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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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(Português) O Silêncio de Deus e a Morte dos Inocentes: Deus Por Que Te Calas?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

10 abril 2024 – Vivemos globalmente num mundo trágico, cheio de incertezas, de ameaças e de perguntas para as quais não temos respostas. Para onde estamos indo? para o prolongamento do atual modo de habitar a Terra, devastando-a para um maior enriquecimento de poucos, ou mudaremos de rumo?

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Gaza Destroyed, Aid Workers Murdered: A Deliberate Israeli Strategy?
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2024

8 Apr 2024 – The missile attack on WCK was a war crime; a crime against humanity and part of a genocidal Likud plan to eliminate Gazans from the Mediterranean coastline that they have occupied for a thousand years.

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

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

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

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

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Israeli Army War Crime against Aid Workers Could Have Killed Me
Robin Edward Poulton, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

2 Apr 2024 – Delivering aid is a dangerous business. Before the tragic assassination of the seven World Central Kitchen staff, a lot of aid workers have died while on mission.  If I were younger, I might well have been in Gaza on that mission.

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The Age of Extinction: ‘Ecocide in Gaza’
Kaamil Ahmed, Damien Gayle and Aseel Mousa | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Apr 2024

29 Mar 2024 – Does Scale of Environmental Destruction Amount to a War Crime? Satellite analysis shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside air and water pollution, Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable.

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

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

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The CIA Does “Soulful Work”
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2024

25 Mar 2024 – Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a spate of books and articles extolling the word “soul” became the rage in the United States.  Soul became the chic word.  It popped up everywhere. 

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Johan Galtung Obituary
Hugh Miall | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

The Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, who has died aged 93, was a leading contributor to peace and conflict research. His ideas about positive peace and structural violence have had a global resonance. Now taught in more than 500 universities, the field he helped to establish has become a worldwide endeavour.

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

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

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What Was Palestine Before the Nakba?
Mohammed El-Kurd | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

14 Mar 2024 – A stunning photo archive reveals a time before the walls and checkpoints, when Palestine was not defined by its ailments but by its industries and cultures.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Johan Galtung, “the Father of Peace Studies,” Dies at 93
Right Livelihood Awards - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, who has developed an academic understanding of peacebuilding, passed away on 17 Feb 2024. A recipient of the Right Livelihood Award in 1987, Galtung was a dedicated peace advocate whose influence extended far beyond national borders.

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

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

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(Português) Os Novos Bárbaros: A Comunidade Europeia e os EUA
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

5 Mar 2024 – A guerra de extermínio que Israel está perpetrando contra os mais de dois milhões de palestinos da Faixa de Gaza, apoiado pelos EUA, pela inteira Comunidade Europeia e pela NATO, nos legitima de chamá-los de novos bárbaros.

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

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

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

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

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In Memory of Johan Galtung: An Inspiration for Fundamental Peace and Happytalism
Luis Gallardo - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

20 Feb 2024 – Johan Galtung, often hailed as the father of Peace Studies, left behind a rich legacy that continues to inspire and guide those committed to understanding and fostering peace worldwide.

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The Principles of Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Leveraging Democratic Polarities
Angelina Inesia-Forde | Walden University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Abstract: The polarities of democracy framework is used to achieve human emancipation by simultaneously managing multiple paradoxes by employing Johnson’s polarity management as the conceptual framework. Although Johnson’s framework may be appropriate for managing other tension-dependent pairs, it is less suitable for managing multiple democratic values when the goal is human emancipation and sustainable democratic social change.

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

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

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

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

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The Unexpected
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Feb 2024

9 Feb 2024 – Despite calendars and clocks and all the mental gymnastics we use to control life and time, surprises are at the heart of existence.  This may seem like a truism…

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

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

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Abolishing Nuclear Weapons – No Utopian Dream
Leonard Eiger & Glen Milner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Feb 2024

28 Jan 2024 – The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (TPNW) went into effect three years ago (on January 22, 2021) making nuclear weapons illegal under international law for the first time in history.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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An Immense Hunger
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

1 Jan 2024 – What can we do, how create the new when we are such stuff as dreams are made on? To escape the period that ends every sentence, every year, every life, one only needs winged words to take flight, to shimmer in the ascending iridescent light.

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

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

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Operation Condor: The Cold War US Conspiracy That Terrorized South America
Giles Tremlett | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

During the 1970s and 80s, eight US (Henry Kissinger)-backed right wing military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their left wing political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice.

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Jesus, Gaza, and the Murder of Useless People
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem who grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. What we celebrate at Christmas is the opposite of what he stood for. Once there was a mother, father and child on the run to safety in Egypt; today, there are millions of Palestinian refugees on the run to nowhere but a dead-end.

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

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

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

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

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Four Died Trying: A Powerful, Riveting, Masterful Documentary Series Begins
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

13 Dec 2023 – It is hard for those who have not lived through the shattering political assassinations of the 1960s to grasp their significance for today.  Many might assume that that was then, long before their time, so let’s move on to what we must deal with today. This is an understandable but mistaken attitude that this documentary will quickly shatter, visually and audibly.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Doctors Without Borders Calls US Veto of Gaza Ceasefire Resolution “a Vote against Humanity”
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

Today, 8 Dec 2023, the UNSC failed to adopt a resolution demanding a ceasefire in Gaza—blocked by a veto from the United States. The Security Council held an emergency meeting to discuss the humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza. “The US veto makes it complicit in the carnage in Gaza.”

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

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

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Cop28 President Says There Is ‘No Science’ Behind Demands for Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels
Damian Carrington and Ben Stockton | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

3 Dec 2023 – The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed. He said a phase-out would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.

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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping Not Attending the Cop28 Climate Meeting in Dubai
Reuters | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

27 Nov 2023 – US President Joe Biden is not attending a gathering of world leaders focused on climate change in Dubai this week. Xi Jinping of China is also not expected to attend. Envoys for Biden and Xi have signaled their close cooperation before the talks.

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

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

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Hasta Siempre Comandante Che Guevara (Music Video of the Week)
Nathalie Cardone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

Song in honor of the great revolutionary leader, Ernesto Che Guevara, by Cuban composer Pablo Cuebras. Viva Che !!!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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The Life and Public Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by the CIA
Edward Curtin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Nov 2023

23 Nov 2023 – Why Pres. Kennedy was publicly murdered by the CIA sixty years ago has never been more important. There is nothing to debate unless one is some sort of intelligence operative, has an obsession, or is out to make a name or a buck.

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

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

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Israel Faces Wave of International Condemnation over Hospital Raid
Patrick Wintour | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

15 Nov 2023 – The scale and virulence of the global condemnation from Arab and western governments raised questions about how much longer Israel can continue with its offensive. The US distanced itself from the military takeover of the hospital, saying it had not authorised the Israeli decision.

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(Português) Os Crimes de Guerra em Gaza; a Demência da Razão e a Falta de Coração
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Nov 2023

16 nov 2023 – Assistimos à “era da guerra eterna” pelos EUA onde vivem a ideologia do “Destino Manifesto” de serem “o novo povo de Deus”, pela democracia (burguesa), os direitos humanos (individuais, esquecendo os sociais e ecológicos) e o valor supremo do indivíduo (base da acumulação capitalista). Farão guerra para impedir a multipolaridade.

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

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

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An Epistle to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023

10 Nov 2023 – Seeing you stumble on your way by throwing your full support to the Zionist leaders of Israel has been a body blow to me. That you have not defended the children of Gaza and condemned their massacre by the thousands has shocked and sickened me.

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

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

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(Português) O Genocídio Israelense: Suprema Expressão do Paradigma Moderno?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Nov 2023

9 nov 2023 – Vamos direto ao assunto. A retaliação do estado de Israel ao ato de terror pelo Hamas foi profundamente desproporcional. Tinha o direito de autodefesa, mas a pretexto de caçar e matar terroristas acionou seu sofisticado arsenal bélico. Foram destruídos centenas de edifícios, assassinados milhares de crianças, mulheres e civis. Não se trata de uma guerra, mas de um verdadeiro genocídio e limpeza étnica.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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(Português) A Desumanidade Atual: Perdeu-se a Humanidade do Ser Humano?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Oct 2023

24 out 2023 – Nietzsche repetiu muitas vezes que o desumano pertence também ao humano dado a nossa condição humana ser simultaneamente racional e irracional, caótica e harmoniosa. O que as maiorias da humanidade desejam desesperadamente é um mundo onde todos possam caber em paz, com o suficiente e o decente para todos, na mesma Casa Comum, agora em guerra e sob o fogo.

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

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

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

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

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“Peace, War, and 9/11”: A Cinematic Portrait of Graeme MacQueen, a Warrior for Peace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

19 Oct 2023 – It is one thing to read a review of this important and compelling film and another to watch it.  The former fades into insignificance when one takes an hour-and-a-half to immerse oneself in its tragic yet revelatory story. 

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Reporters without Borders Launches Global ‘Collateral Damage’ Campaign
RSF/Reporters Without Borders - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Oct 2023

18 Oct 2023 – Developed in partnership with the French advertising agency BETC, the campaign depicts Assange with his facial features made up of the logos of media organisations that initially ran stories based on WikiLeaks in 2010.

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No Power, Water or Fuel to Gaza Until Hostages Freed, Says Israel Minister
Bethan McKernan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Oct 2023

12 Oct 2023 – US secretary of state lands in Tel Aviv after fifth night of bombardment and preparations for ground invasion.

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

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

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The German Banker and British Lord Who Wrote the ‘Capitalist Magna Carta’
Claire Provost and Matt Kennard | Declassified UK – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Oct 2023

4 Oct 2023 – In this excerpt from their book, Silent Coup, the authors go to the sources of a key legal mechanism used by multinational corporations to override governments around the world.

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

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

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

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

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Waiting for an Apocalypse
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Oct 2023

Finding Hope Living Outside the Box

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

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

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Leaders of World’s Biggest Polluting Countries Skipping UN Climate Summit
Oliver Milman | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

20 Sep 2023 – Joe Biden and Xi Jinping, leaders of two biggest carbon emitters, among those not attending the UN Climate Ambition Summit in New York today.

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

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

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Judge Rules 9/11 Defendant Unfit for Trial after CIA Torture Made Him Psychotic
AP | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Sep 2023

22 Sep 2023 – A military judge at Guantánamo Bay has ruled a 9/11 defendant incompetent to stand trial after a military medical panel found that the man’s sustained abuse in CIA custody years earlier had rendered him lastingly psychotic.

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

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

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(Castellano) C. G. Jung: La espiritualidad como dimensión esencial del alma
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

9 septiembre 2023 – Hoy existe una preocupación fundamental: rescatar la razón sensible o cordial (del  corazón) para equilibrar el exceso desastroso de la razón instrumental-analítica. Tenemos que armonizar el logos con el pathos, el anima con el animus si queremos resolver los problemas sociales y enfrentar la alarma ecológica.

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Fernando Botero Angulo, Painter and Sculptor (19 Apr 1932 – 15 Sep 2023)
Nick Caistor | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

Colombian painter and sculptor of voluminous figures that grace city centres the world over including Paris, Madrid and London. RIP

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Another Magical JFK Assassination Pseudo-Debate and Limited Hangout
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Sep 2023

4 Sep 2023 – Much has been made of the simultaneous reports in The New York Times and Vanity Fair of a former Secret Service agent, Paul Landis, part of the security detail in Dallas when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. 

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

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

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‘Occupied by the US’: Wildfires Renew Native Hawaiian Call for Sovereignty
Claire Wang | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Sep 2023

7 Sep 2023 – As Disaster Capitalists Descend on Lahaina, Indigenous Hawaiians Fight for Self-Governance

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

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

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

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

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Australian Intelligence Agency Funding Research to Merge Human Brain Cells with AI
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

A team of researchers in a Melbourne lab received a $600,000 grant to merge biology with AI. They already demonstrated how 800,000 brain cells in a Petri dish play a game of “Pong.” Meanwhile, Elon Musk’s Neuralink has FDA approval to study brain implants in humans since May. They call it transhumanism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Clearing the Fog of ‘Unprovoked’ War
Edward Lozansky, Ph.D. | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

9 Aug 2023 – For the record: I was born in Ukraine, studied in Russia, and worked in the USA as a laser fusion researcher and Professor of Mathematics and Physics. I have relatives and friends in all three countries, and for the last 35 years, I have been trying to do my best to make them friends, partners, or even allies. Instead, all three are now at war, even if some call the U.S. war only a war “by proxy.”

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Numbed by Numbers on the Way to the Digital Palace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Sep 2023

Everybody knows that 2 + 2 = 4 since 4 = 2 + 2.  They know that excellent thing with certainty but generally fail to appreciate the charming nature of 2 + 2 = 5.  Tautologies are usually preferred to choices that seem to contradict the “laws of nature.” 

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Law & War: A Comparison of Vietnam and Palestine/Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

26 Aug 2023 – The text below is my foreword to an exceptionally valuable comparison of conflicts: Vietnam and Arab-Israeli.

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(Italiano) Mobilitazione per la guerra con la Cina: falchi USA prendono di mira “Code Pink”
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Aug 2023

22 Agosto 2023 – Per gli attivisti antiguerra, la mobilitazione per la guerra con la Cina e i preparativi per una guerra di primo rango hanno un aspetto letteralmente da incubo, in cui si osserva come fisicamente o moralmente paralizzati l’approssimarsi passo passo di una situazione minacciosa finché è troppo tardi per evitare un prevedibile disastro.

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Quran Desecration and Freedom of Expression
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

The harder efforts are made to stop this highly objectionable behavior by Islamophobic and right-wing extremists groups, the greater is their temptation to persist in such action. In the short-term what these groups seek is public recognition and media attention, not power or authority.

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Mr. Blue and the CIA
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

18 Aug 2023 – Some time ago on a Sunday evening when my wife and I had just sat down to dinner, our phone rang.  Since I didn’t recognize the phone number and it was dinnertime, I hesitated to answer it, but for some chance reason I did.  The voice on the other end was agitated, intense, and asked for me.

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Mobilizing for War with China: U.S. Hawks Target “Code Pink”
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Aug 2023

A sign of war fever involves concerted efforts by government and news media hawks to defame and criminalize the behavior of activists who oppose the deterioration of relations with the alleged enemy. The anti-China crowd’s latest target is Code Pink.

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