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China Opens World’s Largest Offshore Solar Power Facility
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

15 Nov 2024 – China is the most advanced solar society in the world with over 600 gigawatts of installed solar capacity. In comparison, the US only has about 130 GW of solar.

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The End of the US Empire, the Denial of the US, and the Rise of China and BRICS
Richard Wolff | Community Church of Boston – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

12 Nov 2024 – The political crises facing the United States at home and abroad hinge on this question: How will the US manage its decline?

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Two Weeks in Beirut
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

13 Nov 2024 – In the middle of a shopping street in Dahiya, our driver pulls up at a checkpoint manned by armed militia in civilian clothes, to see if we could start filming. Then it all starts to go wrong.

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Lee Lakeman and the Whoredom of the Left
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

16 Nov 2024 – The radical feminist Lee Lakeman has spent her life calling out patriarchy for its oppression, the left for its bankruptcy, neoliberalism for its cruelty and organizing women to fight back.

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Over the Cliff
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

Meanwhile, in the old US of A

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My 94th Birthday amid Rubble and Precious Life
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

My poem on navigating the narrowing channel between personal happiness and public gloom. November 13, 2024.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 18 Nov 2024

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How Can BRICS Reshape a Polycentric World Order?
Ezra Nnko | Modern Diplomacy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

13 Nov 2024 – It was the 16th official BRICS Summit with Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates attending for the first time as official members. BRICS: 37.4 percent of the global GDP; 1/4 of global exports of goods; 45 percent of the world population.

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Putin Tells German Leader That Ukraine Peace Deal Possible
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

15 Nov 2024 – Russian President Vladimir Putin spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz for the first time in two years today.

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More Than I Can Bear (Music Video of the Week)
Matt Bianco - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

Official Video from 2013. Enjoy…

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The Media’s Role in Lying about Amsterdam Violence just Keeps Getting Darker
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

13 Nov 2024 – News outlets didn’t make a mistake. They knowingly aired disinformation and peddled fake news. Admitting that requires a troubling recalibration of perspective if we’re ever to make sense of the world.

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UNCTAD, COP29, They Did It again: Digital Tyranny Beyond the Worst Imaginations of George Orwell 1984
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

12 Nov 2024 – For those who understand what full digitization of everything means, it is clearly pointing the way to digital tyranny, to a digital Gulag – promoted by UNCTAD, a UN organization, well-aware of what they are doing.

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How the Human Brain Contends with the Strangeness of Zero
Yasemin Saplakoglu | Quanta Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

18 Oct 2024 – Zero, which was invented late in history, is special among numbers. New studies are uncovering how the brain creates something out of nothing.

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Climate Conference Highlights Challenges to the World Society
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

14 Nov 2024 – The Climate Conference (COP 29) organized from 11 to 22 November 2024 in Baku, Azerbaijan is held at a time of armed conflicts in the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine.

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End of Empathy: Did the Gaza Genocide Render the UN Irrelevant?
Ramzy Baroud | Middle East Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Francesca Albanese did not mince her words at the UNGA on 29 Oct: “Is it possible that after 42,000 people killed, you cannot empathise with the Palestinians? Those of you who have not uttered a word about what is happening in Gaza demonstrate that empathy has evaporated from this room.”

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The Machu Picchu Declaration of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation-APEC 2024
APEC Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

16 Nov 2024 – The APEC Leaders’ Machu Picchu Declaration

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The International System Has Shamefully Failed to Halt Israel’s Genocide in Gaza
Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

3 Nov 2024 – The reluctance of the international system to implement decisive actions against Israel’s mass atrocities in the Gaza Strip, especially in the northern region, exposes a stark disregard for Palestinian lives and dignity, and fuels the continuation of its crime of genocide.

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A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

I reviewed a film – Four Died Trying – about four men assassinated by the U.S. government because they opposed their wars: President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

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Lame Duck Biden Authorizes Ukrainian Attacks on Russia with Long-range US-made Weapons
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

17 Nov 2024 – President Joe Biden allowed Ukraine to use US-manufactured long-range missiles into Russian territory, two U.S. top officials and a source familiar with the decision said today.

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Trump’s Partner for Peace in Middle East
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

13 Nov 2024 – Yesterday, Donald Trump announced that he picked successful real estate executive Steven Witkoff to be his special envoy to the Middle East. Witkoff is a New Yorker, Jewish, and a personal friend of Trump. 

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“It’s the System, Stupid!” – The Underlying Causes of Trump’s Victory
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

Let’s be clear about this.  The historic oppression of some groups, continuing into the present, is a fact.  It is also a fact that systemic oppression to some extent benefits everyone who is not a member of the most oppressed group.

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These 10 Companies Run the US ‘Democracy’
Scheer Intelligence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

1 Nov 2024 – Many think that choosing one or another candidate will better represent their values, but there is only one group that matters: the “titans of capital.” Dr. Peter Phillips studied the economic trends following the COVID-19 pandemic and how the wealth concentration in the world took a dramatic turn towards the already ultra-wealthy elites.

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(Italiano) Pace e sicurezza: donne e uomini
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

12 Novembre 2024 – Il mio approccio a questo argomento è basato sull’esperienza cinquantennale di come donne e uomini si rapportano con temi di pace e sicurezza nella politica formale e informale, nella mediazione e formazione alla mediazione, nelle operazioni di peace-keeping e peace-building, e negli incontri.

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Rwanda, DRC, and the New Scramble for Africa (Part 3): Is the Genocide a Lie?
Rusere Shoniwa | A Plague on Both Houses – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

24 Oct 2024 – In light of the conclusion reached in Part II, what then are we to make of the title of the Corbett Report video – The Rwanda Genocide Is A Lie? Whether or not the video title is accurate depends on what Corbett means by “lie”.

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Israeli Hooligans Storm through Amsterdam Chanting “F*ck You Palestine”
Mike Whitney | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

11 Nov 2024 – There are 15,000 Jews living in Amsterdam. They seemed to be just fine until some Israeli hooligans showed up…. The media’s version of events is skewed in favor of the perpetrators. None of the mainstream coverage can be trusted. But you already knew that.

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Spain’s Climate Catastrophe – a Glimpse into the Near Future
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

11 Nov 2024 – What are we trying to avert by focusing on climate change/global warming? The catastrophic floods in Valencia, Spain offer a sample of how human societies will ultimately be dismantled and destroyed in the absence of a drastic action that is nowhere on the horizon.

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11 November: Armistice and Remembrance
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

Today, the images of war in the Middle East and Ukraine have not led to new creative literature nor to proposals for peace-making.  However, the need for dialogue among Jewish Israelis and Palestinians has led to a reading of Martin Buber (1878 -1965).

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Israeli Settlers Are Coming for Gaza
Noah Samsen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

3 Nov 2024 – Given that they have full support from their government and military, they just might get it.

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The Gaza Tribunal: Law, Conscience, and Compassion
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

5 Nov 2024 – The Gaza Tribunal, of which I am president, had a successful launch meeting with many members of its Advisory Policy Council. As the article below  in the Palestine Chronicle notes, the aim of the Tribunal is to legitimize and encourage civil society solidarity initiatives around the world such as BDS.

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How the UN Can Be Liberated from Geopolitics
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

8 Nov 2024 – Interview conducted in October by Daniel Falcone with Hans von Sponeck and myself on our collaborative book, Liberating the UN: Realism with Hope. Since then Donald Trump has been elected President of the US, which would augur bad news for the UN.

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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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What about Palestinian Hostages???
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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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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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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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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Peace and Security: Women and Men
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

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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])

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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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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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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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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.

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Rwanda, 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.

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Criminalize 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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