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On Truth
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
What happens when the US empire not only declines but falls, will we follow? Will the world poor rise against us? Who am I, with whom am I, on the right side, the wrong? How has my mother-in-law programmed her daughter for it all? A super-complex world.
→ read full articleWhy Is the ‘Liberal’ Media Peddling the Vilest Genocide Apologism?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – Howard Jacobson’s article in today’s Observer may be one the vilest pieces of journalism in Britain in living memory, arguing that any reporting of Israel’s slaughter of many thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza is a “blood libel” and antisemitic.
→ read full article11 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
→ read full articleOccupied Palestinian Territory: Reported Impact since 7 Oct 2023
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – Hostilities in Gaza and Israel are ongoing, and violence in the West Bank has surged. Millions of Palestinians struggle to live with dignity under Israeli occupation, facing coercive practices and Palestinian political divisions.
→ read full articleCould 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.
→ read full articleAllegro, 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)
→ read full articleIsrael’s Netanyahu Warns Lebanon Could Face Destruction ‘like Gaza’
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – Netanyahu claimed Israel has killed slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s “replacement, and the replacement of his replacement”. His remarks came as Hezbollah strikes Haifa.
→ read full articleGenocide 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
Picking Up the Kids: by Mr. Fish and Roger Waters
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – This cartoon was inspired by an idea from Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, and drawn by Mr. Fish. 10 Downing Street, London:
→ read full articleThe Syrian Civil War Rekindled?
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – The war in Lebanon, which began in July this year, in which Israel has been ferociously attacking and weakening Hezbollah, is likely to rekindle the Syrian Civil War, which has been virtually over for several years.
→ read full articleSpeaking Truth to Power
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
All Said…
→ read full articlePart of the Mechanism of Genocide in Palestine: The Complicity of ‘Mainstream’ Media
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – Netanyahu justified Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza in a speech to US Congress in July: ‘It’s a clash between barbarism and civilization; between those who glorify death and those who sanctify life.’ The BBC did not provide an editorial warning that many would find such words ‘abhorrent.’
→ read full articleJewish-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.”
→ read full articleRethinking 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.”
→ read full articleThe Geopolitics of Southeast Europe and the Importance of the Regional Geostrategic Position at the Turn of the 20th Century
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – A geopolitical issue of Southeast Europe became very important for scholars, policymakers, and researchers with the question of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire as one of the most crucial features of the beginning of the 20th century in European history.
→ read full articleCitizenship & Genocide Cards
Natalie Brinham - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
This book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness. It examines the multiple uses of state issued ID cards and registration documents in producing statelessness and facilitating genocide.
→ read full articleI Have Seen the Insides of Too Many Dead Kids
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
I have seen the insides of too many dead kids to have any patience for status quo politics or centrist incrementalism.
→ read full articleIran’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.
→ read full article“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.
→ read full articleIsrael’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.
→ read full articleThe 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.
→ read full articleReframing 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.
→ read full articleBurn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – The fossil fuel industry, and the politician class they own, have no intention of halting the ecocide. As the climate crisis worsens, so do the laws and security measures to keep us in bondage.
→ read full article(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.
→ read full article(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.
→ read full articleHappy 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.
→ read full articleWe’re the Fucking Terrorists
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
5 Oct 2024 – Hezbollah is killing Israeli soldiers invading Lebanon while Israeli soldiers are killing women, children, medical staff and journalists. Guess which side the west calls terrorists. “Terrorist organization” is an arbitrary designation by western narrative to justify war and militarism.
→ read full articleMacron 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
→ read full articleNeed 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.
→ read full articleAssange: ‘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.
→ read full articlePavel 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.
→ read full articleIsrael Confirms Its Ground Invasion of Lebanon Has Begun
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.
→ read full articleWe 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.
→ read full articleOctober’s Surprise Party
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?
→ read full articleInside 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.
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.
→ read full articleThe Military-Industrial Complex Explained
Mr. Beat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
The Real Reason That the United States Is Permanently at War – Here is everything you need to know about the Military Industrial Complex.
→ read full articleLebanese and Syrians Suffer Loss and Displacement amid Surging Attacks
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Since a deadly escalation of the conflict in Lebanon began just over a week ago, the Government estimates that more than 1 million people have already been forced to flee their homes.
→ read full articleProvocations 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.
→ read full articleEliminating Terrorism with Terrorism
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
25 Sep 2024 – Makes sense…
→ read full articleBiden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Iran has been trying to avoid such a war and signed the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement with the US, U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China and the EU. Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the U.S. out of the JCPOA in 2018. Now, Benjamin Netanyahu sees his long-awaited chance to draw the US into war with Iran.
→ read full articleReflections 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.
→ read full articleNew 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
→ read full articleWar on Humanity: How Israel and the US Forged Deception of Collaborative Collision
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Wicked Leaders Pretend to Be Peacemakers
→ read full articleDivorce
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – India is a land of many religions— Hindu, Christianity, Islam and some smaller religions and faiths — Buddhism, Sikhism, etc. All these religions and sects have distinguished leaders and believers.
→ read full articleBRICS 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.
→ read full articleIslam and the West
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
We have been there before, many times. For the West, encroaching on Islamic lands was part of the massive exercise known as colonialism.
→ read full articleCuriosity 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.
→ read full articleOne Year of Unspeakable Loss
Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – After a year of genocide against Palestinians, Israel is waging a campaign of terror that has brought the entire region closer to all-out war. A year of impunity for Israeli genocide has landed us here.
→ read full articleDo 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.
→ read full articleThe Loss of Hezbollah and Iran (Part 1)
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – After Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah on 27 Sep, Iran retaliated by firing 180 missiles over Israel on 1 Oct. However, Iran announced that it would not send troops to Lebanon to prop up Hezbollah because it wanted stability in the Middle East, not a war with Israel.
→ read full article“Bloodied, Bruised and Broken” – More Than 690 Children Injured in Lebanon in Last Six Weeks
UNICEF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – UNICEF calls for a ceasefire to protect children as physical injuries and psychological suffering rise dramatically.
→ read full articleDivide & 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.
→ read full articleKievan Russia (882−1242): The Original National State of Russians
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia (not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus’!) became directly and indirectly subject to external political influences.
→ read full articleThe 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.
→ read full article(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.
→ read full articleLooking 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
‘Orphanage City’ Helps Children in Gaza as the Genocide Grinds On
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – Some Palestinian orphans in Gaza have gotten a glimmer of hope as the tragedies triggered by the grinding nearly year-long Israeli assault continue to deplete the Strip.
→ read full articleMeta Is Aggressively Censoring Criticism of US-Israeli Warmongering
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – I am at risk of getting banned from both Instagram and Facebook as both Meta-owned platforms keep censoring my criticisms of Israel’s US-backed atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon.
→ read full articleGenocide 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
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.
→ read full articleThe Failure of Iran (Part 2)
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct. 2024 – In my previous article, “The Loss of Hezbollah and Iran”, I wrote that Iran had no intention of starting a full-scale war with Israel, so that the war in the Middle East would not expand. However, I have changed my view.
→ read full articleA Holistic Approach Integrating Galtung’s Theories and Linguistics
Jocelyn Wright et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
With this paper, we attempt an explicit rapprochement between the disciplinary fields by uniting Johan Galtung’s work on peace and violence with linguistics. We begin by defining key concepts related to applied linguistics and peace studies and contributing a holistic model of peace.
→ read full articlePact for the Future: A Partly Open Door for NGO-U.N. Cooperation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
3 Oct 2024 – The Pact for the Future was accepted by the U.N. General Assembly in a three-stage process. It should be seen as a springboard for action rather than as an end point. We will have to see what as NGO representatives we can make of the partly open door.
→ read full articleDie with a Smile (Music Video of the Week)
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Aug 2024 – Simply Delicious!…
→ read full articleCircumstantial Evidence
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
A husband and wife spent their vacation at a lake where he enjoyed fishing. One day, while he was taking a nap on shore, the wife took their fishing boat to explore the lake.
→ read full articleIsrael 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.
→ read full articleThe 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?
→ read full article(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.
→ read full articleIsrael’s Ideology of Genocide Must Be Confronted and Stopped
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Israel’s violent extremists now in control of its government believe that Israel has the Biblical license, indeed a religious mandate, to destroy the Palestinian people.
→ read full article(Português) Um Mundo que Perdeu o Coração
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
6 out 2024 – Acompanhando o curso do mundo, notamos um verdadeiro tsunami de ódio, mentiras, exclusões, verdadeiros genocídios e extermínios em massa como na Faixa de Gaza, que nos deixa perplexos. Até onde pode chegar a maldade humana?
→ read full articleLarge Number of Delegates Leave UN General Assembly as Netanyahu Speaks
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – Benjamin Netanyahu’s highly anticipated speech at the UNGA, during which he repeatedly denounced the UN as anti-Israel, was met with jeers by many delegates who walked out.
→ read full articleIsrael’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.
→ read full articleAssange 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 articleMessage at Launching of the ‘Law of the Innocents’ in Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – Mairead addresses, among other things, the Israeli genocide of Palestinians, the Rohingya ethnic cleansing in Myanmar, and the Russia-Ukraine proxy war.
→ 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.
→ read full articleEuropeans, 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.”
→ read full articleEU 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.
→ read full articleUS 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.
→ read full articleThe Momentum for the Ceasefire in Ukraine Grows
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – Yesterday, French President Macron stated that Europe should improve the relations with Russia after the end of the Ukraine War. He has always been an opportunist when it comes to the relations with Russia.
→ read full articleThe Looming Catastrophe in the Middle East
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
28 Sep 2024 – The Chris Hedges Report with Gideon Levy
→ read full articleZelensky’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.
→ read full articleOn Democracy NOW!–A Tale of Two Ongoing Genocides in Israel and Myanmar
FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
22 Sep 2024 – Israel has succeeded in establishing an ecosystem of genocidal methods. In a breach of the Genocide Convention, it has subjected Palestinian peoples to this system of depopulating to make all occupied territories Jewish Majority.
→ read full articleIsrael 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 article15 Rules for Discussing Israeli Warmongering
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
24 Sep 2024 – It’s been a few minutes since Israel last began a new project of mass military violence, so perhaps it’s time for a refresher on the official rules on how we’re meant think and talk about such matters.
→ read full articleRogue Israel Escalates Military Attacks on Lebanon Raiding Residential Areas and Civilians
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
23 Sep 2024 – Urgent international intervention is required to prevent the massacres being carried out by Israel in Gaza from occurring in Lebanon. Israel’s army carried out over 330 raids in over 117 Lebanese towns and cities.
→ read full articleIn Lebanon Carnage, Biden Deepens US ‘Obligation’ to Israeli Aggression
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
28 Sep 2024 – Israel has killed Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, emboldening a US-backed war for hegemony in which Arab civilians are an open Israeli target.
→ read full articleThe Unbelievable Trump
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
With Partner James David Vance
→ read full articleClair de Lune (Music Video of the Week)
Maria João Pires | Jardin Musical – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Author: Claude Debussy – Piano Magnifique
→ read full articleThe Milky Way, the Pond, and the Meaning of Life: Thoreau on Solitude, Sympathy, and the Salve for Melancholy
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.”
→ read full articleHow China Broke from David Rockefeller’s Slave Labor Agenda
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
25 Sep 2024 – Adding depth and nuance to oversimplified historical narratives of the past, present and future to avoid traps that will lead us to World War 3. The role of Henry Kissinger and how the Trilateral Commission’s designs for China came undone.
→ read full articleThomas 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.
→ read full articleHow 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.
→ read full articleStrong Measures Needed to Prevent Escalation of Israel-Hezbollah Armed Conflict
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
“Gaza is a non-stop nightmare that threatens to take the entire region with it. Look no further than Lebanon. We should all be alarmed by the escalation. The peoples of Lebanon, of Israel, and of the world cannot afford Lebanon to become another Gaza.” — Antonio Guterres
→ read full articleMistaking Militarism for Statecraft, Empire for Democracy and Debt for Prosperity
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
26 Sep 2024 – No strategy to the war game, no accounting to our economy, we have fumbled and stumbled to the precipice of global war, now led by a Democratic Administration.
→ read full articleUN Summit of the Future – Outcome Documents
United Nations General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
*22-23 Sep 2024
*Pact for the Future
*Global Digital Compact
*Declaration on Future Generations
(Português) Declaração de Paz Global 2024
Prof. Francisco Gomes de Matos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
Dia Internacional da Paz, 21 setembro 2024
→ read full articleIsrael 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.
→ read full articleThe 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.
→ read full articleBuilding 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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