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‘Humanitarianism’ in Gaza Distracts from Getting Justice
Anthony Hayward | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
19 Aug 2025 – The political and media establishment has finally begun to acknowledge Palestinian suffering, but this shift remains hollow until those complicit in Israel’s genocide are truly exposed.
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Genocide Prevention: What Can Be Done Should Be Done by Persons, Governments, and the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
How can Israel and Netanyahu be stopped at this moment? This question has haunted the world for the past two years and worried peace and justice activists for a much longer time. The most obvious issue is how to persuade the US and EU governments to withdraw their support to Israel.
→ read full articleTrump, Tyranny, and the Need for a People’s Program
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2025
If Donald Trump is a genuine tyrant or is determined to become one, we should probably not be talking openly about trying to defeat him in the next election. We should be working to depose him “by any means necessary,” as Malcolm X used to say.
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‘Starvation Is Everywhere’: Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose the Scale of the Horror
Yarden Michael and Nir Hasson | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
21 Aug 2025 – In recent weeks, through virtual tours of medical facilities, we sought to document the situation in which thousands of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. What we saw was of catastrophic proportions.
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Alligator Alcatraz’ to Be Vacated in Compliance with Court Order to Shut It
Richard Luscombe and AP | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
27 Aug 2025 – Reported email by Florida official confirms state will shutter prison though governor Ron DeSantis has appealed.
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Palantir’s Tools Pose an Invisible Danger We Are Just Beginning to Comprehend
Juan Sebastian Pinto | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
24 Aug 2025 – Weaponized AI surveillance platforms threaten human rights around the world. Here’s how they work.
→ read full articleThe Western Liberal Media New Messaging on Gaza: A Critique from the Perspective of Peace and Justice Journalism
Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
The conflict as has been widely observed by many close observers bears a closer resemblance to ‘a massacre’ than a war because it is so one sided with the most modern weaponry of land and air possessed on the Israeli side and primitive weaponry or none at all on the Palestinian resisting side.
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The Silent Singing Bird of Flamboyant Plumage
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
For the art of writing implies the art of reading. The writer creates and the reader recreates; both demand silence, the cessation of all noise that serves to prevent true thought. The machines must be turned off. “Our inventions,” Thoreau noted, “are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things.”
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The Gaza Tribunal and Civil Society
Mike Billington interviews Richard Falk | Schiller Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Sep 2025
1 Aug 2025 – TMS Editorial Committee Member Richard Falk is a Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. He is also the former UN Human Rights Rapporteur in Palestine and the Occupied Territories and the president of the Gaza Tribunal, which we will discuss.
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Gaza’s Urgency and Lessons for the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
17 Aug 2025 – Responses to questions posed by Naman Bakaç, an independent journalist in Turkey. The interview was published by FOCUS, an independent online media platform
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Mike Billington interviews Richard Falk | Schiller Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
1 Aug 2025 – TMS Editorial Committee Member Richard Falk is a Professor Emeritus of International Law and Practice at Princeton University. He is also the former UN Human Rights Rapporteur in Palestine and the Occupied Territories and the president of the Gaza Tribunal, which we will discuss.
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Observations from the West Bank: The Jewish Supremacy Monster Cannot Be Contained
Daphna Baram and Michael Sfard | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
12 Aug 2025 – Two human rights practitioners used to have hope that Israel could be reformed, but no longer. “Today it is one solid mass of distilled evil,” writes human rights lawyer Michael Sfard.
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(Português) A Paz e a Guerra sob Trump
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Aug 2025
“Trump já deixou claro: não irá fazer diplomacia. Atuará com a força, tanto bélica quanto econômica e comercial. Sua construção de uma nova ordem não passa pela paz mas pela capitulação do adversário”. Os acertos das tarifas são imposições dele e não frutos de negociação.
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The Assassination of Palestinian Journalists
Richard Falk interviewed by Daniel Falcone | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
15 Aug 2025 – The 10 Aug 2025 Israeli airstrike that killed four Al Jazeera journalists and two others in Gaza: Falk argues that discrediting truth-tellers and murdering the press is consistent with the apartheid worldview that dominates Zionist ideology.
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(Português) Alienígenas entre nós?
Avi Loeb | Harvard Astronomy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Aug 2025
5 agosto 2025 – Um estudo de Harvard reacendeu a hipótese dos criptoterrestres seres extraterrestres vivendo disfarçados entre nós. A teoria sugere que eles chegaram há muito tempo e observam silenciosamente nossa evolução. O tema ganhou força…
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Israel’s National Security Cabinet Approves Netanyahu’s Escalation, Hiding Defeat in the Legitimacy War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2025
8 Aug 2025 – Relations with the Trump presidency seem to be finally fraying and the announced cause seems to be Israel’s stubborn refusal to allow food, water, and medicines to reach starving Palestinians rather than the controversy inside and outside of Israel to extend military operation to the yet unoccupied parts of Gaza City.
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Europe Is Going Down Like the Titanic Because It Has Learned Nothing from Its Past
Peter Noordendorp | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2025
4 Aug 2025 – Europe is repeating bad things from the past because it learned nothing from its colonial past and its warmongering on European soil. About the past of the US, it is good to say that it lost all wars from Vietnam up until Afghanistan after WW2. Ukraine is now its latest fiasco.
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A Wasteland of Rubble, Dust and Graves: How Gaza Looks from the Sky
Lorenzo Tondo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2025
5 Aug 2025 – The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s genocidal destruction of Gaza.
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The Satanic Nature of the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Aug 2025
Right from the start the US colonizers were involved in massive killing because they considered themselves divinely blessed and guided, a chosen people whose mission would come to be called “manifest destiny.”
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Bankruptcy Is Us
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2025
31 Jul 2025 – Once upon a time, nothing in this world could have convinced me that I would be living through this moment in this USA on this planet. As a start, once upon an increasingly distant time, Trump as president (twice!) would have been inconceivable. Literally beyond conception, even in some wildly dystopian satiric novel about an all-too(un)-American future.
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Countering Genocide: An Interview
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2025
2 Aug 2025 – Interview with Mike Billington of the Schiller Institute on array of topics. Published in the 1 Aug 2025 issue of Executive Intelligence Review.
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The Mathematics of Starvation: How Israel Caused a Famine in Gaza
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2025
31 Jul 2025 – The mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza: Palestinians cannot leave their open air prison, military attacks have annihilated farming, Israel has banned fishing. All food they need must be brought from outside–and that Israel will not allow. RIP
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Brazil Judge Hits Back at ‘Cowardly and Treasonous’ Plot Behind US Sanctions
Tom Phillips | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2025
1 Aug 2025 – US put sanctions on Judge Alexandre de Moraes as an apparent move by Trump to help his ally Jair Bolsonaro.
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Civic Responses to Gaza Genocide and Regional Nuclearism
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2025
17 Jul 2025 – This post is in two parts. The first addresses the Gaza dimension of the current Palestinian ordeal now extended to the West Bank. The second is an early comment on the short Iran War, initiated by Israel and joined by the USA.
→ read full articleDo Trump, Netanyahu, and Their Ilk Believe They Are Virtuous?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2025
21 Jul 2025 – That the USA is controlled by a criminally perverse, two party ruling class should be obvious to any reasonable (not rational, for the above-named people are very rational) person not living in what Jean-Paul Sartre, the French existential writer, called bad faith (mauvaise foi).
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The Backbone of China’s Spinal Cord
Gordon Dumoulin | China21 Journal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2025
22 Jul 2025 – Beyond Confrontation: How China Unveils the West’s Imperative to Adapt – The gloves of performative virtue are off in the West. For years, the “China threat” narrative was cloaked in moral superiority—recasting a “rules-based order,” politicizing human rights, and wielding ideology as a strategic tool.
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Global Outcry Grows over Israel’s Killing of Starving Civilians in Gaza
Peter Beaumont | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2025
22 Jul 2025 – UN secretary general warns ‘last lifelines’ may soon collapse after Israeli forces attack WHO facilities in Deir al-Balah.
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The BDS Movement Turns 20–It’s an Essential Pillar of Palestinian Freedom
Omar Barghouti | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2025
11 Jul 2025 – Do no harm, a principle associated with the medical practice, has become a fundamental ethical principle of global solidarity. The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement has mainstreamed since its inception 20 years ago this week.
→ read full articleSanctioning Francesca Albanese Marco Rubio Tramples on Law, Justice, and Truth
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2025
If the vindictive sanctions are implemented against this extraordinary citizen of Italy, in the face of strong UN objections, Albanese will be barred from entering the US even to discharge her annual UN duty to present a report to the General Assembly.
→ read full articleWhen Fate Knocks at the Door, Take It by the Throat
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jul 2025
10 Jul 2025 – It is getting harder and harder to breathe. The world grows smaller as storms gather. All night the storm raged furiously, the lightning, thunder, rain, and wind locking us in and away from the world.
→ read full articleNothing to Say, Ma
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
Madre, I’m running out of words. Please take my sighs and make them prayers of resistance to the ruthless actors who make this earth our home a bloody shambles.
→ read full articleFalcone Interviews Richard Falk, Lawrence Davidson & Stephen Zunes on Iran War and the Future
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jul 2025
The wider meanings of the aggressive attack of 13 Jun 2025 by Israel and the US on Iran’s nuclear sites based on claims by Israel of an Iranian threat of becoming a nuclear weapons-possessing state.
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Signing and Spreading the Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza People’s Tribunal
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
23 Jun 2025 – The Gaza People’s Tribunal, at the public assembly in Sarajevo, issued a Declaration that expresses our commitment to peace and justice for the Palestinian people in their struggle to realize basic rights, above all their inalienable right to self-determination. Please read, sign and spread it widely.
→ read full article“Iran Can’t Have a Nuclear Weapon,” Says Trump. Why The Hell Not?
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jun 2025
The question that not even Congressional opponents to a war against Iran ask: Why the Iranians can’t have a nuclear weapon if they want one? US citizens have been taught to believe that there are good and evil nations and regimes, Iran being an evil, “rogue” state that only wants nukes to destroy Israel.
→ read full articleAmbivalence toward Resistance as a Human Right: Matters of Law and Policy
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
16 Jun 2025 – I publish here my foreword to Shannonbrooke Murphy’s path-breaking book on the right of resistance. Murphy provides readers with a comprehensive framework for thinking about resistance to public authority in a variety of settings.
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Climate Misinformation Turning Crisis into Catastrophe, Report Says
Damian Carrington | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
19 Jun 2025 – False claims obstructing climate action, say researchers, amid calls for climate lies to be criminalized.
→ read full articleClimbing the Path of Self-Acceptance: An Autobiographical Narrative
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jun 2025
I submitted this editorial to TMS on the psychic healing process of physical injury because it seemed so congruent with healing in public spheres of peacebuilding, conflict resolution and transcendence, so brilliantly articulated by Johan Galtung throughout his long life experience.
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The Lesser of Two Evils: The Burning of Children Instead of Paper
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
1 Jun 2025 – Our apologies, good friends, for the fracture of good order, the burning of paper instead of children, the angering of the orderlies in the front parlor of the charnel house. We could not, so help us God, do otherwise.
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SHAPE (Saving Humanity and Planet Earth): Statement on Gaza Ordeal
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
25 May 2025 – In this era of predatory capitalism, imperial geopolitics and surging fascism, we as a lead species, need to think, feel, and act differently to avoid catastrophe, and do so in a spirit of urgency.
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Venezuela: Pro-Government Alliance Wins Big in Legislative and Regional Elections
Ricardo Vaz | Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
26 May 2025 – Venezuela’s ruling United Socialist Party (PSUV) and political allies emerged as overwhelming victors in Sunday’s regional and parliamentary elections.
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Gaza Tribunal Project: Opening Remarks
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
27 May 2025 – Opening Remarks, Richard Falk, Sarajevo Public Session of Gaza Tribunal, 26 May 2025.
→ read full articleThe Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal (28 May 2025)
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
The Sarajevo Declaration of the Gaza Tribunal, a consensus document prepared in conjunction with participants in the first of two Public Sessions of the Gaza Tribunal, was released on 28 May 2025.
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The Algocracy Agenda: How AI and the Deep State Are Digitizing Tyranny
John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jun 2025
29 May 2025 – The Deep State is not going away. It’s just being replaced. Replaced not by a charismatic autocrat or even a shadowy bureaucracy, but by artificial intelligence (AI)—unfeeling, unaccountable, and immortal.
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Gaza Tribunal: Program for Sarajevo Public Sessions, 26-29 May 2025
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
The Gaza Tribunal will hold its first public session, starting today, 26 May, 10:00 AM GMT; it presents extensive reports on various dimensions of the Gaza Ordeal endured for more than 19 months by the population of the Gaza Strip, killing more than 50,000, wounding more than 100,000, and traumatizing the entire population estimated at 2.3 million on October 7, 2023.
→ read full articleUS Memorial Day: It’s Not about the Dead Soldiers but about Glorifying War
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 May 2025
23 May 2025 – Although Memorial Day in the United Sates is ostensibly a day for honoring soldiers killed in wars, it is, rather, a day for promoting war. If it were to honor the dead, all its pageantry would be in opposition to war.
→ read full articleThe Gaza Ordeal: How Will It End?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
12 May 2025 – To call attention to question of ‘What comes next for the Palestinian people and Gaza,’ sometimes phrased as ‘the day after’ is an increasingly haunting question. A return to some version of Oslo Diplomacy…
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Foreword to Haidar Eid, Banging on the Walls of the Tank: Dispatches from Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
16 May 2025 – I have read many discerning and moving books on Palestine over the last fifty years but none has spoken to me as forcefully and persuasively as this short volume of opinion pieces written by Haidar Eid from 2009 to the present.
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Let Me Now Praise James Agee
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 May 2025
On the US writer James Agee’s burial stone in an isolated wooded spot off a dirt road in upstate New York, there are no words.
→ read full articleGatsby Meets Nietzsche on the Train to Town
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2025
“You can’t repeat the past,” says Nick Carraway to Jay Gatsby in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which was published one hundred years ago this spring. Gatsby responds incredulously, “Can’t repeat the past? Why of course you can!”
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Forum on Nuclear Weapons and Global Order
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
3 May 2025 – On Monday, May 5, a Forum at Columbia University will feature Jeffrey Sachs, public intellectual, and Ivana Hughes, President of the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, in a discussion that I am also honored to take part. I hope as many of subscribers will attend online.
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A Lesson from Brazil – Where Gig Workers Have Rallied against the Right
Rodrigo Nunes | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2025
25 Apr 2025 – Rodrigo Nunes, a senior lecturer in political theory, explains how despite harsh economic conditions creating fertile ground for ‘entrepreneur culture’, resistance has sprung up among delivery drivers.
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Hailing Francesca Albanese’s Second Three-Year Term
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
16 Apr 2025 – The role of the Special Rapporteur as established by the UNHRC to investigate and report upon Israel violations of human rights in Palestinian Territories has assumed increasing importance as a source of reliable information and enlightening analysis.
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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Apr 2025
12 Apr 2025 – The US has demanded control of a crucial pipeline in Ukraine used to send Russian gas to Europe, according to reports, in a move described as a colonial shakedown.
→ read full articleAt the Lost and Found
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
1 Apr 2025 – The following is the Introduction to my new book, At the Lost and Found. My dear mother, who had an artistic temperament that tended at times toward the sentimental, liked to call me a contrarian. She was right.
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US ‘Demands Control’ from Ukraine of Key Pipeline Carrying Russian Gas
Luke Harding | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
12 Apr 2025 – Senior Kyiv economist describes latest position of Trump administration in talks as ‘colonial-type’ bullying.
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Record-breaking $1 Trillion US Defense-Pentagon Budget
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
8 Apr 2025 – Trump, Hegseth Say It’s Happening – Interestingly, what should’ve been breaking news was sidelined by global panic regarding the new tariffs. Banality of evil.
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Do Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? MUST WATCH
Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
28 Mar 2025 – Prof. Richard Falk breaks down the complexities of international law, the right of resistance, and the enforcement gaps in global governance. From the context of decolonization to the current war in Gaza, he sheds light on the accountability facing Israel and the role of civil society in pushing for change.
→ read full articleWill the UN Pillory Francesca Albanese?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025 – This is another pivotal moment for the UN and its Human Rights Council; whether it is subject to manipulation on issues that test the UN’s political independence. Tomorrow the UNHRC will vote on whether to reappoint Francesca Albanese as Special Rapporteur for Occupied Palestinian Territories.
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Israel Killed 15 Palestinian Paramedics and Rescue Workers One by One, Says UN
Lorenzo Tondo, Malak A Tantesh and Julian Borger | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
31 Mar 2025 – Fifteen Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers, including at least one United Nations employee, were killed by Israeli forces “one by one” and buried in a mass grave eight days ago in southern Gaza, the UN has said.
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(Castellano) La gran hipocresía “verde” Norte-Sur
Bernard Duterme | Centro Tricontinental CETRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
4 Abril 2025 – Cuatro o cinco truismos que no están en duda, pero que nos sentimos obligados a recordar antes de proseguir. En primer lugar, la magnitud del desastre ecológico, su centralidad, su urgencia.
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We (the People) Stand United for the Common Good
Leonard Eiger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
31 Mar 2025 – Autocracy, authoritarianism, dictatorship, totalitarianism, despotism, monocracy, fascism – so many ways to describe the current state of the (not so) United States of America.
→ read full articleTrump’s Game Plan for Occupied Palestine: Forced Dispossession and Annexation
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
Trump’s brazen imperial outreach is articulated with neither qualifications, embarrassment, nor some claim of benevolence. In similar evasions of the sovereign rights of Panama, Greenland, Canada, and Mexico Trump has shaken the stability of the Westphalian world order.
→ read full articleDo Palestinians Have the Right to Resist? MUST WATCH
Richard Falk | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
28 Mar 2025 – Prof. Richard Falk breaks down the complexities of international law, the right of resistance, and the enforcement gaps in global governance. From the context of decolonization to the current war in Gaza, he sheds light on the accountability facing Israel and the role of civil society in pushing for change.
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Cuba Joining BRICS Is a Lifeboat for Its Economy
Ricardo Chica | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
18 Mar 2025 – In another sign of changing power relations in the ‘post-Western’ world, the BRICS group of emerging economies could frustrate the United States’ bid to sink communism in Cuba by strangling its economy.
→ read full articleThe Trump Assault on Government and the US Need for a New Progressive Program
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
Progressives in the United States need to put aside their justifiable detestation of Donald Trump long enough to answer this question: What’s the most important difference between MAGA Republicans and Democrats?
→ read full articleA Tuneful Irish Tale
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
14 Mar 2025 – The old man in the Irish cap sat on a chair on the sidewalk outside his house across from ours. I would usually see him on my way home from school.
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Unexpected ISA Award: Distinguished Scholar
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
7 Mar 2025 – I was surprised pleasantly by this award not often bestowed these days on a faculty member who writes and speaks in a critical voice on core issues of US foreign policy, especially in the context of Middle East politics, and above all with regard to Palestine/Israel, and particularly with someone who like myself early on named Israel’s response to October 7 in Gaza as ‘genocide.’
→ read full articleWhose Dog Was Being Wagged During Showtime between Trump and Zelensky?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
So if you sat with your mouth agape in shock at the dog and pony show in DC between Trump, the reality TV actor, and Zelensky, the comedian, who became Ukraine’s president and Trump’s apprentice in 2019 during Trump’s first term, let me suggest a bizarre possibility at a time when the bizarre has become commonplace.
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Rethinking International Law after Gaza: Closing the Enforcement Gap
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
8 Mar 2025 – Israel’s Recourse to Genocide: Overt yet Denied
→ read full articleHold the Applause for Trump, the “Peacemaker”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
I think extreme caution is advised when it comes to Trump’s plans to end the U.S. proxy war against Russia, which, following the Nixon-Kissinger script, seems to be aimed at splitting the Russian-Chinese partnership now threatening U.S. world domination.
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Direct, Structural, and Cultural Violence
Harvard Online - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
Norwegian peace/conflict theorist Johan Galtung developed a three-layered understanding of violence that represents how a confluence of factors merge to shape the conditions for the promotion and perpetuation of violence.
→ read full articleUSAID “Marxists”? Once again Elon Musk Displays His Invincible Ignorance
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
King Donald and Prince Elon (or do I have their titles reversed?) have begun to treat the thousands working in foreign aid with a cruel contempt that reflects their true feelings about all workers other than those wearing MAGA hats.
→ read full articleThe Fragile Ceasefire: Gaza Tribunal More Relevant
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
30 Jan 2025 – My latest attempt to express support for the Gaza Tribunal Project seeking civil society enforcement of international law given the neutering of the global normative order.
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‘From Ground Zero–Stories from Gaza’: An Appreciation of the Palestinian People
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
22 Jan 2025 – This extraordinary film, on the 2024 Oscar shortlist for documentaries, consists of 22 episodes stitched together by Palestinian film director Rashid Masharawi but without any effort to curate a narrative experience of the Gaza ordeal now in its 15th month.
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Trump’s Gaza Proposal Rejected by Allies and Condemned as Ethnic Cleansing Plan
Emma Graham-Harrison | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
26 Jan 2025 – Trump’s proposal that large numbers of Palestinians should leave Gaza to “just clean out” the whole strip has been rejected by US allies in the region and attacked as biased, dangerous, illegal and unworkable by lawyers and activists.
→ read full articleNew Realities of Israel/Palestine in the Trump Era: Settler Colonial Destinies in the 21st Century
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Update of an interview with Mohammad Ali Haqshenas, a journalist with the International Quran News Agency, published on 22 Jan 2025.
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UN Special Rapporteurs on Palestine Talk Truth to Power as Trump Takes Over the US Government
Richard Falk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
25 Jan 2025 – The first episode of a new podcast initiated by Junaid Ahmed and Paulina Chan, under SHAPE auspices, featuring the three most recent UN Special Rapporteurs on Occupied Palestine.
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Fiqhi* Pathways: The Role of Islamic Jurists in Shaping Armed Group Behavior
Lakhdar Ghettas | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
This research project aims to understand the structures and roles of Islamic jurists in shaping armed group behavior in the MENA and Sahel region.
→ read full articleJanuary 20, 2025
Heather Cox Richardson | Letters from an American - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
The tone for Trump’s inauguration was set on Fri 17 Jan, when he launched his own cryptocurrency. By Sun morning, it had made more than $50 billion. A financial asset that didn’t exist on Fri today accounts for 89% of Trump’s net worth.
→ read full articleMartin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, and Gaza
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
No doubt Satan will be laughing with delight as Donald Trump is sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I still wonder: Are the dead nostalgic? I hope so.
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Mafia Don? Trump and Other Presidents Who Flirted with the Mob
Martin Pengelly | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
13 Jan 2025 – A new book looks into the complicated relationship between the mob and the White House from Roosevelt to Biden.
→ read full articlePolitical Taboos and the Failures of Conflict Resolution
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
Thirty-five years ago, the great American peacemaker Elise Boulding offered a group of scholars and activists essential advice on how to practice effective conflict resolution. Envision as wide an array as possible of proposed solutions to the problems generating the conflict, she said,…
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TRANSCEND Member S.P. Udayakumar receives 2025 ‘Nuclear-Free Future Award’
The Nuclear-Free Future Awards - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
14 Jan 2025 – The Award laureates are chosen by an international jury in three categories: Resistance, Education and Solution. The 2025 laureates are: S.P. Udayakumar (India) for Resistance; Márcia Gomes de Oliveira and Norbert Suchanek (Brazil / Germany) for Education; and Edwick Madzimure (Zimbabwe) for Solution.
→ read full articleOn Mitigating Ageing: An Advertisement for Myself
Richard Falk, Margaret W. Crane | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – Nonagenarian Richard Falk’s Long, Fruitful Post-Retirement – ‘With some embarrassment, and a bit of pride, I publish Margaret Crane’s interview for her newsletter on ageing. I thought that being asked what it means to be THIS old, I would learn something about my state of mind and of being-in-the-world.’
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Gaza Death Toll 40% Higher Than Official Number, Lancet Study Finds
The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
10 Jan 2025 – Research published in the Lancet medical journal estimates that the death toll in Gaza by the end of June was 64,260, with 59% being women, children and people over 65.
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How the West Destroyed Syria
Rick Sterling Interviews Peter Ford – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
11 Jan 2025 – Peter Ford served in the UK Foreign Ministry for many years including as ambassador to Bahrain (1999-2003) and Syria (2003-2006). After, he was representative to the Arab world for the Commissioner General of the UN Relief and Works Agency.
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Adagietto Symphony 5 – Karajan (Music Video of the Week)
Mahler | greatclassicrecords – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Karajan’s Mahler is unsurpassed. Enjoy!
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Welcome to U.S. 2025: Where Your Freedoms Go to Die
John and Nisha Whitehead | The Rutherford Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
8 Jan 2025 – “There is no greater tyranny than that which is perpetrated under the shield of the law and in the name of justice.”—Montesquieu, Enlightenment philosopher – Wondering what to expect from the US government in 2025?
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A Remembrance of Jimmy Carter
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
3 Jan 2025 – A recollection of my only meeting with the former president at the Carter Center, a minor event, although in the context of repeated mistakes by the ‘political realists’ who continue to shape US foreign policy, perhaps of some interest.
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Slovakia: Suddenly the Most Important EU Country? A Venue for Peace
Richard C. Cook | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
2 Jan 2025 – With the recent trip to Moscow by Prime Minister Robert Fico, Slovakia has become the most important country in the EU. Putin stated that Slovakia, “neutral” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, would be a suitable venue for war-ending negotiations with the West.
→ read full article2025: Amid the Darkness, Glimmers of Light
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
25 Dec 2024 – 2024 was dominated by disappointments, disturbing surprises, and continuing devastation in Ukraine and Gaza. It underscored the UN’s inability to stop the genocide in Gaza, a senseless war in Ukraine, and mass slaughter in Sudan.
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Why a Civil Society Tribunal on Gaza Genocide Is Necessary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
15 Dec 2024 – The idea of a Peoples or Civil Society Tribunal on the genocidal blockade of Palestinian civilians is a valuable initiative. A proposal with adequate funding by the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum in Turkey came to our attention last May.
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Autism, Made in the USA
Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
18 Dec 2024 – Since the 1990s, ADHD rates in the US have risen by 890 percent, autism by 2,094 percent, bipolar disease in youth by 10,833 percent, and celiac disease by 1,011 percent. What has fundamentally changed in our children’s health over the past three decades?
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Syria’s Fall: In-Depth Analysis
Simplicius' Garden of Knowledge - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
10 Dec 2024 – Syria has fallen, and history will be strewn with an endless banquet of takes and interpretations as to what happened, how, and why. Here I offer one humble middle approach to piece it together, supported by facts and some deductive reasoning, rather than emotional gut reactions.
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Japanese Researchers Say Side Effects of COVID Vaccines Linked to 201 Types of Diseases
Michel Chossudovsky and Lee Harding | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
20 Dec 2024 – The evidence is overwhelming. It potentially affects 96 million vaccinated people in Japan where the vaccines distributed are identical to those marketed worldwide: Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna Spikevax Bivalent, AstraZeneca, etc.
→ read full articleEducating for Adaptive Change Beneath a Darkening Sky
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
9 Dec 2024 – Lending support to efforts to ground foreign policy on respect for international law, itself flawed, and the imperatives of peace, equity, justice, and non-theocratic spirituality.
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(Castellano) El Surgir de la Espiritualidad Natural
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Diciembre 2024 – Hay muchos que están hartos de bienes materiales y del consumismo de nuestra cultura. Como contrapunto a esta situación estamos captando la aparición del mundo espiritual, de la espiritualidad natural, y verificamos su urgente actualidad frente a las numerosas crisis que asolan a toda la humanidad.
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‘The Whole Foundation Is Rocking’: Inside the Explosive Film about the Investigation of Benjamin Netanyahu
Julian Borger | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
2 Dec 2024 – The Bibi Files contains leaked footage of the Israeli PM being interrogated by police over allegations of corruption – and argues that these are partly why he has taken the region into the abyss. We meet the journalist behind it.
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New Powder That Captures Carbon Could Be ‘Quantum Leap’ for Industry
Katharine Gammon | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
29 Nov 2024 – A ‘covalent organic framework’ can be used to capture carbon to store it or convert it for industrial use.
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Netanyahu’s Boycott of Haaretz Won’t Stop Us Reporting the Grim Truth about Israel’s Wars
Aluf Benn | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
26 Nov 2024 – Unlike most Israeli news outlets, my paper shows the suffering in Gaza and Lebanon. That’s why the government has targeted us.
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