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Six Scenarios for Syria
As'ad AbuKhalil | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

29 Dec 2024 – It is naive to assume that the current regime in Syria will remain in place–as it is. The situation resembles the chaos of Libya but there are many more actors operating, making it difficult to foresee what will happen. However, the next phase will not be peaceful.

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Finding a Cure for Humanity’s Cancer
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

1 Jan 2025 – I welcome in the new year with a sense of abstract helplessness, as the headlines continue to bring us dead children, bombed hospitals, torture, rape and, of course, ever more “self-defense” (sometimes known as genocide).

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Age of Anxiety
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

30 Dec 2024 – Meanwhile, in the evil empire…

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20 Years after His Death, Gary Webb’s Truth Is Still Dangerous
Belén Fernández | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

In Aug 1996, Webb penned a series for the Mercury News documenting how profits from the sale of crack cocaine in Los Angeles in the 1980s had been funneled to the Contras, the CIA-backed mercenary army perpetrating a terrorist war against Nicaragua.

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The Avenging Heroes among Us: John Berger on the Courage to Create
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

It helps to remember this diversity of heroisms, because it saves us from imprisoning our heroes in the expectation that everyone contribute to the shared cause — the great project of human flourishing — in the same way. The protest marcher and the poet are very different kinds of heroes.

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Sudan: Inside the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis
Marc Español | El País - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

2 Jan 2025 – Hundreds of thousands of victims, with extreme malnutrition and famine in certain regions, have left the country on the brink of catastrophe after more than a year and a half of war.

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(Castellano) Guerras, Militarización y Resistencia
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

3 Enero 2025- Debemos replantearnos las cuestiones de la violencia y la seguridad. Frente a un enfoque que esencializa los conflictos armados, es preciso identificar sus dinámicas, causas y responsables, restablecer la primacía de la política sobre lo militar y poner fin a la normalización de la violencia.

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Sudan’s War Came to Represent the Worst of Humanity
Tafi Mhaka | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

26 Dec 2024 – The African Union has a responsibility to intervene to protect civilians.

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Shocking Statistics
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

30 Dec 2024 – On the 450th consecutive day of the genocide on the Gaza Strip, please read and disseminate that Israeli occupation forces (with US taxpayers’ money and munitions, and to a lesser extent other countries) did this:

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Some Possible Predictions for 2025 and an Apocaloptimist Perspective
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

1 Jan 2025- Already in 2024 we see voters around the world rejecting capitalist democracy by which capitalists become billionaires while working people sink into poverty. Instead, guided by a mass media controlled by these capitalists, voters choose fascism over socialism.

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“What’s Wrong with Rights?” The West and Its Cherry-Picking of Universal Human Rights
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

1 Jan 2025 – An Interview with Amnesty International’s Jack Healey, “Mr. Human Rights” In the Cold War Era

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Can We All Get Along?
Maung Zarni | WORT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

22 Dec 2024 – Recently it seems the situation in Myanmar has become more complicated. We asked Zarni, born there and who has studied here at the UW-Madison to talk about the country and what is happening there.

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Slovakia: Suddenly the Most Important EU Country? A Venue for Peace
Richard C. Cook | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

2 Jan 2025 – With the recent trip to Moscow by Prime Minister Robert Fico, Slovakia has become the most important country in the EU. Putin stated that Slovakia, “neutral” in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, would be a suitable venue for war-ending negotiations with the West.

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Genocide Emergency: Gaza and the West Bank 2024
Grace Condon, et al. | Genocide Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

30 Dec 2024 – The IDF intentionally target schools, homes, hospitals, designated humanitarian zones, and use 2000-pound bombs leveling entire apartment buildings. Of 163,778 buildings in Gaza, 52,564 have been destroyed and 18,913 severely damaged. Two-thirds of the dwellings are uninhabitable.

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Poem of the Atoms | Sufi Mysticism (Music Video of the Week)
Rumi | Who Am I – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

A Poem That Speaks to the Soul – Rumi was perhaps the greatest Sufi mystic and the finest Persian poet of all time. He would turn round and round while reciting his poetry, which formed the basis for the Whirling Dervishes, after his death.

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One Day They’ll Wake Up
Bob Minor | Scraps from the Loft - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

Bob Minor’s 1925 cartoon predicts the fall of Western imperialism as China, India, Africa, and Russia rise, shifting global power away from U.S. and British dominance.

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Oblivion Culture: Countering the German Taboo on Palestinian Trauma
Sarah El Bulbeisi | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

The Holocaust and the Nakba—expulsion of Palestinians from historical Palestine, ongoing since 1947—are deeply intertwined. The Nakba is a direct consequence of the Holocaust. Yet it is excluded from German collective memory, its relationship to Israel as a safe haven for Jews.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 6 Jan 2025

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US Has Given Israel $22 Billion in Military Aid since October 2023
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

1 Jan 2025 – According to data from SIPRI, US weapons now account for 78% of Israel’s arms imports.

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The Drama and Suffering of the World Chess Championship
J.C. Hallman | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

27 Dec 2024 – A dispatch from the pivotal Game 11 in Singapore that helped make Gukesh Dommaraju an 18-year-old Indian chess champion.

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When Burning Hospitals Are No Longer News
Dr Ghada Ageel | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

28 Dec 2024 – The silence over the demise of Kamal Adwan Hospital is deafening. The world has fully accepted Israel’s genocide.

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A Reflection on 2024 and a Call for Peace in 2025
David Andersson | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

28 Dec 2024 – Time Magazine should have named WAR instead of Donald Trump as “Person of the Year.” In 2024, war propaganda took center stage in political and international relations, dominating the discourse and shaping global actions.

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2025: Amid the Darkness, Glimmers of Light
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

25 Dec 2024 – 2024 was dominated by disappointments, disturbing surprises, and continuing devastation in Ukraine and Gaza. It underscored the UN’s inability to stop the genocide in Gaza, a senseless war in Ukraine, and mass slaughter in Sudan.  

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Configuring the Paradoxical Insights of 48-fold and 100-fold Sets of Koans
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

AI-Assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Fundamentally Elusive Metaphors – The UN’s ambition to “turbocharge” the Sustainable Development Goals at the Summit of the Future was previously explored through a series of interactions with AI.

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This Festive Season, Gaza Is Starving
Esraa Abo Qamar | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

18 Dec 2024 – Winter has made life amid genocide all the more miserable for us.

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‘Godfather of AI’ Makes Chilling Prediction for Future of Humanity and It Could Happen Very Soon
Mia Williams | LadBible - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

28 Dec 2024 – Prof. Geoffrey Hinton is worried that systems are growing ‘much faster than expected’, after making a ‘scary’ admission about the threat to humanity. An AI expert, he says he feels some ‘regret’ for his role in developing Artificial Intelligence.

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The One Hundred Billion Dollar Bitcoin Heist
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

23 Dec 2024 – This is corruption in its purest form happening in the open. Trump is ramming through the “Bitcoin Act” to blow $1 billion on Bitcoin, slapping taxpayers with $100 billion tab. A blatant wealth transfer to the crypto elite.

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The End of Organized Humanity
Noam Chomsky | The Poetry of Predicament – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

1 Dec 2024 – Noam Chomsky, at a video conference in 2023, offers his truth-telling to the center of our global self-terminating culture. While his wisdom and courage have been consistent through his lifetime, it is heartbreaking to see how little of that wisdom humanity has taken in.

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Gideon Levy on Israel’s “Moral Blindness”: Gaza Babies Freeze; Strikes Kill Medical Staff, Reporters
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

27 Dec 2024 – Israeli journalist Gideon Levy decries the moral decay of Israel, which opened a luxurious rest area for IDF soldiers in northern Gaza. The director of Gaza’s Kamal Adwan Hospital says five medical workers were among 50 people killed by Israeli forces that stormed the hospital and forced hundreds of patients into the streets.

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For Israeli Police, Humiliating Palestinian Women Is a Tool of Collective Repression
Mariam Farah | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

20 Dec 2024 – Political arrests of Palestinian women in Israel — who face strip-searches, blindfolding, and doxxing — aim to send the community a clear message.

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The Exciting World of A.I.
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

23 Dec 2024

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
SYRIA, LEBANON, GAZA, WEST BANK 30 Dec 2024

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Syria Is on the Verge of Becoming a Failed State–There’s only One Way to Save It
Murad Sadygzade | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

23 Dec 2024 – Interventions by the US that created failed states: Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine… now, Syria. The new Damascus authorities can set their country on a path to peace – or plunge it deeper into turmoil.

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Good and Bad War Criminals
Mark Curtis | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

23 Dec 2024 – Tony Blair sent the SAS to hunt down suspected Bosnian war criminals in the 1990s who were accused of lesser abuses than Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.

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‘We Will Leave When the Last Palestinian Leaves’: The Defiant Last Stand of the Doctors of Kamal Adwan Hospital
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

25 Dec 2024 – For 75 days, doctors in this north Gaza hospital have withstood the Israeli army’s attempts to forcibly evacuate them and their patients. In the face of death, the doctors are still refusing to leave, even as the IDF steps up its attacks.

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Personal Souvenirs of Federico Mayor Zaragoza (27 Jan 1934 – 19 Dec 2024)
David Adams | Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

22 Dec 2024 – I was privileged to know and work with Federico Mayor, a “thoughtful committed individual” who changed the world. He was nominated many times for the Nobel Peace Prize and should have received it.

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A Language for the Exhilaration of Being Alive: The Poetic Physicist Alan Lightman on Music and the Universe
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

It may even be that music is the language of time, mathematics its alphabet. “It is less about music being scientific and more about the universe being musical,” said cosmologist and jazz saxophonist Stephon Alexander.

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Disarmageddon: Do We Have a Choice?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

All religions have certain texts declared to be “sacred.” One cannot question the directives or prophecies in them. Which raises an unusual question: If Jesus returned today, either in spirit or in person, would he become a peace activist? Would he speak out against nuclear war and Armageddon?

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Manufacturing Rebels: How UK and USA Empowered Terrorists of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS)
Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

26 Dec 2024 – A deep dive into the covert support the UK and US provided to HTS exposes the calculated, secretive western strategies to support the Al-Qaeda-linked, UN-designated terror group that runs Syria today.

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Can We All Get Along?
Maung Zarni | WORT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

22 Dec 2024 – Recently it seems the situation in Myanmar has become more complicated. We asked Zarni, born there and who has studied here at the UW-Madison to talk about the country and what is happening there.

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BRICS Expands with Nine New Partner Countries
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

25 Dec 2024 – Now It’s Half of World Population, 41% of Global Economy

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OpenAI Is Using Its Technology to Kill
Nuvpreet Kalra and Tim Biondo | CODEPINK/Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

22 Dec 2024 – The company that brings us ChatGPT announced its partnership with Anduril to produce AI weapons. The OpenAI-Anduril system permits the sharing of data between external parties for decision making on the battlefield. This fits with the US military and OpenAI’s plans to normalize the use of AI on the battlefield.

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Science and Religion
Albert Einstein | Panarchy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

This text is from an address at Princeton Theological Seminary on 19 May 1939. Einstein presents with extreme clarity what are the different realms of religion (values) and science (facts) and also their connections.

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Catching Pegasus: Mercenary Spyware and the Liability of the NSO Group
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

24 Dec 2024 – The NSO Group, Israel’s darling of malware infection and surveillance, was the brainchild of three engineers from the IDF’s Unit 8200. The main feature of the group is its amorality. There is literally no rogue government it will not add to its lists for supply.

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‘Great Opportunity’ for Permanent War: What if Israel Annexed the West Bank?
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

18 Dec 2024 – Israel is getting ready to annex the West Bank. It will be a major step backward for Palestinian freedom and will likely serve as a catalyst for a new Palestinian uprising. But why is Israel keen on annexing the West Bank now?

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U.S. President Jimmy Carter (1 Oct 1924 – 29 Dec 2024)
Ryan Bort | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

A Prolific Humanitarian, Dead at 100 – His one term was rocked by multiple crises, but the 39th president will be remembered for his extraordinary decency and philanthropic legacy.

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The Scene of the Crime
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

26 Dec 2024 – Another holiday season marked by war and death in the Middle East, Ukraine, and Gaza. In keeping with the glum spirit of our time, I fill in with an old, but relevant, piece, published in the New Yorker in 2015, about the My Lai massacre in Vietnam.

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Bringing Gaza Home
Mike Ferner | Veterans For Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

24 Dec 2024 – In Ft. Wayne, Indiana, this September, I was arrested for blocking the entrance to Raytheon Corp.  For my defense, I planned to bring Gaza home to jurors from Allen County, home to Ft. Wayne, with wire service photos and by extrapolating the effects of the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Palestine to their own county. The same approach can be used for any city in the world.

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How to Understand the Change of Government in Syria
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

19 Dec 2024 – The fall of Damascus and rise of HTS signal a dangerous shift in Syria, deepening regional instability, and isolation for Palestine. From Israel to Africa’s Sahel region, what comes next?

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The ‘Self-defense’ Myth
Posted by Antonio C. S.. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

Genocide by any Other Name…

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Exposed: US Military Supported Syrian Rebel Offensive That Toppled Assad Government
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

21 Dec 2024 – Syrian rebel commanders have admitted that the US military helped them overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. NATO member Turkey and Israel played a key role as well.

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BRICS’ Daringly Autonomous Model for Financial Sovereignty
Udaibir Das | BRICS Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

19 Dec 2024 – In the world of economic policy-making, where the public is distanced from decision-making, communiqués serve as windows into the ambitions, hesitations and geopolitical leanings of powerful economic blocs.

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(Italiano) Cina: Yin/Yang
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

Discorso alla Beijing Foreign Studies University, settembre 2010. Altri hanno molto da imparare, come la Cina dagli altri, per un beneficio reciproco e paritario: l’essenza della pace positiva.

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Condemnation of Protest Evoked by Places of Worship
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

16 Dec 2024 – The Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan announced a crackdown on protests, following antisemitic attacks in Melbourne. Of interest in the Australian initiative is how “places of worship” are defined. Implications for academies, think tanks, laboratories, arenas and bodies cultivating patterns of belief.

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(Français) Fusillades dans les Écoles aux États-Unis
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

18 décembre 2024 – La dernière liste des fusillades dans les écoles montre qu’en 2024, on a déjà atteint un nouveau record de 83 fusillades.

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Why a Civil Society Tribunal on Gaza Genocide Is Necessary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

15 Dec 2024 – The idea of a Peoples or Civil Society Tribunal on the genocidal blockade of Palestinian civilians is a valuable initiative. A proposal with adequate funding by the Islamic Cooperation Youth Forum in Turkey came to our attention last May.

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Death of a Nation: Black Flags, Massacres, Land Grabs as Vultures Feed on the Carcass of Syria
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

11 Dec 2024 – The standard modus operandi of the Hegemon is always Divide and Rule. Will the collective West rise to defend the remaining Syrian Christians when the Black Flags come to purge them?

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From Bethlehem, Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

All souls wondering
find peace in the place of birthing
I, a lost soul, find it here in Bethlehem
A holy place cursed now by mayhem

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Autism, Made in the USA
Richard Gale and Dr. Gary Null | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

18 Dec 2024 – Since the 1990s, ADHD rates in the US have risen by 890 percent, autism by 2,094 percent, bipolar disease in youth by 10,833 percent, and celiac disease by 1,011 percent. What has fundamentally changed in our children’s health over the past three decades?

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Scandal Deepens around CNN’s Clarissa Ward Staging Syria Prison Scene
Wyatt Reed | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

16 Dec 2024 – Footage showing CNN’s regime change-crazed correspondent supposedly freeing a forgotten prisoner from a Syrian jail has been exposed a scandalous fraud, yet the network continues to re-air it, while defending its correspondent.

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Technocracy Rising: Why It’s Crucial to Understand the End Game
Jesse Smith | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

19 Dec 2024 – Self-serving individuals and groups have always posed as rulers, financiers, benefactors and thought leaders to steer change toward preferred outcomes, from the Pharaohs to the French Revolution. Societal transformation has been constant as one form of government replaces another.

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Crippling Dysfunction: Catastrophe for the Palestinians and the Region
George Galloway and Chris Hedges | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

17 Dec 2024 – The Zionist project to overthrow the Assad regime through slow economic strangulation was decades in the making, says Chris Hedges. No wonder Netanyahu rejoiced.

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Privatizing Syria: US Plans to Sell Off Nation’s Wealth after Assad
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

17 Dec 2024 – Sanctions-privatization-reconstruction: Washington’s approach to post-Assad Syria offers a glimpse into the true nature of US foreign policy agenda.

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U.S. School Shootings
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

18 Dec 2024 – The latest list of shootings in US schools shows that in 2024 there is a new record: 83. What is the cause of this violence? The list from 2008 to 2024.

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Syria “Liberated” by Its Own Destroyers
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

14 Dec 2024 – Abu Mohammed al-Jolani, today’s de facto ruler in Damascus, began his jihadist militancy in al-Qaeda as an associate of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the “caliph” who founded ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, in 2013.

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Albert Camus on Strength of Character and How to Save Our Sanity in Difficult Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

In 1957, Albert Camus became the second youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. “Strength of character, taste, the ‘world,’ classical happiness, severe pride, the cold frugality of the wise. More than ever, these virtues are necessary today.”

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Blinken Confirms the US Is in Direct Contact with al-Qaeda-linked HTS
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

15 Dec 2024 – Hayat Tahrir al-Sham Is Designated by the US as a Terrorist Organization

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Provocation! Or Why Violence in Ukraine and Gaza Was Inevitable
Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

20 Dec 2024 – To break out of the cycle of violence, we need to be able to correctly identify what is at stake. In both cases, we need to turn to the United States, for whom Israel is a kind of protectorate and Ukraine a kind of proxy.

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Gaza: Nearly One Million Palestinians Face Winter without Shelter
Norwegian Refugee Council | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

16 Dec 2024 — Thousands of families in Gaza are struggling as the winter season brings heavy rains, causing floods in their tents and exposing them to the cold and wind.

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The Fenzel Plan: How the US Engineered the PA’s West Bank Crackdown
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

18 Dec 2024 – The US initiative to create a specialized Palestinian Authority security force to carry out military assaults like the one now in Jenin, is focused on suppressing Palestinian opposition to Washington’s agenda and is paving the way for Israeli control by crushing grassroots resistance.

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Our Top Story
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

The CEO Murder…

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Brussels Further Damages European Industry by Approving 15th Sanctions Package on Russia
Ahmed Adel | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

17 Dec 2024 – The Council of the European Union approved the new sanctions yesterday. The EU is willing to continue destroying its own industries by persisting on the economic warfare despite the boomerang effects.

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Albert Einstein on Jews in Palestine
Albert Einstein | Panarchy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

Letters and excerpts from Albert Einstein’s writings (1932-1949) in which he repeatedly reiterated his opposition to the creation of a state for Jews, preferring the formation of a simple spiritual and cultural centre to serve the Jewish world and all humanity.

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‘No Civilians–Everyone’s a Terrorist’: IDF Soldiers
Yaniv Kubovich | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

20 Dec 2024 – IDF soldiers who served in Gaza tell that anyone who crosses an imaginary line in the contested Neztarim corridor is shot to death, with every Palestinian casualty counting as a terrorist – even if they were just a child.

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The Hawaiians Who Want Their Nation Back
Adrienne LaFrance | RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

In 1893, a U.S.-backed coup overthrew the Islands’ sovereign government. What does the US owe Hawai‘i now? – At the edge of a forest on the island of O‘ahu, you find the compound of the self-appointed President of the Nation of Hawai‘i.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 23 Dec 2024

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A Massive Database of Evidence Compiled by a Historian Documents Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza
Nir Hasson | Haaretz/RSN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

19 Dec 2024 – Historian Lee Mordechai links to a video showing a large dog gnawing something amid bushes. “Wai, wai, he took the terrorist, the terrorist is gone – gone in both senses,” says the Israeli soldier who filmed the dog eating a corpse in Gaza.”

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Japanese Researchers Say Side Effects of COVID Vaccines Linked to 201 Types of Diseases
Michel Chossudovsky and Lee Harding | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

20 Dec 2024 – The evidence is overwhelming. It potentially affects 96 million vaccinated people in Japan where the vaccines distributed are identical to those marketed worldwide: Pfizer/BioNTech, Moderna Spikevax Bivalent, AstraZeneca, etc. 

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The Counter Narrative to US Foreign Policy by Establishment Defectors
Ann Robertson | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

NYT, WaPo and other MSM banished criticisms of US foreign policy: Putin is a dictator that will invade other European countries, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked, Hamas’s Oct 7 attack was unprovoked, Israel is a democracy not committing genocide in Gaza, and its military actions in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran are for self-defense.

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Chess King Gukesh: How an 18-Year-Old Indian Dreamer Checkmated the World
S. Sujatha | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

19 Dec 2024 – Gukesh Dommaraju is one of the six Indians in the world’s top 26 chess players.

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Which Rogue State? Israel and the New Normal
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

Russia invading Ukraine in the name of protecting its security interests from perceived threats on its border = wrong, evil, worst thing ever.
Israel invading Palestine, Lebanon, Syria…

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Myanmar’s War Has Forced Doctors and Nurses into Prostitution
Sui-Lee Wee | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

16 Dec 2024 – Nearly four years into a grinding civil conflict, the economy is in ruins, and people — even professionals with degrees — are desperate.

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Use of “Sunrise” and “Sunset” as Harmful Misinformation or Disinformation?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

Complicity of Science in Unquestionable Dissemination of Harmful “Fake News” – There is considerable confusion about how “harmful” is to be understood globally, as with the distinction between “misinformation”, “disinformation” and “fake news” in that regard.

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Educating for Adaptive Change Beneath a Darkening Sky
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

9 Dec 2024 – Lending support to efforts to ground foreign policy on respect for international law, itself flawed, and the imperatives of peace, equity, justice, and non-theocratic spirituality.

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Celebrating Biodiversity in India: Vasundhara Festival 2024
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

11 Nov 2024 – Global leaders at COP16 in Colombia and COP29 in Azerbaijan proposed solutions with top-down, corporate-driven frameworks— carbon credits and the digitalization of nature—which are part of a continuation of the colonial legacy of bio-imperialism. Critical analysis in our fact sheet: Understanding Biodiversity Credits.

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Fall of Syria Is also about Greater Israel
Craig Murray | X - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

8 Dec 2024 – Speaking from Beirut, the former British diplomat explains the fall of Damascus within the context of the project for Greater Israel.

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The BRICS Plan for a New Financial Architecture
Prof Anuradha Chenoy | InDepthNews - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

1 Dec 2024 – The BRICS difference can be read as decolonised multilateralism with intent and behaviour as an interdependent, plural grouping, committed to development linked to the global South.

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(Italiano) Opposizione e visione di futuro
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

12 Dicembre 2024 – Come organizzare forme efficaci di opposizione? I cambiamenti sociali e politici più rilevanti sono stati iniziati da frange marginali che hanno saputo aggregare e coinvolgere. Bisogna esserne consapevoli e, poi, costruire una visione di futuro…

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The Prevention of Literature
George Orwell | The Atlantic - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

March 1947 – George Orwell served as a volunteer in the Spanish Civil War and came to detest tyranny, whether of Communist or Fascist. “To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox.” In this vigorous essay, he derides the captivity of the Party line.

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US Backs Israel’s Land Grab in Syria
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

9 Dec 2024 – The US State Department framed Israel’s incursion into Syrian territory as ‘self-defense.’

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(Italiano) La geopolitica della follia delle élite
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

Mentre il mondo si trova contemporaneamente sull’orlo di una guerra nucleare in Asia centrale per la geopolitica della follia delle élite, manda in frantumi ogni residuo senso di “giustizia internazionale” non intraprendendo alcuna azione efficace per fermare il genocidio televisivo in Palestina…

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French Court Convicts French-Cameroonian Journalist Charles Onana for Speech Crime
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

11 Dec 2024 – A French criminal court has convicted a journalist for writing dissident history about Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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From Tyrant to Tyrant?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

11 Dec 2024 – Assad’s fall didn’t come with a roadmap to democracy or stability. Instead, it is handing power to Jihadi extremists, the kind who burn books and crush the public under their so-called morality. It’s not enough to overthrow a tyrant if what comes next is worse than what came before.

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(Italiano) Per una formazione etica
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

Bambini e ragazzi sono sempre più esposti alle attenzioni del mondo militare, impegnato a promuovere delle scuole opportunità di studio e di esperienze per orientare i giovani verso gli ideali e le carriere militari.

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Israel Says It Launched 480 Strikes in Syria in Two Days Following Assad’s Fall
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

10 Dec 2024 – The Israeli military announced today the heaviest Israeli bombing of Syria in history. The IDF is said to be only 25km from Damascus.

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Sovereignty, Modernization, and Cooperation Championed at Global South Forum in Shanghai
Shiran Illanperuma | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

13 Dec 2024 – The forum concluded: “Without socialism, independence movements among weaker nations during the imperialist era cannot address issues of new and old colonialism.”

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 16 Dec 2024

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The Kakistocracy
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

9 Dec 2024 – Still Trump…

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Report from the Nordic Delegation to China’s Xinjiang Province, 7-15 Sep 2024
Jan Oberg, et al. | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

16 Nov 2024 – The initiative for the “Nordic Delegation to China” was from the Norwegians. Journalist Arild Vollan wanted to investigate claims in the media about an ongoing genocide against the Uyghurs in the autonomous region of Xinjiang in western China.

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How to Escape the Federal Debt Trap
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

10 Dec 2024 – The U.S. national debt just passed $36 trillion, only four months after it passed $35 trillion and up $2 trillion for the year. The current debt trajectory is clearly unsustainable, but what can be done about it?

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