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The U.S. National Security State Is Here to Make AI Even Less Transparent and Accountable
Matthew Guarigliae | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
White House: The national security state is expected to take up a leadership position by poaching great minds from academia and the private sector and leveraging private AI models for US national security objectives.
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How Does War Make Money?
Global Affairs Explained - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
There are large profits to be made from armed conflict, but how? How do wars make money? Well, we’ll tell you…
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Mexico’s President Hits Back at Trump’s Threat with Fiery Letter, Blames U.S. for Arming Criminals
Alex Griffing | Mediaite - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
26 Nov 2024 – Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum pulled no punches today replying to President-elect Donald Trump’s threat of a sweeping 25% tariff on her country unless she stops illegal immigration and drug trafficking into the U.S.
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The BRICS Effect
Brahma Chellaney | The Strategist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
21 Oct 2024 – A new age of international relations is dawning. With the West accounting for a declining share of global GDP, and the world becoming increasingly multipolar, countries are jostling to establish their positions in the emerging order.
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Washington Post Attacks Eritrean Americans for Organizing in Their Own Defense
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
27 Nov 2024 – The Washington Post’s latest anti-Eritrea propaganda demonizes Eritrean immigrants defending themselves in the West.
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Kenya High Court Strips Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of Its Legal Immunities and Tax Exemptions
Paul Anthony Taylor | Dr. Rath Health Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
29 Nov 2024 – The High Court of Kenya struck a blow against the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, suspending controversial legal immunities and privileges awarded to it. The ruling raises important questions about the power and privileges wielded by super-wealthy philanthrocapitalists operating in developing countries.
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Solidarity with Imran Khan
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – The International Movement for a Just World (JUST) expresses total solidarity with detained former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan who has been imprisoned since August 2023 by a military regime with a civilian facade in Islamabad.
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Ukrainians and North Americans Are Done with This War, but It Keeps Escalating Anyway
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
And we were told this war was all about protecting democracy.
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From Genocide Joe to Omnicide Joe
Norman Solomon | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
25 Nov 2024 – Whether heralded or reviled, Biden’s supposed restraint during the Ukraine war has steadily faded, with more and more dangerous escalation in its place.
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A Holiday Message: Thanksgiving Day 2024
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – This year Thanksgiving Day assumes an especially problematic character, not because of the past but because of the present. For me it is better observed in the spirit of A DAY OF REMEMBRANCE AND REMORSE.
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Strategic Paralysis through Ignoring Higher Dimensional Articulation
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
25 Nov 2024 – AI Assistance in Engaging Meaningfully with Complexity Beyond Oversimplification – The future may characterize the present period as one of strategic paralysis in the face of a polycrisis.
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Gaza Bombardment Worsens Superbug Outbreaks
Misbah Khan | The Bureau of Investigative Journalism - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
19 Nov 2024 – Israeli blockades and bombings have left doctors without basic medicines to treat infections.
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ICC Rejects Israel’s Challenges to Jurisdiction and Issues Arrest Warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
International Criminal Court - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024 – The Chamber issued warrants of arrest for two individuals, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest.
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‘I Would Have Dropped Three Nuclear Bombs’
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024 – Talking to Israelis about the War in Gaza
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Palestinian Surgeon Brutalized before Being Killed in Israeli Prison, Says Eyewitness
Sky News/Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
15 Nov 2024 – During the Israeli military’s siege of al-Shifa Hospital, surgeon Dr Adnan Al-Bursh was detained and taken to Ofer Prison, where he was beaten and tortured to the extent that he could not go to the bathroom unaided. “He had clearly been assaulted with injuries around his body. He was naked in the lower part of his body. The prison guard threw him in the middle of the yard and left him there.”
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Who Is Authorizing Biden’s Nuclear Brinkmanship while the President’s Brain Is Missing?
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – The Biden administration is using its lame duck months to skyrocket hostilities between nuclear superpowers and we don’t even know who’s really making these decisions because the president’s brain is cottage cheese.
→ read full articleThe ICC Issues Arrest Warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant: Winning the Legitimacy War
Prof. Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
The ICC delayed the issuance of ‘arrest warrants’ for Israeli leaders directing the genocide in Gaza for six months although it responded to a request involving Putin’s criminality in Ukraine in less than a month. Double standards to be sure…
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Eight Reasons Why Marco Rubio Would Be a Disastrous US Secretary of State
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – Trump’s nomination of Sen. Marco Rubio for Secretary of State and the many reasons it would be a disastrous choice for the US and the world.
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Now What?
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
US of A – 18 Nov 2024
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Facing Genocide while Disabled
Yousef Aljamal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
19 Nov 2024 – The genocide in Gaza is a mass disabling event. Palestinians with disabilities have experienced immense suffering due to displacement and the collapse of the healthcare system.
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The Bodhisattva Poem
Shantideva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
By the virtue amassed by all that I have done,
May the pain of every being be completely healed.
May I be doctor and medicine, and may I be nurse,
For all sick beings in the world, till all are well.
What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding?
Mariel Ferragamo | Council on Foreign Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Oct 2024 – As BRICS grows in both membership and global sway, its expansion comes with divisions among its members old and new on how to set the stage for a revised world order.
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Rwanda, DRC and the New Scramble for Africa (Part 4): Africa’s Israel and the BRICS/NATO Punch and Judy Show
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
27 Oct 2024 – The early formation of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) as an underground movement was as close in character to a mafia family as it was to a political and military movement. Members took an oath on joining.
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Trump Will Exploit Fear of Russia to Dominate Europe’s Security Policies, Says Academic Maung Zarni
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal | Anadolu Ajansi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – “US policy towards Europe will be anchored in the attempt to make Europeans feel insecure about Russia. I think it’s going to create major internal societal upheavals within European society.”
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Organized Oblivion
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – Gaza is destroyed. It will not, at least for the Palestinians, be rebuilt. Those who lived there will spend their lives, like survivors of the Armenian genocide, desperately trying to protect memory.
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It’s Not You, It’s CAPITALISM
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – Malaika Jabali’s book explains our toxic relationship with capitalism and says it’s time to break up.
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G20 Knocks Out G7 Agendas
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024 – This G20 in Rio was all about the power of the Global South, with poverty eradication and genuine economic progress trumping the old G7 agendas of war, profit, and arm-twisting.
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Progress in the Overall Solution of the Middle East Problems
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
Attempts centered on the ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah (Lebanon), are progressing further. Russia and Iran are being invited into the ceasefire and reconciliation negotiation.
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The Effects of Israeli Barbarity
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – Reporting from Lebanon
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The Real Israel
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024 – One of the very few good [if painful] things coming out of the relentless nightmare happening in Gaza is that at long last the world is getting a clear look at Israel. The real Israel.
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NY Times Killed Investigation of Israeli Hooligans, Internal Email Reveals
Asa Winstanley | The Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – The NYT has killed an investigation into Israeli mob violence in Amsterdam. Journalist Triebert wanted to set the record straight regarding the false narrative advanced by his newspaper – that the Israeli fans were victims of mob violence motivated by anti-Jewish hatred.
→ read full articleTranshumanist Technocracy Continues
Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD/PhD | Humanity United Now -– TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – Conversation with Peter Koenig. Despite a leadership change, the technocratic transhumanist agenda continues. Geopolitics is not what is seems; there is more collaboration among world powers to continue digital money, digital enslavement and the rise of AI.
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Mourning in North America (Music Video of the Week)
Brother Ali | Rhymesayers Entertainment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
A critique of US culture of death and murder–from actual war zones around the world to our inner cities that rival war zones—and of our national hypocrisy regarding violence. We have a zero-tolerance of violence committed against us, but a lot more lenient and patient with our violence against others.
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Let’s Join Our Hands to Speed Up the Demise of the US-led Imperialist World
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – I can’t tell my 15-year-old that their future will be more peaceful and the law and institutions will offer them protection, let alone Palestinian or Myanmar or Sudanese teenagers who don’t know whether they will live or get blown up before their next meal.
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Lucid Summations of Fundamental Issues
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote that ordinary people feel trapped and overwhelmed by the glut of information available. They have great difficulty to make sense of the connections between their personal lives and society, the links between biography and history, self and world.
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Are Netanyahu and Gallant Immune from ICC Arrest Warrants under International Law?
Sondos Asem | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024 – The short answer is no. But states have previously flouted their obligations to surrender leaders like Vladimir Putin and Omar al-Bashir to the ICC by invoking immunity.
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Brazil Police Formally Accuse Bolsonaro of Alleged Coup Plot [Trump Redux]
Amy Walker | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024 – Ex-Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro and some of his closest allies have been formally accused of allegedly plotting a coup, after he lost the 2022 presidential election.
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The ICC Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu Is also an Indictment of US Policy and Complicity
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024 – Ultimately, this is the story of how the Israel lobby undermined the US, wrecked the Middle East, and set a series of international crimes against humanity in motion.
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Moral Suicide
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – Europe has an obsession about Jews. For nearly 2 millennia, it shunned them, despised them and persecuted them. Now, after a respite of a few decades, it condemns and abuses Muslims in a similar way – in the name of supporting Jews.
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Rebecca Solnit on Hope in Dark Times, Resisting the Defeatism of Easy Despair, and What Victory Really Means for Movements of Social Change
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
No writer has weighed the complexities of sustaining hope in our times of readily available despair more thoughtfully and beautifully, nor with greater nuance, than Rebecca Solnit.
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Imperialism and the Destabilization of the Alliance of Sahel States
Abayomi Azikiwe | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – Since the formation of the ASS in 2023 France, the US and their surrogates have sought to undermine their political and economic objectives. Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger remain targets of the western capitalist mining firms and their state sponsors.
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In 14-1 UN Security Council Vote, Lone US Veto Kills Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – The U.S. government, said one human rights lawyer, “proves once again to the world that it is fully committed to the continuation of the genocide in Palestine.”
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COP29: The Dictatorship of the Petroletariat
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
21 Nov 2024 – The world’s oil addiction began here in Baku where in 1846 the first industrial oil well was drilled. As in 1848 Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto reminded workers that they had nothing to lose but their chains, humanity was busily chaining itself to fossil fuels.
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Here We Go
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – Soap Opera Continues…
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Association of World Citizens’ Lebanon Appeal: Protect Cultural Heritage in Time of War
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
19 Nov 2024 – This appeal concerns the protection of cultural heritage as Israeli attacks have already harmed cultural heritage sites in Baalbek and Tyr as well as other cultural sites. Lebanon has a rich past going back to biblical and Roman times.
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The Collapse of Empire
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
What we most loved about these countries despite their bloody colonial history is a character that is now being destroyed: freedom of thought and action that allowed for expansion of human knowledge, logic, and development unencumbered by dogma and narrow interests.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 25 Nov 2024
The Intercept’s Lawsuit against OpenAI Advances on Claim It Removed Reporters’ Bylines
Shawn Musgrave | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
22 Nov 2024 – In an order today, a federal court rejected OpenAI’s effort to toss a lawsuit filed by The Intercept over using its journalists’ work to train ChatGPT without permission or credit.
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Israel and USA Pursued Fraudulent Scenarios of Peace and Ceasefire in War on Gaza
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – Warmongers Defy Truth, Peace and Human Values – At today’s UNSC meeting on Gaza, the US once again used the veto power to reject the majority supported resolution for a ceasefire in Gaza.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
There is much talk about global warming, and rightly so. But we need concrete ideas about moving from talk to action, possibly with two concerns lurking in the back of the mind:
→ read full articleRecognizing Complicity in Ensuring Beneficial Disaster for Humanity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
18 Nov 2024 – Possibility of Eliciting Insight from Polycrises with AI Assistance – The question here is whether various roles and functions in society could be creatively framed in the light of the disastrous consequences they engender for the many.
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The Gaza Genocide May Not Be in the News, but It Hasn’t Stopped
Ghada Ageel | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
14 Nov 2024 – Israel continues to systematically exterminate Palestinians in Gaza through relentless attacks and starvation. As the world’s attention focuses on US politics and looking at media headlines, one would think the genocide has stopped, but it hasn’t.
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Will Trump End or Escalate Biden’s Wars?
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – Based on Trump’s nominations to his foreign policy team and the catastrophic legacy of Biden’s policies, there is some hope for peace in Ukraine but peace in the Middle East is more distant than ever.
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Māori MPs Perform Haka at NZ Parliament Debate on Treaty Rights Changes
Guardian News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
14 Nov 2024 – At New Zealand’s parliament, a vote on a controversial bill was suspended by a haka (Māori war dance) led by MP Hana-Rawhiti Maipi-Clarke, joined by opposition parties and the public gallery. The bill proposed changes to a 200-year-old treaty guaranteeing Māori rights.
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Guardian Will No Longer Post on Elon Musk’s X from Its Official Accounts
Dan Milmo | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – The news organisation said it considered the benefits of being on the platform formerly called Twitter were now outweighed by the negatives, citing the “often disturbing content” found on it.
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‘Fasten Your Seatbelts’—Exploring the ‘Trumpquake’
Pepe Escobar | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
9 Nov 2024 – On the political Richter scale, that was a killer – literally. What was supposed to be a Liberal Totalitarian Show was brutally, unceremoniously, swept out of the park. With no fraud, Trump wins.
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The UN Agency for Palestine Refugees in “Darkest Moment” of Its 75-Year History
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – The UN Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, is enduring its ‘darkest moment’ as Israeli laws threaten operations, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said today, pointing to legislative, operational and security challenges.
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Where Is the US Evil Empire Heading Now?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
7 Nov 2024 – I keep the faith. This Evil Empire too has its own expiry date. Take the long view, if you feel dejected by the Second Coming of Trump. Genocide Joe and thick-headed, unprincipled Kamala Harris, who went to the same elementary school as my daughter, are also not good for humanity. Ask the Palestinians.
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Exploring the Journey of Child Soldiers to Adulthood
Marija Šarić, Siniša Sajević and Michaelina Jakala | Coventry University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – Coming of Age During and After the 1992-1995 War in Bosnia-Herzegovina – The journey of child soldiers after war is fraught with different challenges.
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The West Buries a Genocide–Turns Israel’s Football Thugs into ‘Victims’
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
11 Nov 2024 – If the West was really worried about Europe’s Nazi past, it would be better advised to stop stoking an all-too-real new antisemitism: incitement against Arab and Muslim minorities.
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The Jabalia Doctrine: Genocide as a Counterinsurgency Policy
Raja Abdulhaq | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – Historically, Israel has tried to control Palestinians by isolating insurgents from their communities. After the humiliation of 7 Oct, the aim is now to eliminate them both.
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The Attempts to Resolve the Middle East Problems Comprehensively
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
14 Nov 2024 – Since Donald Trump’s victory in the Presidential Election, various attempts have been underway to resolve all hostilities in the Middle East.
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(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
The Fifth Commandment, Thou shalt not kill, was for the in-group only. But today we are ever more one big in-group. Using states to kill makes the killers outlaws. Criminals. Stop it.
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Israel Convicted of Genocide at People’s Tribunal–Parallel to G20–in Rio de Janeiro
Leandro Melito | Brasil de Fato/Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – Israel was convicted of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza yesterday by the People’s Tribunal, which brought together jurists, lawyers, and activists to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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Henry Kissinger, Johan Galtung and the Nobel Peace Prize
Prof. Syed Sikander Mehdi | Pakistan Horizon – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
20 Aug 2024 – The following discussion on the life and works of Henry Kissinger and Johan Galtung attempts to understand why Kissinger was awarded a Nobel Peace Prize and Galtung was denied the same.
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Zionists in Amsterdam
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024 – What happened in one Dutch city is the world since the Zionist regime began its limitlessly barbaric assault on Gaza: Zionist Israel lost, lost big in Amsterdam. The horror it has made of itself is now plain for the world to see.
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2084
Tom Engelhardt | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024 – The World as It Might Be (or Do I Mean Might Have Been?) – What would George Orwell have written about this planet of ours, four decades after that ominous year 1984 passed from his fiction into history?
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We the People: The United Nations Whistleblowers
Jørgen Johansen | Irene Publishing – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
‘We the People: The United Nations Whistleblowers–Whistleblowing & Retaliation in the UN,’ edited by Caroline Hunt-Matthes – The authors peel back international diplomacy to reveal a truth in a code of silence.
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China Opens World’s Largest Offshore Solar Power Facility
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
15 Nov 2024 – China is the most advanced solar society in the world with over 600 gigawatts of installed solar capacity. In comparison, the US only has about 130 GW of solar.
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A Lighthouse for Dark Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
It is during phase transition that the system is most pliant, most possible. This chaos of particles that liquefies solids and vaporizes liquids is the creative force by which the new order of a more stable structure finds itself. The world would not exist without these discomposing transitions when everything seems to be falling apart and entropy has the last word.
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The Amsterdam ‘Pogrom’ That Wasn’t: Corporate Media Fails to Tell the Whole Story
Common Dreams Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
9 Nov 2024 – ‘The Israeli fans instigated the violence after arriving in the city and attacking Palestinian supporters before the match.’
→ read full articleTwo Weeks in Beirut
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – In the middle of a shopping street in Dahiya, our driver pulls up at a checkpoint manned by armed militia in civilian clothes, to see if we could start filming. Then it all starts to go wrong.
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The End of the US Empire, the Denial of the US, and the Rise of China and BRICS
Richard Wolff | Community Church of Boston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024 – The political crises facing the United States at home and abroad hinge on this question: How will the US manage its decline?
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Lee Lakeman and the Whoredom of the Left
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – The radical feminist Lee Lakeman has spent her life calling out patriarchy for its oppression, the left for its bankruptcy, neoliberalism for its cruelty and organizing women to fight back.
→ read full articleOver the Cliff
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
Meanwhile, in the old US of A
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My 94th Birthday amid Rubble and Precious Life
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
My poem on navigating the narrowing channel between personal happiness and public gloom. November 13, 2024.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 18 Nov 2024
Putin Tells German Leader That Ukraine Peace Deal Possible
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
15 Nov 2024 – Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for the first time in two years today.
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How Can BRICS Reshape a Polycentric World Order?
Ezra Nnko | Modern Diplomacy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – It was the 16th official BRICS Summit with Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates attending for the first time as official members. BRICS: 37.4 percent of the global GDP; 1/4 of global exports of goods; 45 percent of the world population.
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More Than I Can Bear (Music Video of the Week)
Matt Bianco - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
Official Video from 2013. Enjoy…
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UNCTAD, COP29, They Did It again: Digital Tyranny Beyond the Worst Imaginations of George Orwell 1984
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024 – For those who understand what full digitization of everything means, it is clearly pointing the way to digital tyranny, to a digital Gulag – promoted by UNCTAD, a UN organization, well-aware of what they are doing.
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The Media’s Role in Lying about Amsterdam Violence just Keeps Getting Darker
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective if we’re ever to make sense of the world.
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How the Human Brain Contends with the Strangeness of Zero
Yasemin Saplakoglu | Quanta Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
18 Oct 2024 – Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.
→ read full articleClimate Conference Highlights Challenges to the World Society
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
14 Nov 2024 – The Climate Conference (COP 29) organized from 11 to 22 November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan is held at a time of armed conflicts in the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine.
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End of Empathy: Did the Gaza Genocide Render the UN Irrelevant?
Ramzy Baroud | Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese did not mince her words at the UNGA on 29 Oct: “Is it possible that after 42,000 people killed, you cannot empathise with the Palestinians? Those of you who have not uttered a word about what is happening in Gaza demonstrate that empathy has evaporated from this room.”
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The Machu Picchu Declaration of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation-APEC 2024
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – The APEC Leaders’ Machu Picchu Declaration
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The International System Has Shamefully Failed to Halt Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
3 Nov 2024 – The reluctance of the international system to implement decisive actions against Israel’s mass atrocities in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern region, exposes a stark disregard for Palestinian lives and dignity, and fuels the continuation of its crime of genocide.
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A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
I reviewed a film – Four Died Trying – about four men assassinated by the U.S. government because they opposed their wars: President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.
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Lame Duck Biden Authorizes Ukrainian Attacks on Russia with Long-range US-made Weapons
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
17 Nov 2024 – President Joe Biden allowed Ukraine to use US-manufactured long-range missiles into Russian territory, two U.S. top officials and a source familiar with the decision said today.
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“It’s the System, Stupid!” – The Underlying Causes of Trump’s Victory
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
Let’s be clear about this. The historic oppression of some groups, continuing into the present, is a fact. It is also a fact that systemic oppression to some extent benefits everyone who is not a member of the most oppressed group.
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Trump’s Partner for Peace in Middle East
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – Yesterday, Donald Trump announced that he picked successful real estate executive Steven Witkoff to be his special envoy to the Middle East. Witkoff is a New Yorker, Jewish, and a personal friend of Trump.
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These 10 Companies Run the US ‘Democracy’
Scheer Intelligence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – Many think that choosing one or another candidate will better represent their values, but there is only one group that matters: the “titans of capital.” Dr. Peter Phillips studied the economic trends following the COVID-19 pandemic and how the wealth concentration in the world took a dramatic turn towards the already ultra-wealthy elites.
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(Italiano) Pace e sicurezza: donne e uomini
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
12 Novembre 2024 – Il mio approccio a questo argomento è basato sull’esperienza cinquantennale di come donne e uomini si rapportano con temi di pace e sicurezza nella politica formale e informale, nella mediazione e formazione alla mediazione, nelle operazioni di peace-keeping e peace-building, e negli incontri.
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Rwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa (Part 3): Is the Genocide a Lie?
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
24 Oct 2024 – In light of the conclusion reached in Part II, what then are we to make of the title of the Corbett Report video – The Rwanda Genocide Is A Lie? Whether or not the video title is accurate depends on what Corbett means by “lie”.
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Israeli Hooligans Storm through Amsterdam Chanting “F*ck You Palestine”
Mike Whitney | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
11 Nov 2024 – There are 15,000 Jews living in Amsterdam. They seemed to be just fine until some Israeli hooligans showed up…. The media’s version of events is skewed in favor of the perpetrators. None of the mainstream coverage can be trusted. But you already knew that.
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Spain’s Climate Catastrophe – a Glimpse into the Near Future
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
11 Nov 2024 – What are we trying to avert by focusing on climate change/global warming? The catastrophic floods in Valencia, Spain offer a sample of how human societies will ultimately be dismantled and destroyed in the absence of a drastic action that is nowhere on the horizon.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
Today, the images of war in the Middle East and Ukraine have not led to new creative literature nor to proposals for peace-making. However, the need for dialogue among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians has led to a reading of Martin Buber (1878 -1965).
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Israeli Settlers Are Coming for Gaza
Noah Samsen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
3 Nov 2024 – Given that they have full support from their government and military, they just might get it.
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The Gaza Tribunal: Law, Conscience, and Compassion
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – The Gaza Tribunal, of which I am president, had a successful launch meeting with many members of its Advisory Policy Council. As the article below in the Palestine Chronicle notes, the aim of the Tribunal is to legitimize and encourage civil society solidarity initiatives around the world such as BDS.
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How the UN Can Be Liberated from Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – Interview conducted in October by Daniel Falcone with Hans von Sponeck and myself on our collaborative book, Liberating the UN: Realism with Hope. Since then Donald Trump has been elected President of the US, which would augur bad news for the UN.
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