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The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
2 Aug 2024 – Fans of capitalism say it is democratic and supports democracy. Some equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably; it is simply not true and never was. It is more accurate to say that capitalism and democracy are opposites.
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(Français) Projet d’un Manifeste 2025
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
1 Août 2024 – Le blog précédent proposait de reprendre le Manifeste 2000 là où il s’était arrêté, de le renommer Manifeste 2025, de recueillir à nouveau des signatures et de lancer des actions.
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UN Report on Arbitrary Detention and Abhorrent Abuse of Palestinian Prisoners
Talia Mullin | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
31 Jul 2024 – A new 23-page report has been released from the UN Human Rights department detailing the arbitrary detention, abuse, mistreatment, humiliation, torture, and prolonged incommunicado sentences of thousands of Palestinians including sexual abuse and deaths in Israeli custody.
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Let’s Abolish the Colonial IMF on Its 80th Birthday
Arthur Larok | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
24 July 2024 – From Kenya to Pakistan, protesters want the International Monetary Fund to stop exploiting countries in debt crisis.
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Too Many Things Are Happening
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
29 Jul 2024 – Meanwhile in the US of A
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Gazans Need Polio Vaccines Amid ‘Deathly Cycle’ of Hunger, Heat and Disease, Say UN Aid Agencies
Daniel Johnson | UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – In a bid to prevent a polio epidemic in Gaza, UN humanitarians today repeated calls for a ceasefire to allow mass vaccination “at a time when water, sanitation and hygiene conditions are being further eroded, with infectious diseases on the rise”.
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Under Israeli Law, UNRWA Is about to Become a Terrorist Organisation
Moncef Khane | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
27 Jul 2024 – The UN must urgently take decisive action against the latest Israeli affront on the entire international community.
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Starvation in Sudan
Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – As in Gaza, the Deprivation Is Deliberate – Sudan should simply no longer be callously ignored.
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Photographs Expose Thomas Merton Murder Cover-up
Hugh Turley | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
Thomas Merton was the most influential Catholic writer of the 20th century. He was almost as well-known in the United States as the author Ernest Hemingway or the popular Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
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How Unelected Regulators Unleashed the Derivatives Monster – and How It Might Be Tamed
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
4 Aug 2024 – While the world is absorbed in the U.S. election drama, the derivatives time bomb continues to tick menacingly backstage. Warren Buffet famously labeled derivatives “financial weapons of mass destruction” in 2002. Twenty years later, financial commentators have put it as high as $3.7 quadrillion.
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The Uncounted Gaza Victims: Why Hundreds of Thousands Are Being Allowed to Die
Eva Bartlett | – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
23 Jul 2024 – The Lancet published an article estimating that the number of Palestinian civilian deaths could be five times higher than the official death toll. “Up to 186 000 or even more; this would translate to 7.9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip.”
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Growing Demands for Peace in Ukraine as the Kiev Regime Criminalizes 7 Million Ukrainian Men Refusing to Join the War
Dmitri Kovalevich | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
As of mid-July, widely-read bloggers begun to advocate an early cessation of hostilities and several legislators voiced support. Vladyslava Rogovenko on Instagram, 8 Jul: “Let the clown [Zelensky] go and negotiate peace. Enough of innocent deaths and this horror! How long will this continue? My anger has no limit!”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 5 Aug 2024
Draft for a Manifesto 2025
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
1 Aug 2024 – The previous blog proposed taking up the Manifesto 2000 where it left off, renaming it the Manifesto 2025, gathering signatures once again and initiating action.
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Venezuelans Re-Elect President Maduro Despite U.S. Organized Coup Attempt
Gloria Guillo | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – Sanctions are a misnomer when it comes to Venezuela. Here, the U.S. isn’t “just” illegally punishing a nation-state to effect regime change. It is also committing racketeer-level crimes against its people.
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An Open Letter to Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024 – Glad that Joe Biden finally acted responsibly by withdrawing his candidacy. To consider this overdue act ‘brave’ and ‘courageous’ is to rob those precious words of their proper meaning. Harris seems to have handled the political [Netanyahu] situation in an encouragingly skillful manner.
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Where Do We Go Now, Ask Gazans Uprooted by New Israeli Evacuation Orders
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024 – Gazans uprooted by the Israeli military’s latest evacuation orders have fled their shelters and homes “running for their lives”, with barely any belongings and little idea where they will end up, UN humanitarians said today.
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Congress: Netanyahu Commands, US Obeys
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024 – USA as ‘Savior,’ Israel as ‘Victim’ – Bibi, who addresses a joint-session of Congress today, is the subject of an arrest warrant from the ICC. He has demanded the US shield Israel from criticism while continuing to arm and support its genocide — and the U.S. has answered his call.
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China Throws Clout behind Palestine
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024 – The Beijing Declaration cements the idea that global conflict resolution is now Made in China. But it also throws a wrench in US–Israeli efforts to manufacture a collaborator Palestinian government after the war in Gaza.
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Reframing “Two-state” Possibilities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
29 Jul 2024 – Beyond the Constraints of Disciplinary Frameworks in a Two-state Civilization – There is no lack of references over an extensive period to “the” Israel-Palestine “two-state” solution.
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Leaked UN Report: Israel Has Killed 366 UN Staff and Family Members as Netanyahu Addresses US Congress
Ryan Grim | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024 – The confidential report is the first to detail the toll faced by the families of UN workers in Gaza.
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Israeli Killings of Children in West Bank Skyrocket
Julia Conley | Common Dreams/Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024 – UNICEF says 143 children are among the more than 500 Palestinians killed in Israeli raids and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank over the last 10 months.
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The City of Nine Gates
Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarmā dāsa) | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – Is there a Conscious Self distinct from the physical mechanism of the body? Is there a mind distinct from the brain? Those who answer yes to such questions are called dualists, and they are rare in contemporary science and philosophy.
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Cry, the Beloved World
Gus Speth | Democracy Collaborative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024 – Occasional reflections on the systemic crisis and the next system.
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[No Joke] Pure Ugly Propaganda
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – Tragicomedy among War Criminals
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Footsteps in the Sand: Gaza Antiwar/Peace/Protest Songs (Music Video of the Week)
Jazz Attack | Vision Music Videos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jan 2024 – The hope for Peace and Reconciliation, return of the hostages, and the despair especially of the children.
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Thousands Shut Down the US Capitol to Protest Israel’s Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – Thousands of people of conscience from across the US turned out to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to D.C. this week — including hundreds of American Jews who were arrested while engaged in prayerful civil disobedience, demanding an immediate arms embargo on Israel.
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200 Years of Solitude: Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a painting, a theorem — is to find the voice in the silence that has something to say to the world. In solitude, …
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Dramatic Moment Anti-Whaling Campaigner Paul Watson ‘Ambushed’ and Arrested
Michael Dahlstrom | Yahoo News/RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – Anti-whaling campaigner, Greenpeace co-founder, and Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson has been reportedly “ambushed,” handcuffed and arrested in Denmark by 14 police and SWAT on an international arrest warrant.
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Unacceptable
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – No Comment
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China Designs an Economic Road Map All the Way to 2029
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – There can hardly be a better place to track the four-day, twice-a-decade plenum of the Communist Party of China than dynamic, “one country, two systems” Hong Kong.
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Encountering the Bhakt: Transformation in Religious Thought
Abinash Dash Choudhury | The India Forum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
Two examples from mediaeval Odisha’s bhakti tradition show how debates and differences about the sacred were part of devotional practice, and not forced onto us after the institutionalisation of modern, secular, and democratic visions.
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ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting!
Joe Slater, James Humphries & Michael Townsen Hicks | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information.
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Johan Galtung: Positive and Negative Peace
Baljit Grewal | School of Social Science, University of Auckland - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
In the present essay, the word peace is the central focus. It is often stated that the word peace is very often used and abused and that since it lacks an agreeable definition and difficult to conceptualise, it is unreal and utopian.
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Palestinian Factions Sign Beijing Agreement but Deep Obstacles Remain
Omar Karmi | Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024 – Yesterday, Palestinian factions in Beijing signed yet another unity agreement to overcome 17 years of internal division between the two main Palestinian political factions, Hamas and Fatah.
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UN Needs the Earth Constitution to Deal with World Criminals
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – As we watch helplessly, violators of international law go free, unable to be arrested by the UN, the ICJ (World Court), or the ICC. Leaders of Bully nations break the Law with impunity. There is no world federal enforcement to protect the citizenry.
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The Money War: How Four U.S. Presidents Unleashed Economic Warfare Across the Globe
Jeff Stein and Federica Cocco | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – The US imposes three times as many sanctions as any other country, targeting a third of all nations with financial penalty on people, properties or organizations. Sanctions have emerged as the key instrument of U.S. foreign policy.
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Transformation of BRICS: From Symbolic Power to a Real Financial Pole in the Modern World
Dr. Oleg Barabanov | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
25 Jul 2024 – This year, Russia will be hosting the BRICS summit in October in Kazan. Our governmental circles, our ministries and our NGOs are all preparing for the summit. It is considered the key foreign policy event in Russia this year.
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Science Must Protect Thinking Time in a World of Instant Communication
Editorial | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024 – Emails and instant messaging are core to research — but also a distraction. Researchers should study their impact on science, and how they can claw back time to concentrate.
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Project 2025
Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
A New Pax Romana
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Tribute to Johan Galtung (1930-2024)
Jake Lynch | International Journal of Communication Ethics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
A Personal Recollection – A tribute to one of the founders of peace journalism whose death in February 2024 went largely unnoticed by the Western corporate media.
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Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – Debunking Biodiversity Credits, the Next Wave of Bio-Imperialism – In the name of biodiversity “conservation” and “protection”, the corporate sector is increasingly making calls for the financialisation of nature.
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AI-enabled Mapping and Animation of Learning Pathways
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
22 Jul 2024 – Use of Polyhedra in Configuring Memorable Integrative Frameworks – The early web version of the program of the Summit of the Summits to be held in Japan in Sep 2024 invited critical commentary in an exercise appropriate to the times.
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(Italiano) Verità: una riflessione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
16 Luglio 2024 – L’idea di Verità è rilevante per le arti/materie umanistiche quanto per le scienze. La Verità è un attributo di un’articolazione simbolica – una tesi, un testo, un dipinto, una scultura, un brano musicale – allorché confrontato con la realtà: riflette, concorda con ciò che consideriamo “realtà”?
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New Report: Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – The financialization of nature by mechanisms and schemes like Biodiversity Credits and Nature Asset Companies represent the latest attempt to extend the old colonial bio-imperialism under the veneer of environmentalism.
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What the Top UN Court’s Ruling Means for Israel
Tarik Cyril Amar | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
21 Jul 2024 – Though non-binding, the ICJ’s rulings on the ongoing Gaza genocide strip away the Jewish zionist state’s ability to obfuscate its crimes.
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Will the ICC Act? The Netanyahu/Gallant Arrest Warrants are a Truth or Dare Moment?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – The ICC would be widely viewed as a weak institution by not obtaining participation or cooperation of states such as USA, Russia, China, Israel. It was most unfavorably compared to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to which all members of the UN were automatically parties.
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
13 juillet 2024 – Le blog du mois dernier sollicitait vos suggestions sur la manière de relancer un mouvement mondial pour la culture de la paix. Vous avez répondu généreusement et 10 suggestions sont imprimées au bas du blog.
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ICJ Says Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territory Is Illegal and Must End
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – The UN highest court argued that Israel’s large-scale expansion of settlements amounts to annexation, a crime under international law. The vote at the International Court of Justice against Israel’s occupation was 11-4. It also voted for Israel to evacuate all settlers from the West Bank.
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Israel’s Invitation to This Year’s Atomic Bomb Commemorations in Japan Has Sparked a Controversy over Double Standards
Chris Lau, Nodoka Katsura and Rinka Tonsho | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – Hiroshima, the Japanese city devastated by a US atomic bomb in 1945, is at the center of a growing controversy after local officials dismissed calls to disinvite Israel from its annual ceremony promoting world peace as war rages in Gaza.
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When Einstein Called “Fascists” Those Who Rule Israel
Giorgos Mitralias | CADTM - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Netanyahu and his government are fully confirming what Einstein publicly denounced in 1948: Likud members are “fascists”, “racists”, “criminals” and “terrorists” who will inevitably lead Israel to its “final destruction”.
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Exposing the Myth of the ‘Good War’
Nicky Reid | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – The USA has a problem but don’t worry, because we can stop anytime we want. I speak of course of USA’s bottomless appetite for warfare, the fact that we can’t seem to go fifteen minutes without lighting up a third world country like a fucking spliff. But this doesn’t make us addicts…
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(Português) Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Siga tranquilamente por entre a agitação e a pressa e lembre-se da Paz que pode haver no silêncio. Procure, o mais que possa, viver em harmonia com as pessoas ao seu redor, sem abrir mão das suas próprias convicções.
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Apr 2024 – A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other. Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee, and clip, which means to attach and to detach.
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Rule by Militia
Joshua Craze | Boston Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Governments wracked by debt have found militias an efficient way of managing restive populations.
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Important 4-min Exposition
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | X – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – The truth about Putin, Ukraine, and NATO.
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Our Top Story
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – Shocking Attempt at Former President’s Life
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With Media Enamored by US Presidential Race, Israeli Massacres in Gaza Get Even Deadlier
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
16 Jul 2024 – “We must not lose sight of what is happening in Gaza, where an unprecedented humanitarian crisis continues to get even worse,” said U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders.
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‘A World without Borders’: Revolutionary Love and Solidarity for Palestine
Samah Jabr, MD | Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Revolutionary love is not just an abstract concept. It is a transformative force that challenges the status quo and fuels the fight for justice, equality and human dignity. In supporting the Palestinian people, you not only aid our struggle, you enrich your own lives by connecting with a deeper sense of purpose and humanity.
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Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – In a highly controversial decision, the Supreme Court on June 28 reversed a 40-year old ruling, reclaiming the Court’s role as interpreter of statutory law as it applies to a massive body of regulations imposed by federal agencies in such areas as the environment, workplace safety, public health and more.
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Israeli Strikes in Southern, Central Gaza Kill More Than 60 Palestinians, Including in ‘Safe Zone’
Wafaa Shurafa | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – Israeli airstrikes killed more than 60 Palestinians in southern and central Gaza overnight and into yesterday, including one that struck an Israeli-declared “safe zone” crowded with thousands of displaced people.
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Settled
Ellen Cantarow | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
14 Jul 2024 – How the Israeli Extreme Right Has Achieved Victory
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To a Starving Orphan Who Died Alone in Rubble
Bill Hatch | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – “Tales of infants and young children dying because they can’t get enough to eat and distraught parents robbed of their dignity because they can do nothing for their kids (or themselves) are too numerous and ghastly to detail here. But just for a moment imagine that all of this was happening to your loved ones.”
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David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
13 Jul 2024 – Last month’s blog requested your suggestions on how to relaunch a global movement for the culture of peace. You responded handsomely and there are 10 suggestions printed at the bottom of the blog.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 22 Jul 2024
UNRWA Headquarters “Flattened” as Destruction of Gaza Continues
Thomas Scripps | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
16 Jul 2024 – The massacres of Palestinian civilians by Israel over the weekend continues. Artillery, drone and airstrikes were launched. Flaunting its genocidal intentions, the IDF levelled the Gaza headquarters of the United Nations Palestinian relief agency UNRWA.
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Implosion and Rebuilding
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
19 Jul 2024 – The “Israeli” Knesset voted to deny any possibility of a Palestinian State in Palestine. I read polls indicating most Israelis support the ongoing genocide of our people. I heard Donald Trump stoke colonial language and defend racist ancestors.
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NATO’s Obscure Relations with Israel
Ann Wright | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
20 Jul 2024 – On the arms flowing between members of the military alliance and Israel, which despite its small size, ranks as the 15th top weapons importer in the world.
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A Grieving Heart
Ambreen Alam | CNKD – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
28 Jun Global Nonkilling Day
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AI Mass Surveillance at Paris Olympics
Anne Toomey McKenna | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – A Legal Scholar on the Security Boon and Privacy Nightmare – The 2024 Paris Olympics is drawing closer but it’s not just the eyes of the world that will be watching. Artificial intelligence systems will be conducting a pervasive and persistent surveillance before, during and after the Games.
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The Ecstasy of Eternity: Richard Jefferies on Time and Self-Transcendence
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
Realising that spirit, recognising my own inner consciousness, the psyche, so clearly, I cannot understand time. It is eternity now. I am in the midst of it. It is about me in the sunshine; I am in it, as the butterfly floats in the light-laden air. Nothing has to come; it is now. Now is eternity; now is the immortal life.
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Crisis in the West, Opportunity for the Rest?
Walden Bello | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – The crisis of U.S. hegemony may lead to a deeper crisis or to opportunity. Like Ulysses, we cannot avoid the dangerous passage between Scylla and Charybdis to get to the promised safe harbor.
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Zelensky Says Russia Should Attend Next Ukraine Summit
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2024
15 Jul 2024 – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said today that Russian representatives should attend the next international summit on the Ukraine war. The comments marked a shift for him.
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Counting the Dead in Gaza: Difficult but Essential
Rasha Khatib, Martin McKee and Salim Yusuf | The Lancet – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
5 Jul 2024 – The true death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 or more. The official toll according to Gazan government is 37,396 but this figure reflects neither the thousands buried under the rubble nor the countless deaths caused by the destruction of Gaza’s food distribution, healthcare and sanitation systems.
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The Only Kind of “Political Violence” All U.S. Politicians Oppose
Natasha Lennard | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
14 Jul 2024 – The Trump rally shooting reveals a bipartisan consensus about what constitutes political violence — and who should wield it.
→ read full articleFacilitating Global Dialogue with AI?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Potential Implications for International, Interfaith, Intercultural and Interdisciplinary Discourse – The early web version of the program of the Summit of the Summits to be held in Japan in Sep 2024 invited critical commentary in an exercise appropriate to the times.
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AOC Files to Impeach Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito
Sharon Zhang | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
11 Jul 2024 – Yesterday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filed articles of impeachment against the two supreme court justices in the boldest move yet to resolve the court’s “unchecked corruption crisis” as it radically reshapes the U.S. government for worse.
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Biden’s Escapist Vision & Democratic Party’s Evasive Electoral Campaign
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
10 Jul 2024 – My dissatisfaction with Biden’s stubborn resolve to challenge Trump despite his impaired capabilities, his woeful foreign policy toward Ukraine and Gaza, and wooly-headed optimism about the future of the US and his ability to lead the world.
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Assessing the Punitive ‘Release’ of Julian Assange
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
1- What do you make of the plea deal between the US and Assange?
His release was long overdue, although it would have been more widely welcomed at this time if it had not been achieved within the framework of a plea bargain.
May He Live
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
I reflect on these horrors. I reflect on Western (US, Germany, UK, Australia, etc) collusion and collaboration with an ongoing genocide and ongoing process of ethnic cleansing. I reflect on hypocrisy and on cowardice. I reflect on racism and hate.
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Genocide Joe (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – Lowkey releases his new track ‘Genocide Joe’ featuring Mai Khalil.
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Rwanda’s Stillborn Middle-Income Economy
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
10 Jul 2024 – Rwanda’s Economic Miracle Is a Lie – On July 15, Rwandan President Paul Kagame will be “re-elected” in a sham process. He is well-known for ruling with an iron fist and keeping challengers from even entering the race against him.
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The Vacancy
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
No Comment
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NATO Summit: Alliance’s Endgame Appears to Be Nuclear War
Chris Wright | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – It is downright puzzling that millions of people aren’t protesting in the streets every day to deescalate the crisis between the West and the Rest pulling humanity back from the brink.
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(Italiano) Religioni: in tutte c’è una garbata saggezza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Le religioni sanno essere dure, e morbide e garbate, e ogni religione è tessuta di fili duri e morbidi, dove i fondamentalisti agiscono sui duri. Religare suona bene. Ma come?
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The End of Obama’s War on Syria
Steven Sahiounie | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
8 Jul 2024 – Lesson to be learned from Syria: never participate in any U.S. [proxy] war abroad using terrorists as assets.
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X Days Since the Genocide Began
Edward Salem | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
I couldn’t see it but I knew,
as if it had been whispered in my ear,
there were no Palestinians in hell.
Julian Assange and the Criminalization of Journalism: A Story of Moral Injury and Moral Courage
Kari James | New Matilda - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
8 Jul 2024 – ‘The truth will out’, the saying goes. The question is, how much injury – moral and otherwise – is suffered by the courageous men and women trying to expose it? Psychologist and researcher Kari James explores that answer.
→ read full articlePeace Shuttle: The Big Picture Behind ‘Viktor the Mediator’
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – The Big Picture remains: the future of the “rules-based international order” is being decided in the black soil of Novorossiya. It’s Unipolar Order vs. Multipolar, Multi-Nodal Order.
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We Can Defeat the Israeli Lobby
Ilan Pappé | Palestine Chronicle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
9 Jul 2024 – The sight of the children buried under the rubble, salvaged by older children, is enough for me and, I am sure, for anyone who was ever silenced by the lobby, not to cave in but to overcome any hurdles they put in our way of speaking truth to power.
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Why the US Let Assange Go
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – The cumulative factors that led to the United States releasing WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange from prison.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 15 Jul 2024
Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.
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How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism
Robert F. Barsky | The MIT Press Reader - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Robert Barsky examines the profound impact of Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” on Noam Chomsky’s early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies.
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NATO Summit: Not a Shield but a Bloodied Sword
John Wight | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
12 Jul 2024 – When leaders of the military pact’s member states pontificate about its invaluable role in defending democracy, you can almost hear history guffawing in the background.
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(Italiano) Israele a Gaza: l’incrinatura ebraica col sionismo
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
Quando si diradi il fumo a Gaza, ci si accorgerà che i soli non “investiti” sono i proprietari e gestori del complesso militar-industriale USA e i politici che li hanno messi in condizione di fare il proprio gioco. Che conteranno i propri soldi, si presenteranno alla rielezione, e programmeranno la prossima guerra. Che non sarà no un incidente.
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As Ukraine’s Largest Children’s Hospital Is Hit, Anger Towards Russia Rages
Mansur Mirovalev | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
8 Jul 2024 – Moscow denies targeting the civilian site as its forces bombard cities across the country, killing more than 30 people.
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Genocide on Gaza: Did We Learn Nothing from the Srebrenica Genocide?
Nadina Ronc | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
11 Jul 2024 – The Srebrenica Memorial Center conceals a horrific history. Here lie the remains of Bosnian Muslims brutally murdered in Jul 1995 under the command of the now-convicted Serbian war criminal General Ratko Mladic. This tragic legacy must serve as a call to action to shape a more compassionate world that does not stand by as Israel annihilates the Palestinians.
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Hundreds of Scientists Urge Biden to Cancel $100 Billion Nuclear Weapons Boondoggle
Edward Carver | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jul 2024
8 Jul 2024 – More than 700 scientists today called for an end to the US nuclear weapons program set to be replaced by the Pentagon despite soaring costs. “There is no sound technical or strategic rationale for spending tens of billions of dollars building new nuclear weapons,” an expert said.
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How Albert Einstein Started Out as a Zionist but Ended Up Opposing the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Ayaan Paul | MSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
Albert Einstein’s journey from early reservations about a Jewish state to strong opposition to Zionist occupation of Palestine is a testament to his deep ethical convictions and pacifist principles.
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