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US Vetoes UN Resolution Condemning Israel for Flour Massacre
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
1 Mar 2024 – The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel for a massacre of civilians surrounding an aid convoy in Gaza, a motion supported by all other member states. The Israel Defense Forces has acknowledged its soldiers fired on the crowd.
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UK Trident Missile Failure Exposes Folly of Nuclear Weapons
Kate Hudson | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
26 Feb 2024 – Britain’s nuclear arsenal has failed two tests in a row. Why must we still pay for these extortionate weapons of mass destruction? Last month, the Royal Navy failed to test fire a Trident missile, the only delivery system for Britain’s nuclear warheads. A malfunction in the system caused the missile to spin out of control.
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Lula, Israel’s Genocide, and Racism on Brazilian Corporate Media
Gabriel Rocha Gaspar | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
28 Feb 2024 – Lula’s statement was based on principles: antiracist, anticolonialist, humanist. What Israel is doing to Gaza is definitely comparable to the lowest standards humankind has ever reached, including the Holocaust. It’s the mass extermination of a whole population whose overwhelming majority is comprised of women and children.
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Where There’s Smoke
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
5 Feb 2024 – The Usual BS…
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New York Times Report Demolishes the Narrative of the “Unprovoked War” in Ukraine
Patrick Martin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
26 Feb 2024 – Nearly every reference in the US media to the Feb 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia has been preceded by an obligatory word—“unprovoked.” However, the NYT just published a lengthy article revealing that the invasion was instigated by a systematic and widespread campaign of military-intelligence aggression on the part of the CIA-USA.
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Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
We call this consciousness, this higher unity of personhood, soul.
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Changing the World with Fire and Love
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
28 Feb 2024 – The easiest way to cope with the news is to shrivel it into an us-vs.-them abstraction and, thus, to extract as much humanity from it as possible.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
Up to 3 Mar 2024 Casualties:
20,410+ killed* and at least 71,700 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 35,000 when accounting for those presumed dead under extensive rubble.
Haiti a Paradise for State Crime–Unspoken Agenda: Offshore Natural Gas
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
27 Feb 2024 – Haiti is by far the poorest country in all Latin America according to official UN/World Bank indices. Haiti is also one of the world’s richest countries, per capita, judged by available natural resources, oil and gas.
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Quantum Mechanics and Its Vedic Influence
Prof. C.P. Girija Vallabhan | Sanskriti Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
Erwin Schrodinger, discoverer of wave mechanics, was deeply influenced by the philosophical wisdom of the Hindu scriptures Vedanta and Upanishads. He also wrote about “The Basic view of Vedanta” by expounding advaitha and non-dualism.
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Nicaragua Hits Germany with ICJ Case for Aiding Israel in Gaza Genocide
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
1 Mar 2024 – Nicaragua today launched a case against Germany at the International Court of Justice, accusing the nation responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust of helping Israel commit genocide in the Gaza Strip over the past five months.
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Aaron Bushnell & Johan Galtung, Rest in Peace
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
The world lost two principled opponents of war. Johan Galtung died on 17 Feb at the age of 93; known as the father of peace studies, he spent his life researching for peace. Aaron Bushnell was just 25 years old, a member of the US Air Force. On 25 Feb he doused himself with a liquid and set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC.
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Who’s Brain-Dead Now, Macron?
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
28 Feb 2024 – Macron wants to start World War Three based on sheer lies and vanity. He’s not only brain-dead. He’s soul-dead too.
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US Airman Aaron Bushnell’s Self-Immolation Outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
The live-streaming of US active duty airman Aaron Bushnell’s extreme sacrifice in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on 25 Feb 2024 should make us reflect on the complicity of our governments in the genocide by Israel on the hapless Palestinian people. 30,000 dead – overwhelmingly civilians, women and children.
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Palestine Lights the Way Forward
Walden Bello | FPIF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
22 Feb 2024 – In these worst of times, still there is hope.
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Remembering Johan Galtung, the ‘Father of Peace Studies’
Prof. Kelly Rae Kraemer | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
29 Feb 2024 – Our world lost a giant of peace research last weekend. Johan Galtung, “the father of peace studies,” author of more than 160 books and 1,700 scholarly articles about world peace, passed away on Feb. 17, at age 93. A prolific author, educator and practitioner, Galtung had a unique brand of genius that will continue to inspire a world hungry for peace.
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Tell the Truth About Israel’s Crimes against Humanity
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Mar 2024
1 Mar 2024 – Western news bias in favor of Israel is more and more apparent as media outlets go out of their way to obscure the perpetrators of genocide.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 142: UN Experts Call for Arms Embargo
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
25 Feb 2024 – Israel bombs near Egypt’s fortified wall with Rafah as talks resume to reach a captive exchange with Hamas. UN experts call for arms embargo against Israel and say states supplying weapons, ammunition or intelligence risk violating international law.
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Burma Undergoes Quasi-Balkanization and the Embattled Junta Resorts to Mass Conscription
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
23 Feb 2024 – No Burmese in their right minds have bought into the spin “service to the nation” from the junta leadership. Reportedly, young men and women are frantically finding ways to exit the country.
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Rugs, Cosmetics, Motorbikes: Israeli Soldiers Are Looting Gaza Homes en Masse
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
20 Feb 2024 – Soldiers describe how stealing Palestinian property has become totally routine in the Gaza atrocities, with minimal pushback from IDF commanders or anybody else.
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PRIO on Johan Galtung’s Passing
Nils Petter Gleditsch | PRIO Peace Research Institute Oslo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
Saturday, 17 Feb 2024 – Johan Galtung passed away this morning. He was born in 1930 on 24 October, the same day that 15 years later would see the founding of the United Nations. There is something symbolic about having the same birthday as the UN. As a researcher, Galtung’s orientation was unusually international. An excellent linguist, he was well-travelled and made his home in several countries.
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When Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation through Difficult Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
In every life, there comes a time when we are razed to the bone of our resilience by losses beyond our control — lacerations of the heart that feel barely bearable, that leave us bereft of solid ground. What then?
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Grand Delusions
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
20 Feb 2024 – This year’s Munich Security Conference was predictably all about the imaginary danger that Russians intend to proceed westward into Europe as soon as they finish in Ukraine.
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New Israeli Report Alleging ‘Systematic and Intentional Rape’ by Hamas Relies on Debunked Western Media Reports
Max Blumenthal | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024 – Hoax: The contents of the Israeli paper alleging “systematic” Hamas rape derive largely from discredited second-hand testimonies and debunked media reports, especially a dubious NY Times article that triggered a staff revolt at the paper.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
26 Feb 2024 – Casualties:
29,606+ killed* and at least 69,737 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
*The death toll number is over 38,000 accounting for those dead under the rubble.
Witnesses to Genocide: Doctors Describe Horrors in Gaza’s Hospitals
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024 – As Israel’s assault on the besieged Palestinian territory continues into its fifth month, statistics fail to describe the horror inflicted on the 2.3 million Palestinians trapped there. Gaza’s hospitals have become battlegrounds.
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The Principles of Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Leveraging Democratic Polarities
Angelina Inesia-Forde | Walden University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
Abstract: The polarities of democracy framework is used to achieve human emancipation by simultaneously managing multiple paradoxes by employing Johnson’s polarity management as the conceptual framework. Although Johnson’s framework may be appropriate for managing other tension-dependent pairs, it is less suitable for managing multiple democratic values when the goal is human emancipation and sustainable democratic social change.
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As Israeli Forces Fire on Starving Palestinians, US again Vetoes UN Cease-Fire Resolution
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
20 Feb 2024 – “We should ask ourselves: How many innocent lives must be sacrificed before the council deems it necessary to call for a cease-fire?” said the Algerian envoy to the UN.
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Republican Joe?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – Meanwhile, in the US of A…
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US Urges UN Court Not to Order Israel Out of Palestinian Lands
Richard Carter, AFP | Digital Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
21 Feb 2024 – The United States told the UN’s top court today that Israel should not be legally forced to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territory without security guarantees.
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Father of Peace Journalism Passes Away, Leaves Powerful Legacy
Steven Youngblood | Peace Journalism Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
The peace journalism and peace studies fields lost an intellectual and moral giant on 17 Feb 2024 with the passing of Dr. Johan Galtung at 93 years of age. He is widely credited with being the father of both academic peace studies, including the concepts of positive and negative peace, and peace journalism.
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Congolese Journalist: It’s Time to Stop Negotiating with Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
21 Feb 2024 – Rwanda’s M23 militia and Special Forces have been advancing on Goma, the capital city of North Kivu Province in the DRC. I had a Zoom conversation with Congolese journalist Akilimali Saleh, who is based in Goma.
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UN Experts Condemn ‘Credible’ Reports of Executions, Sexual Assault by Israeli Soldiers
Nick Robertson | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
19 Feb 2024 – A group of UN human rights experts denounced the Israeli military today for “credible” allegations of execution and sexual assault against Palestinians in Gaza.
→ read full articleMairead Maguire and Dr. Aisha Jumaan: Gaza, Yemen, and Endless Wars
merchantsofdeath | Rumble - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
18 Feb 2024 – Facilitated by Kathy Kelly – A fascinating dialogue with Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and the Director of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, Dr. Aisha Jumaan.
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I’m an American Doctor Who Went to Gaza: What I Saw Wasn’t War – It Was Annihilation
Dr. Irfan Galaria | Los Angeles Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
16 Feb 2024 – In late January, I left my home in Virginia, where I work as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and joined a group of physicians and nurses traveling to Egypt to volunteer in Gaza. I have worked in other war zones. But what I witnessed during the next 10 days in Gaza was not war — it was annihilation.
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Higher Dimensional Reframing of Unity and Memorable Identity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Unification and Integration Framed Coherently Otherwise
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Genocide Accelerates while Elites Prosper
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – Day 130 of the genocide: Total killed 28,340 (+some 7,000 under the rubble) and injured 67,984. 72% are women and children. Plus thousands dead from lack of food, clean water, medicine and from infectious diseases and cold exposure. Desperate situation for over 2 million people in Gaza strip.
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(Italiano) Spiritualità e lavoro sui conflitti
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
L’Occidente ha respinto la religione nell’illuminismo-modernità-secolarismo, e sta adesso assistendo a una qualche rinascita religiosa. Allora la spiritualità entra come concetto sovrordinato, basato su elementi della maggior parte delle religioni e su valori laici.
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Confront the Principle, Not Episode
Mohammed Elnaiem | Africa Is a Country - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – It is no surprise that even today, Europe only feels guilt about the episode of the Holocaust and not the principle of genocide which made it possible.
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Crocodile Tears over Navalny while Ignoring Assange
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
17 Feb 2024 – If you’re in a country whose government has had a hand in the persecution of Julian Assange, then you can go ahead and shut the fuck up about Navalny.
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – As narratives go…
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South Africa Lodges Urgent Complaint with Int’l Court of Justice Over Israel’s Plan to Assault Rafah
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
South Africa lodged an urgent complaint on Monday [12 Feb] at the ICJ against Netanyahu’s plan to attack Rafah, where 1.4 million people, most of them refugees, have been pushed by the Israeli military.
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Pathetic State of Our World
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
18 Feb 2024 – We look around our world that is sinking in a spiral of violence and wonder why we humans cannot learn the way of peace, harmony, and coexistence. What are the main factors that lead to such a situation?
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – I spoke to Maurice Carney about the role of China in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s mining industry.
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Rafah: The Penultimate Step in Israel’s March of Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
On Sunday [11 Feb], while 100 million Americans watched the Super Bowl, Israel unleashed the next stage in its genocide of Palestinians. Netanyahu ordered soldiers a ground entry into the city of Rafah, on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, the last refuge for 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the ongoing Israeli genocide.
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Saving the US from Nuclear Weapons
Ivana Nikolić Hughes | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – Why the United States Should Lead the World on Nuclear Disarmament all the Way to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
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US Seizes Plane That Iran Sold to Venezuela–Imperialism at Its Best
Maziar Motamedi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – The US claims Iran violated its sanctions when it sold the jumbo jet to Venezuela.
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Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
16 Feb 2024 – The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all?
→ read full articleMemorial Prof. Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) RIP
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
19 Feb 2024 – Johan wrote the inaugural TMS editorial on 3 Mar 2008, when our pioneer Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism website was launched. Thus, TMS’ 16th anniversary will be celebrated exactly two weeks from today. Johan passed away in Oslo, Norway on Sat 17 Feb 2024 at 8 a.m. He was 93. RIP dear friend and mentor.
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EU Foreign Policy Chief to World Leaders: ‘Stop Saying Please’ and Cut Off Arms to Israel
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – “If you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms in order to prevent so many people being killed,” Josep Borrell said in remarks directed at U.S. President Joe Biden.
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Johan Galtung “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) performing the famous anti-militaristic ode: Le Déserteur composed by Boris Vian in 1954. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This single event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (over 170 books written in 60 years, +++). RIP
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The War on Gaza: Public Relations vs. Reality
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – For its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us, war is an abstraction embedded in ignorance, a.k.a., public relations, served up for public consumption. At least that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
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Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Medicine: Case Studies from China and India
Tatiana Bokova | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – Due to its continuous advancement and extensive utilization, artificial intelligence technology has permeated deeply into all aspects of life, particularly within the realm of medicine, while the prospects for its application continue to broaden. AI has emerged as a powerful tool.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 19 Feb 2024
With Netanyahu Threatening Rafah Invasion, Biden Prepares to Send Israel More Bombs
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
17 Feb 2024 – While pushing its tired narrative about Biden “losing patience,” the White House remains dedicated to Israel’s war on Gaza.
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The Dharma of Mind Transmission: Zen Teachings of Worng-Puc
Sramana Da-Hsiu Cheng-Nien | Sung Dynasty – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
The great Dhyana Master admired the Supreme Mahayana Vehicle and sealed it without words, teaching the transmission of Mind only and no other Dharma whatsoever. He held that both Mind and substance are void and that the interrelationships of phenomena are motionless.
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Scientists Create Artificial Worm Gut That Breaks Down Plastic
Paige Bennett | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – News of plastic-eating enzymes and insects have been making headlines. Take, for example, fungi that digests plastic in coastal salt marshes, or the greater wax moth caterpillar that can live on polyethylene in its larval stage. However, scientists need to be able to breed them in large numbers.
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Over 30 Countries Queue Up for BRICS Membership
Jai Hamid | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – This surge in interest reflects a growing disillusionment with traditional economic models and a collective quest for more equitable international relations.
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Netanyahu’s War on Truth
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians
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Suzanne Hammad on Embedded Palestinian Resistance in Bil’in in West Bank: Rooted in Land and Home
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
6 Feb 2024 – I wanted to share a foreword that I wrote to an exceptional ethnographic study of everyday resistance by residents of the Palestinian village of Bil’in, quite near Ramallah, based on the Suzanne Hammad three years of residence and informed observation.
→ read full articleGenocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 12 Feb 2024
At least 28,064 people have been killed and 67,611 wounded in the Gaza Strip*
More than 380 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
Citing World Court, Japan Firm Cuts Ties with Israel Arms Maker
Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – Itochu Corporation, a major Japanese industrial conglomerate, is cutting ties with Israeli arms maker Elbit, citing the International Court of Justice ruling that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza. Its aviation division will terminate the partnership by the end of February.
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Friedman’s Vermin Analogies Echo Ugly Pro-Genocide Propaganda
Jim Naureckas | Fair Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
6 Feb 2024 – NYT columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a piece that compared the targets of US bombs to vermin. It’s the sort of metaphor that propagandists have historically used to justify genocide.
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Gaza and the Dilemmas of Genocide Scholars
Prof. Abdelwahab El-Affendi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
3 Feb 2024 – Increasing partisanship in Genocide Studies threatens the field itself, as well as the very act of genocide prevention.
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‘Transported in Cages’ – Shocking Details of How Israel Treats Female Gaza Prisoners
Fayha’ Shalash | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
This is a difficult, but critical read. The collective hardship experienced by Gaza’s female prisoners in Israel is unprecedented even within the tragic history of Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners.
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China Is ‘World’s Sole Manufacturing Superpower’ with 35% of Global Output
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
China’s state-led economic development model and robust industrial policy has transformed it into what an influential European think tank calls “the world’s sole manufacturing superpower”, making up 35% of global gross production – more than the 9 next largest manufacturers combined.
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Full Speed Ahead on the Global Titanic
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – Going Along with the Utter Madness of Nuclear Weapons
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Imagine a Falling Empire…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
“A falling tree makes more noise than a whole forest growing.”
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Four Months of Gaza Onslaught
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
9 Feb 2024 – What is the bottom line after 4 months of onslaught following the initial October 7 Gaza Ghetto Uprising? Where are we?
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Words That Kill: How Western Spin Doctors Dehumanize Select Peoples to Justify War
Chay Bowes | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
6 Feb 2024 – With Israel’s punitive operation against Gaza in its fourth month, it’s impossible not to compare Western outrage regarding other conflicts with the selective morality being applied to Israel. Carefully chosen words and turns of phrase serve as lubricant for US-backed military machines.
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Global Law and Order Via the Earth Constitution and the UN General Assembly
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – Global law and order and democracy are absent and a glaring problem for the United Nations which too often is sidelined when it counts the most, unable to intervene when it is clearly needed.
→ read full articleRed Sea Tensions Increase
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – Tensions increase in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
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(Italiano) Perché il fascismo sta crescendo? Come possiamo fermarlo?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
5 Febbraio 2024 – Per comprendere perché il fascismo sta crescendo attraverso l’emergere e la crescita dei partiti di estrema destra in tutto il mondo, e soprattutto in Europa, dobbiamo tornare indietro alla fine della Prima guerra mondiale e analizzare il corso turbolento della democrazia liberale da allora.
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11,500 Children Have Been Killed in Gaza
Gideon Levy | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
5 Feb 2024 – Horror of This Scale Has No Explanation – No explanation, no justification or excuse could ever cover up this horror. It would be best if Israel’s propaganda machine didn’t even try to.
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The ICJ’s ‘Plausibility Test’ Undermines the Crime of Genocide
Sana Khan | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – The fact that the court in the Ukraine v. Russia case ordered an immediate cease-fire yet did not impose one in the Gaza conflict in the South Africa v. Israel case presents a quandary.
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NATO, Germany’s Role and the Russia-Ukraine War
Jenny Brömel | University for Peace (UN-Mandated) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
A Political Historical Analysis
First part: NATO, Germany in NATO and its emergence after WWII; reunification of Germany, today’s NATO, and the European security order.
Second part: Russia’s and Ukraine’s relations with NATO.
Conclusion: Today’s NATO vis-a-vis the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Unexpected
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
9 Feb 2024 – Despite calendars and clocks and all the mental gymnastics we use to control life and time, surprises are at the heart of existence. This may seem like a truism…
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(Italiano) Donne, scienza e visioni del mondo
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
9 Febbraio 2024 – “Le affermazioni scientifiche descrivono il mondo. E nel mondo là fuori ci sono i fatti, fenomeni che esistono indipendentemente da noi che decidiamo di studiarli. Lo scopo della scienza è di conoscere queste cose in sé, cercando di rendersi indipendenti da chi le studia e garantire così l’obiettività dell’impresa scientifica”.
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China Builds as the USA Bombs: This Study Proves It
Alex Lo | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024 – On Washington’s telling, Beijing is spreading authoritarianism through producing goods and building infrastructures as the US promotes freedom and democracy by bombing and selling weapons. Remember George Orwell? “War is peace. Ignorance is strength.” Reality is easily turned upside down.
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Spiritual vs Materialist Theories of Science
Matthew Ehret and Marc Solar | Canadian Patriot Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024 – We discuss whether or not modern science allows for a spiritual/psycho-physical substrate guiding the whole, if there is meaning in the universe, and what the “right” way of thinking is.
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The Void
Ben Okri | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
I was talking to a builder
of bridges and asked
how he built the structure
that brings two warring elements
together. This was his answer.
Winners and Losers
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
2 Feb 2024 – Spineless World Justice and Civil Society
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Why Is Fascism Growing? How Can We Stop It?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Z – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
28 Jan 2024 – To understand the emergence and growth of far-right parties around the world, and especially in Europe, we need to go back to the end of the First World War and analyze the turbulent course of liberal democracy since then.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 121: Israel Kills More Than 1,000 Palestinians since ICJ Ruling – U.S. Bombs Yemen
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
4 Feb 2024- Israeli forces bomb Rafah, where thousands of Palestinians are displaced in shelters near the Egyptian border, as an Israeli minister wishes to “encourage voluntary emigration” from Gaza. In West Bank, settlers attack Palestinian villages. Casualties: 27,365+ killed and at least 66,630 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
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Emergency London Conference to Stop Genocide in Gaza
Richard Falk | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
27 Jan 2024 – Prof. Richard Falk Discusses ICJ Ruling and Implications for Israel
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(Italiano) Il mondo oltre il disordine globale
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Gennaio 2024 – La forza di questo forum è il suo focus sulle civiltà; usiamolo per l’analisi e i rimedi. Le forme più importanti di disordine usano la violenza; la guerra è violenza organizzata dallo stato. Gli stati più bellicosi sono gli Stati Uniti d’America e Israele, entrambi con radici di civiltà.
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For Western Media, Only Israeli Lives Matter
Des Freedman | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Jan 2024 – Right across the Anglo-American mainstream media, the killing of Palestinians is seen as normal. It’s only Israeli lives that matter.
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‘We Are Dying Slowly:’ Palestinians Are Eating Grass and Drinking Polluted Water as Famine Looms Across Gaza
Fadi Shana and Ibraheem Abu Mustafa | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Jan 2024 – Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies. These days, the mother-of-seven finds herself begging for food on the mud-caked streets of Rafah, in southern Gaza. She tries to feed her kids at least once a day, she says, while tending to her husband, a cancer and diabetes patient.
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After Expelling Palestinian Workers, Israel Turns to the Global South for Labor
Tanupriya Singh | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
26 Jan 2024 – Israel has thus far signed agreements with Kenya and Malawi to bring in workers to its agricultural sector, which has otherwise relied on Palestinian and Thai migrant labor.
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U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts
Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow | Council on Foreign Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
23 Jan 2024 – Israel has long been the leading recipient of U.S. foreign aid, including military support. That aid has come under heightened scrutiny amid Israel’s war to eliminate Hamas.
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The Transnational Capitalist Class. The Billionaires, the Trillionaires. “Stake Holder Capitalism” and the New World Order
Rick Thomas | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
21 Jan 2024 – In 2011, the Great British Class Survey was conducted in collaboration with the University of Manchester, the London School of Economics, and the University of York. The British have always been obsessed with class, so it is not surprising that they would attempt something of this nature.
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Israeli Police Repressing Anti-war Protests with ‘Iron Fist,’ Say Activists
Oren Ziv | +972Mag - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
24 Jan 2024 – Since 7 Oct, Israel’s police have systematically banned, restricted, and attacked protests against the army’s assault on Gaza, instilling a sense of fear among Jewish and Palestinian citizens alike.
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Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
29 Gennaio 2024 – Due pubblicazioni recenti documentano – o almeno cercano, in parte, di farlo – i danni ambientali provocati da due conflitti armati che in questo periodo richiamano più di altri l’attenzione pubblica.
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Negative and Positive News
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Jan 2024 – 2,269 massacres committed by Israeli occupation army; 33,751 martyrs and missing persons (26,751 arrived in hospitals); 11,500 child martyrs. These are not numbers. These were people with dreams and aspirations and no different than any other area on earth where indigenous people also struggled to stay on their lands.
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ICJ on Gaza: Acting against Israel
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024 – We should not be surprised that Israel has defied the International Court of Justice. It has defied it before. Israel has nothing but contempt for international law. It sees itself as above the law.
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Everything Is Great!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
USA 2024 – Everybody Happy!!
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Don’t Let Zionists Weaponize Jewish Suffering
Shane Burley | Yes! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
22 Jan 2024 – By framing Palestinians as Amalek, two things are accomplished. First, those being occupied are positioned not just as enemies, but as inescapable and eternal ones, poisoned at the core and whose anger is, by definition, irrational and without merit. Second, they are diagnosed incurable, so the only treatment possible is eradication.
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Genocide, Sex Extortion, and People Movement
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
28 Jan 2024 – What is the story with UNRWA? If Israel succeeds in liquidating the Palestinian cause, will the whole globe be at risk of a global war that ends humanity? And what does sex extortion and people movement have to do with it?
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(Italiano) Intelligenza artificiale e pace
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
La scienza moderna è nata con la rivoluzione copernicana che ha rotto il cosmo chiuso e finito dell’antichità per lanciare la Terra in una corsa infinita in un Universo infinito. Poi la scienza con la tecnologia ha fatto superare ogni limite.
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Turning Zeitoun into Shivat Zion: Israeli Summit Envisions Gaza Resettlement
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
30 Jan 2024 – Undeterred by the ICJ, ministers and settler leaders made plans to expel Palestinians and ‘return’ Israelis to Gaza in a “Conference for Israel’s Victory” at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center. Thousands of people danced around the hall singing celebratory songs.
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