become more worried than now about the future. Here I speak not just of the future of the 13 million Palestinians (7.5 million refugees or displaced) but the future of humanity as a whole. Let me just list nine factors that makes you pose and wonder.
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Activism, Nonviolence, Direct Action: Strategy, Tactics, Organizing
Glen Perusek | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2020
8 Jan 2020 – The word “strategy” is overused and is often confused with tactics. This is a problem not just for organized labor and progressive movements; it is also endemic in business and many other realms of organized activity. This seems odd, given that the literature on strategy and tactics is thousands of years old. This article draws on some of that classical literature.
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The Lion and the Three Bulls
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
There is fable attributed to Aesop and others about three bulls and the lion. While there are variations to the story, the moral remains the same. The lion comes to the Red and black bull and says: You are in danger; the white bull stands out and can attract predators which can endanger you, so let me eliminate him. They agreed.
→ read full articleShame on Us
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Sep 2019
Shame on us
for silence on Palestine, Kashmir, Amazon, Bahamas, detention centers in US and much more
for letting our neighbor’s homes be demolished
for allowing fascist politicians to take over our countries…
The World Is Uniting for International Law, against US Empire
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2019
11 Aug 2019 – “We oppose the extraterritorial application of unilateral measures.” That is not Cuba, Nicaragua, Iran, Russia, or China talking about the most recent unilateral coercive measures imposed by the United States against Venezuela, i.e. economic sanctions that have become an economic blockade, but the European Union. Even allies who have embarrassed themselves by recognizing the phony “interim president” Juan Guaido are saying the US has gone too far.
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The Cart before a Dead Horse – Open Letter to Mahmoud Abbas and All Palestinians
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
23 Jun 2019 – Someone asked what is your solution? I said, ‘Go back to be a real Palestine Liberation Organization: Palestine is all of Palestine not 22% of it, Liberation is self-explanatory and it is for all 13.5 million of us Palestinians, and organization means more than one person we “pledge loyalties” to’. The well-dressed politician came after the meeting to chastise me before he got into his fancy black Mercedes (which was left running all the time) with his body guards.
→ read full articleSuccess & Self-Determination
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
1 Jun 2018 – What distinguishes a healthy successful human being (or animal for that matter) from apathetic pathetic creatures who make excuses for their failures in life? Those who succeed are precisely those who have self-confidence to decide to work hard to change their circumstances and not take things for granted.
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Reporting from Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2019
28 Feb 2019 – Here in Palestine, life of suffering continues. The UN Human Rights Council issued a report this week that shows the extent of Israel’s violations of international law and human rights including on targeting children [5]. Yet, we continue to exist and to resist. We are not alone. Last two weeks for example I hosted five International delegations.
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Venezuela: What Activists Need to Know about the US-Led Coup
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers | Popular Resistance - Countercurrents,
4 Feb 2019
28 Jan 2019 – First, we will correct the falsehoods so readers are all working from the same facts. Second, we will describe how this coup is being defeated. It will be another major embarrassment for the Trump administration and US foreign policy. It is important to understand Venezuela has become a geopolitical conflict as Russia and China are closely allied with Venezuela.
→ read full articleCommonality and Hope
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jan 2019
13 Jan 2019 – The Gandhis of the world are a bit more numerous than the Trumps but numbers are not everything. For example, we do have to consider that greedy selfish people can accumulate significant wealth and control media and thus influence fate of millions of people (Zionism is a good example). They even get elected as happened in the US, Brazil, or “Israel”.
→ read full articlePunctuated Biological and Social Evolution?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Dec 2018
2 Dec 2018 – What is the future for humans and the environment? Will average global temperature continue to rise? Have we passed the tipping point? There are now more body mass of humans and domestic vertebrates than all wild vertebrate animals on earth! In a few years there will be more plastic than fish in oceans and most coral reefs could be gone! Is it “natural” that a handful of billionaires own more wealth than the bottom half of humanity (i.e. more than 3.6 billion people)? What hope is left a sustainable earth ecosystem? What does it take to actually change things? Please share your views after you read these and other questions below.
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Violent Coup Fails in Nicaragua, US Continues Regime Change Efforts
Kevin Zeese | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
21 Jul 2018 – The violent coup in Nicaragua has failed. This does not mean the United States and oligarchs are giving up, but this phase of their effort to remove the government did not succeed. The coup exposed the alliances who are working with the United States to put in place a neoliberal government that is controlled by the United States and serves the interests of the wealthy. People celebrated the failure of the coup but realize work needs to be done to protect the gains of the Sandinista revolution.
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Signs of End of the Civilization and Signs of Its Rejuvenation
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
15 May 2018 – There are many signs of end of the civilization and signs of its rejuvenation. These difficult times do test people’s souls and minds and while we find those who fail the test (Netanyahu, Trump, Hagee, Bin Salman, etc), we do find so many that pass it and light the way for us.
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Losing More People in Gaza
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Apr 2018
31 Mar 2018 – I am optimistic even though sad. I am sad that the Israeli regime massacred 17 and injured nearly 1500 unarmed Palestinian civilians yesterday instead of letting them go to their homes and lands to honor Land Day.
→ read full articleLast Straw
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2017
7 Dec 2017 – Trump’s decision dropped the last fig leaf and added the final straw that will indeed reshape Western Asia and probably the world but not in ways that the Zionists who run the Trump administration planned or wished for. IT IS NOW TIME FOR ACTIONS.
→ read full articleFinding Goodness
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jun 2017
• Axis 1- Saudi Arabia, Emirates, Egypt, Israel, USA
• Axis 2- Qatar, Turkey
• Axis 3- Syria, Iran, Russia, and possibly China (for now keeping a distance)
Axis 1 now decided to go after axis 2. Axis 2 is considering moving for protection to axis 3. The US is solidly behind axis 1 but keeping leverage via axis 2 (US bases both in Turkey and Qatar). The US is trying hard to undermine axis 3.
Palestine-Israel: The UNSC Vote
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
Will Mahmoud Abbas turn success into failure (again) or will he finally show backbone to use the UNSC resolution to save what remains of Palestine?
→ read full articleConSciences of Humanity
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jan 2017
John Kerry is delusional if he thinks he can temporarily curb the appetite of those who believe in an ideology of conquest, subjugation and exceptionalism (“chosen people”) to save “Zionism”. His claim that Shimon Peres told him that 78% of Palestine is enough and that they should let the Palestinians have the other 22% is simply not believable.
→ read full articleEight Years
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Aug 2016
16 Aug 2016 – It has been 8 years since I moved back from the USA to occupied Palestine and it may be worth a brief reflection… All of this was done while struggling against not just Israeli occupation with its repression (e.g. inability to import things normally, lack of freedom of movement) but some Palestinian societal backward culture including nepotism, patriarchy, bureaucracy, and corruption. We were learning as we go how to deal with people (including the “mental occupation”).
→ read full articleBinarity
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jul 2016
Edward Said once told us we do not have to choose between a secular corrupt dictatorship and rule by Muslim Brotherhood. I do not have to support Zionism to be for Jewish rights. I do not have to support the Assad regime to be against the Saudi/US/Israel supported “rebel” groups who are nothing more than mercenary terrorists. We have many choices. It is time we exercise them.
→ read full articleUps and Downs in Palestine
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jul 2016
16 Jul 2016 – Life in Palestine moves along with its ups and downs, like the tides of the sea. Some days we feel depressed, some days more optimistic. Some of us even feel like manic-depressives for the fact that we go through these cycles. The triggers are varied.
→ read full articleMotivation
Prof. Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jun 2016
We in Palestine do not have too many answers since most of our people are still at that subsistence level. It is irritating to see the elites (including Palestinian and Israelis) who have their basic needs met refuse to rise to higher levels and get motivated to do something different to make this a better world. At least they should/could follow Howard Zinn’s advice and get off the train (His book “you can’t be neutral on a moving train”).
→ read full article300+ Arrests as Pro-Democracy Forces Converge for Final Day of Spring Revolt
Deirdre Fulton, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Apr 2016
Sunday saw thousands rally in Washington, D.C., while hundreds risked arrest during mass sit-in on Monday [18 Apr]. Capitol Police say 1,240 people have been arrested in the last seven days. Civil Disobedience may be more important than voting.
→ read full articleThe Case for Radical Modernity
Jeremy Gilbert – Popular Resistance,
15 Feb 2016
The left should embrace technological innovation and new class alliances as part of a strategy for 21st-century socialism.
→ read full articleProtesters Force Auckland Standstill as TPP Is Signed
Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Feb 2016
4 Feb 2016 – Central Auckland has been paralysed by thousands of protesters expressing their feeling towards the ultra-controversial Trans Pacific Partnership deal.
→ read full articleThe ‘US Way of War’ from Columbus to Kunduz
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
As we celebrate Columbus Day, we can’t help but think about the deep levels of cultural violence in the U.S. But what can be done to change a country dominated by war culture into one of a humanitarian culture?
→ read full article10 Ways to Fight the Corporatocracy
Bruce E. Levine – Popular Resistance,
23 Feb 2015
The elite spend their lives stockpiling money and have the financial clout to bribe, divide and conquer the rest of us. The only way to overcome the power of money is with the power of courage and solidarity. So, how do we regain our guts and solidarity?
→ read full articleUkraine Agrees To Monsanto Land Grab for $17 Billion IMF Loan
Christina Sarich, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Feb 2015
The World Bank and International Monetary Fund are helping biotech run the latest war in Ukraine. Make no mistake: what is happening in the Ukraine now is deeply tied to the interests of Monsanto, Dow, Bayer, and other big players in the poison food game.
→ read full articleDramatic Correlation Shown Between GMOs and 22 Diseases
Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers – Popular Resistance,
24 Nov 2014
As Use of GMO’s Crops Glyphosate Rise So Do Critical Diseases
→ read full articleThanksgiving: A National Day of Mourning for Indians
Mahtowin Munro and Moonanum James, Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2013
We object to the “Pilgrim Progress” parade and to what goes on in Plymouth because they are making millions of tourist dollars every year from the false pilgrim mythology. That money is being made off the backs of our slaughtered indigenous ancestors.
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