Articles by TRANSCEND Media Service
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How the CIA and US Special Forces Manufactured a Migrant Crisis and Orwellian Police State in Vietnam Before Going to the Americas
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – If such tactics continue, it is possible that an enlargement of such a program could lead to a pacification program of areas of the United States, such as the CIA and the US Army have carried out in Indochina.”
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Mathematical Modelling of Silo Thinking in Interdisciplinary Contexts
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – AI Perspectives on Balancing Integration and Identity Faced by Strategic Complexity – Mathematics, notably through the complexity sciences, is upheld as vital to insightful understanding of complexity. Governance of global society is faced with complexity. A question of interest is whether there are mathematical insights of great potential relevance that are a challenge to comprehension.
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Likud Party Charter (1977) – Eretz Israel
Michael Brenner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
The Right of the Jewish People to the Land of Israel (Eretz Israel) – Judea and Samaria will not be handed to any foreign administration; between the Sea and the Jordan there will only be Israeli sovereignty.
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Trials and Tribulations of Palestinian Refugees in Syria & Palestine/Iran/Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
15 Apr 2024 – What will happen with this Israeli effort to get the US involved in a wider war directed at achieving regime-change in Iran remains uncertain, but it raises doubts about the war-prevention capabilities, and even motivations, of the US and to a lesser extent, China and Russia.
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US Vetoes Palestine UN Membership as Russia Walks Out
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – The USA yesterday vetoed a UNSC resolution granting Palestine full membership in the UN. Palestinian statehood was recognized by the U.N. General Assembly in Nov 2012 when it was given non-member, Observer State status. The U.S. defied 12 council members who voted for full membership. Britain and Switzerland abstained.
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US & UK Again Fail Palestine
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
18 Apr 2024 – The Two Powers That Have Done the Most to Wreck the Middle East – Both are currently actively backing Israel in its horrific genocide of Gaza.
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Transitional Justice (Part 57): Six-Pillar of Transitional Justice
Bishnu Pathak, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Transitional justice is to address past atrocities by bridging the gap between old and new regimes during democratic transitions. It signifies the shift from conflict to peace and political reforms through peaceful means.
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On the Ideological Battlefield for the European Parliament Elections
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Currently in most of the states of Western Europe, political debate is often related to the 9 June 2024 elections to the European Parliament. There is a certain irony in the fact that the representatives of narrow nationalist parties are among the most active in these discussions.
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Germany Confirms Its Collaboration with Genocide
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
A three-day Palestine conference in Berlin was forcibly shut down after three hours on Friday [12 Apr]. Electricity was abruptly terminated in the midst of the presentation by Salman Abu Sitta, the 87 year old author of the authoritative “Atlas of Palestine.”
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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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Violence and Terrorism in the World Today
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
When some unusual problems arise, many peace loving people and governments come together to follow dynamic principles of peace justice and harmony by overcoming economic or religious constraints.
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Google Contract Shows Deal with Israel Defense Ministry
Billy Perrigo | TIME - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
12 Apr 2024 – Google provides cloud computing services to the IDF and has negotiated deepening its partnership during Gaza’s genocide. The Israeli Ministry of Defense has its own “landing zone” into Google Cloud—a secure entry point to computing infrastructure that allows the ministry to access AI services–Project Nimbus.
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Yale Students Launch Hunger Strike Over School’s Connection to Gaza
Michael Arria | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
15 Apr 2024 – Fourteen student activists at Yale University are on a hunger strike over the school’s connection to arms manufacturers currently supplying Israel with weaponry. They have been pushing the school to divest from Israeli human rights abuses for months, but the administration has ignored their demands.
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(Italiano) Distruggere Hamas? No! Porre fine alla guerra di Gaza e iniziare il processo di pace!
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Nell’Irlanda del Nord i repubblicani cattolici e gli unionisti protestanti hanno imparato a condividere il potere pur se organizzazioni come l’Esercito Repubblicano Irlandese (IRA) e l’Alleanza di Difesa dell’Ulster avevano entrambe massacrato civili “nemici”. Sudafricani neri e bianchi hanno concordato un nuovo ordine politico benché militanti dell’African National Congress e del Partito Nazionale si erano terrorizzati l’un l’altro per decenni. Distruggere Hamas, pare chiaro, non è la strada per la pace.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 22 Apr 2024
Irish Nobel Laureate Mairead Maguire Nominates Burmese Activist Maung Zarni for 2024 NPP
FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024 – Forces of Renewal Southeast Asia and the Free Rohingya Coalition jointly announced Maguire’s nomination, based on Zarni’s “impactful and tireless activism for peace and harmony among human communities over three decades.” Both are members of the TRANSCEND Network.
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The New German Chauvinism (Part 1)
Bue Rübner Hansen | Lefteast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
In Germany, people are currently forced to choose between two critical and profound commitments: to accept their government’s complicity in the mass murder of civilians or to be accused of antisemitism.
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(Italiano) La Valle Gaza delle genti. Israele contro Israele
Enrico Peyretti - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Recensione del libro di Raniero La Valle, “Gaza delle genti. Israele contro Israele”. La Valle ha esposto il contenuto del suo libro il 3 aprile, nella moschea Taiba, la maggiore moschea della città di Torino.
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The US Did Not Fail to Intervene in Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – The most widespread and pernicious myth about the Rwandan Genocide may be that the US stood by and let it happen, but nothing could be further from the truth. The US in fact intervened aggressively—to make sure there would be no UN intervention.
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Death and Dying in the Vedic Tradition
Giriraj Swami – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
In 1969, when I was a student of psychology at Brandeis University, I met my spiritual teacher, Srila Prabhupada. In 1970, after studying with him for a year and a half, I went with him to India, and I was based there for the next thirty years. And in 1977 he taught us by his example how to leave the world in proper consciousness.
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Dead on Arrival
Ellen Cantarow | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
14 Apr 2024 – Words can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn’t exist; seeing building after building destroyed…
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What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
The measure of growth is not how much we have changed, but how harmoniously we have integrated our changes with all the selves we have been — those vessels of personhood stacked within the current self.
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The Staged “Boston Marathon Bombing” 11 Years Ago
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
15 Apr 2024 – 11 years ago today, the staged “Boston Marathon bombing” took place. A fully staged event involving two Hollywood-style smoke bombs, several civilian and military amputee actors, large amounts of stage blood, and photorealistic silicone wounds.
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The North American Peace Movement at an Inflection Point
Roger D. Harris | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing US wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China. Giving peace a chance has never been more plainly understood as opposition to what Martin Luther King, Jr., referred to as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own government.”
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Nicaragua’s Case against Germany Arming Israel
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
18 Apr 2024 – Unlike Washington, Berlin — Israel’s second-largest arms supplier — has consented to full jurisdiction of the ICJ so it is an easier target for Nicaragua’s lawsuit.
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“Land of Israel” and Palestine: The First Phase of the Creation of Der Judenstaat
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
14 Apr 2024 – The historical background of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict goes back to 1917 (the Balfour Declaration) and the establishment of the British protectorate over Palestine (the Palestine Mandate) after WWI with its provision for a national home for the Jews, although formally not to be at the expense of the local inhabitants – the Palestinians.
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Israeli Settlers, Soldiers ‘Wiping Palestinian Communities Off the Map’ in the West Bank
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – While the attention of the world is focused on Gaza, Israeli soldiers have either passively watched or participated in the uprooting of at least seven communities in the West Bank, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report.
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How Do You Define Peace? — Johan Galtung
The Stream | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Is the USA global dominance in decline? Discussing the future of geopolitics with the father of Peace Studies, Prof. Johan Galtung. Interview from 26 Apr 2012 [Please read a note from TMS Editor]
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WATCH: US Vetoes Palestine UN Membership as Russia Walks Out
United Nations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – Video of UNSC meeting Thu [18 Apr] when the U.S. vetoed full U.N. membership for Palestine as the Russian delegation walked out in protest before Israel’s speech.
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A Brief History of Kill Lists from Langley to Lavender
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024 – On Israel’s use of AI-generated kill lists in the Gaza genocide, and the CIA’s kill lists of thousands in country after country. How Israel’s Lavender is just the latest of the U.S. and its allies’ ever-increasing use of information technology to automate mass murder.
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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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Some Thoughts on Peace from Blue Danube
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
May peace flow from the Danube River, from the Motoyasu River, and from the Urakami River to every corner of the world!
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Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne (5 Nov 1931 – 16 Apr 2024)
Bill Bhaneja - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Dr. A. T. Ariyaratne, Sri Lanka’s great Gandhian nonviolent peace builder, passed away at age 92. He was the founder of the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement.
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Creating a Hydrogel That Removes Microplastics from Water
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024 – A breakthrough in the fight against pollution. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science in India have developed a sustainable hydrogel that removes microplastics from water by binding them and breaking them down under ultraviolet light.
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Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
NATO just turned 75. During all these years, we have heard repeatedly that the “Russians”–the Soviet Union/Warsaw Pact/today’s Russia–are coming! Having been wrong all this time, why do we spend trillions guarding against a threat that never happens–a bit like waiting for Godot in Beckett’s equally absurd drama?
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22 Apr 2024
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Myanmar Activist Zarni Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Questions Award’s Legacy
Zuhal Demirci | Anadolu Ajansı - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
20 Apr 2024 – ‘I was very happy but of course that is not to say that I see a Nobel Peace Prize as something that is perfect.’
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Poem for Stillness
Garous Abdolmalekian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
2020 – Amidst the bullets and the tanks sits the powerful desire for peace and love.
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International Legal Transgressions Committed by Israel in Gaza
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
20 Apr 2024 – The International Court of Justice Case 192 Summarized & Its Implications for the World.
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Russia Ready for Dialogue with Ukraine, Kremlin Says
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – Russian President Vladimir Putin has reiterated his readiness for dialogue with Ukraine and that an aborted 2022 peace deal could serve as a basis for resuming negotiations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
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Palestinian Paramedics Said Israel Gave Them Safe Passage to Save a 6-Year-Old Girl in Gaza. They Were All Killed.
Meg Kelly, et al. | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024 -For 3½ long hours on Jan. 29, the cellphone in 6-year-old Hind Rajab’s hands was the closest thing she had to a lifeline. Alone in the back seat of a car outside a Gaza City gas station, she was drifting in and out of consciousness. Paramedics were on their way, the dispatchers kept telling her: Hold on. The paramedics were driving to their deaths.
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In Gaza the Sniper Drones Are Crying like Babies
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – The drones play recordings of crying babies and women screaming in distress in order to lure people out into the open, and then shoot them.
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(Italiano) Non siamo innocenti: collaborare o non collaborare con il complesso militare-industriale-accademico-mediatico?
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Non siamo IMPOTENTI, neppure ONNIPOTENTI, abbiamo un POTERE PERSONALE che possiamo esercitare. Cosa significa non collaborazione.
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The New German Chauvinism (Part 2)
Bue Rübner Hansen | Lefteast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Does the German state’s adoption of Holocaust memorialization blocks the re-emergence of the far-right, strengthens democracy, prevents racism, and undermines antisemitism?
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Colleagues…
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Comedy Hour
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The Amputated Limbs of Children
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
“I want my legs back,” the girl cried in Arabic.“ I want my legs back.” You can’t have your legs back, little girl. They have been eaten by a hungry machine who needs them for fuel to power its gears.
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Etiquette for US College Students
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
20 Apr 2024 – The University of Southern California recently cancelled the commencement address of its pro-Palestinian Muslim valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, after pressure from Jewish groups, and as of today has also cancelled the appearances of commencement speakers John Chu, director of ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ and the tennis star Billie Jean King.
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Fanmi Lavalas on Haiti
Maryse Narcisse | Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024 – Despite the insecurity and the gangs threatening people in poor neighborhoods, the struggle continues. This war has not weakened the determination of the population and will not succeed in making them accept the unacceptable. To succeed in the struggle for the development of our country, we must question the models and habits inherited from the colonial system.
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15 Witnesses, Three Confessions, a Pattern of Naked Dead Bodies. All the Evidence of Hamas Rape on October 7
Liza Rozovsky | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – Hamas’ acts of rape on October 7 have turned into one of the massacre’s most contentious topics. Each testimony and detail that emerges is weaponized in the clash between Israel’s supporters and its opponents. Now, based on conversations with dozens of sources, a Haaretz investigation delineates which proof exists for sex crimes committed by Hamas – and what is missing.
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More Than Fifty Species of Fish Circling and Spinning until They Die
Arthur Firstenberg | Cellular Phone Task Force - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Whirling Fish, Bees, Worms, Sheep, Turtles, Penguins – No cause for this has been found. There is no evidence of a red tide, low oxygen levels, high temperatures, or parasites in the dead fish.
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Polling Begins in India: 969 million Voters to Participate in 7 Phases of the National Elections
Nava J. Thakuria | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – The biggest electoral show on Earth begins in India as polling starts at 7 am today. Voters will exercise their franchise through the electronic voting machines to elect 543 members to the 18th Lok Sabha for the next five years.
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Peace Journalism Training for Journalists in Afghanistan
Jake Lynch and Matt Freear | MDPI-Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
18 Mar 2024 – A Contribution to the ‘Preventing Violent Extremism-PVE Project’ in the New Afghanistan
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Preventing Armageddon in the 21st Century
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Some conflicts – whether between spouses, labor and management, or nations – seem to escalate out of control. They follow a malignant course toward outcomes that nobody wants. People who are caught up in such conflict usually find ample justification for blaming the other party.
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Armenian Christians under Siege by Israel
Jeremy Loffredo | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – A 4th century community of Armenian Christians face displacement by a shadowy Israeli corporation called Xana Capital and the violent settlers it uses as hired muscle.
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Under the Rubble (Music Video of the Week)
Roger Waters – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Giving them a voice. Dándoles voz.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 191: Iran Launches Retaliatory Strikes on Israel as Israeli Settlers Rampage in the West Bank
Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
14 Apr 2024 – Iran said that its retaliation for Israel’s 1 Apr attack on the Iranian consulate in Damascus would be “deemed concluded,” while Biden reportedly told Netanyahu that the U.S. would not back an Israeli counterattack.
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Why India’s Election Is Such a Big Deal
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
India’s Election Explained
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Germany Bans Yanis Varoufakis from Entering the Country
DiEM25 Communications - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
13 Apr 2024 – The German Ministry of the Interior has issued a ban against DiEM25 co-founder Yanis Varoufakis including online participation at political events in the country after the police shut down the Palestine Congress to take place from April 12 to 14 in Berlin.
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44% of All Palestinians Killed by Israel Since October 7 Are Children
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – Over 14,000 children have been killed and nearly 17,000 others have lost at least one or both of their parents in the Israeli bombings or ground offensives in the last six months in Gaza.
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Gaza Is Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Seen
Arwa Damon | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
9 Apr 2024 – “Nothing goes in and out of Gaza without Israel’s approval. That includes aid, and that includes people. The zone needs to be flooded not only with aid but also with humanitarian workers.”
→ read full articleHarmonizing Dissonance via a Rubik’s Cube Framework
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
15 Apr 2024 – Experimental Guide to Navigation of Hypersensitive Global Polarization – There is no lack of reference to global division and polarization: Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Vaccination-Antivax. Each of these now constrains discourse — even to the point of dividing families, friends, communities, or collegial groups.
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‘Come Out, You Animals’: How the Massacre at Al-Shifa Hospital Happened
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – Human heads eaten by crows, unidentified and decomposing body parts, and hundreds of corpses piled up and buried in mass graves are all that remained of the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital where the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, executing hundreds of civilians.
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The Speech That I Could Not Deliver Because German Police Burst to Disband Our Palestine Congress
Yanis Varoufakis | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
12 Apr 2024 – Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words (1930s style):
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(Italiano) Dopo Impero USA: un mondo di regioni?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Nonviolenza, sofisticazione, mondo, e norme di traffico domestiche/nazionali anziché interminabile interventismo per qualunque scopo. Possa l’attuale miscela asiatica di antica saggezza ed energia giovanile ispirare un mondo saturo di pessimismo e paura.
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Weaponising Underwear: Genocide with a Semi-Pornographic Twist
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
12 Apr 2024 – Let’s pretend for a moment that Hamas militants from Gaza were posing for social media with lingerie from Israeli women who fled their homes or were killed. Imagine the moral outrage that would ensue, entailing racist and self-righteous allegations of Arab perverseness, the barbaric sexism of Islam, and the tendencies of sexually repressed Muslims.
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The Moon
Mosab Abu Toha – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Her small belly, her chest,
her forehead, her hands,
her cold feet bare in the night.
Rwanda Genocide: The Lasting Consequences of Armed Violence
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
On 7 April 2024, Paul Kagame, President of Rwanda, lit the memorial flame of the monument to the victims of the 1994 genocide during which some 800,000 persons, mostly ethnic Tutsi, were killed. Paul Kagame in 1994 was the head of a Tutsi-led militia, the Rwanda Patriotic Front which put an end to the massacres in Rwanda.
→ read full articleDestroy 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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Ukraine and the Zaporozhye Nuclear Power Plant: The Samson Solution
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 -A Biblical story: Having been betrayed and captured by the Philistines, Samson ends his life by exerting his great strength and pulling down the pillars he was chained to. The building falls down killing everyone.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Message: ‘Don’t Feed the Palestinians or You Will Die’
Andrew Mitrovica | Aljazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
7 Apr 2024 – The invading Israeli army ought to have erected signs throughout Gaza that read: “Don’t feed the Palestinians: Punishable by death.” The killing of the seven aid workers in Gaza is a direct consequence of Israel’s brutal ‘rules of engagement’.
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(Italiano) Gesù, Giuda e Che Guevara
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Aprile 2024 – C’è un esercizio detto Civiltà Occidentale, e una narrazione drammatica al centro di tale esercizio con due personaggi nei ruoli chiave, Gesù e Giuda. Il periodo pasquale attuale è qui per rammentarci del dramma.
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In Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
10 Apr 2024 – Judi Rever risked her life to write the true story of the Rwandan Genocide.
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There Is No Grudge That Cannot Be Resolved: China’s Xi Jinping to Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
“[There is] [n]o problem that cannot be talked through. And there are no forces that can separate us,” Xi Jinping said in momentous Beijing meeting.
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Five Years at Belmarsh: A Chronicle of Julian Assange’s Imprisonment
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – Calls for Assange’s freedom are renewed as the WikiLeaks founder marks five years in Belmarsh prison.
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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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Sri Narasimha Prayer for Protection from Fear and Anxiety (Music Video of the Week)
ISKCON Bangalore Music – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Today I offer you a Music Video very different from the usual mundane. Enjoy the music, the choreography and the setting: beautiful, captivating and pleasant, exuding spirituality.
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Horror and Hope in Haiti after 20 Years of Occupation
Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
6 Apr 2024 – The immediate crisis in Haiti goes back to the 29 Feb 2004 coup against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and the imposition of occupation forces, first by the US, France and Canada, then by a larger UN force, dubbed MINUSTAH, which, while overseeing the police, participated in several documented massacres, and introduced cholera in 2010.
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Violating Diplomatic Missions
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – The Premises of the Diplomatic Missions Shall Be Inviolable – From Israel’s bombing of Iran’s embassy in Damascus to Ecuador’s raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, leaders feel emboldened by the impunity granted by the Global North to disregard diplomatic norms and respect.
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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)
→ read full articleIsraeli Milestones: From Six Day Victory to Six Month Failure
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – We have passed the tipping point. The unrelenting slaughter of Palestinian civilians over the past six months has forever changed the perception of Israel in the West. Israel is now widely seen internationally as a “bad guy” similar to how the US was seen in the late 60’s in Vietnam.
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World Economic Forum’s Great Reset: The Great Dispossession. The Loss of Property Rights in Financial Assets. “Own Nothing Be Happy”
Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – Klaus Schwab tells us that in the Great Reset that the WEF is preparing for us “you will own nothing and you will be happy.” Well, we already own nothing. Our bank deposits and stocks and bonds, in the event the depository institution gets into trouble, belong to the their creditors, not to us. We are not happy!
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Gaza Asks Us a Question about What Kind of Future We Want to Have
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
9 Apr 2024 – A live-streamed genocide happening right out in the open forces a civilization to start asking questions about itself. [Are 21st century human beings savage under the illusion of being civilized? –TMS Editor]
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For Roma, Justice Truly Is Blind
Jonathan Lee | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
10 Apr 2024 – Europe’s courts fail to deliver justice to Roma abused by police even presented with overwhelming video evidence.
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As Palestine Applies for Full UN Membership, What’s in the Way?
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
9 Apr 2024 – History set to be repeated as the US prepares to wield veto, cynically insisting Palestine must negotiate statehood with Israel first.
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Elections in Narendrabhai Damodardas Modi’s Bharat Hindutva: A Lesson in the Transformation of Democracy in Religious Autocracy (Part 2)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
This paper is written as an objective analysis of the current political climate in India, prior to the general election, being the largest democracy in the world. Readers are invited to discuss any statements, perceived as biased and prejudiced, with the author.
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The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Andreas Malm | Verso Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – The last six months of genocide in Gaza have ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. A true understanding of the present crisis requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine’s subjugation to fossil empire.
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Ukraine May Have to Compromise with Russia, Says NATO Chief Stoltenberg
Ahmed Adel | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Ukraine may ultimately have to agree to some kind of compromise with Russia to end the conflict, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with the BBC published on April 6, adding that it is up to the West to ensure Kiev achieves an “acceptable result.”
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A.I. Systems That Manipulate the Human Nervous System, Thoughts, Emotions and Perceptions Should Be Banned Outright
Michel Chossudovsky and Mojmir Babacek | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
2 Apr 2024 – They Derogate Fundamental Human Rights – Open Letter to the European Parliament
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The Dark Origins of the Davos’ Great Reset
F. William Engdahl | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
12 Apr 2024 – Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab.
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Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
10 Apr 2024 – Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the DOD build software for military operations months after OpenAI ended its prohibition against military work. Contradiction: OpenAI describes its mission as developing AI that can benefit all of humanity.
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Socrates Redux
Mr. Fish - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Assange as Socrates
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World Meteorological Organization Bright Red Alert
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
7 Apr 2024 – The inherent antagonism between neoliberalism’s free market dictates of “follow the money” versus the planet’s complex ecosystems that don’t need money is addressed in Global Social Challenges. What’s more important for life: Profits or Mother Nature?
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Up to 14 Apr 2024:
33,686 + killed* and at least 76,309 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
462+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
*Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much, much higher when accounting for those presumed dead under the over 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris. Ralph Nader: Over 200.000 Palestinians killed to date.
Invitation: Beyond War and Violence as a Way to Resolve Conflict in the Territories of Israel and Palestine
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – Israeli peace activist calls for the creation of a new forum to explore nonviolent solutions to the ongoing horrific violence in Israeli and Palestinian territory.
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Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – Kosovo was the first time in European history that a terrorist-style and mafia-ruled (quasi)independent state was created by a full diplomatic, political, economic, military, and financial sponsorship by the West under the umbrella of the NATO’s and the EU’s protective administration.
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Praxis Peace Institute – Mondragon Seminar and Tour
Georgia Kelly | Praxis Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Praxis Peace Institute offers a 5-day seminar at the Mondragón Cooperatives in Spain! It includes tours to key areas in the Basque region: Bilbao, San Sebastian, Vitoria (Basque capital), and visits to Mondragón businesses, a Research & Development center, the Basque Culinary Arts Center, the Basque Parliament where we have a special session, a day at Mondragón University, and much more!
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British Media and Propaganda
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
April 2024 – An Exploration of Modern British Media and Propaganda – This analysis shows that Britain, although no longer a formal empire, remains a leading player in the field of international war propaganda and atrocity propaganda.
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Extractivism in the Anthropocene
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
April 2024 – The idea of extractivism is a key concept in understanding our current planetary crisis. The accelerated extraction of Earth’s resources since the mid-twentieth century threatens not only the natural world, but the means of life for the entire planet.
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West Votes Against Rest of World, Supporting Illegal Sanctions in UN Human Rights Council
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
6 Apr 2024 – In the United Nations Human Rights Council, the West voted against the rest of the world, supporting illegal sanctions (known as unilateral coercive measures).
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