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Survivors of Israeli Bombardment Face New Catastrophe: Epidemics, Amputations, Starvation
Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – “Everyone Is Malnourished, Everyone Is Immunocompromised”
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(Français) BRICS et Afrique: nouveau partenariat «win-win» ou «colonialisme newlook»?
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
8 octobre 2024 – Pour de larges segments du monde politique et de la société civile en Afrique, les BRICS+ constituent une alternative salutaire à la domination occidentale, en proposant de nouveaux partenariats plus équitables, plus respectueux des souverainetés nationales et davantage centrés sur les priorités de développement national.
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USA-Israel-Palestine: Truths That Come Out Like the Sun
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
The Israelis are not at war with the Palestinians of Gaza, just as the Reich was not at war with the Jews of Europe. Genocide is something different. “The truth is like the sun.. It always comes out.”
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BRICS Plans ‘Multi-Currency System’ to Challenge US Dollar Dominance: Understanding Russia’s Proposal
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
20 Oct 2024 – The BRICS Cross-Border Payment Initiative will use national currencies, instead of the US dollar. Russia’s finance ministry and central bank released a report detailing plans to transform the international monetary and financial system.
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Down the Memory Hole
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Meanwhile, in the evil empire…
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The Death of Old Burma or Myanmar as a Burmese Nation-State and the Birth of ASEAN’s Syria
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
19 Oct 2024 – Myanmar’s post-independence history since 1948 is a history of conflicts among different ethnic and ideological groupings. Ethnic majority Bama or Burmese political elite, civilian and military, with colonial mindset towards the others, bear the greatest share of responsibility.
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Celebrating Multilateralism
Gert Grobler | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – In the run-up to the summit in Kazan, Russia, from Oct 22 to 24, BRICS implement intra-BRICS cooperation under three pillars: political and security, economic and financial, cultural and people-to-people exchanges.
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“Israel Cannot Build Peace on Genocide”–Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
Maung Zarni interviews Mairead Maguire | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Mairead Maguire (80) has a message for Israel and western leaders who finance, arm and protect the worst Zionist government in Israel’s history, from its founding in May 1948.
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Israel’s Proxy War with Iran Leaves Young Children in Gaza and Lebanon Burned from Head to Toe
Debora Patta and Agnes Reau | CBS News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – Displaced Gazans in a tent camp outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital woke up Tue 15 Oct to a blazing inferno after an Israeli airstrike. Residents and rescue workers scrambled to rescue people from the flames, but they could not save Shaaban Al-Dalou, who was burned alive.
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Greek Piraeus Port Dockworkers Block 21 Tons of Ammunition Cargo to Israel
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024 – Dozens of Greek dockworkers blocked the loading of ammunition destined for Israel in protest against the Gaza genocide, coast guard and union officials said today.
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Han Kang’s Nobel Literature Prize Is a Cry for Palestine
K.J. Noh | Hollywood Progressive - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – A brilliant, powerful writer, but clearly the literary dark horse in the race, Han Kang’s unexpected award is the closest the Nobel committee could get to acknowledging the Palestinian genocide.
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A Window into a Fascist Engine: Arbitrary Abuse, Population Control, and Israel’s Impossible Destruction of Palestinians
Rajiv Sinha | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – Part of a multifaith human rights delegation to Palestine, I was refused entry to the West Bank by Israel, detained, questioned, my laptop and phone confiscated. I was screamed at, laughed at, not allowed to the bathroom, labelled a public security threat, fingerprinted and expelled to Jordan with my phone blocked and my bank card not working. I am now back home in London.
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In a Glaring Double Standard, FIFA Fails to Suspend Israel
Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – FIFA banned apartheid South Africa. It banned Russia for invading Ukraine. But about Israel, FIFA does nothing.
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On Sisters and Personal Reflection
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
I usually try to relay situations on the ground that are missing from the manipulated/controlled western “mainstream” media.
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Prof. Johan Galtung: Father of Peace Studies (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Johan Galtung was a professor of Peace Studies worldwide who mediated in over 150 conflicts between states, nations, religions, civilizations, communities, and persons since 1957. His unique imprint on the study of Conflict and Peace stems from scientific inquiry and a Gandhian ethics. His TRANSCEND motto: Peace by Peaceful Means.
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A World Without Context: How to Do a Conjunctural Analysis
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission – as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000 – conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play.
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‘Slow Torture’: Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Journalists
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
“Female journalists, completely stripped, blindfolded, beaten, and tortured, with the sounds of dogs threatening to maul them on one side, while a male interrogator threatens them with rape on the other. What humanity can we speak of in the face of such horror?”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
* Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
* LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 21 Oct 2024
Is Political West Bailing Out Due to ‘Real and Increasing Ukraine Fatigue’?
Drago Bosnic | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – The term “Ukraine fatigue” is not new but its latest usage breaks off from the usual pattern and may indicate that the world’s most aggressive power pole is looking for ways to leave the Neo-Nazi junta to fend for itself.
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USA [aka evil empire] Deploys THAAD Missile System and 100 Troops to Israel
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
13 Oct 2024 – The Pentagon announced today it is deploying a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, a strong show of support for attacks against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza; part of the US and Israeli preparations for an attack on Iran.
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‘No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine:’ Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech
Arundhati Roy | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024 – ‘I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.’
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Palestinians’ Liberation Struggle Needs Solidarity: Cambodians Respond with Love & Art
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
5 Oct 2024 – “Cambodians have spoken against the hypocrisy of Western governments preaching human rights, international law and the rule-based world order while condoning, aiding and abetting genocide in Cambodia in 1975-1979 and again today in Palestine.”
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October 7: A Grim Anniversary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – Israel has been renowned for its ability to shape public discourse pertaining to its behavior toward the Palestinians. Its greatest triumph is the manner with which it managed the media treatment of its response to October 7 in North America and Europe.
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Israel’s Paradox of Defeat
Aluf Benn | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – How the Country’s Military Success Is Producing Political Failure – After a year of war, the long-term threats to Israel’s democracy are graver than ever.
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Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine Is More Dangerous Than Ever — But It’s the Only Way Forward
Sami Awad | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – We are not going to build a better future for all people in this land by killing or dominating each other. We need a proactive nonviolent movement with vision and strategy.
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Cash Will Soon Flow: The New Climate Colonialism
Joshua Frank | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Robbing Africa’s Riches to Save the Climate (and Power AI) – The Portuguese were the first Europeans to lay claim to Angola in the late sixteenth century.
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Powerlessness over Genocide
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
US political elites are not powerless to restrain the rogue Israeli regime: They are powerless to act against the grotesque lobby—AIPAC–to which they have sold themselves, their souls, their country.
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Nuclear Weapons: The Price
W.J. Hennigan | The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – The US is set to spend an estimated $1.7 trillion to revamp its nuclear arsenal. The spending spree is underway in at least 23 states and follows a decades-long freeze on designing, building or testing new nuclear weapons. Along with the subs, a new fleet of bomber jets, land-based missiles and thermonuclear warheads.
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The Astonishing Magaverse
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
No Kidding…
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Analysis by AI of Reports of UN Debate on Artificial Intelligence
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – The UN has just approved an historic Pact for the Future and a Declaration for Future Generations on the occasion of its Summit of the Future. The use of “connectives” in debate — whether logical, emotional, “spiritual”, or action-oriented — is necessarily fundamental to the articulation of coherent strategy.
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The Preposterous Nature of “Reality”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that seem randomly meaningless, leading nowhere. Thoughts that think us. To dismiss them, however, is a mistake.
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How Blinken Turned the US Diplomatic Corps into a Wing of the Military
Ted Snider | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – Henry Kissinger asserted that little can be won at the negotiating table that isn’t earned on the battlefield. U.S. officials have echoed that approach. In 2021 the administration said it would pursue ‘relentless diplomacy.’ They call it something else today in Ukraine.
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Palestine and the People of the World
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – Israel’s wanton aggression against Lebanon has overshadowed an important decision made by the UN General Assembly linked to the violence and wars that mark our present moment in history.
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New Documentary on Who Profits from US Deportations & Border-Industrial Complex
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
17 Sep 2024 – ‘Borderland: The Line Within’ explores the human impact of restrictive U.S. immigration policies and border militarization. The film tells the stories of asylum seekers fleeing violence in their home countries…
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Kinship in the Light of Conscience: Peter Kropotkin on the Crucial Difference Between Love, Sympathy, and Solidarity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Scientist and anarchist Peter Kropotkin on the meaning of solidarity–the culmination of his studies of the cooperation networks of social insects and his outrage at the destructive power structures of human society.
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Militarism and Genocide in Gaza: The Bloody Signature of Western Decline
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – The Palestinian ordeal is not a consequence of the inadequacy of legal norms or mechanisms. The primary obstacle is one of political will, especially of the Global West, and of leading Arab neighbors, i.e. Saudi Arabia, Egypt.
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One Year of Genocide in the Books
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – These 25,500 dots represent the over 41,000 Palestinians wiped out by Israel’s relentless assault on Gaza in the past year. Every dot stands for a life erased, a family shattered, in a systematic campaign to destroy an entire people.
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One Year On – Five Things the War on Gaza Taught Us about the Palestinian Struggle
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – One: Palestinians, despite the military occupation, the siege and the numerous failures of their leadership, remain political actors, with powerful agency.
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Blinken Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks: Israeli Cabinet Members
Yaniv Cogan | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – Since the start of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, the US-backed army has become the leading cause of death for humanitarian workers worldwide.
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What Happened to Protest Music around the World?
Ivie Ani | In These Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – Mainstream musicians–a group once instrumental in amplifying sociopolitical causes and movements–are silent. The business of entertainment pop discourages artists from engaging in protest.
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IDF in ‘Outrageous Threat’ to Irish UN Troops in Lebanon
Mick Hall | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Israel continues to isolate itself diplomatically. A diplomatic crisis has been defused after Israel withdrew its invasion force metres from a U.N. post in south Lebanon staffed by Irish peacekeepers.
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US-Israeli Rampage in the Middle East: Barreling Towards WWIII
Abby Martin | Empire Files – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Journalist Séamus Malekafzali joins Abby Martin to talk about Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, the assassination of Nasrallah, and the potential for war with Iran.
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11 Communications Rules for Activists to Live by
David Fenton | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – Advice Learned through 50 Years of Progressive Media Activism
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Could Palestine Be the Catalyst for an Islamic Renaissance?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024 – It’s impossible to count on corrupt Arab regimes – the weak link – to stop the Gaza genocide.
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Allegro, Ludwig van Beethoven (Music Video of the Week)
Trio Sōra | Philharmonie de Paris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Sōra: A bird that sings while taking flight (Amerindian name)
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 14 Oct 2024
Speaking Truth to Power
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
All Said…
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Jewish-American Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza in Front of the Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima
Jin Yanagawa | Asahi Shimbun/MSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – “Every Jew has a responsibility to other Jews. We have a responsibility to call on our brethren around the world to stop what is happening in Palestine.”
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Rethinking International Law after Gaza: A Symposium and a Call to Action
Mohsen al Attar | Opinio Juris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – “In Gaza, we are not simply treating children with war wounds, but wounded children who are dehydrated, under-nourished, who have lost everything they knew of safety, who are so psychologically traumatized by displacement and loss that some plead with our medics to just let them die.”
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Iran’s Missile Attack on Israel: Explained
Glenn Greenwald | System Update – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Glenn Greenwald uses the mainstream media coverage of the recent Iranian aerial attack on Israel to highlight the contradictions in their reporting.
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“Escalate to De-escalate”: What Led Iran to Attack Israel
Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Yesterday evening, Iran launched a wave of ballistic missile attacks striking sites throughout Israel, in retaliation for its recent assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards officer Abbas Nilforoushan.
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Israel’s Bloody Endgame
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, a widening onslaught against Hezbollah as tensions mount with Iran. Such developments have affected the US relation to the conflict.
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The Chaos Israel Is Sowing Across the Middle East Will Come Back to Haunt It
David Hearst | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – A ritual is performed every time Israel starts another war and the white phosphorus rains down. It’s called the ceasefire ritual – an abject public display of hand-washing, most of it choreographed.
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Reframing Challenges of Governance of SDGs through Music
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Rendering Comprehensible the 16 Logical Connectives of Discourse with AI Assistance – Despite the insights offered and suggested by logic and rationality, it is evident that these are called into question by emotions and spirituality.
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(Italiano) La Guerra Fredda come metafora
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
24 Settembre 2024 – La Guerra Fredda vale la pena rammentarla. C’è molto da imparare sul conflitto e il meta-conflitto. Per l’Occidente vs. l’Islam.
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(Italiano) Più creatività, per favore!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Le istituzioni latin-americane domani possono diventare quelle dell’Asia Orientale, entrambe ispirate da e ispirazione per l’Unione Africana e soprattutto dalla madre delle Unioni, quella Europea, persa nel divario fra il desiderio di essere emulata e la paura d’irritare i nordamericani.
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Happy 75th Birthday, Dear China!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Today marks the 75th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s proclamation of the People’s Republic of China. There are many reasons to congratulate China.
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Macron Calls for Arms Embargo against Israel
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – France Asserts Itself against Netanyahu over Lebanon
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Need for Action
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Zionism forcefully transformed a multi-ethnic/cultural/religious/lingual country called Palestine into a “Jewish state of Israel.” There are 15 million Palestinians, 8 million refugees, and millions living in reservations/ghettos/bantustans/concentration camps being subjected to brutal daily attacks and torture for 76 years.
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Assange: ‘My Naivete Was Believing in the Law, I’m Free Because I Pled Guilty to Journalism’
Julian Assange | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Full text of Julian Assange’s remarks to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today on the plea deal, WikiLeaks, the Espionage Act, C.I.A.’s retribution, repression of journalism, and his responses during Q&A.
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Pavel Durov, the Superfluous Man–“He Will Share Data about His Telegram Users”
Stephen Karganovic | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
29 Sep 2024 – Contrary to Durov’s initial assurances that he would never betray the trust of his users or renege on his commitment to freedom of expression, he has in fact conceded to the authorities’ key demand and will share data about his users with one or more of the interested governments.
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Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – The Israeli military announced early today that its ground invasion of Lebanon has started, confirming earlier reports. The US says it was informed of the Israeli plans ahead of the invasion.
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We Have a Moral Obligation to Speak Out against Genocide
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Dialogue with Prof. Alex Hinton, a leading anthropologist of genocides at Rutgers Univ.
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
28 Sep 2024 – As another October approaches, the beautiful season of colors begins. Yet as November nears, I think we might expect what for many will be the unexpected. A Black Swan event or the expected?
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Remarks for the International Day of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Text of my remarks at UNESCO during a meeting organised by the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee with the support of the Association of Former UNESCO Staff Members and the French Commission for UNESCO.
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Inside the US State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel
Brett Murphy | ProPublica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 –
*Ambassador Jack Lew urged Washington to give thousands more bombs to the Israelis because they have a “decades-long proven track record” of avoiding killing civilians.
*After State Department officials spent months working through weekends and after hours on arms sales, the Israelis sent cases of wine to them just before Christmas.
Provocations and Escalation
Samir Saul and Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Iran faces Israel in 2024 exactly as Russia faced the US in 2021. Provocations make Iranian intervention inevitable, which will justify retaliation from Israel, escalation being exactly what Israel seeks.
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Eliminating Terrorism with Terrorism
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
25 Sep 2024 – Makes sense…
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Reflections on October 7
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
For the several months after 7 Oct 2023, Israel’s public discourse allowed it to carry out the genocidal assault on Gaza with little diplomatic friction in the West but growing discontent among progressive sectors of civil society.
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New BioDB Global Tool Highlights Conservation Efforts Across 180 Countries
BioDB | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
27 Sep 2024 – The Nature Conservation Index: Findings Underscore the Need for Strategic Biodiversity Protection Worldwide
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BRICS and the IMF Debt Traps
Marco Fernandes | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – What the Contingent Reserve Arrangement Can Do for the Global South – In the last two years, BRICS have experienced a popularity hitherto unseen in their existence.
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Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau and the Little Owl
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
True curiosity is an open wonderment at what something is and how it works without emotional attachment to the outcome. “Life! who knows what it is, what it does?” Thoreau exclaimed on the pages of his journal.
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Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us to Rethink Our Relationships with Them
Marjorie Hecht | Human Bridges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
The broad consensus is that many species are sentient.
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Divide & Rule: The Plan of the 1% to Make You Disposable
Vandana Shiva | After Skool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
TRANSCEND Member Prof. Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmentalist, physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, food sovereignty advocate, and an anti-globalization author of more than 20 books and 500 papers.
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The 2012 Assange Interview with Nasrallah
Julian Assange | Journeyman Pictures - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2012 Interview – A freedom fighter to some, a terrorist to others, this is Hezbollah Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, assassinated by Israeli military in Beirut on 27 Sep 2024. From a secret location in Lebanon, he gave Assange a rare and frank insight into his vision for the future of the Middle East.
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(Italiano) Intelligenza Artificiale: una rete impalpabile o una insostenibile ragnatela?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 settembre 2024 – Si moltiplicano le ricerche e le applicazioni pratiche dell’IA. Un aspetto sorprendente è la vastità di temi e problemi che vedono sempre più l’IA protagonista di cambiamenti radicali nei nostri modi di vivere, di muoverci, di interagire, di interpretare il mondo.
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Looking Up
Sophie Michel | Behind the Curtain - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
I realized recently
That
If you look up at a pine tree
From a certain angle
How the US Destabilized the Horn of Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – The Horn of Africa’s is the geostrategic interface between Europe, Africa, and Asia. In 2018, the leaders of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia signed a cooperation agreement, but now, six years later, it lies in tatters by destructive foreign intervention and global power competition.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 7 Oct 2024
Israel Declares UN Secretary General António Guterres Persona Non Grata
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
The reason is simply because Mr. Guterres did not condemn the years-long Israeli-provoked attack by Iran on Israeli cities and her most important military airbase, Nevatim. Instead, he called for a ceasefire.
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(Français) Remarques pour la Journée Internationale de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 octobre 2024 – Ce text est le contenu de mon discours à l’Unesco lors de la réunion organisée par le collectif des ONG partenaires officielles de l’UNESCO en coproduction avec l’Association des Anciens Fonctionnaires de l’UNESCO et le soutien de la Commission nationale française pour l’UNESCO.
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The Fragments of the World Seek Each Other
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – “Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.” These words of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, from his book The Phenomenon of Man, may well be worth meditating on every day. The forces of . . . love?
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Israel’s Bloodbath in Lebanon
Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – Israel launches largest attack on Lebanon since its 2006 invasion, kills hundreds including children.
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Assange to Testify at Council of Europe
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – The freed publisher will appear in person in Strasbourg on 1 Oct to address the Council of Europe, WikiLeaks said today.
→ read full articlePathways in Governance between Logic, Emotion, Spirituality and Action
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
AI-assisted Clarification of Contrasting Modalities of Persuasion – Reference may be made to spiritual factors reframing ‘reasonable’ as ‘intuition’ or as “values”. That dimension may be of primary significance, taking precedence over any other and determining the nature of what is rational.
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Europeans, Arab and Muslim Nations Launch a New Initiative for an Independent Palestinian State
Edith M. Lederer | AP News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
29 Sep 2024 – Norway’s Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said that “there is a growing consensus from Western and Arab countries, and from the Global South, that we need to establish a Palestinian Authority, Government and State, which has to be recognized.”
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EU President Demands Globalist Control over All Information
Tyler Durden | Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen addressed elites at the World Economic Forum in Davos on 16 Jan 2024 calling for overarching globalist control over the flow of all information in the digital age.
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US Gives Israel $8.7 Billion in Military Aid for Operations in Gaza and Lebanon
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
26 Sep 2024 – The new aid comes as the US falsely claims it’s pushing for a ceasefire in Lebanon. It is actually grotesque.
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Zelensky’s Cancelled Meeting with Latin American Countries Reflects a Lack of Support for Kiev
Ahmed Adel | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
21 Sep 2024 – The Ukrainian president cancelled a meeting with leaders from Latin America and the Caribbean on the sidelines of the UNGA on 24 Sep due to low number of participants. It could also be a sign of the difficulties NATO faced in disseminating its narrative among non-Western countries, which is increasingly centered on a zero-sum logic, defending NATO’s exclusive interests in relation to Russia.
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Israel Bombed Lebanon Today, Killing Hundreds–the U.S. Is Sending More Bombs
Jonah Valdez | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – Weapons used in Israeli strikes into Lebanon that have killed civilians have been found to be U.S.-made.
→ read full articleThe Unbelievable Trump
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
With Partner James David Vance
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Clair de Lune (Music Video of the Week)
Maria João Pires | Jardin Musical – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Author: Claude Debussy – Piano Magnifique
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Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
In one of the boldest and most shimmering passages in all of literature, Thoreau writes: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.”
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Thomas Merton on US Militarism
Anthony Donovan | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – Our Government is facilitating mass slaughter. The two political parties running for President are complicit. The Catholic monk Thomas Merton’s writings on US militarism were censored and often forbidden. He resorted to sending his work privately, much unknown until after his assassination.
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How the Psychology of Oppression Perpetuates Harm to Animals and the Environment
Melanie Joy | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – When I was four years old, I killed someone. And 43 years later, I received the Ahimsa Award for my work on global nonviolence… To achieve justice for all species and the environment, we must create a more relational world.
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The Deadliest Day in Lebanon in Decades
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Monday [23 Sep] was the deadliest day in Lebanon in decades. In a single day, Israeli strikes in Beirut and across south Lebanon killed over 500 people, including at least 50 children, with countless more buried under the rubble. Tens of thousands have been forced to flee their homes as the death toll continues to rise.
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Israel Strikes Lebanon and Yemen: What We Know So Far
Jonathan Yerushalmy | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Israel’s military has struck more targets in Yemen and Lebanon, including a strike on central Beirut for the first time since 2006, in the wake of Friday’s [27 Sep] killing of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.
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Building BRICS
Ash Narain Roy | The Statesman/BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
25 Sep 2024 – BRICS has emerged as a powerful geopolitical entity thanks to the Global South. It is flexing economic and political muscles that no other groupings ever did. It has momentum on its side. It has surpassed the G7 and accounts for 32 per cent of global GDP in PPP terms.
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Microsoft’s CEO for Israel to Appear at Event Celebrating Israeli Military AI
Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – Mamram is not merely a banal IT service provider. This summer, a commander in the unit confirmed that it was providing cloud data services and artificial intelligence support for the Israeli military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
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Got Him!
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Meanwhile, in the Middle East
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