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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 170: Israel Assaults al-Shifa, Nasser, and al-Amal Hospitals in One Day
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

25 Mar 2024 – Israeli forces ordered Palestinians inside al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis to leave “naked,” while survivors of the al-Shifa Hospital raid witnessed numerous atrocities committed by the Israeli army. In Jerusalem, Israeli settlers stormed al-Aqsa.

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“Man-Made Hell on Earth”: A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

23 Mar 2024 – “I saw scenes that were horrific and I never want to see again,” said Yasser Khan, a surgeon from Toronto. Warning: This article contains graphic images.

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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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Peace Propagation: Human Rights Day, Post Liberation 1994 South Africa (Part 1)
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

“The erosion of basic human rights is witnessed in freedom of speech and religious association.  In these unfolding tragedies, South Africa stands proud by innovating the Human Rights Day as a public holiday and sustains it in protecting and ensuring that human rights are always respected.”

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(Italiano) Globalizzare Dio: Religione e pace nelle scienze sociali
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

Le letture arcigne portano all’intolleranza o alla tolleranza malmustosa. Quanto mai necessari: rispetto e curiosità; dialogo e reciproco apprendimento. C’è tanta saggezza! La si selezioni! Si estrapoli conciliando! Si vada oltre i confini territoriali di stato e culturali di nazione, e di trascendano quelli mentali gelosamente protetti, fra le discipline e le religioni.

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How Paul Kagame Deliberately Sacrificed the Tutsi
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

20 Mar 2024 –  2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. Review of “How Paul Kagame Sacrificed the Tutsi,” one of many important books that challenge the prevailing narrative about the events of 1994.

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“Never Again”: Arundhati Roy on Palestine at Delhi Press Club
Arundhati Roy | The Wire - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

8 Mar 2024 – Public meeting held at the New Delhi Press Club to voice opposition to the genocide in Gaza. Arundhati Roy’s statement is titled, “Never Again”.

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With Its Role in the Ukraine War the European Union May Risk Its Own Political Future
Michael von der Schulenburg and Hans-Joachim Funke – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

18 Mar 2024 – The deteriorating military situation in Ukraine and the United States increasing withdrawal from it created a situation in which the EU is now pushed into the forefront in dealing with this problem.

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It’s Journalistic Malpractice to Say Gazans Are Starving without Saying Israel Is Starving Them
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

19 Mar 2024 – The editors of The New York Times know exactly what they’re doing packaging a story about Israel’s deliberate starvation of Palestinian civilians like it’s a troubling prediction about the weather.

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An Ugly Comparison
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

14 Mar 2024 – I don’t make this comparison lightly. The IDF is conducting a medieval-style siege on Gaza making them go thirsty, starving, and without electricity. The IDF talks about flattening and burning down Gaza – it’s not about Hamas. If you still think the Israeli government is just defending itself, I have a bridge to sell to you.

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The Spiraling Absurdity of Germany’s Pro-Israel Fanaticism
Michael Sappir | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

21 Mar 2024 – As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state’s liberal self-image is fast becoming a tragic story Germans can only tell themselves.

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From Port-aux-Prince to Africa: Unveiling the Haitian Crisis
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

The narrative of cannibal gangs ruling Haiti is as shocking as it is misleading, drawing attention away from the complex socio-political dynamics at play. Haiti’s turmoil cannot be isolated from the global context; it shares the same root causes with conflicts in the Sahel region, the DRC, and around the Global South.

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Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests Internationally
Global News Service | TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

19 Mar 2024 – “The Great Israeli Real Estate Event” toured the United States and Canada, exhibiting property for sale on stolen Palestinian land. Each event has been met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists.

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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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Gaza Redux
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

Johan Galtung wrote this seminal Editorial in 2009 and is being republished to offer a context to Gaza 2024. What has changed? What remains the same? What devolved? What if…? Israel, beware the grave you are digging for yourself.

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Remembering a Voice for Peace: Johan Galtung (1930-2024)
Kelly Rae Kraemer | Global Campaign for PEACEducation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

Our world lost a giant of peace research. Johan Galtung, “the Father of Peace Studies,” author of more than 170 books and 1,500 scholarly articles about world peace, passed away on 17 Feb 2024, at age 93. Galtung taught at 30 universities on five different continents over the course of his seven-decade career…

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US Rejects Russian Ceasefire Proposal for Ukraine
Kyle Anzalone | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

18 Mar 2024 – Russia’s attempt to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, along the current lines of control, was met with a firm rejection in Washington.

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Special Journal Issue on Galtung
Charles Webel, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

I’ve been asked to be the editor of a special edition of the journal Scienza e Pace/Science and Peace (Univ. of Pisa). Therefore, I’m wondering if one of you, TRANSCEND Members, would consider being the co-editor with me of this special edition of that journal. Also, I’m issuing a Call for Papers.

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Israel’s Trojan Horse
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

18 Mar 2024 – The “temporary pier” being built on the Mediterranean coast of Gaza is not there to alleviate the famine, but to herd Palestinians onto ships and into permanent exile.

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Israel Tells UN It Will Reject UNRWA Food Convoys into Northern Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

24 Mar 2024 – Israeli authorities informed the United Nations today that it will no longer approve the passage of any UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, food convoys into northern Gaza.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

Up to 24 Mar 2024:
32,223+ killed* and at least 74,518 wounded in the Gaza Strip
435+ 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 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris.

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Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

22 Mar 2024 – The future of AI-powered censorship is here, and the early returns are as error-filled and clumsily destructive as Google’s infamous Gemini rollout, which provides an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression and threats of demonetization.

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The “Kosovo War” 25 Years Ago
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

24 Mar 2024 – 25 Years Ago Today, NATO Started the Illegal Kosovo War against Serbia

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Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer,” Derek Jarman wrote as he grieved his dying friends, faced his own death, and contemplated art, mortality, and resistance.

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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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How the Western Media Helped Build the Case for Genocide in Gaza
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

20 Mar 2024 – From obscuring the West’s role in starving Gaza to sensationalised accounts of mass rape by Hamas, journalists are playing the role of propagandists, not reporters.

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(Deutsch) Mit ihrer Rolle im Ukrainekrieg könnte die Europäische Union ihre eigene politische Zukunft riskieren
Michael von der Schulenburg und Hans-Joachim Funke – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

Die für den Westen sich verschlechternde militärische Lage in der Ukraine und der zunehmende Rückzug der USA aus diesem Krieg haben eine Situation entstehen lassen, in der die EU nun aufgerufen ist, eine Führung bei der Lösung dieses Krieges zu übernehmen.

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PEN America Self-Destructs
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

23 Mar 2024 – PEN America, once an important defender of rights for writers, editors and artists, has, under the direction of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel, abandoned its mission, destroyed its credibility and provoked a revolt among its members. 

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The Urgency of Diplomacy
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

20 Mar 2024 – There has been a collapse of US diplomacy with Russia and China as Europe follows the Washington line. This creates an escalation that can lead to nuclear war. In the immortal words of JFK, “Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”

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TRANSCEND Media Service team, 25 Mar 2024

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The Song of Songs as Indicative of the Pattern That Connects
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

Implications for strategic cultivation of global division?

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Johan Galtung on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Amy Goodman | EnvisionPeaceMuseum - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024), the “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,” was a Norwegian sociologist and mathematician who taught around the world, helped found many institutions to build peace, and been honored with the Right Livelihood Award among many others. He served on the advisory board of Envision Peace Museum.

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Moscow Nights [Подмосковные вечера] (Music Video of the Week)
Music Video Vault - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

Recorded live in 2013 at a Red Square Concert in Moscow

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Trump Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza to ‘Finish the Job’
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

19 Mar 2024 – Kushner, who served as a key Middle East adviser to Trump, said that Gaza’s “waterfront property could be very valuable” and urged Israel to “clean it up.”

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(Français) Des élections en mal de démocratie ?
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

4 mars 2024 – La démocratie est souvent réduite aux élections. Mais la croyance en l’efficacité de celles-ci décroit partout dans le monde, à mesure que croît la défiance envers la politique. Et la soif de démocratie effective.

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Zero Food Children
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

Many young women keep busy by working in the homes of people in urban centres of India,. Most of these women are in the age group of 20 to 35 years. Despite getting suitable wages, they feel unhappy in their conditions.

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The Ukraine War in 2024
Swiss Policy Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

March 2024 – A no-nonsense analysis of new developments and deceptions in the Ukraine War. Dedicated to the people of Ukraine, east and west.

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Armed by Washington, Israel Trashes the Genocide Convention
Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

19 Mar 2024 – Stop Treating Gaza like a Natural Disaster

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Blame Game
Unknown | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

No kidding…

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Voices from Gaza
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

22 Mar 2024 – The book ‘Gaza Writes Back’ is a collection of short stories from twenty young Gazans. The stories reveal how the last five months are the culmination of a process that has been going on for decades.

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U.S. Doubles Down on Defunding UNRWA — Despite Flimsy Allegations
Prem Thakker | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

22 Mar 2024 – Congress passed a one-year ban on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency funds even as several Western countries have resumed funding for the U.N. agency that aids Palestinians.

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The Earth Constitution Could Transform the UN General Assembly and the UN Itself
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

If both Russia and the US had not wielded Security Council vetoes in the last few years, the ugly atrocities in Ukraine and Gaza might never have happened. The UN Charter’s grant of the veto to the P5 powers is a mockery of the rule of law and democratic ideals.

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The Other USA
Matthew Ehret et al. | Canadian Patriot Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

19 Mar 2024 – A New Documentary on the Three Missed Chances for World Peace (1991-2016)

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Buddhism and Its Vedic Connections
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2024

Many people may know about Buddhism, but few seem to understand its connections with Vedic Culture and how many aspects of it have origins in the Vedic philosophy. It was several hundred years before the time of Lord Buddha that his birth was predicted in the  Srimad-Bhagavatam, a major Vedic scripture.

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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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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU Official Says Israel Failed to Prove Its Accusations against UNRWA
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

17 Mar 2024 – Netanyahu has vowed to invade Rafah despite the international red line. Meanwhile, the U.S. has sanctioned two illegal settler outposts in the West Bank for the first time.

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Reimagining the Canon to the Sounds of Cannon Fire
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

Challenging Hegemony Through the Pattern That Connects

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(Italiano) Israele e il 76° anniversario della dichiarazione unilaterale di indipendenza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

Israele celebra il 76° anniversario della dichiarazione unilaterale di indipendenza di David Ben Gurion. E il conto della shoa viene sempre più presentato agli arabi in generale, ai palestinesi in particolare, a partire da al naqba, l’orrore di 711.000 persone cacciate dalle loro case in Palestina, nei campi, nelle diaspore. Fino alla morte. [Che porta al genocidio del 2024].

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New UK MP George Galloway on the Next Era of Politics
Glenn Greenwald - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

8 Mar 2024 – Upending the “West’s Dictatorship”

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With Genocide in Gaza, the Word ‘Never’ Has Been Stripped from ‘Never Again’
Arundhati Roy | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

8 Mar 2024 – They and their children’s children will be haunted by what they have done. They will have to live with the loathing and the abhorrence the world feels for them. [Karma is a bitch.]

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Globalizing God: Religion and Peace in the Social Sciences
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

Hard readings lead to intolerance or grudging tolerance. Badly needed: respect and curiosity; dialogue and mutual learning. There is so much wisdom! Select! Eclect! Go beyond state-territorial and national-cultural borders, and transcend those jealously guarded borders in the mind, between disciplines and religions.

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Conquest, War, Famine and Death Hit You Straight in the Heart
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

14 Mar 2024 – In the face of looming famine, Biden’s promise to build a ‘temporary pier’ to allow aid into Gaza is hollow and  hypocritical, undermined by his country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians.

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The Question of Alevi Minority in Turkey and Its Religious Identity
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

Up to now, not once expressed by Turkey’s President R. T. Erdoğan a possibility to organize a national referendum on Turkish membership to the European Union (the EU) opened many questions of different nature followed by old and new problems.

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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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Transitional Justice (Part 56): Rohingya the Voiceless, Stateless Refugees
Bishnu Pathak – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

The politico-legal aspects of Transitional Justice are a complex final stage in conflict transformation by peaceful means to identify the truths of victims and perpetrators. It encompasses two interconnected components: truth-seeking and judicial accountability.

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How US “Foreign Aid” Has Helped Destabilize Haiti
Cal Turner and Sara Van Horn Interview Jake Johnston | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

12 Mar 2024 – A surge of gang violence in Haiti has now led to the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Through its heavy-handed use of foreign aid to intervene in Haitian politics, the US government bears significant responsibility for Haiti’s ongoing instability.

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Bolero (Music Video of the Week)
Alondra de la Parra | WDR Klassik – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

Maurice Ravel’s Bolero performed by the WDR Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Alondra de la Parra on 27 Jan 2022 at the Kölner Philharmonie. Absolutely Beautiful!

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The War on Gaza and the End of Western Moral and Political Hegemony
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

10 Mar 2024 – Five months gone and the US supported Israeli violence and bombardment of Gaza unfolds prodigious lies of terror to have redfined and reshaped the so-called Western political hegemonic mental microscope of power.

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Starvation Camp in Poland, 1941–>Fast-forward to Gaza, 2024
Wisława Szymborska – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

A Cry from the Szebnie Concentration Camp, 1941, Poland

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UNRWA Report Says Israel Coerced Some Agency Employees to Falsely Admit Hamas Links
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

8 Mar 2024 – The U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees said some employees released into Gaza from Israeli detention reported having been pressured by Israeli authorities into falsely stating that the agency has Hamas links and that staff took part in the Oct. 7 attacks.

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Joe Biden’s Parting Gift to USA Will be Christian Fascism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

17 Mar 2024 – The Democratic Party had one last chance to implement the kind of New Deal Reforms that could save us from another Trump presidency and Christian fascism. It failed.

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Haiti: Efforts for Stability and Hope for the Future
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

16 Mar 2024 – The interaction between political leaders, criminal gangs and voodoo religious leaders is not new in Haiti as was seen by the paramilitary killers, Les Tontons Macoutes, during the presidencies of Papa Doc and Baby Doc in the 1960s-70s. Action Needed

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Ego Is the Enemy
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

It is not enough to have an understanding of things or to criticize. It is not enough to protest or resist the evil that surrounds us. It is important to envision a better future AND WORK FOR IT. I am grateful that I am surrounded by groups of educated young people who share a vision of sustainable human and natural communities locally and globally.

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African Stream
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

13 Mar 2024 – African Stream is an anti-war, anti-imperialist video and text website based in Nairobi, Kenya. I spoke to its founder, Ahmed Kaballo.

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What Might the US Owe the World for Covid-19?
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

16 Mar 2024 – A US-funded laboratory origin of Covid-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency and factual answers on vital questions.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

• 31,645+ killed and at least 73,676 wounded in the Gaza Strip.*
• 435+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 40,000 when accounting for those presumed dead under the 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris.

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Killing Palestinians by Blocking Aid—>Killing Palestinians by Airdropping Aid
Phyllis Bennis | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

14 Mar 2024 – The airdrops are not designed to save lives, but to salvage the consciences of those who could—and should—be doing so much more.

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Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2023
Pieter D. Wezeman, et al. | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

On 11 March the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute published its latest report on the arms trade with data up to 2023. The report provides data from the last five years.

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Life Is like Blue Jelly: Margaret Mead Discovers the Meaning of Existence in a Dream
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

The meaning of life has been contemplated by just about every thinking, feeling, breathing human being, and memorably so by a number of cultural icons, including…

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Haiti, Honduras, and US Hegemony
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

14 Mar 2024 – Honduras’ former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, was just convicted in a US court of drug trafficking and faces life in prison. Haiti is a nation without a government, as armed groups have united against the US-backed, unelected Prime Minister installed after the assassination of their president in 2021. In both cases, what is missing from mainstream news coverage is the role of US intervention that brought them to this point.

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Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests
Natalia Marques | Peoples Dispatches - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

14 Mar 2024 – “The Great Real Estate Event” in the US and Canada exhibits property stolen from Palestinian land for sale. They have met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists leading to clashes with Zionist attendees and protesters. 

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CDC Redacts Every Single Word of 148-Page Study on Myocarditis after COVID Vaccination
Baxter Dmitry | The People's Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

7 Mar 2024 – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “released” the study completely blacked out. The document was in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Epoch Times.

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On St Patrick’s Day, Mairead Maguire Led Public Condemnation of the Irish American President Joe Biden’s Genocidal Role in Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

17 Mar 2024 – Quoting St Patrick of the 3rd Century AD who preached, “in Christ, there is no killing”, the TRANSCEND Member, Northern Irish Nobel Peace Laureate, peace activist, and co-founder of the Peace People grassroots movement, delivered a scathing indictment of non-stop killings over centuries by the “allegedly Christian” West.

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Pacifism Today: A Dialogue about Alternatives to War in Ukraine
Majken Jul Sørensen | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

11 Mar 2024 – To all the brave people who refuse to participate in war, in Ukraine, Russia and everywhere else.

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The Decline and Fall of It All? U.S. Empire in Crisis
Alfred W. McCoy | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

14 Mar 2024 – Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial USA.

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Religions, Global Gods and Peace Propagation: An Overview of Multiple, Human Behavioral Orders
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

“Human behaviour, from the time of evolution, is influenced and governed by some overarching tenets of a religious belief. This belief is in the unseen, unsubstantiated and not understood, force of a superior kind.  This force is called by different didactic terminologies, ultimately leading to the creation of global Gods.  Some humans even use Lucifer as a such a force…”

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Engels for Our Times: Gender, Social Reproduction, and Revolution
Marnie Holborow | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

March 2024 – It is surprising how often in Marxist accounts of women’s oppression Frederick Engels is overlooked. He is dismissed for being deterministic, overly economistic, even un-Marxist. Heather Brown’s key work on Karl Marx and gender sees Engels as crudely mechanical compared to Marx.

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Seeing the Divinity in Everyone
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

In essence, we are all consciousness in material forms. Consciousness cannot be destroyed. It is the essence of God in each of us. We are all spiritual beings, reflections of the Divine. We are not our beliefs, our cultures, or our minds and bodies. We are all divine souls on a wondrous journey through Truth. We have all manifested from God, the Supreme Truth, and we are all evolving back to God.

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Names for Babies
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

I wish to inform that I am offering you in this list many names that can be given to new born babies. The names are both for female as well as male babies. The names are suitable for babies in India.

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(Italiano) Coordinamento per l’etica della ricerca
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

11 Marzo 2024 – Il 24 maggio 2023, ospitato in un’aula dell’Università di Torino, si era svolto un incontro organizzato da CERTO (Coordinamento per l’etica nella ricerca) – un gruppo di docenti dell’Università e del Politecnico di Torino…

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Torture, Executions, Babies Left to Die, Sexual Abuse… These Are Israel’s Crimes
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

15 Mar 2024 – Hostages tortured to death. Parents executed in front of their children. Doctors beaten. Babies murdered. Sexual assault weaponised. Why is the same western media obsessively reheating five-month-old allegations against Hamas so reluctant to focus on Israel’s current, horrifying atrocities?

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Here’s What Pramila Patten’s UN Report on Oct 7 Sexual Violence Actually Said
Feminist Solidarity Network for Palestine | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

11 Mar 2024 – The UN report on sexual violence on October 7 has found no evidence of systematic rape by Hamas or any other Palestinian group, despite widespread media reporting to the contrary. But there are deeper problems with the report’s credibility.

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World Politics 2024
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

World Leaders ‘Solutions’

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Gaza: 23 Million Tonnes of Debris ‘Will Take Years to Clear’–Acute Malnutrition Doubles in a Month
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

15 Mar 2024 – The genocide in Gaza has left a staggering 23 million tonnes of rubble and unexploded weapons scattered across the enclave.

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Time after Time
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Mar 2024

Progressing…

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 156: Israel Deploys 15,000 Troops in West Bank as Ramadan Starts
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

10 Mar 2024 – Ceasefire talks falter as Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson says Israel is using “deception and evasion.” Israel deploys thousands of troops in the West Bank and Jerusalem ahead of plans to restrict access to Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan.

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(Norsk-Norwegian) Professor Johan Galtung in Memoriam 24.10.1930-17.2.2024
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Johan døde i Bærum lørdag 17. februar 2024. Han var 93. RIP kjære venn og mentor. Vi snakket sist sammen på telefon i oktober 2023 da han var i Alicante i Spania.

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Einstein’s Postwar Campaign to Save the World from Nuclear Destruction
Lawrence S. Wittner | FPIF - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

1 Mar 2024 – The scientist’s efforts helped create the movement for arms control and disarmament.

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The Horrors a Rafah Invasion Would Bring
Ramzy Baroud | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

5 Mar 2024 – The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is as old as civilization itself and has existed for thousands of years. An Israeli invasion of Rafah will not alter the battlefield in favor of the Israeli army, but it will be horrific for the displaced Palestinians.

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(Italiano) Aaron Bushnell e Johan Galtung: in lutto per due oppositori di principio della guerra
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Di recente il mondo ha perso due grandi oppositori della guerra, ma in circostanze drasticamente diverse. Johan Galtung è morto il 17 febbraio all’età di 93 anni. Il sociologo norvegese era conosciuto come il padre degli studi sulla pace e ha trascorso la sua vita a ricercare i conflitti e a promuovere il dialogo per la pace. Aaron Bushnell aveva solo 25 anni. Era un membro in servizio attivo dell’aeronautica militare degli Stati Uniti.

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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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South Africa Requests ICJ Emergency Orders to Halt “Unspeakable” Gazan Genocide
John Menadue | Pearls and Irritations - TRANSCEND Media Serviceer, 11 Mar 2024

7 Mar 2024 – Describing the situation in Gaza as “now so terrifying as to be unspeakable,” Pretoria is asking the World Court to take further measures to stop Israel’s genocide.

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H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds and the Dawn of a New Age
Matthew Ehret | Canadian Patriot Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

27 Feb 2024 – Hidden Hand Behind UFOs (part 2)

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

31,045+ killed* and at least 72,645 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
423+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
*Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 40,000 when accounting for those presumed dead under the extensive rubble.

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Yanis Varoufakis Blasts Europe’s Complicity in Genocide
Yanis Varoufakis | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

“In Germany today you can only talk about Genocide if you support it.”

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A Security Regime for Our Global Village
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Peace Constitutions, the Abolition of War and the “P5” 

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Desperate to Escape Gaza Carnage, Palestinians Are Forced to Pay Exorbitant Fees to Enter Egypt
Khalid Mohammed | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

7 Mar 2024 – With almost no options for escape, people in Gaza are increasingly paying thousands of dollars to fixers connected to the Egyptian government.

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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell | Pugwash Conferences - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

9 July 1955 – In the tragic situation which confronts humanity, we feel that scientists should assemble in conference to appraise the perils that have arisen as a result of the development of weapons of mass destruction, and to discuss a resolution in the spirit of the appended draft.

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Haiti Crisis: Is a Gang-led Coup Next?
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

5 Mar 2024 – Haiti is in chaos after a massive prison break and gangs calling for the resignation of its prime minister. How did it get here?

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The Anti-Sex League
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

This Modern World in the old US of A

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