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Journalist Bisan Owda Documents Western/Zionist Genocide in Real Time
Mark Taliano | Voices from Syria - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
1 Jul 2024 – Gazan journalist Bisan Owda, currently trapped in Gaza like so many others, reports that “there are no places for people… no places to go to”. It is a game of “death and hunger” she says, and it has been so for nine months.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 8 Jul 2024
‘Film Was the Best Way to Convey Our Art Amid the Suffering in Gaza’
Ruwaida Kamal Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
2 Jul 2024 – Gaza was defiantly present at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May, despite efforts by the event’s organizers to prevent it from appearing. Shunned Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi organized a protest screening of short films made by Gazans during the war.
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Change: The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change: Are you the same person you were as a child?
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‘The [U.S.] President Is Now a King Above the Law,’ Sotomayor Warns in Chilling Dissent
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
1 Jul 2024 – A legal journalist described the liberal justice’s dissent as “one of the most terrified and terrifying pieces of judicial writing I’ve ever encountered.”
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The U.S. Supreme Court’s Disastrous Trump Immunity Decision, Explained
Ian Millhiseris | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
1 Jul 2024 – The Court’s decision is a blueprint for dictatorship. The six Republicans handed down a decision today that gives Donald Trump sweeping immunity from prosecution without any legal checks on his behavior if he returns to the White House.
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Did the Media Botch the Biden Age Story?
Brian Stelter | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
3 Jul 2024 – Asleep at the wheel? Complicit in a cover-up? The real story is far more complicated — and more interesting. [With a rebuttal from Matt Taibbi]
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My Heart Is Heavy: Please Stop (Music Video of the Week)
Roger Waters | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
A special message from rock legend Roger Waters: “The scream of each bomb that falls on Gaza is the dying scream of a failed state. My heart is heavy. Please stop!”
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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto 69 Years Later
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell | Pugwash Conferences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
9 July 1955 – “In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”
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The Abolish NATO Catalogue
Jan Oberg and TFF Associates | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
NATO 75-year Summit, 9-11 Jul 2024: Abolish NATO or Convert It to Serve Peace–30 Arguments & 100s of Inspirations
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Biden: ‘I’m Running the World’
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
6 Jul 2024 – The comment by the sitting U.S. president in yesterday’s interview has been ignored by the mainstream, but its megalomania is at the heart of why Joe Biden is defying his party and remaining in the race.
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Away from Global Attention, Sudan Is Starving
Othman Moqbel | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
4 Jul 2024 – We need to take urgent action to prevent what could be the largest hunger crisis of our times.
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Israel’s Starvation Policy in Gaza Is Forcing People to Eat Tree Leaves
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
3 Jul 2024 – The state of hunger in Gaza is growing. Its long-term health effects are starting to show.
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A Flawed Peace Conference Offers a Radical Proposal: Hope
Haggai Matar | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
4 Jul 2024 – In a context of fear, hatred, and violence, an Israeli-Palestinian gathering that seemed detached from reality actually represented something revolutionary.
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The Neck and the Sword
Prof. Rashid Khalidi interviewed by Tariq Ali | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
Rashid Khalidi talks to Tariq Ali about the history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught relations with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the US-run ‘peace process’, Israel’s grip on the Biden Administration and the strategic calculations – or miscalculations – of Hamas.
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AI Commentary on an Envisaged Synthesis Dialogue
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
1 Jul 2024 – On the Occasion of the Proposed Summit of the Summits and Its Possible Enhancement by AI – The early web version of the program to be held in Hakone, Japan, Sep 2024, invites critical commentary in an exercise appropriate to the times.
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BlackRock: No Compromise with Evil
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
BlackRock has extensive investments in companies closely allied to Israel’s arms industry. It has a 7.4% stake in Lockheed Martin, a defence contractor that has played a critical role in arming the Israeli military.
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Stories of Survival and Suffering: Inside Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital
Reem A. Hamadaqa | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
28 Jun 2024 – Reem Hamadaqa spent 96 days in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza recovering from an Israeli attack that killed the rest of her family. Here are the stories of women and children she met while she was there.
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Modi’s Moscow Mission: What the Indian PM’s Visit to Russia Signals to the West
Kanwal Sibal | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
28 Jun 2024 – The prime minister’s prompt visit to Russia after re-election sends an important message: New Delhi is committed to boost relations with its time-tested partner despite Western pressures.
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The Jews in Palestine
Mahatma Gandhi | The Harijan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
26 Nov 1938 – “And now a word to the Jews in Palestine. I have no doubt that they are going about it in the wrong way. The Palestine of the Biblical conception is not a geographical tract. It is in their hearts. But if they must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs. They should seek to convert the Arab heart.”
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Children Starving, Parents Helpless as Famine Consumes Northern Gaza
Ibrahim Mohammad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – Famine: With aid blocked and stores empty of basic goods, Palestinian children are being hospitalized with malnutrition and acute anemia.
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Assange Released from Prison after Agreeing to Plead Guilty to Espionage Act Violation
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
24 Jun 2024 – The plea bargain allows the Wikileaks founder to return to Australia after a court date in the Mariana Islands.
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Finally, an Answer to a Mystery Surrounding These 1,000-Year-Old Trees
Tom Page | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
24 Jun 2024 – For millions of years, mighty baobabs have been standing sentry on three different landmasses, posing each other an existential question: Which came first?
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A Month Traveling in China
Stansfield Smith | Orinoco Tribune/Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – My Chinese-speaking wife and I recently traveled to nine different cities and towns in China over the course of a month, our fourth trip since 2005. Of our most significant impressions of China…
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Genocide on Gaza: Hunger ‘Worse Than Bombings’ for Starving Palestinians–Mostly Children
Lubna Masarwa and Rayhan Uddin | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Jun 2024 – Food is scarce, spoilt and often non-existent in besieged enclave, leaving people dizzy and weak.
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Why Is NATO Expanding Its Nuclear Force?
Stephen Bryen | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
Is Washington Extending the Nuclear Umbrella to Ukraine?
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The End of the Biggest Press Freedom Case of the Century
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Jun 2024 – A global effort by advocates, campaigners, journalists, organizers, and supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pushed President Joe Biden’s administration to finally free Assange.
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(Italiano) Gli umani si trastullano mentre l’umanità brucia: sarà una morte a breve o schiavitù transumana?
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Giugno 2024 – Confrontati da un attacco ben coordinato e multidimensionale alla nostra umanità – l’identità di Homo Sapiens, la nostra libertà e addirittura la nostra esistenza – la gran parte degli umani si ritrae timorosa; e in tale stato, incapace di resistere.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 1 Jul 2024
Mairead Maguire: Israel’s ‘Genocidal Policies’ Have to Change for Peace in Palestine
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal interviews Mairead Maguire | Anadolu Ajansı - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – ‘You cannot build peace on a genocide,’ says Mairead Maguire, winner of 1976 Nobel Peace Prize and member of the TRANSCEND Network.
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Julian Assange Is Free, but Journalism Remains under Threat
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – Julian Assange is free. After a 14-year ordeal including over five years in Britain’s harsh, maximum security Belmarsh Prison, the founder of WikiLeaks agreed to a deal with the US, pleading guilty to one felony count. His sentence: Time served.
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China: The Game Is Up
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – Does China deserve more respect? However much Western commentators want to sustain the age of empire, a new multipolar world order has already begun to take root.
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US House Votes to Bar State Department from Citing Gazan Casualties from Health Ministry
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – If passed into law, US diplomats would be unable to discuss casualty figures from Palestinian sources that are generally considered credible.
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Israeli Defense Minister Vows to Return Lebanon to ‘Stone Age’
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – The White House reversed course and now says a ceasefire in Lebanon cannot be contingent on a deal in Gaza. It tries to avert a major war in the Middle East but is not making progress.
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‘More Horrific Than Abu Ghraib’: Lawyer Recounts Visit to Israeli Detention Center
Baker Zoubi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – At Sde Teiman, Khaled Mahajneh found a detained journalist unrecognizable as he described the facility’s violent and inhumane conditions.
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The Impending Collapse of the U.S. Empire
Chris Hedges | Declassified UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – The world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of U.S. racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, Matt Kennard’s book reveals.
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Assange Agreed to Destroy Unpublished Classified Material
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – As part of his plea deal with the United States, Julian Assange agreed to order the destruction of any unpublished U.S. material in WikiLeaks possession.
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The Landmark Ruling against Chiquita Exposes the Failure of Voluntary “Corporate Social Responsibility”
Manpreet Kaur Kalra and Anna Canning | In These Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
20 Jun 2024 – Chiquita’s financing of a Colombian paramilitary group, although claiming to be a “responsible corporate citizen,” shows the need for robust civil society institutions. Chiquita inspired the derogatory label, Banana Republic.
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Ansar Allah Are Not Working with Al-Shabaab – Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
26 Jun 2024 – US and EU forces have been unable to defeat Ansar Allah and now the US is floating a story that they’re working with Al Shabaab.
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Why Did the Ukraine Peace Summit Fail?
Leonid Ragozin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
23 Jun 2024 – The Global South is not buying the Ukrainian claim to colonial victimhood, and has grown more suspicious of US client states after Gaza.
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Stand Up for Palestine (Music Video of the Week)
Roger Waters, Yusuf Cat Stevens, Lowkey | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
21 Jun 2024 – Join legendary music legends Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), Yusuf Cat Stevens and iconic rapper Lowkey plus special guests for a one-off concert in aid of peace, freedom and justice for Palestine.
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Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? Case Study
Alene Bouranova | Boston University Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
5 Jun 2024 – New Report from BU School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic Lays Out Case – The report comes from researchers at the University Network for Human Rights, a consortium of human right centers.
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The AI Bubble: Artificial Intelligence = Deficient Technology
Karsten Riise | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
24 Jun 2024 – The CEO Sam Altman from OpenAI travels the World to ask for $7 trillion for investment into AI and related technologies, including new chip factories, humongous datacenters, land, and even nuclear power to run AI’s insatiable appetite for energy. Yes, $7 trillion; more than US federal budget.
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Between Mathematics and the Miraculous: The Stunning Pendulum Drawings of Swiss Healer and Artist Emma Kunz
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
As a schoolchild, she had delighted in using a pendulum to make drawings in her exercise books, but it was not until midlife that she found in this process a portal to a larger world of ideas. In 1938, using a silver pendulum with a jade end, she believed was guided by energy fields, she began making large-scale drawings.
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Chaiwat Satha-Anand (25 Jan 1955 – 27 Jun 2024)
Prof. Anoop Swarup | Centre for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – It is with a heavy heart that I share the sad passing away today morning of my friend, our visionary nonkilling peace leader and CGNK Vice Chair, Dr Chaiwat Satha-Anand.
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Ten Holocaust Survivors Condemn Israel’s Gaza Genocide
Open Letter | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
22 Jun 2024 – Below is a letter signed by ten Holocaust survivors condemning the genocide in Gaza and the misuse of antisemitism accusations by politicians. “Using the Holocaust to justify genocide and repress student protest is a complete insult to the Holocaust’s memory.”
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Memorable Configuration of Psychosocial “Vitamins”, “Amino Acids” and “Minerals”
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
With increasing concern for health globally, exemplified by the new WHO International Treaty on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (2024), there is a case for exploring insights by the basic dietary elements vital to biological well-being.
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‘They’ve Done It Again’: Israeli Strikes Kill Dozens in Tents Near Rafah
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
21 Jun 2024 – The IDF today yet again shelled tents of displaced Palestinians near Rafah in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 25 and wounding another 50. U.S. President Joe Biden “must stop sending weapons to Israel,” said one critic. “This is egregious.”
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(Italiano) Diritti umani come discorso oltre 60 anni dopo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
I diritti umani, incorporate nella costituzione francese del 1789 e riformulati come Dichiarazione Universale, sono un’importante conquista, prossima a una costituzione mondiale, pur non costituendo diritto internazionale, ma lo sono le Convenzioni – civil-politiche, economico-social-culturali del 16 dicembre 1966.
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‘Occupied’ Palestine: Jerusalem Annexed, Gaza Genocide, West Bank Apartheid
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 – The UN has lacked the ability or political will to implement its own recommendations in compliance with international humanitarian law. That which is humanly necessary seems politically impossible; the result is a moral scandal of global significance and a human tragedy by unspeakable and persistent criminality.
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How Corporations Are Fueling Geopolitical Tensions and Global Conflicts in the 21st Century
John P. Ruehl | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024 – Multinational corporations with global reach are increasingly getting entangled in conflicts and geopolitical rivalries by supporting multiple sides. As the U.S.-led global order faces challenges, their influence as transnational actors will only increase.
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“The Nationalism of Hate Is a Partner of Corporate Neoliberalism”
Pablo Castaño and Adrià Rodríguez interview Vandana Shiva | Revista Contexto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 – CTXT meets Shiva in Barcelona, where she is attending the Fira Literal de Barcelona, a meeting of critical publishers. The Indian activist and intellectual was the star of a conversation with Yayo Herrero to an audience of around 700 people.
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The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
Written in 1947, Thomas’s masterpiece was published for the first time 1951. In the fall of the following year he drank himself into a coma while on a reading and lecture tour in North America.
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Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
23 Jun 2024 – It’s not that there are no alternatives. The alternatives just aren’t being taken. That’s dangerous. So if you ask what the world is going to look like, it’s not a pretty picture. Unless people do something about it. We always can.
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Is Shell’s Exit from Nigeria a Front to Dodge Legal Responsibilities?
Andy Rowell and James Marriott | openDemocracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – Nigerian activists believe Shell’s apparent end to its 87-year operation in the country is to avoid legal responsibilities while holding onto the profitable side of the business. The oil giant is selling its Niger Delta subsidiary – but lending the new owners the money for the purchase.
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RIP Donald Sutherland (17 Jul 1935 – 20 Jun 2024): Hollywood Legend Dead at 88
Eileen Jones | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
21 Jun 2024 – There are some actors you can’t help loving. Donald Sutherland was definitely one. He projected warmth, intelligence and menace on the big screen but wasn’t just a brilliant actor — he was a man of the Left who never abandoned those values.
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Mainstream Media Doing Mainstream Media Things
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
12 Jun 2024 – Official Lies and Narratives
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Why Academic Scholarship on Israel and Palestine Threatens Western Elites
Joseph Massad | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024 – No institution in the liberal West is safe from pro-Israel repression, especially universities whose knowledge production has dismantled the official consensus. The gap is most apparent in the US but also in the UK and France.
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93 Countries Back ICC as Israel Faces Charges of War Crimes in Gaza
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – A joint statement calls on “all States to ensure full co-operation with the Court for it to carry out its important mandate of ensuring equal justice for all victims of genocide, war crimes, [and] crimes against humanity.”
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The Decline of the West–The G7 “War Summit”
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
The idyllic staging with which this Summit was presented cannot hide the fact that it is a war summit. The USA signed a 10-year military pact with Ukraine, and the G7 granted a $50 billion loan to help it buy more weapons, a loan that will be repaid using interest accrued on $300 billion in Russian assets deposited in European banks and frozen.
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Palestine: Moral Test of Our Time
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
23 Jun 2024 – Why Palestine matters: The most important moral test of our time.
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Why Does the US Government Borrows when It Can Print?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the first seven months of FY 2024, net interest on the US federal debt reached $514 billion, exceeding spending on both national defense ($498 billion) and Medicare ($465 billion). The interest tab also exceeded all the money spent on veterans, education, and transportation combined.
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Netanyahu’s False Flag Is a Copy/Paste of the 1962 Operation Northwoods of Pentagon against Cuba
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
“Casualty Lists Would Cause a Helpful Wave of Indignation”
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Israel Is a Core Pillar of U.S. Dominance
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – Over the last eight months, Israel’s genocide has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and reduced most of Gaza to rubble. In the face of all this horror, many of us are asking ourselves: How could the U.S. government continue to support this?
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US Air Force Engineer Resigns: Dissent against Gaza War Slowly Spreads within Military
Prem Thakker | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024 – “Utterly Dismayed–I don’t want to be working on something that can turn around and be used to slaughter innocent people.”
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The US List of Countries Allegedly Sponsors of Terrorism: Another Imperialistic Scam
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the US State Department’s toolkit, unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) are used to blackmail, bully and intimidate States that do not readily accept US hegemony.
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Three Lessons I Learned on My Visit to Cuba
Amanda Yee | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024 – The Cuban revolution offers key lessons for progressive people in the United States about how to organize society in a way that favors the majority, and not an elite few.
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Five Decades On, Cambodia Is Taking Ownership of Its Troubled Past
Peter Maguire | The Diplomat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the mid-1970s, Pol Pot’s black-clad armies turned the country into a byword for man-made horror. Now the country is moving on – in its own fashion.
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Blinken’s Lies about Hamas Rejecting a Ceasefire Reveal the Biden Administration’s True Intentions
Mitchell Plitnick | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – The Biden administration is playing a shell game with the Gaza ceasefire that aims to trick the Democratic base into thinking meaningful action is taking place to end fighting while still allowing Israel to continue its genocidal campaign.
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If You Have a Problem, Kill It
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – The term is “banal militarism” – that is to say, violence and the preparation for violence so utterly commonplace that most people don’t even notice. Banal militarism is as Anglo American as apple pie. It’s also global in scope.
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Diane Perlman, et al. | The New View - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
This conversation goes deeply beyond the simplistic debate between one-state (1SS) versus two-state (2SS) “solutions.” We also compare with historical examples of processes towards statehood over many decades or centuries.
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The Del Monte Deaths: Shocking Claims of Violence at Pineapple Plantation
Edwin Okoth, Matthew Chapman and Emily Dugan | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
When we first published the litany of allegations against Del Monte’s security guards last June, the company committed to investigating what had happened. Kenya’s human rights commission started investigating. Some supermarkets were appalled enough to stop stocking canned pineapple from the farm.
→ read full articleCognitive Implications of Going Strategically Sessile
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Towards Comprehension of Detachment in Anticipation of Catastrophe – Sessility is the biological property of an organism describing its lack of a means of self-locomotion. Sessile organisms for which natural motility is absent are normally immobile.
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(Italiano) Il boicottaggio: uno strumento di lotta nonviolenta alla portata di tutti
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 Giugno 2024 – In senso lato si può definire il boicottaggio come una forma di non collaborazione che si pratica per isolare a livello sociale, sottrare consenso a livello politico o danneggiare a livello economico persone, aziende o istituzioni responsabili di comportamenti illegittimi.
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Myanmar’s Rohingya People: A Documented History, Identity and Presence
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – While there are multiple inter-communal tensions and attacks among Myanmar’s ethnic communities, there is no other case where a group’s ancestral history and identity have been singled out for sustained and vicious assault in the same way Rohingya people have been.
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Daylight Comes to Chiquita’s Use of Colombian Death Squads
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
13 Jun 2024 – A federal court in Miami rendered a $38 million verdict against the multinational Chiquita Brands International for funding paramilitary death squads in Colombia, which killed thousands of banana workers there over the last century.
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Unabated Efforts: Cambodia Continues Push to Help Resolve Myanmar Conflict
Hang Punreay | Khmer Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
13 Jun 2024 – As the conflict in Myanmar continues to escalate at an alarming rate, the Foreign Affairs Ministry says Cambodia is committed to pushing for the implementation of ASEAN’s 5-point Consensus and the ability to hold talks with ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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D-Day 2024
Diana Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
14 Jun 2024 – Ceremonies were held last week commemorating the 80th anniversary of Operation Overlord, the Anglo-American landing on the beaches of Normandy that took place on June 6, 1944, known as D-Day. For the very first time, the Russians were ostentatiously not invited to take part in the ceremonies.
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Here Is the Vision! A Global Movement for a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024 – Two weeks ago we said “Here are the people.” And we asked, “Where is the vision?” And now, as if in response, the UN has declared that the official theme for this year’s International Day of Peace is “Cultivating a Culture of Peace.”
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On Growing Old, the Perils of Success, and the Secret of Remaining Young at Heart
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Henry Miller on the Measure of a Life Well Lived
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(Français) Voici la Vision ! Un Mouvement Mondial Pour Une Culture de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 juin 2024 – Il y a deux semaines, nous avons dit : « Voici le peuple ». Et nous avons demandé : « Où est la vision ? » Et maintenant, comme en réponse, les Nations Unies ont déclaré que le thème officiel de la Journée internationale de la paix de cette année est « Cultiver une culture de la paix ».
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NAM and Group of 77 Demand the Exclusion of Cuba from the List of Terrorism Sponsors Countries
Alvaro Cuesta | teleSUR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and the Group of 77 and China, through their Joint Coordinating Committee, demanded “the immediate exclusion of Cuba from the unilateral list of countries that allegedly sponsor terrorism.”
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Fake Climate Solutions Spread Across Latin America
Humberto Márquez | IPS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
14 Jun 2024 – Government and private initiatives and programmes to address the climate crisis in Latin America and the Caribbean are in fact a vast array of fake solutions, according to a new regional map made by environmental organisations.
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Inside the Nuseirat Massacre: This Is the Carnage I Saw During Israel’s 4-Hostage Rescue
Shrouq Aila | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024 – Eyewitness: I was on the road to the camp when Israel launched its raid — and saw the aftermath in a nearby hospital.
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The Partisan Psychiatrist
Arvin Alaigh | Dissent – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Spring 2024 – Frantz Fanon’s psychiatric work was the most practical manifestation of his larger ambition to restore agency to alienated subjects.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 17 Jun 2024
Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Student Writing
Lisa Lieberman | After the Truth Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
7 Jun 2024 – It was getting toward the end of this recent semester, and I was at a loss. Either my freshman-composition students’ writing had gotten mysteriously, miraculously, markedly better, or a large minority — easily one-third — of them were using AI to write their papers.
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‘We’re All at Risk’: Doctors Evacuate Rafah’s Last Hospitals
Ruwaida Kamal Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
5 Jun 2024 – Almost no facilities remain to treat the wounded in Gaza’s southernmost city, as doctors fear a repeat of Israel’s attacks on hospitals across the Strip.
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Time to Renew an Old Promise? A Brief History of Global South Solidarity with Palestine
Bidisha Biswas | The Cairo Review of Global Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Spring 2024 – Anti-colonial and post-colonial politics have shaped global understandings of the Israel-Palestine conflict for decades, beyond the narrow vision of many Western countries.
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94% of North Americans Want to End Ukraine War but US Rejects China Peace Deal, Opposes Talks with Russia
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
8 Jun 2024 – Polling shows 94% of people in the US and 88% in Western Europe want a negotiated settlement to end the war in Ukraine, but NATO opposes a peace proposal made by China and Brazil, and refuses to invite Russia to talks in Switzerland.
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Global Solidarity on Haiti’s Flag Day to Stop Foreign Intervention
Haiti Action Committee | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
13 Jun 2024 – May 18 marked Haitian Flag Day, commemorating the day in 1803 when Jean-Jacques Dessalines declared independence and created the Haitian flag. Flag Day signifies Haitian sovereignty and commemorates ancestors who died fighting for freedom.
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Talking Points
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
Trump Felony Conviction Talking Points
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Guantanamo & WikiLeaks
CN Live | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – Journalist Andy Worthington, author of ‘The Guantanamo Files’ and research collaborator on WikiLeaks’ ‘Detainee Assessment Briefs’, shines a light on the bleak and blunderous history of the US torture camp and the suffering of its forever prisoners.
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Israel’s Descent
Adam Shatz | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 Issue – Ariel Sharon withdrew over eight thousand Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip in 2005 to consolidate Israel’s colonisation of the West Bank, where the settler population increased. But also to enable Israel’s air force to bomb Gaza at will, something they could not do with settlers there.
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Strive to Be like Che Guevara (14 Jun 1928 – 9 Oct 1967)
Carlos L Garrido and Edward Liger Smith | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre called Ernesto ‘Che’ Guevara the “most complete human being of our age” who proclaimed courageously with his unforgettable last words: “Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man!”
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Cuba Advocates for Peace at BRICS Meeting
Alejandra Garcia | Resumen Latinoamericano and the Third World - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
11 Jun 2024 – Cuba’s Foreign Minister arrived in Moscow with a message of peace and the common purpose with the member states–Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, United Arab Emirates, Ethiopia and Iran–to defend multilateralism and show respect for diversity.
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Naomi Klein and VV Ganeshananthan Win Women’s Prize Literary Awards
AP | The New Indian Express – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
14 Jun 2024 – Both winners referenced the conflict-clouded international situation, at a time when the arts world is grappling with divisions over the Israel-Hamas war and corporate sponsorship of the arts.
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Their Rules-Based International Order Is the Rule of the Mafia
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – In defiance of the International Court of Justice, Israel continues to bomb Gaza. Like the United States, Israel refuses to abide by international law, exposing the hypocrisy of the ‘rules-based international order’.
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When Israel Burned Refugees Alive, Establishment Media Called It a ‘Tragic Accident’
Robin Andersen | FAIR Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2024
10 Jun 2024 – As the world watched on social media and responded in outrage, US corporate media, once again, provided cover for the perpetrators of Israel’s genocide.
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Baby Ahmad Was Beheaded by Israel with a US Bomb
Seraj Assi | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2024
On Sunday night, May 26 2024, 1-year-old Ahmad became the symbol of the unspeakable horror of genocide in Gaza after Israel bombed his family tent in north Rafah.
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