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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 51: Israel Fires at Palestinians Attempting to Return to Northern Gaza Amid Shaky Truce
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
26 Nov 2023:
* 15,000 killed, including 6,150 children, and 33,000 wounded in Gaza Strip
* 235 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
* Israel revises its estimated 7 Oct death toll down from 1,400 to 1,200
Al-Shifa Hospital, Hamas’ Tunnels, and Israeli Propaganda
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
21 Nov 2023 – As the death toll in Gaza surpasses 13,000, including more than 5,500 children, the IDF propaganda machine sought to use Al-Shifa Hospital as its main exhibit in justifying the unjustifiable. Israel simultaneously lays siege to another medical facility.
→ read full articleJustifying 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.
→ read full articleIDF Knew Real Hamas HQ while Lying about al-Shifa
Gareth Porter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023 – While lying to the world that Hamas HQ was under al-Shifa Hospital, the IDF had already found the actual command center 8.5 km away.
→ read full articleCoherent Reconciliation of Eastern and Western Patterns of Logic
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Towards a Polyhedral Rosetta Stone in Aid of a Paradigm Shift Respecting Opposition
→ read full article29 November: UN International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
The United Nations General Assembly’s poignant reminder of the enduring quest for peace, justice and recognition of the Palestinian cause. This day serves as a platform to reaffirm global solidarity with the Palestinians and to renew collective efforts towards a just and lasting solution to the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
→ read full articleIsrael’s War on Hospitals
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
20 Nov 2023 – Israel is carrying out a campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. This campaign includes destroying all of Gaza’s hospitals. The message Israel is sending is clear – Nowhere is safe. If you stay you die.
→ read full articleInterrupting 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.
→ read full articleCOP28: When Is the Climate Summit and Why Is It Being Held in Dubai?
Chen Ly | New Scientist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
World leaders, scientists, activists and more will convene at the UN climate conference in Dubai from 30 Nov to 12 Dec 2023. After a year of extreme weather and the hottest 12 months ever recorded, here’s what you need to know about it.
→ read full articleSyria Is Playing the Long Game – Developing Strategy for the Potential of All-Out War
Vanessa Beeley – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023 – In-Depth Analysis of Syrian Military Developments Since 7 October
→ read full articleFake Palestinian Terrorist Arrest
FOX News/Sky News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023 – Fox News engaged in an elaborate theatrical play of “capturing a terrorist,” but their own footage showed the terrorist-actor putting back his pants in the same sequence.
→ read full articleClimate Equality: A planet for the 99%
OXFAM - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
20 Nov 2023 – The world faces twin crises of climate breakdown and runaway inequality. The richest people, corporations and countries are destroying the world with their huge carbon emissions. Meanwhile, people living in poverty, those experiencing marginalization, and countries in the Global South are those impacted the hardest.
→ read full articleI Condemn Myself
Abdelfattah Abusrour, Ph.D. | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
9 Nov 2023 – A poem by a visionary arts educator from the West Bank, occupied Palestine.
→ read full articleTunnels for Safety and Tunnels for Death
Kathy Kelly | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
22 Nov 2023 – An underground nuclear arsenal in Israel dwarfs the tunnels alleged at a Gaza hospital.
→ read full articleActual U.S. Military Spending Reached US$ 1.537 Trillion in 2022—More than Twice Acknowledged Level (US$ 765.8 billion)
Gisela Cernadas and John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Nov 2023 – How much does it cost to maintain an empire? A stunning new analysis shows the true scale of U.S. military spending, which far outstrips conventional estimates, which use data gleaned from traditional sources.
→ read full articleActivating the Genocide Convention
Craig Murray | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
19 Nov 2023 – There is no room to doubt that Israel’s bombing of Palestinian civilians and depriving them of food, water and other necessities of life are grounds to invoke the 1948 Genocide Convention.
→ read full articleSelling a Genocide
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023 – In the mainstream western media coverage of the conflict Israel-Hamas, you will only see pictures and hear commentary approved by the State of Israel. Additionally, most reporters are reporting from Israel, not Gaza (or the West Bank).
→ read full articlePutin Was Declared a War Criminal for *Relocating* the Same Number of Children Netanyahu Just *Killed*
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
25 Nov 2023 – I am not interested in defending the Russian government but in opposing the murderousness of the globe-spanning US-centralized power structure I live under, and all the lies, double standards and hypocrisy used to keep the murders and infanticide going.
→ read full articleMy Dear Other
William T. Hathaway – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Loving the other through mutualities of hurt,
loving the other without understanding the other,
BRICS Condemns Israel War on Gaza in Signal to the West
Shola Lawal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
21 Nov 2023 – In a virtual summit, the BRICS grouping denounced attacks on civilians in Palestine and Israel, with many leaders calling the forced displacement of Palestinians within Gaza or outside the territory “war crimes.”
→ read full articleAgreement Reached: EU to Criminalise Severe Environmental Harms “Comparable to Ecocide”
Stop Ecocide International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
17 Nov 2023 – The EU has agreed to enshrine in law a new offence that aims to punish the most serious crimes against the environment.
→ read full articleGenocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
GAZA 27 Nov 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
→ read full articleOn the Perpetration of Mass-Death Events
Roger Stoll – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
20 Nov 2023 – The holocaust now visited on Palestine by US/Israel is unique in many ways. Rates of killing and maiming exceed those of previous Israeli assaults on Gaza, the perpetrators announce their genocidal intent with unusual frankness, and Western media and official apologists are especially shameless.
→ read full articleThe Northern Ireland Peace Process as International Model
Caroline Hurley - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
22 Nov 2023 – Years of peace-making efforts culminated in the signing of the Good Friday Agreement on 10 Apr 1998. The agreement that brought to an end The Troubles in Northern Ireland, a thirty-year era of violent sectarian unrest, remains an instructive initiative that secured positive change.
→ read full articleNew Heart
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
A patient urgently needed a heart transplant. The doctor told him,
→ read full articleThankfulness Buried in the Rubble
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
22 Nov 2023 – Much as I love Thanksgiving, I find myself struggling to let a sense of thankfulness flow, because when I do–and doing so has always been a crucial part of the holiday–my gratitude for my blessings starts to feel more like luck and, even worse, privilege. Yeah, how nice.
→ read full articleIsraeli Intelligence to Be Granted Full Access to National Biometric Database
Ken Macon | Reclaim the Net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Expanding Data Collection and Use – The Israeli government is implementing significant amendments in the usage and access of biometric data that could have profound implications for privacy rights.
→ read full articleU.S. Military Spending
SIPRI - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
No Comment
→ read full articleSouth African Parliament Votes to Close the Israeli Embassy and Suspend Diplomatic Relations
Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023 – The South African Parliament voted on a motion to close the Israeli Embassy in the country. It was PASSED with 248 votes for and 91 against. “Free Palestine in Parliament” slogans were chanted.
→ read full articleTMS Holidays Fundraising—‘Please, don’t let us sink!’
TRANSCEND Media Service Team,
27 Nov 2023
Dear reader and supporter, this is a rather emotional appeal. We need your cooperation to stay afloat. Contributions from readers continue dwindling. Meanwhile, the war industry thrives. Our mottoes, Peace by Peaceful Means – Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism are from TMS co-founder Johan Galtung. Not merely mottoes but ways of living.
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
27 Nov – 3 Dec 2023
→ read full articleShooting Gallery
Mr. Fish - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Our Holocaust Is Better than Yours!
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize’s Negative Review
Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
24 Nov 2023 – The Real Nobel Peace Prize: A Squandered Opportunity to Abolish War, by Fredrik S. Heffermehl, 405 pp. – Alfred Nobel´s prize never happened. From Day One the Norwegian trustees of the anti-militarist prize failed Nobel and sided with the political powers Nobel intended the prize to combat.
→ read full articleIsrael Has Damaged Israel’s Reputation Far Worse Than Its Enemies Ever Have
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
26 Nov 2023 – Israel has done more to damage Israel’s image in the last seven weeks than antisemites did in the last seven decades. Hamas attacked Israel because it is a murderous and tyrannical apartheid regime that butchers children. October 7 was the echo of the violence Israel has been inflicting on Palestinians for generations.
→ read full articleOurs Is an Indigenous Struggle: How Gaza United the World
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
The consequences of this war will certainly be felt for many years to come, not only in Palestine or even the Middle East, but worldwide as well.
→ read full articleThree US Presidents Who Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday — and What They Were Thankful for
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
24 Nov 2023 – All three were giving thanks for bringing the country through a major financial crisis related to war, and they achieved it through the “American system” of banking and finance.
→ read full articleSearching for Spirituality in Hinduism
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
As we all know, India is a country of many religions — Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, Sikhism , Islam and some smaller religions or faiths such as Baha’i Faith or Dev Samaj.
→ read full articleThe Forgotten (Part 2): The Uyghurs of Xinjiang–from Sinicization to Genocide
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
“Authoritarian regimes create alibis to justify their hidden agenda of ethnic cleansing and genocide. They institute “states of exception” and “emergency resolutions” to bypass the rule of law. Countries like China, India and Israel substitute their own self-appointed notion of “right” to regularly violate human rights doctrinal conventions.”
→ read full articleSunday Morning (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | GlobalFaction – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
This song is about the loss of a child.
→ read full articleIsrael and Its Allies Are Repurposing the Goals and Lies of 1948 – in Gaza in 2023
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
21 Nov 2023 – Israel is openly carrying out ethnic cleansing in Gaza. Yet, just as happened with the first Nakba in 1948, Israel’s lies and deceptions dominate the West’s media and political narrative.
→ read full articleAntisemitism 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.
→ read full articleEmissions of Richest 1% Will Cause 1.3 Million Heat Deaths: Oxfam
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
20 Nov 2023 – “The super-rich are plundering and polluting the planet to the point of destruction and it is those who can least afford it who are paying the highest price.”
→ read full articleThe 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.
→ read full articleNecessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
All of our creativity, all of our compulsive productivity, all of our poems and our space telescopes, are but a coping mechanism for our mortality, for the elemental knowledge that we will lose everything and everyone we cherish as we inevitably return our borrowed stardust to the universe.
→ read full article(Italiano) Come finiscono le guerre?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Sparavano sulla Colonna nemica da dietro steccati, alberi, granai, muri, da dentro le case, poi ricaricavano, avanzavano in fretta e sparavano di nuovo. Uno strano tipo nuovo di guerreggiare per i britannici senza esperienza né addestramento in merito. A loro pareva disonorevole, nascondersi e sparare a uomini allo scoperto che non potevano neppure vedere i propri nemici. Come scrisse una Giubba Rossa alla famiglia: Non ci combattevano da esercito regolare, solo come selvaggi”.
→ read full articleMedical Doctors Gabor Maté and Tarek Loubani on Israel’s Medical Siege of Gaza
ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
24 Nov 2023 – Dr. Tarek Loubani, who treats patients in Gaza and runs the Glia Project to provide medical supplies to impoverished locations, and Dr. Gabor Maté break down Israel’s systematic destruction of medical practice in Gaza.
→ read full article18 Nov 2023–>Day 43: Today’s News on Palestine & Israel
Israel-Palestine News | If Americans New - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Humanitarian aid & fuel update, new Israeli airstrikes, Al Shifa Hospital crisis, Palestinian deaths in West Bank, and more.
→ read full article‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 44: WHO Says Israel Turned Al-Shifa Hospital into Death Zone
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
19 Nov 2023 – Thousands of Palestinians ‘Humiliated’ as They Flee to Southern Gaza – A Doctors Without Borders convoy was targeted by Israeli fire as Palestinians describe the “humanitarian” route to flee south as a “corridor of death and humiliation.” Israeli forces raid Jenin and Bethlehem.
→ read full articleDisingenuous
BBC News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
The devil is in the details…
→ read full articleWhat 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.
→ read full articleIsrael 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.
→ read full articleThe Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers
Isaac Chotiner | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – A leader of the settlement movement on expanding into Gaza, and her vision for the Jewish state. For decades, Daniella Weiss has been one of the leaders of Israel’s settlement movement. She became involved in settlement politics in the wake of the 1967 war.
→ read full articleMairead Maguire on Ending the Current Wars
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
13 Nov 2023 – Making peace instead of wars in Gaza and Ukraine.
→ read full articleUS Blows Off the Whole World to Punish Cuba
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – On Nov 2, the UNGA voted overwhelmingly for a resolution calling on the US to lift the trade embargo against Cuba that John Kennedy imposed in 1962. The US and Israel were the only two nations to vote no, with Ukraine abstaining. Total dependence creates total compliance.
→ read full articleAfghan Refugees in Pakistan Expelled: International Action Needed
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
16 Nov 2023 – The authorities of Pakistan are proposing to expel the majority of Afghan refugees back to Afghanistan where they face grave danger. The Hazara are largely Shi’a in religion but are considered as non-Muslim infidels or as heretics by the Taliban. There are some two million refugees who may be expelled.
→ read full articleIsraeli War Crimes and Propaganda Follow US Blueprint
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
13 Nov 2023 – We have both been reporting on and protesting against U.S.–and its allies and proxies like Israel–war crimes: illegal uses of military force to remove governments or “regimes”; hostile military occupations; disproportionate military atrocities justified by claims of “terrorism”; the bombing and killing of civilians; and the mass destruction of whole cities.
→ read full articleAre We already in World War III?
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – Can a Roadmap for Peace Change Culture of War to Culture of Peace?
→ read full article“One Holocaust Does NOT Justify Another”: Britain’s National March for Palestine and the World’s Moral Majority
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Saturday’s [11 Nov 2023] march that drew 300.000 Britons is a clear testament to the global consensus moral position among hundreds of millions of people around the world.
→ read full articleGaza
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
17 Nov 2023 – From Bethlehem
11800 murdered civilians: men, women, 4600 children
But the victim we are told is the villain…
… No point to count the thousands rotting under the rubble
For no one has tools or equipment to go to the trouble
Israelis Keep Hurting Their Own PR Interests by Talking
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – How the institutionalized dehumanization of Palestinians causes Israelis to say things that non-Israelis will find extremely shocking. As Maya Angelou said, ‘when someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.’
→ read full articleGaltung on Breaking the Cycle of Violent Conflict
University of California Television – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Pioneer in the field of Peace Studies, Johan Galtung makes the case for incorporating human rights as key to successful peace building around the world.
→ read full articleSix Unique Factors about Gaza Genocide
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – The genocide goes on: babies died when taken out of incubators that had no power and many more cancer patients sent home died. Most injured people cannot be helped since the medical system is completely collapsed and there are 27,000 injured.
→ read full article(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.
→ read full articleThe Forgotten (Part 1): Kashmir, Heaven on Earth, Turned Hell on Earth by 21st Century India
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
“The Mughal Emperor Jahangir described the region of Kashmir as “Heaven on Earth” when he first set his eyes there, forgotten today and occupied by the ethnophobic Indian Army ensuring ethnic cleansing of Muslims in the region.”
→ read full articleThe Israeli Model vs the Global Intifada
Satya Sagar | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – Watching the unbelievable destruction wrought by the Israelis in Gaza a simple question very high on many minds must be ‘ How in hell does this illegitimate child of European guilt and American ambition get away with all this again and again and again?’
→ read full articleLong Live Palestine – Part 3 (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | GRM Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
From Lowkey’s Soundtrack to the Struggle 2
→ read full articlePro-Palestine Protests Are Ignored by the Western Elite, and It May Be a Fatal Mistake
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – Liberal democracy is being destroyed from within by leaders who refuse to stand up to Israel despite public pressure.
→ read full articleThousands Trapped as Israeli Forces Raid Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – The IDF have raided al-Shifa Hospital where thousands of Palestinians are sheltering. It said it was carrying out an “operation against Hamas in a specified area” at al-Shifa and that the raid was based on Israeli and US intelligence.
→ read full articleBesieged Gaza Hospital Horror Continues: Fuel Supplies Now Exhausted as Rainfall Prompts New Health Scare
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – The WHO hailed today the “heroic efforts” of staff at Gaza City’s besieged Al-Shifa hospital and expressed concern for displaced people where heavy rainfall has caused flooding and aggravated the already dire health crisis.
→ read full articleEurope-Jews-Muslims
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it shunned them, despised them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few decades, it condemns and abuses Muslims in a similar way – all in the name of supporting Jews.
→ read full articleGenocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
GAZA 20 Nov 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
→ read full articleThe Tragic Derailment of Early Peace Efforts to End the War in Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg, Hajo Funke and Harald Kujat – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
7 Nov 2023 – How the Chance Was Lost for a Peace Settlement of the Ukraine War – A detailed reconstruction of events in March 2022
→ read full articleSpecial Delivery
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
13 Nov 2023 – Diplomacy? No Joke…
→ read full articleMy Tense Exchange on a Train with US Sen. Chris Coons over Gaza
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – After questioning Sen. Chris Coons about his opposition to a ceasefire in Gaza, I was removed from a train heading to DC. A recap of our viral exchange and a response to false media coverage of it.
→ read full articleLucille Clifton on the Balance of Intellect and Intuition in Creative Work and the Healing Power of Connection
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
How to Be a Living Poem
→ read full articleHey Joe
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Peace through Horror
→ read full articleGaza: War on We, the People, and Arab-Muslim’s Shame
Mahboob A. Khawaja, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – Conscientious scholars and realist humanistic leaders highlight the current catastrophic war on Gaza as “The Horror is beyond words and beyond imagination. The Horror is of blood and shredded children. The Horror is of maybe hundreds of thousands dead bodies disintegrating in the rubbles of indiscriminately IDF-bombed hospitals, apartment buildings, mosques.”
→ read full articleThis Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
20-26 November 2023
→ read full articleSouth Africa Asks ICC to Investigate Israeli Crimes in Gaza
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
16 Nov 2023 – SA President Cyril Ramaphosa today called on the International Criminal Court to launch an investigation into Israel’s war crimes in the Gaza Strip. “We join many other countries and organizations in asking the ICC to investigate what is happening and, in fact, we can see with our own eyes in Israel,” he said.
→ read full article‘The Hinge of History’
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – Palestine and the New World Order – Bombing hospitals was, just a few days ago, a red line the IDF dared not cross without provoking international condemnation. Today the IDF is bombing hospitals and its soldiers are shooting invalid patients as Gazans try to evacuate bombed buildings.
→ read full articleA Framework for Peace in Palestine and Israel
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – This peace would not be the result of direct Israel-Palestine negotiations but instead be secured through the powers of the UNSC and UN General Assembly.
→ read full articlePlato’s Fight against Apollo’s Temple of Delphi and the Cult of Democracy
Cynthia Chung | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Homer’s great poems that are left to us today, The Iliad and The Odyssey, describe the events of the Trojan War, which marked the descent of Greece into a Dark Age. Following the Trojan War, c.1190 BCE, the civilization of Greece collapsed, written language was lost, and cities disappeared.
→ read full articleWorking Children in Rural and Urban Areas
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
We know that many children in the age group of about 5 to 15 years work in rural and urban areas today.
→ read full articleIsrael Is Shutting Down Its Human Laboratory in Gaza
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
17 Nov 2023 – Israel uses Palestinians imprisoned in Gaza as human guinea pigs for its weapons and technology industries.
→ read full articleUN Experts Call on International Community to Prevent Genocide in Gaza
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
16 Nov 2023 – Grave violations committed by Israel in Gaza point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today. They illustrated evidence of genocidal incitement, intent to “destroy the Palestinian people under occupation”, loud calls for a ‘second Nakba,’ and the use of powerful weaponry resulting in a colossal death toll and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.
→ read full articleBill Gates ‘Digital IDs’ Will Be Mandatory to Participate in Society
Patricia Harrity | The Exposé – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – On 7 Nov was launched the “50-in-5” agenda. The UN, Bill Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation are launching a campaign to accelerate digital ID, digital payments, and data-sharing rollouts in 50 countries under the umbrella of digital public infrastructure by 2028.
→ read full articlePalestinians Fear ‘Slow Death’ as Hunger and Thirst Spread in Gaza
Mahmoud Mushtaha | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – Israel’s assault has created a severe food and water crisis, with bakeries, shops, and local authorities unable to meet the population’s minimum needs.
→ read full article‘Are Hamas a Terror Group? Are They a Terror Group? Answer the Question!’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
17 Nov 2023 – The actual meaning of ‘terrorism’ was explained by Noam Chomsky: ‘It’s very simple: if “they” do it, it’s terrorism; if “we” do it, it’s counterterrorism. That’s a historical universal.’ In reality, ‘terrorism’ is a propaganda label that is slapped solely on Official Enemies and never ‘us’.
→ read full articleHow Do Wars End?
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
They would shoot at the enemy column from behind fences, trees, barns, walls, from inside houses. This was a strange, new type of warfare to the British, neither experienced nor trained for it. To them it seemed dishonorable, hiding and shooting at men in the open who could not even see their enemies. A Redcoat wrote his family: “They did not fight us like a regular army, only like savages.”
→ read full articleCRUDE: Wentworth Community vs Big Oil
Greenpeace International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – This documentary details the shocking knock-on impact of air pollution caused by big oil in the South African township Wentworth – including chronic poverty, gender-based violence and epigenetic changes which make community members prone to certain illnesses.
→ read full articleAnyone Who Believes in the Hollywood Image of the CIA Should Come to Serbia—Where the Agency Has Long Aligned with One of the Country’s Most Notorious Criminal Gangs
Olga Peterson | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – Most people tend to believe that the CIA is just an intelligence service, gathering information to enable better public policy. However, its real purpose is to engage in political skullduggery and subvert or destabilize other countries in order to help facilitate the goal of U.S. global domination and hegemony.
→ read full articleWill Palestine Ever Be Free? Understanding Elite Strategy in the Global Context
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
17 Nov 2023 – How the genocidal assault on Gaza and the ongoing military attacks on the occupied West Bank constitute a fundamental threat to the people of Palestine while at the same time they are only a local manifestation of the wider assault on humanity.
→ read full article‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 37: Al-Shifa Hospital No Longer Functioning as Israeli Ground Troops Surround the Hospital
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
12 Nov 2023 – Thousands of lives are at risk as Al-Shifa Hospital becomes non-operational, with ICUs and incubators shutting down due to lack of fuel, and medical staff and patients trapped waiting to die. Israeli forces continue to shell hospitals in north Gaza.
→ read full articleDoctors in Gaza Respond to Israeli Doctors Who Endorsed Bombing of Hospitals
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – “Israeli doctors who signed a letter promoting [the] bombing of hospitals with patients inside have committed a betrayal to their noble profession and bear responsibility,” said a group of doctors in Gaza.
→ read full articleDoes the Truth Matter?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – The Israeli government just downgraded the number of killed in Oct 7 to 1200 from 1400. George Galloway wrote: “The foul allegations of rape have been dropped by the Israeli government. The forty beheaded babies have been downscaled to one, not beheaded, and killed by persons unknown.” The truth matters because lies are being used to justify an ongoing genocide.
→ read full articleThe Horror, The Horror
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – Israel’s genocidal attacks, killing hundreds of Palestinians a day, including some 160 children, have expanded to shelling the remaining hospitals in Gaza. Israel’s orgy of death will not crush Hamas. Hamas is an idea. This idea is fed on the blood of martyrs. Israel is giving Hamas an abundant supply.
→ read full articleThe Ten Dumbest Things We’re Being Asked to Believe about Israel’s War on Gaza
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
7 Nov 2023 – Here they are, in no particular order.
→ read full articleWhat the Mainstream Media Fail to Tell You about the 7 Oct Hamas Incursion
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – It is journalistic malpractice for the media to still be repeating so credulously the Israeli military’s account of that day. And Israel’s actions – from bombing Palestinian families to starving them of food and water – has the blessing of every major western politician.
→ read full articleWe Are Spartacus
John Pilger – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
9 Nov 2023 – There can’t be democracy and colonial war; one aspires to decency, the other to fascism. Meanwhile, once welcomed mavericks are heretics now in an underground of journalism amid a landscape of mendacious conformity.
→ read full articleThe Right of Self-Defence
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
5 Nov 2023 – The only unique factor about Israel here is that it is the only country to have been found by the International Court of Justice specifically to have abused and exceeded the concept of right of self-defence, in its treatment of the Palestinians.
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