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Mirages
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
30 Aug 2024 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. let his justifiable hatred of the Democratic Party, their undermining of his presidential campaign, and their pro-war and genocidal agenda get the best of him. His trust in Trump is naïve in the extreme.
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Renowned Surgeon and Lead Author of New Lancet Study Tortured by Israeli Military
Ryan Grim | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
31 Aug 2024 – Dr. Khaled Alser was held for at least three months at notorious Sde Teiman detention/torture camp and remains “forcibly disappeared,” according to colleagues.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 2 Sep 2024
Israel Has Unleashed a Staggering 70,000 Tons of Explosives Upon Gaza!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
21 Aug 2024 – Israel has launched a massive and relentless bombing campaign on Gaza, releasing over 70,000 tons of explosives into the densely populated area. Compare:
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How Artificial Intelligence Challenges the Concept of Authorship
Leslie Alan Horvitz | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024 – If AI creates the content, who owns the work? Answering this complex question is crucial to understanding the legal and ethical implications of AI-generated content.
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Bombed Hospitals, Buried Children: We Have Become Numb to Gaza’s Destruction
Hala Alyan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – As we are saturated with horror, it gets normalized – and Israel’s assault continues unfettered. A Palestinian American poet on dehumanization.
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Nagasaki Day Panel Presentation
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – On Friday, August 9, the 79th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki, I was honored to present as an expert panelist for this dialogue organized by the Earth Constitution Institute.
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Defence Correspondents: The Journalistic Wing of the UK Military?
Des Freedman | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – There are stenographers – and then there are UK defence correspondents. An analysis of broadcasters’ coverage of defence shows that reporting is virtually 100% in line with the government’s own priorities. This isn’t journalism but public relations.
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Why Russia Saved the United States: The Forgotten History of a Brotherhood
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
Is it really so bad that the US could collapse in the not-so-distant future? Isn’t it acting like the worst of empires? Isn’t it wreaking havoc on the world? Is it not a good thing that it collapses internally and spares the world from further wars?
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 26 Aug 2024
Johan Galtung’s (1930-2024) Contributions to Peace Research and Practice
Tatsushi Arai | Peace in Action - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – Excerpt of Tatsushi Arai’s presentation from a virtual panel organized by Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies.
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Genocide on Gaza
Joe Sacco | The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
22 Aug 2024 – Fantagraphics has released a series of graphic commentaries and reflections by Joe Sacco.
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Neruda’s Beautiful, Humanistic Nobel Literature Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
On 13 Dec 1971, Pablo Neruda took the podium in Stockholm to deliver an extraordinary acceptance speech that begins with a lyrical recollection of his 1948 escape to Argentina when Chile’s dictatorial government issued an order for his arrest.
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USA: Revised Campaign Slogans
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
Trump 2024
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Ten Theses on the Far Right of a Special Type
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024 – Fascism is an insufficient term, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. We present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type.
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Why AI Models Are Collapsing and What It Means for the Future of Technology
Bernard Marr | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – Artificial intelligence has revolutionized everything, giving us tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which can generate human-like text or images. But there’s a problem that could undermine all of AI’s achievements known as “model collapse.”
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US Military Base in Bangladesh at the Heart of a Revolution
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
22 Aug 2024 – Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, has a shocking accusation against the US: “I could have remained in power if I had surrendered the sovereignty of Saint Martin Island and allowed the U.S. to hold sway over the Bay of Bengal.”
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‘An Entire Generation Is at Risk’: Aid Agencies Warn of Mass Polio Outbreak in Gaza
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024 – “Without an immediate cease-fire and access to vaccines and humanitarian aid across the strip, the people of Gaza are facing a public health disaster.”
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Existential Struggle
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024 – Now the numbers killed in the indiscriminate slaughter in Gaza exceeded 40,000 registered deaths (72% of them women and children). But the number of deaths could be many folds more (at least ten thousand under the rubble, many thousands died for lack of food or medical care, etc.).
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The Responsibility of Western ‘Liberal Democracies’ for Gaza Catastrophe
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – This is certainly either gross incompetence on Israel’s part or a deliberate effort to provoke a wider war. And a shady effort by Israel to compel the engagement of the US in its multiple struggles in the region.
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Reading Chinese FM Wang Yi’s Meetings with Myanmar Military Leaders
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024 – Despite Wang Yi’s carefully worded diplomatic message designed to convey China-Myanmar bilateral relations as “friendship with all Myanmar peoples, the political significance of his official and public meetings for the embattled military cannot be overstated.
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(Italiano) Spiare per gli USA – e per la pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
Esporre i crimini di guerra agghindati da “segreti” è un servizio per la pace. Ellsberg ha avuto il Premio Nobel Alternativo per la Pace. E così sarà per Assange.
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US Approves $20 Billion Arms Deal for Israel
Natalie Venegas and Jon Jackson | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – The United States today approved more than $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel. Reuters reported that the move was approved by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The deal reportedly includes F-15 fighter jets.
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The International Court of Justice Finds That BDS Is Not Merely a Right, but an Obligation
Craig Mokhiber | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – In its historic ruling, the ICJ found that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza is entirely unlawful, that Israel practices apartheid and racial segregation, and that all states are under a duty to help bring this to an end, including by cutting off all economic, trade and investment relations with Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.
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Billionaire Politics: A Danger to Democracy
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
15 Aug 2024 – Donald Trump was “interviewed” this week on X by owner Elon Musk, whose questions were so deferential that End Citizens United filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission. An instance of the power of billionaires attempting to hijack the political process for their own ends.
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‘Words like Slaughter:’ A Comparative Study of The New York Times Reporting in Ukraine and Gaza
Writers Against the War on Gaza | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024 – An in-depth comparison of The New York Times coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine vs. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza shows how the Times dutifully launders the news to fit the U.S. government’s agenda.
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(Italiano) Dopo l’impero statunitense: Un mondo di regioni?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
Un’ipotesi chiave è che il sistema che ci sarà dopo l’impero statunitense non sarà né un’egemonia gestita da un unico grande attore come la Cina o l’UE, né la globalizzazione gestita dalle TNC, ma un mondo di regioni. Potrebbe arrivare una moneta comune globale. Ma le regioni domineranno, il sistema statale sta svanendo.
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UN Rights Office Calls for Accountability for Latest ‘Horrific’ West Bank Killing
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024 – The perpetrators of a deadly rampage targeting a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank must face justice to deter future attacks, the UN human rights office insisted today.
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Turkey and Syria Both Want the US Military Out of Syria
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
Removing foreign troops from occupation can be done peacefully through diplomatic negotiations in which each side benefits. Or, it can be achieved through violent attacks on the occupation forces in order to make them decide to leave on their own.
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A Farewell to Truth
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024 – The F.B.I. agents did more than seize my personal electronics when they searched my home on Aug. 7, the author writes. They stole the truth.
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The Fajr Massacre: Every 70 Kg Bag of Human Remains Is Considered a Martyr
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
The bodies of Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza were destroyed so far beyond recognition that doctors have only been able to give grieving families an anonymous bag of human remains to bury.
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Ursula K. Le Guin on Growing Older and What Beauty Really Means
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
Cats know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. That is why their tail is there. It is a cat’s way of maintaining a relationship.
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A Just and Sustainable Peace in Sudan Is Possible
Hussein Awad Ali | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
16 Aug 2024 – The shortest path to ending this war is through ending the support the RSF receives from certain regional powers.
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US of A: The Week in Weird
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
This Modern World
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(Italiano) Il nuovo mondo del (1984) 2030: “Non si possiederà nulla. E si sarà felici”.
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
5 Agosto 2024 – Se impegnate giusto qualche minute a controllare il sito web ‘The Great Reset’ del Forum Economico Mondiale, che comprende copia di quanto chiama ‘La mappa di trasformazione del Gran Reset’ vi accorgerete presto che il WEF intende imporre il nuovo mondo, profondi cambiamenti a circa 200 aree della vita umana entro il 2030.
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The Future of Our World by Noam Chomsky
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
18 Aug 2024 – This article is a synopsis of some of Chomsky’s responses to questions, and it includes third-party supporting facts surrounding his statements about the two biggest risks to humanity’s continual existence.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 19 Aug 2024
Inside Israel’s Torture, Rape, and Dehumanization Centers [Sickening]
Robert Inlakesh | The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – Shocking even by Israeli standards, the horrifying truth of the occupation’s systematic torture, rape, and degradation of Palestinian detainees reveals a brutality buried in silence.
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Shifting Economic Balance: BRICS vis-a-vis G7
Wang Wen | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
The unipolar world led by the West has persisted for over two hundred years. Thirty years ago, the economic output of BRICS was only one-third of that of the G7. Now, BRICS has completely surpassed the G7.
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The Murder of Others
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.
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An Anthem for Peace and Justice from Israeli and Palestinian Youth (Music Video of the Week)
Jerusalem Youth Chorus | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
10 Aug 2024 – How music creates cross-cultural understanding — even during times of war. Introducing the young Palestinian and Israeli singers who perform a powerful anthem of nonviolence and call on listeners to choose a different way forward.
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The Empire Is the Real Enemy
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – The US has offered to drop its ridiculous criminal charges against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro if he agrees to leave power. These freaks really do believe the entire planet is their property.
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Sexual Violence and Famine Stalk Sudan’s Displaced
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Aug 2024
13 Aug 2024 – Sudan’s deepening humanitarian crisis caused by nearly 16 months of war has left countless women and girls subject to sexual violence and rape and tens of thousands of children at risk of death from hunger, UN aid teams said today.
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The Criminal Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
9 Aug 2024 – None of the countries involved in the conflict with Israel–-Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Yemen–-seek a wider war. Only Israel approaches this prospect favorably. This cycle of provocative acts and retaliations initiated by Israel have their own escalating momentum that is difficult to control.
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Clarifying a Two-state Pattern Language of 64 Modalities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
12 Aug 2024 – This is written in a period in which there are major ongoing conflicts, most obviously with respect to Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine, but less obviously in other arenas. Citizens of other countries are being advised to leave Lebanon in anticipation of major conflict and its probable escalation in the Middle East. Developing an AI-enabled Methodology to Reframe Binary Bias
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The Path Forward
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
11 Aug 2024 – We are 15 million indigenous Palestinians, over 8 million of us are intentionally made refugees or displaced. So far, over 250,000 Palestinians were killed or perished prematurely thanks to genocidal policies since 1948. A million were injured and another million imprisoned since 1948 by Zionists.
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Interrogating the Venezuelan Victory of Nicolás Maduro
Murat Sofuoglu | Richard Falk/Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
6 Aug 2024 – “If Maduro manages to hold on, and especially if he gains support from Brazil and other moderate governments, it will be interpreted as a setback for ideologically motivated US coercive diplomacy, including an effort to exert political influence by imposing sanctions unilaterally,” Richard Falk said.
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Venezuela: An Attempted Coup by Any Other Name
María Páez Victor | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
4 Aug 2024 – Once again, as in 2002, Venezuela has been the victim of a combined media and diplomatic coup attempt, but this time with the added element of organized crime and a cyber-attack.
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What Makes Life Alive: Vassily Grossman on Consciousness, Freedom, and Kindness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
“Every thing that lives is holy, life delights in life,” William Blake wrote in an era when science first began raising questions with spiritual undertones: What is life? Where does it begin and end? What makes it alive?
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 12 Aug 2024
(Italiano) Sudan. Un genocidio periferico che non interessa nessuno
Gianni Tognoni | Volere la Luna - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
9 ago 2024 – RSF era la milizia del genocidio, che è stata ribattezzata Janjawee, e finanziata dall’UE con milioni di euro, per fungere da lupi che proteggono i rifugiati africani dal raggiungere l’Europa cristiana bianca, dopo il genocidio del Sudan del Sud.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Meanwhile, in the US of A…
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Between Killing with Nukes and the Possibility of a Nonkilling Global Society
Roland Joseph, Ph.D. | Center for Global Nonkilling, India – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
9 Aug 2024 – 79 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the risk of killing directly and indirectly with nukes remains tangible. When I say directly, I mean at any time; nuclear weapons can be used by accident, miscalculation or by the willingness of nuclear states.
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
4 Aug 2024 – No matter how obvious it is that the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy, the ardent pipe dreams of a new face in the White House go to their heads every four years. It can only be explained by a combination of intellectual ignorance, the acceptance of propaganda, and the embrace of illusions.
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Torture, Abuse and Humiliation: Palestinians on Israeli Prison ‘Hell’
Emma Graham-Harrison, Sufian Taha, Bethan McKernan, and Quique Kierszenbaum | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
5 Aug 2024 – Ex-prisoners report sexual assault and starvation in ‘torture camp’ jails presided over by Itamar Ben-Gvir.
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Western Media, Leaders Slammed for ‘Deafening’ Silence Over Israeli Torture Revelations
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
9 Aug 2024 – “Can you imagine the response if Palestinians were holding Israelis in mass rape camps and torturing them to death?” asked one critic.
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World-Ending Maneuvers?
Hekmat Aboukhater and William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
7 Aug 2024 – Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today – The Pentagon’s $2 trillion plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines, which benefits contractors such as Bechtel, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman.
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And Out of the Ashes
Farah Habad | Poets - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Out of the ashes,
rose a helicopter.
An unwelcome phoenix.
The Ocean and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
The book, The Edge of the Sea, was an ambitious guide to the seashore — the place where Carson found “a sense of the unhurried deliberation of earth processes that move with infinite leisure, with all eternity at their disposal.”
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Three Israeli Army Refusers: ‘We Will Not Participate in Genocide’
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Conscientious objectors Yuval Moav, Itamar Greenberg, and Oryan Mueller explain why they are willing to go to jail in order to stand against the war.
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The Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Aviva Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
Getting Beyond the Stereotypes from Colombia to the US to Gaza – 9 Aug is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples as the UN declared in 1994, the day the U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations had its initial meeting in 1982.
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An Attack on Venezuela’s Democracy
Leonardo Flores | CodePink - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
The reactionary attacks on Venezuela are accelerating, including the propaganda by the corporate press. The accusations are coming out faster than anyone can counter them.
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“Welcome to Hell”: U.S. Silence on Israel’s Network of Torture Camps
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2024
8 Aug 2024 – Palestinian solidarity activists are focusing on presidential candidate VP Kamala Harris, who opted not to preside over Netanyahu’s recent address to a joint session of Congress. Activists disrupted her speech in Detroit chanting, “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide. We won’t vote for genocide.”
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The Assassination of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Will Only Embolden Resistance
Jeremy Scahill | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
31 Jul 2024 – At approximately 2 a.m. local time, Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran. Israel has proven it can kill massive numbers of Palestinian civilians and assassinate political leaders, but it has been unable to defeat an armed insurgency in Gaza.
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The Victims’ Pact: Rwanda and Israel
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
31 Jul 2024 – Rwanda (Kagame) weaponizes the Rwandan Genocide to justify its violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just as Israel (Netanyahu) weaponizes the Holocaust to justify its violence in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Starvation–No Food or Medical Supplies Are Entering Gaza–the Casualty Rate Is a Mere Fraction of the Death Rate
Paul Larudee | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
31 Jul 2024 – As planned, the people of Gaza are now dying in much larger numbers from starvation and disease than from Israeli weaponry as no food or medical supplies are getting into Gaza. Even the handcarried supplies that outside medical personnel used to bring in are now prohibited and confiscated.
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The Assassination of Aung San in 1947 also Killed the Federalist Democratic Myanmar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – Aung San and his post-World War II colleagues hammered out the twin framework for the nature of the post-colonial political state, namely the federalist power-sharing arrangement, which recognized the right of self-determination of ethnic communities, and an inclusive citizenship framework.
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Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
“No one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.” Because the beach is where the body meets the sea, it is a place of encounter with the native poetry of the soul.
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Does Israel Really Believe It Can Win a War Against Hezbollah?
Jeremy Scahill | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – Amal Saad, a leading expert on the Lebanese resistance movement, says all-out war could lead to Israel’s downfall.
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Olympic Boxing Controversy: Gender-Bending Is the New Doping
Rachel Marsden | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
3 Aug 2024 – The Paris Olympics triggered culture warriors by dumping drag queens all over the opening ceremony. Is it time to make DNA and other tests to ascertain athletes’ gender as important as drug screenings?
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‘An Entirely Preventable Disaster’: Health Officials Warn of Catastrophic Polio Epidemic in Gaza
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
2 Aug 2024 – In July health officials in Gaza detected the polio virus in the water. Now, the threat of a polio outbreak has been declared an epidemic, and officials are demanding an immediate ceasefire and vaccination campaign “before it’s too late.”
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79 Years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki: A Grim Reminder of Nuclear Annihilation
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
The upcoming 79th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place on 6 and 9 Aug 1945, remains a grim reminder of the destructive consequences of nuclear weapons. The US bombings killed an estimated 90,000 to 210,000.
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Israel: It’s Time for All of Us to Divest
Scott Plous | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
29 Jul 2024 – You may be profiting financially from the war in Gaza. It’s easier than you think to change that.
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(Italiano) La sentenza della Corte Internazionale di Giustizia sull’occupazione israeliana della Palestina è importante
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
29 Luglio 2024 – Questo livello di consenso giudiziario, in un’atmosfera così politicamente polarizzata, depone a favore della considerazione della sentenza della Corte internazionale di giustizia come autorevole quando si tratta di valutare il comportamento di Israele come potenza occupante in relazione al diritto internazionale umanitario.
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Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip
Update #199 | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
2 Aug 2024 – The Humanitarian Situation Update is issued by OCHA Occupied Palestinian Territory three times per week. The Gaza Strip is covered on Mondays and Fridays, and the West Bank is covered on Wednesdays.
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On Greatness, MAGA
Ireland for Peace in Palestine | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
No Comment
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The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
2 Aug 2024 – Fans of capitalism say it is democratic and supports democracy. Some equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably; it is simply not true and never was. It is more accurate to say that capitalism and democracy are opposites.
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(Français) Projet d’un Manifeste 2025
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
1 Août 2024 – Le blog précédent proposait de reprendre le Manifeste 2000 là où il s’était arrêté, de le renommer Manifeste 2025, de recueillir à nouveau des signatures et de lancer des actions.
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UN Report on Arbitrary Detention and Abhorrent Abuse of Palestinian Prisoners
Talia Mullin | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
31 Jul 2024 – A new 23-page report has been released from the UN Human Rights department detailing the arbitrary detention, abuse, mistreatment, humiliation, torture, and prolonged incommunicado sentences of thousands of Palestinians including sexual abuse and deaths in Israeli custody.
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Let’s Abolish the Colonial IMF on Its 80th Birthday
Arthur Larok | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
24 July 2024 – From Kenya to Pakistan, protesters want the International Monetary Fund to stop exploiting countries in debt crisis.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
29 Jul 2024 – Meanwhile in the US of A
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Under Israeli Law, UNRWA Is about to Become a Terrorist Organisation
Moncef Khane | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
27 Jul 2024 – The UN must urgently take decisive action against the latest Israeli affront on the entire international community.
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Gazans Need Polio Vaccines Amid ‘Deathly Cycle’ of Hunger, Heat and Disease, Say UN Aid Agencies
Daniel Johnson | UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – In a bid to prevent a polio epidemic in Gaza, UN humanitarians today repeated calls for a ceasefire to allow mass vaccination “at a time when water, sanitation and hygiene conditions are being further eroded, with infectious diseases on the rise”.
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Starvation in Sudan
Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – As in Gaza, the Deprivation Is Deliberate – Sudan should simply no longer be callously ignored.
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Photographs Expose Thomas Merton Murder Cover-up
Hugh Turley | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
Thomas Merton was the most influential Catholic writer of the 20th century. He was almost as well-known in the United States as the author Ernest Hemingway or the popular Bishop Fulton J. Sheen.
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The Uncounted Gaza Victims: Why Hundreds of Thousands Are Being Allowed to Die
Eva Bartlett | – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
23 Jul 2024 – The Lancet published an article estimating that the number of Palestinian civilian deaths could be five times higher than the official death toll. “Up to 186 000 or even more; this would translate to 7.9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip.”
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How Unelected Regulators Unleashed the Derivatives Monster – and How It Might Be Tamed
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
4 Aug 2024 – While the world is absorbed in the U.S. election drama, the derivatives time bomb continues to tick menacingly backstage. Warren Buffet famously labeled derivatives “financial weapons of mass destruction” in 2002. Twenty years later, financial commentators have put it as high as $3.7 quadrillion.
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Growing Demands for Peace in Ukraine as the Kiev Regime Criminalizes 7 Million Ukrainian Men Refusing to Join the War
Dmitri Kovalevich | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
As of mid-July, widely-read bloggers begun to advocate an early cessation of hostilities and several legislators voiced support. Vladyslava Rogovenko on Instagram, 8 Jul: “Let the clown [Zelensky] go and negotiate peace. Enough of innocent deaths and this horror! How long will this continue? My anger has no limit!”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 5 Aug 2024
Draft for a Manifesto 2025
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
1 Aug 2024 – The previous blog proposed taking up the Manifesto 2000 where it left off, renaming it the Manifesto 2025, gathering signatures once again and initiating action.
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Venezuelans Re-Elect President Maduro Despite U.S. Organized Coup Attempt
Gloria Guillo | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Aug 2024
30 Jul 2024 – Sanctions are a misnomer when it comes to Venezuela. Here, the U.S. isn’t “just” illegally punishing a nation-state to effect regime change. It is also committing racketeer-level crimes against its people.
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An Open Letter to Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024 – Glad that Joe Biden finally acted responsibly by withdrawing his candidacy. To consider this overdue act ‘brave’ and ‘courageous’ is to rob those precious words of their proper meaning. Harris seems to have handled the political [Netanyahu] situation in an encouragingly skillful manner.
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Where Do We Go Now, Ask Gazans Uprooted by New Israeli Evacuation Orders
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024 – Gazans uprooted by the Israeli military’s latest evacuation orders have fled their shelters and homes “running for their lives”, with barely any belongings and little idea where they will end up, UN humanitarians said today.
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Congress: Netanyahu Commands, US Obeys
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024 – USA as ‘Savior,’ Israel as ‘Victim’ – Bibi, who addresses a joint-session of Congress today, is the subject of an arrest warrant from the ICC. He has demanded the US shield Israel from criticism while continuing to arm and support its genocide — and the U.S. has answered his call.
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China Throws Clout behind Palestine
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
26 Jul 2024 – The Beijing Declaration cements the idea that global conflict resolution is now Made in China. But it also throws a wrench in US–Israeli efforts to manufacture a collaborator Palestinian government after the war in Gaza.
→ read full articleReframing “Two-state” Possibilities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
29 Jul 2024 – Beyond the Constraints of Disciplinary Frameworks in a Two-state Civilization – There is no lack of references over an extensive period to “the” Israel-Palestine “two-state” solution.
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Leaked UN Report: Israel Has Killed 366 UN Staff and Family Members as Netanyahu Addresses US Congress
Ryan Grim | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
24 Jul 2024 – The confidential report is the first to detail the toll faced by the families of UN workers in Gaza.
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Israeli Killings of Children in West Bank Skyrocket
Julia Conley | Common Dreams/Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
23 Jul 2024 – UNICEF says 143 children are among the more than 500 Palestinians killed in Israeli raids and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank over the last 10 months.
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The City of Nine Gates
Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarmā dāsa) | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
17 Jul 2024 – Is there a Conscious Self distinct from the physical mechanism of the body? Is there a mind distinct from the brain? Those who answer yes to such questions are called dualists, and they are rare in contemporary science and philosophy.
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Cry, the Beloved World
Gus Speth | Democracy Collaborative – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2024
18 Jul 2024 – Occasional reflections on the systemic crisis and the next system.
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