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Our Humble ‘Pale Blue Dot’ Home
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
By request of famed astronomer Carl Sagan, Voyager-1 looked back a last time to Earth and took this ‘food for thought’ picture revealing our real dimension in cosmic reality: practically nothing.
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What Can Iran & Palestine Expect from the US Presidential Elections?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – Interview by Kayhan News Agency from Iran on how the forthcoming US elections are likely to affect Iran, and the policies toward the current combat zone involving Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon. X/0
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Israeli Army ‘Deliberately Demolished’ Watchtower, Fence at UN Peacekeeping Site in Southern Lebanon
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
20 Oct 2024 – The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon informed that an Israeli army bulldozer demolished an observation tower and the perimeter fence of a UN position earlier today in the southern part of the country.
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BRICS: The Most Important Financial Summit of the Year Is Taking Place in Russia
Hamish McRae | i News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – A Huge Shift of Economic Power Is Taking Place
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Trump Smash Democracy!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Project 2025 Comics Group
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Why Understand the Creation of the Universe
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
We take a look at a different approach to the origin of the universe, the Vedic approach. The difference between most scientists and the Vedic approach is that the Vedic system accepts a descending channel of knowledge coming from previous authorities. Scientists accept no prior authority, except from other scientists.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 28 Oct 2024
To Apolitical Intellectuals
Otto René Castillo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Otto René Castillo (1934–1967), whose beautiful poems were inspired by the El Salvadoran guerrilla poet Roque Dalton (1935–1975), wrote this elegy two years before he was murdered alongside his comrades.
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(Italiano) L’espansione della NATO nell’Indo-Pacifico è priva di legalità e buon senso
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Ottobre 2024 – Sud-Corea, Giappone, Australia, e Nuova Zelanda hanno inviato i propri ministri della difesa a una riunione NATO questo ottobre 2024, la prima volta per i ministri della difesa. Segnala che l’espansione della NATO in questa regione è un cosa seria.
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Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, Yahya Sinwar: Freedom Fighters
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
In 1959, Che visited Gaza and transformed the Zionist colonization into a global struggle against colonialism. Mandela said, “But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. “
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The Trojan Horse Plan for UN Reform (Part II)
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Indeed, “understanding the role of the Earth Constitution in human affairs requires seeing it within the context of several principles concerning our human situation that have emerged since the early 20th century.
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2024 Nobel Peace Winner Has Compared Hiroshima-Nagasaki to Gaza–We Must Listen to Him
Maung Zarni | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024 – The now elderly child survivor of the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima and his Hiroshima-Gaza parallel must be taken seriously. His words must be seized by the world of conscience to end Israel’s mass extermination in Gaza.
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Why Brazil Opposes Venezuela Joining BRICS
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
The Brazilian government’s advisor for international affairs, Celso Amorim, announced on 21 Oct that Brazil would seek to prevent Venezuela from joining BRICS. The instruction came from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
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21-Year-Old Journalist from Gaza Reports on Teenager Burned Alive in Hospital Bed
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024 – Tributes have poured in from across the globe for 19-year-old Sha’ban al-Dalou, a software engineering student who burned to death after Israel bombed Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital on Monday [14 Oct]. Photographs and footage of his final moments shocked millions around the world.
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Northern Gaza: “Coffins Have Run Out”–The Holocaust of Our Time
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – A campaign of mass slaughter and ethnic cleansing is underway. “The injured bleed out in the streets, coffins have run out.” Hundreds of thousands are being starved. Essential aid like food and medicine hasn’t entered the north of Gaza in three weeks. The Israeli military is burning down U.N. schools where Palestinians have been sheltering.
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Revealed: The Israeli Spies Writing US News
Alan MacLeod | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – “Netanyahu is on a winning streak.” So reads the title of an Axios article describing the Israeli prime minister riding on an unbeatable wave of triumphs. These include the bombing of Yemen, the assassinations of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and the pager attack against Lebanon.
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Israel Kills the Journalists–Western Media Kills the Truth of Genocide in Gaza
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
25 Oct 2024 – Western publics are being subjected to a campaign of psychological warfare, where genocide is classed as ‘self-defence’ and opposition to it ‘terrorism.’
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UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024 – An immediate ceasefire is needed in Gaza as the enclave faces the additional threat of polio spreading, if the final phase of a vaccination campaign continues to face delays in reaching the besieged north, where the “nightmare is intensifying”, top UN officials stressed today.
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(Português) Morre Gustavo Gutiérrez, Pai da Teologia da Libertação
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
No dia 22 de outubro de 2024, morreu em Lima, Perú, o iniciador da Teologia da Libertação com a idade de 96 anos, Gustavo Gutiérrez. Juntos, a partir dos anos 70, colaboramos para uma teologia adequada à América Latina que é feita de injustiças sociais e de pobreza aviltante.
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Economic Costs of the Israeli Occupation for the Palestinian People
UN General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
10 Sep 2024 – Report prepared by the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the economic costs of the Israeli occupation for the Palestinian people: the economic impact of the Israeli military operation in Gaza from Oct 2023 to May 2024.
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(Italiano) Lavorare per chi?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
25 Ottobre 2024 – In una recente puntata della trasmissione di ‘Presa diretta’ andata in onda su RAI3 il 22 settembre 2024, il conduttore Riccardo Iacona presenta una varietà di riflessioni sul tema sullo spopolamento del Sud d’Italia: ‘Via dal Sud’.
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2007 Open Letter to Bush, Olmert, US Congress and AIPAC Warning about the Dangers of War with Iran
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
22 Oct 2024 – From JAIPAC: Jewish Analysts Investigating Peace and Conflict
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The World of Arabs
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
25 Oct 2024 – The world of Arabs, as a distinctive part of the globe, is of extreme significance for both global politics and the global economy. On the other hand, this region is featured by slow democratic development, political instability, religious extremism (Islamic fundamentalism)…
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The Poetic Science of the Ghost Pipe: Emily Dickinson and the Secret of Earth’s Most Supernatural Flower
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Any flower would have been a fitting emblem for the poet who believed that “to be a Flower is profound Responsibility,” but none more than a flower she had pressed into her poems, enchanted by its “almost supernatural” appearance.
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Iran’s Bomb Is Real–and It’s Here
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
20 Oct 2024 – For months now, the world has focused on the danger of nuclear war between the United States and Russia. But Iran and Israel could beat them to it.
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
The conference of the governments that have signed the U.N. Convention on Biological Diversity are meeting from 21 Oct to 1 Nov 2024 in Cali, Colombia with the theme of the conference being “Peace with Nature.” It is under tight security as a rebel guerrilla group is active in the area.
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A Nonviolent Resistance Movement Is at Work in Palestine–Activists Say It’s the Only Way Forward
Ken Butigan | America Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
The ongoing genocide in Gaza and the military operations in the occupied West Bank are a seething cauldron of escalating violence. But a movement of courageous nonviolent resistance is at work in the Palestinian territories—which activists say is the only effective way toward peace.
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The American Psychological Association Is Abandoning Its Commitment to Human Rights by Refusing to Speak Out on Palestine
Roy Eidelson | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – The American Psychological Association claims to “prioritize human rights advocacy,” but if its leaders want to truly honor that commitment they must recognize and address the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza today.
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Israel Continues Its War on Journalism
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024 – Israel hates truth, which is why it kills journalists at every opportunity and blocks them from entering Gaza. This is because truth tends to have a marked anti-Israel bias.
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New York Times Attacks “Peace-peddling” Jill Stein as the Presidential Race Comes Down to the Wire
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – The New York Times scapegoats Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein as polls indicate a dead heat between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.
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BRICS Expands to 13 ‘Partner Countries’ at Historic Summit in Kazan, Russia
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
27 Oct 2024 – BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These are the most important takeaways from the historic meeting.
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The Gaza Catastrophe–Checking Israeli and Western Elites
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
26 Oct 2024 – Israel is determined to take over North Gaza. This explains its destruction of residential areas in the region. Schools and hospitals have also been targeted. People have been forced to flee their homes. Many who have chosen to stay behind have been killed.
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Call for Input for the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the Human Rights Council
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Report by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 to the Human Rights Council 58th session. Deadline: 30 Nov 2024
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‘War’ by Bob Woodward
Simon Henderson | The Georgetowner - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
21 Oct 2024 – If newspapers are the first draft of history, the books of Bob Woodward can claim to be the second draft. “War,” his new book on the inner workings of the Biden White House, is a worthy second draft, although it should been better entitled “Wars” with an “s.”
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Soul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
It is impossible to understand the United States’ full-fledged support today for Israel’s genocide in the Middle East without understanding this history. Israel’s genocide is the United States’ genocide; they cannot be separated.
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Epic Choir of 600 Sings John Lennon’s Imagine (Music Video of the Week)
Choir! Choir! Choir! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
8 Dec 2015 – A tribute to John Lennon on the 35th anniversary of his tragic passing on 8 Dec 1980.
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Resistance and Colonization
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – Zionist leaders wish for us Palestinians a fate similar to that of the Lakota Nation in what became the United States of America. As the Polish new tough-man who received the torch from Hitler said: “You have to keep beating them and killing them so hard that they never rise.”
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Citizenship and Genocide Cards: IDs, Statelessness and Rohingya Resistance in Myanmar
FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
25 Oct 2024 – Free e-book or PDF from Routledge – Natalie Brinham’s book draws on Rohingya oral histories and narratives about Myanmar’s genocide and ID schemes to critique prevailing international approaches to legal identities and statelessness.
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How India and China Pulled Back from a Border War–and Why Now
Federica Marsi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
22 Oct 2024 – The agreement allows the resumption of patrols along the disputed border in the Ladakh region, easing tensions before the BRICS summit. But experts caution against concluding a deeper thaw in ties.
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Dismantling the US Empire (w/ Cornel West)
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
23 Oct 2024 – Prof. Cornel West, renowned political activist, philosopher, public intellectual, author and now independent US presidential candidate, joins host Chris Hedges to highlight the critical issues that define his fight for justice and equality.
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ICJ Position Paper on the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
International Court of Justice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024 – Legal analysis and recommendations on implementation of the International Court of Justice, Advisory Opinion, Legal Consequences from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem
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Enhancing Diplomatic Negotiations with Logical Connectives
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
21 Oct 2024 – The world is faced with an unprecedented array of conflicts that may escalate further increasing the fatalities and environmental degradation. Indicative reframing of intractable dialogues by AI: Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, China-USA.
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(Italiano) L’Islam e l’Occidente
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Ci siamo già passati, molte volte. Per l’Occidente, invadere le terre islamiche era parte di un massiccio esercizio noto come colonialismo.
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What Is Israel Doing in Lebanon? War with Iran? Expansionism? Deterrence by State Terror? Netanyahu’s CV
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024 – The regional spillover of violence linked to the Gaza Genocide and arousing concerns of starvation and disease. Major states in Europe are threatening Israel with an arms embargo if it does not accept a ceasefire.
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Investigating War Crimes in Gaza (MUST WATCH)
Al Jazeera Investigations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
This investigation exposes Israeli war crimes in Gaza through photos and videos posted online by Israeli soldiers, illegal activities, wanton destruction and looting, demolition of entire neighborhoods and murder, exposing also the complicity of Western governments.
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Israeli Soldiers SICKENING War Crimes EXPOSED
Double Down News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024 – The Footage the BBC or CNN Won’t Show You
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Israel Is a Rogue Nation–It Should Be Removed from the United Nations
Mehdi Hasan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – One rogue nation cannot declare war on the UN itself and continue to get away with it.
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Israel Is Turning Northern Gaza into a Killing Cage
Jeremy Scahill and Sharif Abdel Kouddous | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – With international media coverage shifting to potential war with Iran, Israel is intensifying its campaign to obliterate the Palestinians of Gaza.
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Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
21 Oct 2024 – It takes some learning and insight to understand that Western civilization really is the absolute worst. Ours is the most savage and thuggish civilization on this planet, and it’s not even close.
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Understanding Hamas and Why That Matters
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024 – The West’s dominant media tell us little about Hamas’ history or ideology, relying instead on “terrorist” clichés. This new book cuts through them to explain.
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Israel’s War on the United Nations
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – The UN is an easy body to hate. At times, it seems to be effusion without substance, body with no backbone. It was conceived in a fit of post-war idealism, when egos were humbled and hatred briefly stemmed.
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Noam Chomsky on How the US Sanitizes the Horror of Its Wars
Noam Chomsky | Literary Hub - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024 – The Author of “The Myth of American Idealism” Explores the Origins of US Hegemonic Foreign Policy
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Gaza Burns as Wall Street Booms
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – Palestinians are being burned alive by Israeli bombs. U.S.-based defense contractors and big banks’ profits soar. Yesterday morning, 500 Jews and allies shut down the New York Stock Exchange to demand the U.S. stop arming Israel and profiting from genocide.
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Leaked US Intelligence Documents Outline Israeli Preparations to Strike Iran
Connor Freeman | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
19 Oct 2024 – Leaked top secret documents from the Pentagon and the National Security Agency outline Israeli preparations for a major attack against Iran, CNN reported today, the leak coming from a US intelligence source.
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Israel Is Routinely Shooting Children in the Head in Gaza: U.S. Surgeon & Palestinian Nurse
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024 – Medical workers who witnessed the carnage in Gaza’s hospitals are speaking out. “I will never forget the dogs were eating the dead body inside Shifa Hospital’s emergency department. This will be stuck on my mind for my whole life.”
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Urgent Joint Statement: Northern Gaza Is Being Erased – Global Leaders Must Act Now to End Israel’s Atrocities
Oxfam - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – Oxfam and 37 other humanitarian organisations are raising the alarm about the catastrophic situation in Northern Gaza.
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Over 1.8 million in Gaza Face Extreme Hunger
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – More than 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing “extremely critical” levels of hunger, with 70 per cent of crop fields destroyed by the Israeli genocidal military offensive, a UN food security assessment released today has revealed.
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Maya Angelou on Courage and Facing Evil
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
In 1982, poet and civil rights activist Maya Angelou and interviewer Bill Moyers traveled to Texas countryside to discuss the ugliest aspects of human nature at a conference titled Facing Evil.
→ read full articleThe Trojan Horse Plan for UN Reform (Part I)
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
19 Oct 2024 – I am one of the original signatories of the Earth Constitution, presented in Innsbruck, Austria in 1977 and proposed by the World Constitution and Parliament Association.
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Psychopathy Incorporated
Koenraad Priels | Journal of Critical Realism in Socio-Economics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
The purpose of this paper is to provide a qualitative structural analysis of capitalism to be defined as a “psychopathic system.” Its inherent structural dynamics violently centralize and concentrate wealth and ideological and political power in the hands of a “psychopathic ruling class.”
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Israel’s War on the World
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – Israel’s ever-expanding war to bomb its way to the promised land of Greater Israel, the world’s efforts to enforce international law and restore peace, and the U.S. role in preventing a resolution and fueling the crisis.
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Survivors of Israeli Bombardment Face New Catastrophe: Epidemics, Amputations, Starvation
Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – “Everyone Is Malnourished, Everyone Is Immunocompromised”
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Gandhi’s Quote on Western Civilization
Kwame Anthony Appiah - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
“I think it would be a very good idea.” Like many of the best stories, alas, this one is probably apocryphal; but also, like many of the best stories, it has survived because it has the flavor of truth.
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(Français) BRICS et Afrique: nouveau partenariat «win-win» ou «colonialisme newlook»?
Laurent Delcourt | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
8 octobre 2024 – Pour de larges segments du monde politique et de la société civile en Afrique, les BRICS+ constituent une alternative salutaire à la domination occidentale, en proposant de nouveaux partenariats plus équitables, plus respectueux des souverainetés nationales et davantage centrés sur les priorités de développement national.
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USA-Israel-Palestine: Truths That Come Out Like the Sun
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
The Israelis are not at war with the Palestinians of Gaza, just as the Reich was not at war with the Jews of Europe. Genocide is something different. “The truth is like the sun.. It always comes out.”
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Gabor Maté: Zionism Will Be Looked Upon as One of the Greatest Disasters in Jewish History
Frank Barat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – Frank Barat and Gabor Maté delve into the complexities of trauma, guilt, and the ongoing genocide in Palestine. They explore the psychological impact of witnessing atrocities, the historical roots of violence and oppression, and the emotional responses that arise in the face of such horror.
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BRICS Plans ‘Multi-Currency System’ to Challenge US Dollar Dominance: Understanding Russia’s Proposal
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
20 Oct 2024 – The BRICS Cross-Border Payment Initiative will use national currencies, instead of the US dollar. Russia’s finance ministry and central bank released a report detailing plans to transform the international monetary and financial system.
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The Ukraine War Becomes a Korean War
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – It is predicted that Ukraine War will last for decades–like the Korean War–without ending the ceasefire. This was first pointed out by Serbian pro-Russian President Alekandar Vucić last September.
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Down the Memory Hole
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Meanwhile, in the evil empire…
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UN Troops to ‘Stay in All Positions’ Inside Lebanon Despite Israeli Threats
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
15 Oct 2024 – The UN Under-Secretary-General for Peace Operations confirmed yesterday that the UN Interim Forces in Lebanon would “stay in all its positions” after Israeli attacks injured at least five blue helmets.
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The Death of Old Burma or Myanmar as a Burmese Nation-State and the Birth of ASEAN’s Syria
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
19 Oct 2024 – Myanmar’s post-independence history since 1948 is a history of conflicts among different ethnic and ideological groupings. Ethnic majority Bama or Burmese political elite, civilian and military, with colonial mindset towards the others, bear the greatest share of responsibility.
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Zelensky’s 5/8ths Victory Plan
Jack Rasmus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024 – What are the details of the Zelensky Victory Plan? Is it a roadmap to eventually winning the war militarily? The Victory Plan has five critical points Zelensky described in his speech but three of the plan’s key elements must remain a ‘secret’, he said.
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Celebrating Multilateralism
Gert Grobler | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – In the run-up to the summit in Kazan, Russia, from Oct 22 to 24, BRICS implement intra-BRICS cooperation under three pillars: political and security, economic and financial, cultural and people-to-people exchanges.
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“Israel Cannot Build Peace on Genocide”–Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
Maung Zarni interviews Mairead Maguire | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Mairead Maguire (80) has a message for Israel and western leaders who finance, arm and protect the worst Zionist government in Israel’s history, from its founding in May 1948.
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Han Kang’s Nobel Literature Prize Is a Cry for Palestine
K.J. Noh | Hollywood Progressive - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – A brilliant, powerful writer, but clearly the literary dark horse in the race, Han Kang’s unexpected award is the closest the Nobel committee could get to acknowledging the Palestinian genocide.
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Israel’s Proxy War with Iran Leaves Young Children in Gaza and Lebanon Burned from Head to Toe
Debora Patta and Agnes Reau | CBS News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – Displaced Gazans in a tent camp outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital woke up Tue 15 Oct to a blazing inferno after an Israeli airstrike. Residents and rescue workers scrambled to rescue people from the flames, but they could not save Shaaban Al-Dalou, who was burned alive.
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Greek Piraeus Port Dockworkers Block 21 Tons of Ammunition Cargo to Israel
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
18 Oct 2024 – Dozens of Greek dockworkers blocked the loading of ammunition destined for Israel in protest against the Gaza genocide, coast guard and union officials said today.
→ read full articleNATO’s Indo-Pacific Expansion Lacks Legality and Common Sense
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand sent their defence ministers to a NATO meeting in Oct 2024, the first time these countries’ defence ministers joined. It signals that NATO is serious about its expansion into this region.
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Extermination Works. At First.
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – Israel will continue its mass killing to achieve its immediate goals, but in the long run the blowback from its genocide will doom the Zionist state.
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A Window into a Fascist Engine: Arbitrary Abuse, Population Control, and Israel’s Impossible Destruction of Palestinians
Rajiv Sinha | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – Part of a multifaith human rights delegation to Palestine, I was refused entry to the West Bank by Israel, detained, questioned, my laptop and phone confiscated. I was screamed at, laughed at, not allowed to the bathroom, labelled a public security threat, fingerprinted and expelled to Jordan with my phone blocked and my bank card not working. I am now back home in London.
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War on Gaza and How the US and Israel Dehumanize Human Culture
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Today’s Humanity Is Victim of Powerful Political Cults
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In a Glaring Double Standard, FIFA Fails to Suspend Israel
Jules Boykoff and Dave Zirin | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – FIFA banned apartheid South Africa. It banned Russia for invading Ukraine. But about Israel, FIFA does nothing.
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On Sisters and Personal Reflection
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
I usually try to relay situations on the ground that are missing from the manipulated/controlled western “mainstream” media.
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A World Without Context: How to Do a Conjunctural Analysis
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – Unlike mainstream media, which all too often distorts the truth and lies by omission – as we see with reporting on Palestine, where the death toll has reached 114,000 – conjunctural analyses help us understand the deeper forces at play.
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Prof. Johan Galtung: Father of Peace Studies (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024)
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Johan Galtung was a professor of Peace Studies worldwide who mediated in over 150 conflicts between states, nations, religions, civilizations, communities, and persons since 1957. His unique imprint on the study of Conflict and Peace stems from scientific inquiry and a Gandhian ethics. His TRANSCEND motto: Peace by Peaceful Means.
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‘Slow Torture’: Israel’s Detention of Palestinian Journalists
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
“Female journalists, completely stripped, blindfolded, beaten, and tortured, with the sounds of dogs threatening to maul them on one side, while a male interrogator threatens them with rape on the other. What humanity can we speak of in the face of such horror?”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
* Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
* LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 21 Oct 2024
(Italiano) “La Guerra È Una Pazzia”
Don Mimmo Battaglia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
19 Ottobre 2024 – Appello di Don Mimmo Battaglia ai Ministri della Difesa riuniti a Napoli in occasione della Presidenza Italiana del G7.
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Is Political West Bailing Out Due to ‘Real and Increasing Ukraine Fatigue’?
Drago Bosnic | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – The term “Ukraine fatigue” is not new but its latest usage breaks off from the usual pattern and may indicate that the world’s most aggressive power pole is looking for ways to leave the Neo-Nazi junta to fend for itself.
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The Song Israel Doesn’t Want You to Hear (Music Video of the Week)
Double Down News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – They Really Did All of This
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A Gaza Development Corporation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
16 Oct 2024 – There is increasing discussion concerning the Gaza Strip, its relation to the West Bank, and “the day after” when there is a ceasefire, people return to their home area, and reconstruction begins.
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We Must Purge Genocide from the Marrow of Our Bones
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – This was never about freeing hostages, getting rid of Hamas, Israel’s “right to defend itself,” mass rapes, beheaded babies, or babies cooked in ovens. It was always about stealing land from the indigenous people of Palestine.
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Deaths, Injuries as Israeli Military Bombs Displacement Tents in Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – An Israeli air strike on the grounds of Al-Aqsa Hospital has killed many Palestinians, injured dozens and caused a huge fire. The attack hit tents where many displaced Palestinians had been sheltering. This is the seventh time this year Israel has targeted Al Aqsa Hospital, killing civilians who were forced to flee their homes.
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USA [aka evil empire] Deploys THAAD Missile System and 100 Troops to Israel
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
13 Oct 2024 – The Pentagon announced today it is deploying a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, a strong show of support for attacks against UN peacekeepers in Lebanon and ethnic cleansing in northern Gaza; part of the US and Israeli preparations for an attack on Iran.
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Israeli Genocidal War on Gaza Enters Day 372
The Palestinian Information Center - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
12 Oct 2024 – In the midst of catastrophic humanitarian suffering for more than two million Palestinians — half of them children, the Israeli occupation army continued, for the 372nd consecutive day, to pound and target different areas and massacre more civilians.
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‘No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine:’ Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech
Arundhati Roy | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024 – ‘I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.’
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PACE Hearing on Julian Assange’s Detention and Conviction and Their Chilling Effects on Human Rights
PACE TV - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Streamed live on 1 Oct 2024 – “I want to be totally clear. I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today because after years of incarceration, I pleaded guilty to journalism. I pleaded guilty to seeking information from a source, and I pleaded guilty to informing the public what that information was.”
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Gaza: Dramatic Escalation of Humanitarian Catastrophe with Forced Mass Displacement of Civilians
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – Aid Organisations Warning: Israel’s new displacement orders in northern Gaza threaten to force civilians into ever-shrinking areas and endanger aid operations.
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Palestinians’ Liberation Struggle Needs Solidarity: Cambodians Respond with Love & Art
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
5 Oct 2024 – “Cambodians have spoken against the hypocrisy of Western governments preaching human rights, international law and the rule-based world order while condoning, aiding and abetting genocide in Cambodia in 1975-1979 and again today in Palestine.”
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October 7: A Grim Anniversary
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – Israel has been renowned for its ability to shape public discourse pertaining to its behavior toward the Palestinians. Its greatest triumph is the manner with which it managed the media treatment of its response to October 7 in North America and Europe.
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