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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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Israel Keeps Trying to Devise New Ways to Play Victim while Committing Genocide
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
10 Nov 2024 – It keeps inventing new abuses to be victimized by–like the imaginary Amsterdam “pogrom” and the fake mass rape narrative months after 7 Oct–because it can’t sit comfortably in the role of victimized while on trial for genocide in international courts.
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Mark Albert | Rumble - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – The numbers tell a different story about the justification for genocide against Palestinians by Zionist Israel.
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Israeli Scholar: Exterminate, Expel, Resettle–>Israel’s Endgame in Northern Gaza
Prof. Idan Landau | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – Debates over the details of the ‘Generals’ Plan’ distract from the true brutality of Israel’s latest operation — one that drops the veneer of humanitarian considerations and lays the groundwork for settlements.
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The Antidote to the Irreversibility of Life: Hannah Arendt on What Forgiveness Really Means
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
The very need for forgiveness springs from “the irreversibility and unpredictability of the process started by acting” — a process fundamental to what it means to be alive.
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Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – North Carolina: The raging floods were triggered by unprecedented rainfall and winds. On Sept 27, when the floods hit, evacuation orders were issued to residents near a number of critical dams due to their reported “imminent failure” or “catastrophic collapse.”
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(Italiano) Gaza e Libano: rovesciare il paradigma
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
43.000 morti a Gaza, alcune migliaia tra morti e profughi in seguito ai raid israeliani in Libano, assalti all’Unifil, l’Unwra, agenzia delle Nazioni Unite, accusata di appoggio al terrorismo e messa in condizione di non poter più intervenire in soccorso alle popolazioni civili martoriate dai bombardamenti e assediate nella prigione a cielo aperto di Gaza…
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Apocalypse Now – The End (Music Video of the Week)
The Doors – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
First four minutes of the Vietnam film Apocalypse Now, directed by Francis Ford Coppola (1979). The song is “The End” by The Doors (1967).
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Companies Profiting from the Gaza Genocide
American Friends Service Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
The companies listed here have provided Israel with weapons and other military equipment used in its attacks on Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Syria since October 2023.
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Tackling Corruption
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
3 Nov 2024 – We must challenge corruption and greed that lead to war and conflict. We see both large scale greed and corruption: Trump, Biden/Harris, the rulers of Saudi Arabia and the UAE, General Sisi of Egypt, and our own corrupt Palestinian “leaders”.
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Myanmar Looks more Like ASEAN’s Syria Than a Democracy in Waiting
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
6 Nov 2024 – Myanmar’s armed conflicts are no longer a binary tale of Good vs. Evil. The Tatmadaw remains the largest armed organization and commits atrocities. The anti-junta adversaries fighting “the Common Enemy” also perpetrate atrocities against localized “enemy” ethnic populations.
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World Peace Summit in Argentina
Alberto Portugheis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
Held in-person and via Zoom – Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 10:00 – 17:00 GMT-3
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The Politics of Cultural Despair
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
6 Nov 2024 – It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
My approach to this topic is based on 50 years experience with how women and men relate to peace and security issues in formal and informal politics, in mediation and mediation training, in peace-keeping and peace-building operations, and in meetings.
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Prepping Readers to Accept Mass Slaughter in Lebanese ‘Strongholds’
Belén Fernández | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
9 Nov 2024 – Only after 11 full paragraphs of transmitting the Israeli line did Kershner manage to insert the disclaimer that “the Israeli claims could not be independently verified.” But by that time, of course, the damage had been done, the reader having already been persuaded that south Lebanon was one big Hezbollah military installation.
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The Air in Gaza Smells like Corpses
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – The newspapers keep saying the air in Gaza smells like corpses. Like rotting human flesh; the entire Gaza Strip. They say it emanates from the rubble. Pervades everything.
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UN Arms Embargo on Israel: Dead on Arrival
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – When the United Nations imposes sanctions or penalizes a member state – be it the General Assembly or the Human Rights Council – the resolutions are “non-binding” and often remain unimplemented. But the Security Council resolutions are “binding.”
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How to Go on in a World Full of Cruelty
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
It’s not hope that keeps me going, it’s love. Love for this beautiful planet and all the weird little critters scuttling around on it, especially the fingery ape monsters walking about on their hind legs making mouth noises about their mind noises.
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Report Details Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing Campaign in Beit Lahia, Northern Gaza
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
6 Nov 2024 – A report from Haaretz published today detailed the situation. There is no longer a single house people can live in, and the Israeli military fires artillery rounds to ensure that any remaining civilians leave.
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Hoax?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024
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Segregation Wasn’t That Long Ago
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
4 Nov 2024 – Segregation isn’t some dusty relic from the museum of US history. It’s alive in ways that people don’t want to admit, barely sixty years buried, and yet very much alive in our political bloodstream.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 11 Nov 2024
USA, Ukraine/Russia, Palestine/Israel: Peace Is Possible!
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – When Martin Luther King spoke so passionately and eloquently in his speech, ‘I have a dream,’ he touched the hearts of millions of people.
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How to Be Human under the Tyranny of a War Culture?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
The truth is we have serious problems defining ourselves as moral beings when the on-going wars in Gaza and Ukraine and bombing and killings of innocent people create data for daily abnormal doses of humanity to be the new normal of socio-economic and political consumption.
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Obliterating Context Obliterates the Truth–Israel Detains 9,400 Hostages, Hamas Detains 111
Mark Taliano - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
3 Nov 2024 – Western mainstream messaging has fabricated the Big Lie that somehow the Western-supported Zionist holocaust of Palestinian civilians is justified because Apartheid Israel is a victim and Hamas has Israeli hostages.
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After Their Son Came Out, This Conservative Christian Couple Went into a Closet of Their Own
John Blake | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
5 Nov 2024 – The moving story of a gay boy and his conservative parents. “There is no hate like Christian love.”
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The Success of Shameless Israel
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
2 Nov. 2024 – Israel is in the final stages of both the massacres in Gaza and Lebanon. It has begun the indiscriminate killing of the remaining Palestinian citizens in the north of Gaza.
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The Hangover
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
Democracy in the USA
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Bill Clinton and the “Dictators Club”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
6 Nov 2024 – Bill Clinton couldn’t be cozier, or more richly rewarded, in what he calls “the dictator’s club.”
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Everybody Knows: Do They?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – When the polls closed on Tue 5 Nov, I was sound asleep. Every presidential election is a contest between two sides of the ruling monied elite, chosen to represent their interests. It is corrupt beyond repair.
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This Is Why I Am Releasing the Epstein-Trump Tapes
Michael Wolff | Daily Beast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
2 Nov 2024 – The Predator and the President: The author of Fire and Fury has caused shockwaves with his recordings of Epstein talking about Trump. Here is their true story.
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Rwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa (Part 2): What Really Happened in 1994
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
The Standard Official Narrative is that Rwandan Tutsis were brutally set upon by the majority Hutus whose ethnic hatred for the minority Tutsi group found spontaneous expression in a frenzied bloodlust that left close to a million, mostly Tutsis, dead.
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Everybody Wants to Join BRICS
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – The world is changing, but Washington remains frozen and indeed left behind in its post-1991 delusion as the unipolar global godfather.
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The BRICS Summit Should Mark the End of Neocon Delusions
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
2 Nov 2024 – Simply put, the majority of the world does not want or accept U.S. hegemony, and is prepared to face it down rather than submit to its dictates. The rise of the BRICS is therefore not merely a rebuke to the U.S., but also a potential opening for a far more peaceful and secure world order.
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Comprehending Connectivity between Logic, Emotion, Intuition and Practice
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
4 Nov 2024 – Strategic Implications of the Relationship between Incommensurable Cognitive Modalities – The condition of society is complex and confusing, even “surreal.” It is questionable whether strategic initiatives like the UN’s Pact for the Future or the Sustainable Development Goals engage with this complexity appropriately and credibly.
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What Drives Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
29 Oct 2024- The dehistoricizing and decontextualization of the Hamas attack of Oct 7 was spread around the world by the most influential global media platforms and political leaders, and led to widespread sympathy for Israel and tolerance of their response despite its legally and ethically unacceptable character.
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UN General Assembly Renews Long-Standing Call for End to US Embargo against Cuba
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
30 Oct 2024 – The UNGA today overwhelmingly urged the USA to end its economic, commercial, and financial embargo on Cuba, a demand it makes since 1992.
(In favor: 187; Against: 2 [USA, Israel]; Abstention: 1 [Moldova])
Kafka’s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Talented from Manifesting Their Talent
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
Of all the writers who have kept a journal as a creative catalysis and a salve for self-doubt, no one has confronted those psychic hindrances between the talented and the fruition of their talent more pointedly than Franz Kafka.
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Sinews of Peace
Michael Brenner, Vladimir Putin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
29 Oct 2024 – This is a highly classified transcript of remarks made by Vladimir Putin to a select audience of Russian elites at the Kremlin. The secret conclave was held in Jun 2021 on the eve of his meeting with Joe Biden.
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Perpetual Peace Plan for the Russia-Ukraine War
Dr. Bishnu Pathak, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024 – The Russia-Ukraine war is the most destructive and contentious since WWII. The involvement of the USA with financial aid, strategic defense guidance, and military supplies to Ukraine has transformed it into a war between the USA and Russia.
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The Earth Constitution Emerging in Surprising Ways
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – The Earth Constitution has been getting an unusual attention, both good and “bad,” omens of its growing geopolitical importance as the UN continues to flounder, unable to prevent wars or to stop Israel’s genocidal Gaza land grab by extinguishing the Palestinian people.
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For Good News Look to BRICS
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
1 Nov 2024 – We can look forward to more bad news. No matter who wins the election in the US, the results will be disastrous for the US empire, including Europe. And no matter who gets attacked next in Israel’s war against the world, they are likely to get more death and destruction.
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A No-Win Dilemma for US Peace Voters
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
Green Party candidate Jill Stein: “Our day-one agenda includes telling Netanyahu that our proxy war is over. We control the armaments, the funding, the diplomatic cover, the intelligence, etc., so we can end this in the blink of an eye. That’s day one.” Meanwhile, neither of the only two candidates who can win, Trump or Harris, offers any real hope for a peaceful future.
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BRICS 2024: Building a New World
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
28 Oct 2024 – The 16th BRICS Summit held in Kazan was attended by 35 countries and six NGOs. The acronym BRICS comes from the five founding members: Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. In 2024, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates joined. It became BRICS+.
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BRICS Is Ready for a Multipolar World
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
The BRICS countries (for the time being) completed the process of building their own economic system that is not dependent on the United States and the United Kingdom. The Summit Declaration includes the construction of a multi-sectoral economic system.
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“The First Live-Streamed Genocide”: Al Jazeera Exposes War Crimes Israeli Troops Filmed Themselves
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
9 Oct 2024 – A new documentary from Al Jazeera takes a look at war crimes in Gaza posted in social media by Israeli soldiers recording and celebrating their own attacks on Palestinians. We play excerpts from the film, ‘Investigating War Crimes in Gaza,’ now available online.
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Over The Hill (Music Video of the Week)
Loudon Wainwright III – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
Duet With Kate McGarrigle
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Israel’s War on Journalism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
25 Oct 2024 – Israel’s genocide includes the most draconian censorship and intentional murder of journalists since the creation of the modern war correspondent. The consequences will be catastrophic.
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How a Secluded 1984 Conference Forged Israel’s Unprecedented Influence Over US Media
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024 – Exploring the 1984 conference that fortified Israel’s narrative control and highlighting the troubling dynamics between media, politics, and public perception in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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(Français) Pour de Bonnes Nouvelles, Voir les BRICS
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
1er novembre 2024 – Nous pouvons nous attendre à d’autres mauvaises nouvelles. Quel que soit le vainqueur des élections aux États-Unis, les résultats seront désastreux pour l’empire américain, y compris pour l’Europe. Et quel que soit le prochain pays attaqué par Israël dans sa guerre contre le monde, il est probable qu’il subira davantage de morts et de destructions.
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Genocidal Scorecard
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
30 Oct 2024 – The Nakba that in 1948 saw Zionist militias drive 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, carry out more than 70 massacres and seize 78 percent of Palestine, has returned on steroids. It is the final chapter in “a intentional, systematic, State-organized forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians.”
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Growing Darkness over Gaza
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
Francesca Albanese, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Occupied Palestine, presented her Report to the Human Rights Council on 30 Oct 2024. She pointed clearly to the danger of genocide, a policy with the intent to cleanse ethnically all or part of Gaza, the Occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
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Displacement in Sudan Crosses 11 million as Devastating Crisis Reaches New Heights: IOM Chief
Amy Pope | UN International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
29 Oct 2024 – The situation here in Sudan is catastrophic. Hunger, disease and sexual violence are rampant. This is an underreported conflict and we must pay it more attention. Millions are suffering and there is the possibility of igniting regional instability from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa to the Red Sea.
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Israel’s Genocidal Policy to Destroy North Gaza Hospitals Unchecked amid International Inaction
Jews for Justice for Palestinians - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
23 Oct 2024 – The Israeli military is currently besieging and targeting the three main hospitals in the North Gaza Governorate—Al-Awda Hospital, Kamal Adwan Hospital, and the Indonesian Hospital—ordering everyone inside to leave the facilities.
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The BRICS Summit in Kazan: A Manifesto for a Rational World Order
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024 – There is hope in the air, a certain optimism that we can gradually change the paradigm, marshal the world disorder, move away from bloc-mentality, abandon confrontational politics, phase out dependence on the US-dollar,…
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South Africa Files 750 Pages of ‘Overwhelming’ Evidence in ICJ Genocide Case against Israel
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
28 Oct 2024 – “The glaring genocide in Gaza is there for all who are not blinded by prejudice to see.”
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How Israel Won the West | The Big Picture
Al Jazeera English - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
25 Oct 2024 – How Israel occupies a privileged and protected place in the Western world. The Jewish people from biblical origin, centuries of persecution, the advent of Zionism, and the creation of Israel with the occupation of the Palestinian territory.
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MAGA House of Horror
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
This Modern World – 31 Oct 2024
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Civilized?
The Free Thought - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
DITTO!
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Half of Jabalia Ethnically Cleansed by Israeli Army as Schools Burned and Men Kidnapped
Lubna Masarwa and Maha Hussaini | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
23 Oct 2024 – Palestinians have given harrowing accounts of the situation in northern parts of the enclave, where Israel shut off food and water supplies more than two weeks ago.
→ read full articleRwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa – Part 1: The Genocide’s Historical Context
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
17 Oct 2024 – This four-part piece was sparked by James Corbett’s May 2024 video about the 1994 Rwandan genocide, with the eye-catching and provocative title: The Rwandan Genocide Is A Lie.
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Israeli Knesset’s Banning of UNRWA Will Deepen Palestinian Suffering
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
28 Oct 2024 – Today’s vote by the Israeli Knesset banning the UN Relief and Works Agency contradicts principles of the UN Charter, violates Israel’s obligations under international law, and sets a dangerous precedent. The UN chief pledged he would take the issue to the General Assembly.
→ read full articleCriminalize War!
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
Wars get ever worse as measured by the percentage of non-combatant, civilian casualties; from about 10 percent in WWI to 90 percent in recent wars. They dare refer to crimes as “unintended consequences”, “collateral damage.” Using states to kill makes the killers outlaws. Criminals. Stop it.
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Kazan Declaration Adopted at BRICS Summit
BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – Kazan Declaration: Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security
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“Don’t Destroy What You Want to Inherit”: Peacebuilding Holds the Key to Building a Strong USA
Jacopo De Marinis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
25 Oct 2024 – How can we go about building a more united, peaceful country for our children and grandchildren to inherit? 1) Promote a Widespread Culture of Peace through Peace Education. I believe that sustainable change comes from embracing a new way of resolving conflict.
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Nihon Hidankyo’s Bittersweet Receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize
Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024 – The 2024 NPP to Nihon Hidankyo, the Japan Confederation of A- and H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, sent waves of elation through the peace and disarmament movements worldwide. We have been nominating them for the Nobel for years.
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Kamala Harris Comes Out of the Closet on Israel
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024 – If she wins on Nov. 5 and a Harris administration comes to be next Jan. 20, there will be no deviation whatsoever from the Biden regime’s limitless, unconditional support for Zionist Israel’s expanding campaigns of terror in West Asia.
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The Gazafication of Lebanon: Israel Blows up Nabatieh City Hall, Kills Mayor and Aid Workers
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – The Israeli military is giving Lebanon the Gaza treatment. Some 25 percent of Lebanese are under “evacuation orders,” which is to say that Israel is expelling them from their homes in preparation for further military destruction.
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Gabor Maté: “It’s like We’re Watching Auschwitz on TikTok”
Middle East Eye – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024 – “Had there been YouTube and Instagram and TikTok around Auschwitz, this is what we would have seen, people burning alive. And it’s beyond horrendous, it’s beyond comprehension.”
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Empowering the UN, Disempowering Militarist Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
22 Oct 2024 – A review of the recently published ‘Liberating the United Nations: Realism with Hope’ appearing in Foreign Affairs, the most influential journal for mainstream foreign policy analysis. The book was written by Hans von Sponeck, former Assistant Secretary General of the UN, and myself.
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McGenocide
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – CNN says an IDF soldier has suffered trauma because he had to run over too many Palestinians with his D9 armored bulldozer.
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Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
By request of famed astronomer Carl Sagan, Voyager-1 looked back a last time to Earth and took this ‘food for thought’ picture revealing our real dimension in cosmic reality: practically nothing.
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What Can Iran & Palestine Expect from the US Presidential Elections?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – Interview by Kayhan News Agency from Iran on how the forthcoming US elections are likely to affect Iran, and the policies toward the current combat zone involving Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. X/0
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Israeli Army ‘Deliberately Demolished’ Watchtower, Fence at UN Peacekeeping Site in Southern Lebanon
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
20 Oct 2024 – The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon informed that an Israeli army bulldozer demolished an observation tower and the perimeter fence of a UN position earlier today in the southern part of the country.
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BRICS: The Most Important Financial Summit of the Year Is Taking Place in Russia
Hamish McRae | i News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – A Huge Shift of Economic Power Is Taking Place
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Project 2025 Comics Group
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Why Understand the Creation of the Universe
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
We take a look at a different approach to the origin of the universe, the Vedic approach. The difference between most scientists and the Vedic approach is that the Vedic system accepts a descending channel of knowledge coming from previous authorities. Scientists accept no prior authority, except from other scientists.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 28 Oct 2024
To Apolitical Intellectuals
Otto René Castillo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Otto René Castillo (1934–1967), whose beautiful poems were inspired by the El Salvadoran guerrilla poet Roque Dalton (1935–1975), wrote this elegy two years before he was murdered alongside his comrades.
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(Italiano) L’espansione della NATO nell’Indo-Pacifico è priva di legalità e buon senso
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Ottobre 2024 – Sud-Corea, Giappone, Australia, e Nuova Zelanda hanno inviato i propri ministri della difesa a una riunione NATO questo ottobre 2024, la prima volta per i ministri della difesa. Segnala che l’espansione della NATO in questa regione è un cosa seria.
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Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, Yahya Sinwar: Freedom Fighters
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
In 1959, Che visited Gaza and transformed the Zionist colonization into a global struggle against colonialism. Mandela said, “But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. “
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The Trojan Horse Plan for UN Reform (Part II)
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Indeed, “understanding the role of the Earth Constitution in human affairs requires seeing it within the context of several principles concerning our human situation that have emerged since the early 20th century.
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2024 Nobel Peace Winner Has Compared Hiroshima-Nagasaki to Gaza–We Must Listen to Him
Maung Zarni | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024 – The now elderly child survivor of the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima and his Hiroshima-Gaza parallel must be taken seriously. His words must be seized by the world of conscience to end Israel’s mass extermination in Gaza.
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Why Brazil Opposes Venezuela Joining BRICS
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
The Brazilian government’s advisor for international affairs, Celso Amorim, announced on 21 Oct that Brazil would seek to prevent Venezuela from joining BRICS. The instruction came from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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Northern Gaza: “Coffins Have Run Out”–The Holocaust of Our Time
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – A campaign of mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing is underway. “The injured bleed out in the streets, coffins have run out.” Hundreds of thousands are being starved. Essential aid like food and medicine hasn’t entered the north of Gaza in three weeks. The Israeli military is burning down U.N. schools where Palestinians have been sheltering.
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Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing US News
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – “Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of an Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the pager attack against Lebanon.
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21-Year-Old Journalist from Gaza Reports on Teenager Burned Alive in Hospital Bed
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024 – Tributes have poured in from across the globe for 19-year-old Sha’ban al-Dalou, a software engineering student who burned to death after Israel bombed Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital on Monday [14 Oct]. Photographs and footage of his final moments shocked millions around the world.
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Israel Kills the Journalists–Western Media Kills the Truth of Genocide in Gaza
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
25 Oct 2024 – Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism.’
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UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024 – An immediate ceasefire is needed in Gaza as the enclave faces the additional threat of polio spreading, if the final phase of a vaccination campaign continues to face delays in reaching the besieged north, where the “nightmare is intensifying”, top UN officials stressed today.
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(Português) Morre Gustavo Gutiérrez, Pai da Teologia da Libertação
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
No dia 22 de outubro de 2024, morreu em Lima, Perú, o iniciador da Teologia da Libertação com a idade de 96 anos, Gustavo Gutiérrez. Juntos, a partir dos anos 70, colaboramos para uma teologia adequada à América Latina que é feita de injustiças sociais e de pobreza aviltante.
→ read full articleEconomic Costs of the Israeli Occupation for the Palestinian People
UN General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
10 Sep 2024 – Report prepared by the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the economic costs of the Israeli occupation for the Palestinian people: the economic impact of the Israeli military operation in Gaza from Oct 2023 to May 2024.
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2007 Open Letter to Bush, Olmert, US Congress and AIPAC Warning about the Dangers of War with Iran
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
22 Oct 2024 – From JAIPAC: Jewish Analysts Investigating Peace and Conflict
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(Italiano) Lavorare per chi?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
25 Ottobre 2024 – In una recente puntata della trasmissione di ‘Presa diretta’ andata in onda su RAI3 il 22 settembre 2024, il conduttore Riccardo Iacona presenta una varietà di riflessioni sul tema sullo spopolamento del Sud d’Italia: ‘Via dal Sud’.
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The World of Arabs
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
25 Oct 2024 – The world of Arabs, as a distinctive part of the globe, is of extreme significance for both global politics and the global economy. On the other hand, this region is featured by slow democratic development, political instability, religious extremism (Islamic fundamentalism)…
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The Poetic Science of the Ghost Pipe: Emily Dickinson and the Secret of Earth’s Most Supernatural Flower
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Any flower would have been a fitting emblem for the poet who believed that “to be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” but none more than a flower she had pressed into her poems, enchanted by its “almost supernatural” appearance.
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Iran’s Bomb Is Real–and It’s Here
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
20 Oct 2024 – For months now, the world has focused on the danger of nuclear war between the United States and Russia. But Iran and Israel could beat them to it.
→ read full articlePeace with Nature
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
The conference of the governments that have signed the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity are meeting from 21 Oct to 1 Nov 2024 in Cali, Colombia with the theme of the conference being “Peace with Nature.” It is under tight security as a rebel guerrilla group is active in the area.
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A Nonviolent Resistance Movement Is at Work in Palestine–Activists Say It’s the Only Way Forward
Ken Butigan | America Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
The ongoing genocide in Gaza and the military operations in the occupied West Bank are a seething cauldron of escalating violence. But a movement of courageous nonviolent resistance is at work in the Palestinian territories—which activists say is the only effective way toward peace.
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The American Psychological Association Is Abandoning Its Commitment to Human Rights by Refusing to Speak Out on Palestine
Roy Eidelson | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – The American Psychological Association claims to “prioritize human rights advocacy,” but if its leaders want to truly honor that commitment they must recognize and address the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza today.
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New York Times Attacks “Peace-peddling” Jill Stein as the Presidential Race Comes Down to the Wire
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – The New York Times scapegoats Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein as polls indicate a dead heat between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
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