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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Up to 29 Mar 2024:
32,623 + killed* and at least 75,092 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
450+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
*Some rights groups put the death toll number much, much higher when accounting for those presumed dead under the 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris. Ralph Nader: around 200.000 Palestinians killed to date.
Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?
Sam Klug | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
27 Mar 2024 – Long decried by liberals and conservatives alike, the Martinican psychiatrist remains one of the most piercing critics of colonialism.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 170: Israel Assaults al-Shifa, Nasser, and al-Amal Hospitals in One Day
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
25 Mar 2024 – Israeli forces ordered Palestinians inside al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis to leave “naked,” while survivors of the al-Shifa Hospital raid witnessed numerous atrocities committed by the Israeli army. In Jerusalem, Israeli settlers stormed al-Aqsa.
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“Man-Made Hell on Earth”: A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
23 Mar 2024 – “I saw scenes that were horrific and I never want to see again,” said Yasser Khan, a surgeon from Toronto. Warning: This article contains graphic images.
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Johan Galtung Obituary
Hugh Miall | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
The Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, who has died aged 93, was a leading contributor to peace and conflict research. His ideas about positive peace and structural violence have had a global resonance. Now taught in more than 500 universities, the field he helped to establish has become a worldwide endeavour.
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(Italiano) Globalizzare Dio: Religione e pace nelle scienze sociali
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Le letture arcigne portano all’intolleranza o alla tolleranza malmustosa. Quanto mai necessari: rispetto e curiosità; dialogo e reciproco apprendimento. C’è tanta saggezza! La si selezioni! Si estrapoli conciliando! Si vada oltre i confini territoriali di stato e culturali di nazione, e di trascendano quelli mentali gelosamente protetti, fra le discipline e le religioni.
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How Paul Kagame Deliberately Sacrificed the Tutsi
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
20 Mar 2024 – 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. Review of “How Paul Kagame Sacrificed the Tutsi,” one of many important books that challenge the prevailing narrative about the events of 1994.
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“Never Again”: Arundhati Roy on Palestine at Delhi Press Club
Arundhati Roy | The Wire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – Public meeting held at the New Delhi Press Club to voice opposition to the genocide in Gaza. Arundhati Roy’s statement is titled, “Never Again”.
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An Ugly Comparison
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – I don’t make this comparison lightly. The IDF is conducting a medieval-style siege on Gaza making them go thirsty, starving, and without electricity. The IDF talks about flattening and burning down Gaza – it’s not about Hamas. If you still think the Israeli government is just defending itself, I have a bridge to sell to you.
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The Spiraling Absurdity of Germany’s Pro-Israel Fanaticism
Michael Sappir | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
21 Mar 2024 – As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state’s liberal self-image is fast becoming a tragic story Germans can only tell themselves.
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Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests Internationally
Global News Service | TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
19 Mar 2024 – “The Great Israeli Real Estate Event” toured the United States and Canada, exhibiting property for sale on stolen Palestinian land. Each event has been met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists.
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Gaza and Its Astounding Parallels with 9/11: “A Territory or Country Is Targeted for Previously Established Geostrategic Goals”
Richard Gage | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
17 Mar 2024 – Has the Israeli government betrayed its own people, as well as the Palestinians, with its own “9/11 Moment”?
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US Rejects Russian Ceasefire Proposal for Ukraine
Kyle Anzalone | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
18 Mar 2024 – Russia’s attempt to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, along the current lines of control, was met with a firm rejection in Washington.
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Remembering a Voice for Peace: Johan Galtung (1930-2024)
Kelly Rae Kraemer | Global Campaign for PEACEducation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Our world lost a giant of peace research. Johan Galtung, “the Father of Peace Studies,” author of more than 170 books and 1,500 scholarly articles about world peace, passed away on 17 Feb 2024, at age 93. Galtung taught at 30 universities on five different continents over the course of his seven-decade career…
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Up to 24 Mar 2024:
32,223+ killed* and at least 74,518 wounded in the Gaza Strip
435+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
* Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much, much higher when accounting for those presumed dead under the 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris.
Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
22 Mar 2024 – The future of AI-powered censorship is here, and the early returns are as error-filled and clumsily destructive as Google’s infamous Gemini rollout, which provides an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression and threats of demonetization.
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Gardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer,” Derek Jarman wrote as he grieved his dying friends, faced his own death, and contemplated art, mortality, and resistance.
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What Was Palestine Before the Nakba?
Mohammed El-Kurd | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – A stunning photo archive reveals a time before the walls and checkpoints, when Palestine was not defined by its ailments but by its industries and cultures.
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The Song of Songs as Indicative of the Pattern That Connects
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Implications for strategic cultivation of global division?
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Johan Galtung on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Amy Goodman | EnvisionPeaceMuseum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024), the “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,” was a Norwegian sociologist and mathematician who taught around the world, helped found many institutions to build peace, and been honored with the Right Livelihood Award among many others. He served on the advisory board of Envision Peace Museum.
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Trump Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza to ‘Finish the Job’
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
19 Mar 2024 – Kushner, who served as a key Middle East adviser to Trump, said that Gaza’s “waterfront property could be very valuable” and urged Israel to “clean it up.”
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(Français) Des élections en mal de démocratie ?
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
4 mars 2024 – La démocratie est souvent réduite aux élections. Mais la croyance en l’efficacité de celles-ci décroit partout dans le monde, à mesure que croît la défiance envers la politique. Et la soif de démocratie effective.
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Armed by Washington, Israel Trashes the Genocide Convention
Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
19 Mar 2024 – Stop Treating Gaza like a Natural Disaster
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Blame Game
Unknown | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
No kidding…
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U.S. Doubles Down on Defunding UNRWA — Despite Flimsy Allegations
Prem Thakker | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
22 Mar 2024 – Congress passed a one-year ban on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency funds even as several Western countries have resumed funding for the U.N. agency that aids Palestinians.
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The Earth Constitution Could Transform the UN General Assembly and the UN Itself
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Democratic World Federalists News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
If both Russia and the US had not wielded Security Council vetoes in the last few years, the ugly atrocities in Ukraine and Gaza might never have happened. The UN Charter’s grant of the veto to the P5 powers is a mockery of the rule of law and democratic ideals.
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The Other USA
Matthew Ehret et al. | Canadian Patriot Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
19 Mar 2024 – A New Documentary on the Three Missed Chances for World Peace (1991-2016)
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Pursuing Justice through Law: Edward Said, the Gaza ‘War,’ and Advocacy Jurisprudence
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
9 Mar 2024 – This paper is devoted to several of my recent central concerns. Comments and conversation warmly invited. Adapted from annual Edward W Said Memorial Lecture, the American University in Cairo, 4 Nov 2023.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 163: Top EU Official Says Israel Failed to Prove Its Accusations against UNRWA
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
17 Mar 2024 – Netanyahu has vowed to invade Rafah despite the international red line. Meanwhile, the U.S. has sanctioned two illegal settler outposts in the West Bank for the first time.
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Dear Child
Chris Hedges | Dear Child - TRANSCEND Media Servicr,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – A look through the eyes of a child in Gaza. ‘Dear Child I’ takes the viewer on an uncompromising journey into the life of a child living under Israeli bombardment. The film intentionally challenges viewers to look at their own actions or lack thereof.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Challenging Hegemony Through the Pattern That Connects
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(Italiano) Israele e il 76° anniversario della dichiarazione unilaterale di indipendenza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Israele celebra il 76° anniversario della dichiarazione unilaterale di indipendenza di David Ben Gurion. E il conto della shoa viene sempre più presentato agli arabi in generale, ai palestinesi in particolare, a partire da al naqba, l’orrore di 711.000 persone cacciate dalle loro case in Palestina, nei campi, nelle diaspore. Fino alla morte. [Che porta al genocidio del 2024].
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With Genocide in Gaza, the Word ‘Never’ Has Been Stripped from ‘Never Again’
Arundhati Roy | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – They and their children’s children will be haunted by what they have done. They will have to live with the loathing and the abhorrence the world feels for them. [Karma is a bitch.]
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Conquest, War, Famine and Death Hit You Straight in the Heart
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – In the face of looming famine, Biden’s promise to build a ‘temporary pier’ to allow aid into Gaza is hollow and hypocritical, undermined by his country’s complicity in Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians.
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The Legacies of David Krieger and Robert Oppenheimer: Iconic Signatures of the Nuclear Age
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
I stress the comparison between Oppenheimer, the film, and Krieger, the civil society star anti-nuclear activist as well as the personae of these two extraordinary individuals.
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Bolero (Music Video of the Week)
Alondra de la Parra | WDR Klassik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Maurice Ravel’s Bolero performed by the WDR Sinfonieorchester under the baton of Alondra de la Parra on 27 Jan 2022 at the Kölner Philharmonie. Absolutely Beautiful!
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How US “Foreign Aid” Has Helped Destabilize Haiti
Cal Turner and Sara Van Horn Interview Jake Johnston | Jacobin – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
12 Mar 2024 – A surge of gang violence in Haiti has now led to the resignation of Prime Minister Ariel Henry. Through its heavy-handed use of foreign aid to intervene in Haitian politics, the US government bears significant responsibility for Haiti’s ongoing instability.
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Ego Is the Enemy
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
It is not enough to have an understanding of things or to criticize. It is not enough to protest or resist the evil that surrounds us. It is important to envision a better future AND WORK FOR IT. I am grateful that I am surrounded by groups of educated young people who share a vision of sustainable human and natural communities locally and globally.
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What Might the US Owe the World for Covid-19?
Jeffrey D. Sachs | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
16 Mar 2024 – A US-funded laboratory origin of Covid-19 would certainly constitute the most significant case of governmental gross negligence in history. The people of the world deserve transparency and factual answers on vital questions.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
• 31,645+ killed and at least 73,676 wounded in the Gaza Strip.*
• 435+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 40,000 when accounting for those presumed dead under the 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris.
Killing Palestinians by Blocking Aid—>Killing Palestinians by Airdropping Aid
Phyllis Bennis | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – The airdrops are not designed to save lives, but to salvage the consciences of those who could—and should—be doing so much more.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
13 Mar 2024 – African Stream is an anti-war, anti-imperialist video and text website based in Nairobi, Kenya. I spoke to its founder, Ahmed Kaballo.
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Trends in International Arms Transfers, 2023
Pieter D. Wezeman, et al. | Stockholm International Peace Research Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
On 11 March the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute published its latest report on the arms trade with data up to 2023. The report provides data from the last five years.
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Life Is like Blue Jelly: Margaret Mead Discovers the Meaning of Existence in a Dream
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
The meaning of life has been contemplated by just about every thinking, feeling, breathing human being, and memorably so by a number of cultural icons, including…
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Haiti, Honduras, and US Hegemony
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – Honduras’ former president, Juan Orlando Hernández, was just convicted in a US court of drug trafficking and faces life in prison. Haiti is a nation without a government, as armed groups have united against the US-backed, unelected Prime Minister installed after the assassination of their president in 2021. In both cases, what is missing from mainstream news coverage is the role of US intervention that brought them to this point.
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CDC Redacts Every Single Word of 148-Page Study on Myocarditis after COVID Vaccination
Baxter Dmitry | The People's Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention “released” the study completely blacked out. The document was in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the Epoch Times.
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Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests
Natalia Marques | Peoples Dispatches - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – “The Great Real Estate Event” in the US and Canada exhibits property stolen from Palestinian land for sale. They have met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists leading to clashes with Zionist attendees and protesters.
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On St Patrick’s Day, Mairead Maguire Led Public Condemnation of the Irish American President Joe Biden’s Genocidal Role in Gaza
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
17 Mar 2024 – Quoting St Patrick of the 3rd Century AD who preached, “in Christ, there is no killing”, the TRANSCEND Member, Northern Irish Nobel Peace Laureate, peace activist, and co-founder of the Peace People grassroots movement, delivered a scathing indictment of non-stop killings over centuries by the “allegedly Christian” West.
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The Decline and Fall of It All? U.S. Empire in Crisis
Alfred W. McCoy | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – Empires don’t just fall like toppled trees. Instead, they weaken slowly as a succession of crises drain their strength and confidence until they suddenly begin to disintegrate. So it was with the British, French, and Soviet empires; so it now is with imperial USA.
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Pacifism Today: A Dialogue about Alternatives to War in Ukraine
Majken Jul Sørensen | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
11 Mar 2024 – To all the brave people who refuse to participate in war, in Ukraine, Russia and everywhere else.
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Engels for Our Times: Gender, Social Reproduction, and Revolution
Marnie Holborow | Monthly Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
March 2024 – It is surprising how often in Marxist accounts of women’s oppression Frederick Engels is overlooked. He is dismissed for being deterministic, overly economistic, even un-Marxist. Heather Brown’s key work on Karl Marx and gender sees Engels as crudely mechanical compared to Marx.
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(Italiano) Coordinamento per l’etica della ricerca
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
11 Marzo 2024 – Il 24 maggio 2023, ospitato in un’aula dell’Università di Torino, si era svolto un incontro organizzato da CERTO (Coordinamento per l’etica nella ricerca) – un gruppo di docenti dell’Università e del Politecnico di Torino…
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Here’s What Pramila Patten’s UN Report on Oct 7 Sexual Violence Actually Said
Feminist Solidarity Network for Palestine | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
11 Mar 2024 – The UN report on sexual violence on October 7 has found no evidence of systematic rape by Hamas or any other Palestinian group, despite widespread media reporting to the contrary. But there are deeper problems with the report’s credibility.
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World Politics 2024
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
World Leaders ‘Solutions’
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Time after Time
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Mar 2024
Progressing…
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 156: Israel Deploys 15,000 Troops in West Bank as Ramadan Starts
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
10 Mar 2024 – Ceasefire talks falter as Izz El-Din Al-Qassam Brigades spokesperson says Israel is using “deception and evasion.” Israel deploys thousands of troops in the West Bank and Jerusalem ahead of plans to restrict access to Al-Aqsa Mosque during Ramadan.
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(Norsk-Norwegian) Professor Johan Galtung in Memoriam 24.10.1930-17.2.2024
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Johan døde i Bærum lørdag 17. februar 2024. Han var 93. RIP kjære venn og mentor. Vi snakket sist sammen på telefon i oktober 2023 da han var i Alicante i Spania.
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Einstein’s Postwar Campaign to Save the World from Nuclear Destruction
Lawrence S. Wittner | FPIF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
1 Mar 2024 – The scientist’s efforts helped create the movement for arms control and disarmament.
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The Horrors a Rafah Invasion Would Bring
Ramzy Baroud | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
5 Mar 2024 – The Palestinian city of Rafah is not just older than Israel, it is as old as civilization itself and has existed for thousands of years. An Israeli invasion of Rafah will not alter the battlefield in favor of the Israeli army, but it will be horrific for the displaced Palestinians.
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(Italiano) Aaron Bushnell e Johan Galtung: in lutto per due oppositori di principio della guerra
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Di recente il mondo ha perso due grandi oppositori della guerra, ma in circostanze drasticamente diverse. Johan Galtung è morto il 17 febbraio all’età di 93 anni. Il sociologo norvegese era conosciuto come il padre degli studi sulla pace e ha trascorso la sua vita a ricercare i conflitti e a promuovere il dialogo per la pace. Aaron Bushnell aveva solo 25 anni. Era un membro in servizio attivo dell’aeronautica militare degli Stati Uniti.
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Scientists form a Global Anti-War, Anti-Genocide Network: From Hiroshima to Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – This is a slightly edited text of a keynote address to an organizational meeting for establishing a worldwide network of Scientists against War and the Destructive Use of Science as stimulated by the Israeli genocide against the civilian population of Gaza.
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South Africa Requests ICJ Emergency Orders to Halt “Unspeakable” Gazan Genocide
John Menadue | Pearls and Irritations - TRANSCEND Media Serviceer,
11 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – Describing the situation in Gaza as “now so terrifying as to be unspeakable,” Pretoria is asking the World Court to take further measures to stop Israel’s genocide.
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H.G. Wells’ War of the Worlds and the Dawn of a New Age
Matthew Ehret | Canadian Patriot Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
27 Feb 2024 – Hidden Hand Behind UFOs (part 2)
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
31,045+ killed* and at least 72,645 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
423+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
*Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 40,000 when accounting for those presumed dead under the extensive rubble.
Yanis Varoufakis Blasts Europe’s Complicity in Genocide
Yanis Varoufakis | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
“In Germany today you can only talk about Genocide if you support it.”
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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell | Pugwash Conferences - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
9 July 1955 – In the tragic situation which confronts humanity, we feel that scientists should assemble in conference to appraise the perils that have arisen as a result of the development of weapons of mass destruction, and to discuss a resolution in the spirit of the appended draft.
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Desperate to Escape Gaza Carnage, Palestinians Are Forced to Pay Exorbitant Fees to Enter Egypt
Khalid Mohammed | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – With almost no options for escape, people in Gaza are increasingly paying thousands of dollars to fixers connected to the Egyptian government.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
This Modern World in the old US of A
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3 Things to Know about the Current Crisis in Haiti
Eyder Peralta | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
6 Mar 2024 – Haiti is entering its second day of a state of emergency, after gangs attacked the capital city’s prisons releasing thousands of inmates. The country’s airport is under siege, and on Monday, 4 Mar, evening, it was still not clear whether Haiti’s prime minister had made it back into the country.
→ read full articleJohan Galtung, “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,” Dies at 93
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Click to Watch Videos by Democracy NOW! throughout the Years
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The Public Bank That Wasn’t: New Jersey’s Excursion into Public Banking
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
9 Mar 2024 – In 2017, Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive, made the establishment of a public, state-owned bank a centerpiece issue during his run for New Jersey governor. He regularly championed public banking in speeches, town halls and campaign commercials.
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May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Solitude is the seedbed of creativity. Living alone can be deeply rewarding and challenging. It is not for everyone. It is not for those who romanticize its offerings of freedom and focus, but excise its menacing visitations of loneliness and alienation.
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Hypocrisy: Dropping Bombs and Bread on Gaza
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
7 Mar 2024 – “It is absurd and hypocritical to publicly profess horror at Netanyahu’s inhumane war,” US Sen. Bernie Sanders said on the Senate yesterday, “while…we ship tens of thousands of bombs to his army. It is absurd to criticize Netanyahu’s war and provide him another $10 billion to continue that war.”
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The World Must Calculate the Real Gaza Death Toll
Ralph Nader | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
6 Mar 2024 – With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading, can anybody believe that the fatalities have just gone over 30,000? 2.3 million defenseless Palestinians in Gaza have been on the receiving end of over 65,000 bombs and missiles plus non-stop tank shelling and snipers.
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The Power Behind the Throne and the Bankers’ Forever Wars
Alex Krainer | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
3 Mar 2024 – In untangling the causal factors behind the many crises we face today, the trail of breadcrumbs always leads to the international banking cartel which appears to have the determining influence shaping the system of governance under which our societies operate.
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Canada and Sweden Restore UNRWA Funds as Report Accuses Israel of Torturing Agency Staff
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
9 Mar 2024 – The governments of Canada and Sweden have announced they will resume funding for the UN’s agency that provides humanitarian aide and protection to Palestinians. A move that other powerful nations, including the US, continue to refuse.
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A Personal Tribute to Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024): The Man for Just Peace
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
“USA? I love the Republic, but I hate the Empire.” Galtung made unparalleled intellectual and practical contributions to the advancement of our understanding of peace, its social objectives and the conditions for peace, in terms of our global understanding of such an elusive goal.
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Not So Special
Richard J. Evans | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
During WWII and afterwards, historians of modern Germany focused on one question: how did Nazism, with its negation of freedom and democracy, its aggressive commitment to war and conquest, its creation of a totalitarian state, and its visceral and genocidal antisemitism, take hold in Germany but not elsewhere in Europe? Review of:
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000, by David Blackbourn. Liveright, 774 pp., July 2023
US Totalitarian “Crypto Dollar” May Come before the Election
Aaron R. Day | Brownstone Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Central Bank Digital Currencies threaten to replace the cash we use with programmable, trackable, and censorable government tokens. Your financial choices could be suppressed and privacy eliminated and this could happen before the 2024 election. The best way to stop it is through direct action, not through politics.
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Tell the Truth about Israel’s Crimes against Humanity
Sonali Kolhatkar | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Israeli forces killed more than a hundred Palestinians and wounded more than 700 on 29 Feb 2024 during a distribution of food aid in Gaza city. And yet, Western media headlines went out of their way to obscure and protect the perpetrators of this awful crime.
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Spin Cycle
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
Western Civilization… as Gandhi said, ‘It Would Be a Great Idea’
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The Tears of War Belong to All of Us
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
6 Mar 2024 – First you call them terrorists. Then you say you’re defending yourself. Moral problem solved! Now you can kill as many of them as you want.
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(Italiano) 11 marzo 2011 – Incidente di Fukushima. Chi se lo ricorda?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Mar 2024
6 Marzo 2024 – Tra pochi giorni ricorrerà l’anniversario dell’incidente di Fukushima. Sono già passati 13 anni, e probabilmente non ci saranno grandi manifestazioni di ricordo… la tecnologia ha fatto grandi passi avanti, e la possibilità di sfruttare in piena sicurezza le potenzialità dell’energia nucleare è ormai alle porte. Questo – almeno – è il messaggio trasmesso dal recente film di Oliver Stone, Nuclear Now:
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Gaza: The Wider Context
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
In Gaza, the West Is Enabling the Most Transparent Genocide in Human History
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 149: Palestinian Children Die of Malnutrition as Israel Blocks Aid into Gaza
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
3 Mar 2024 – U.S. airdrops of food and aid in Gaza have been described as “performative BS” that “fools no one.” Meanwhile, Hamas’s delegation has arrived in Cairo for ceasefire talks as Ramadan is due to start next Sunday [10 Mar].
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
Experimental Exchange with ChatGPT in Quest of Memorable Integrative Configuration – At the moment, there is a real risk that more and more countries end up in a lose-lose situation, which is no longer about who gains more, but only about who loses less.
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(Italiano) Trasformazione del conflitto come modalità di vita
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
l conflitto è il nostro destino. Come lo sono i microrganismi, allora meglio imparare a maneggiare tali situazioni. L’esporsi al conseguimento di obiettivi bloccati dal conseguimento di altri obiettivi si può superare se la nostra capacità di resistenza è sufficiente, come un’infezione si può superare con il sistema immunitario.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
28 Feb 2024 – Ann Garrison spoke to Eritrean British attorney Feven Yemane regarding attacks on Eritrean diaspora festivals and gatherings and the investigations underway.
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(Italiano) Mattatoio Gaza
Miki Lanza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
29.02.2024 – Oltre 100 uccisi e 700 feriti nel campo di sterminio di Gaza-sud, in una fila di disperati in attesa (quanto spesso frustrata) di rimandare la morte per sfinimento (fame, sete, freddo, ferite, malanni antichi e nuovi): fila composta ma intollerabilmente vicina a corazzati IDF e dunque minacciosa! Altra mossa spudorata dei terroristi di stato israeliani nel dispiegarsi sapiente e rigoroso della Soluzione Finale sion-nazista, di fronte a un Occidente in coma pre-elettorale para/pre-bellico.
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The Role of Vision in History
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
We are entering an era of economic and political contradictions that will lead to revolutionary change. Capitalism, clothed in its cover of bourgeois democracy, is crumbling. This is already evident with the rejection of traditional establishment political candidates.
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(Italiano) In morte di Johan Galtung (Parte Prima)
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
Questo volume è il manuale universitario di Johan Galtung, lo studioso norvegese (vikingo, dice lui), matematico e sociologo, iniziatore degli Studi per la Pace contemporanei, decano dei peace researchers, docente in molte università ai quattro angoli del pianeta, direttore di Transcend (www.transcend.org; transcend@transcend.org), rete di studiosi e attivisti per la trasformazione nonviolenta dei conflitti.
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John Scales Avery–One of the Greatest Intellectuals of Our Time Passes Away
Binu Mathew | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
I’m informed of the passing of [TRANSCEND Member] John Scales Avery (26 May 1933 – 4 Jan 2024). He was 91. He was also a fierce peace activist. John was part of Pugwash Conferences that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. He was also chairman of the Danish Peace Academy.
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Dengue Fever Surges by 400% in Brazil after Bill Gates-Backed Gene-Edited Mosquitos Released
Jamie White | Infowars - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
26 Feb 2024 – Money and Weaponized Mosquitos: The dramatic spike in dengue cases has prompted Brazil to purchase millions of doses of the dengue vaccine.
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“Who Owns the World?” A Small Group of Big Money
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
26 Feb 2024 – “Who Owns the World” is an extraordinary documentary describing how Big-Big Money controls every aspect of your life, has a stranglehold on every government, the UN, and all industries and services of this globe. These largest investors are BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street.
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(Italiano) Ricordando Johan Galtung, il “padre” degli studi sulla pace
Kelly Rae Kraemer | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
Autore, educatore e praticante prolifico, Johan Galtung aveva una genialità unica che continuerà a ispirare un mondo affamato di pace. Lo scorso fine settimana il nostro mondo ha perso un gigante della ricerca sulla pace. Johan Galtung, “il padre degli studi sulla pace”, autore di oltre 100 libri e 1.000 articoli scientifici sulla pace nel mondo, è morto il 17 febbraio all’età di 93 anni.
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The Shoah after Gaza
Pankaj Mishra | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
Gaza has become for countless powerless people the essential condition of political and ethical consciousness in the 21st century – just as WWI was for a generation in the West. And only those jolted into consciousness by the calamity of Gaza can rescue the Shoah from Netanyahu, Biden, Scholz and Sunak.
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On Hypocrisy and Genocide: How Gaza Has Exposed the West like Never Before
Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
1 Mar 2024 – The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West. Now that some western leaders have begun to feel increasingly uncomfortable as the enormity of the Gaza genocide unfolds, a few, though bashfully, are declaring that Netanyahu may be ‘going too far.’
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
Dispatches from the Very Near Future
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(Français) Le Rôle de la Vision dans l’Histoire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
Nous entrons dans une ère de contradictions économiques et politiques qui mèneront à un changement révolutionnaire. Le capitalisme, sous son couvert de démocratie bourgeoise, s’effondre. Cela est déjà évident avec le rejet des candidats politiques traditionnels de l’establishment.
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Rohingya, the Palestinians of Southeast Asia: A Forgotten Genocide
Maung Zarni | VOICESEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
27 Feb 2024 – A talk with Maung Zarni, a scholar of genocide who explains the context in which Rohingya people are so marginalised and vulnerable that they have no choice but to seek asylum in neighboring countries. How can solidarity among people of the world advocate for the human rights of victims of genocide, people fleeing political persecution, conflicts, and other human rights violations?
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