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3-Year-Old Barron Plays with Orchestra (Music Video of the Week)
Shirley Lo - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
Virtuoso baby Barron played with the orchestra at Hong Kong City Hall.
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James Earl Jones, Voice of Darth Vader, Dies Aged 93
Graeme Baker and Thomas Mackintosh | BBC News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Sep 2024
10 Sep 2024 – U.S. actor James Earl Jones, best known for being the voice of the Star Wars villain Darth Vader, has died early yesterday [9 Sep] morning surrounded by his family.
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The UN Security Council’s Astonishing Silence on Myanmar Atrocities
Akshaya Kumar | Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The United Nations Security Council should mobilize to prevent further atrocities in Myanmar. The Council’s inaction over the last few months starkly contrasts with the clear warnings from senior UN officials who are urgently ringing alarm bells.
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On the Need to Dismantle the Settler-Colonial Bloc at the UN
Craig Mokhiber | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
8 Sep 2024 – WEOG, the UN grouping anchored by the Anglo countries, Israel, and European states, wields disproportionate power to undermine human rights and international law.
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(Italiano) Trascendimento del conflitto come forza propulsiva della storia
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Il Trascendimento del conflitto, la teoria di mediazione del Metodo TRANSCEND considera cinque possibili esiti per conflitti semplici e molte più variabili per conflitti complessi, nascosti nella storia.
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Israeli Society Has Truly Fallen to Cruelty, Violence and Apathy–Just Look at Us
Gideon Levy | Haaretz/After the Truth-Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
8 Sep 2024 – Look at what happened Fri 6 Sep in the Jenin refugee camp, in Qaryout, in Beita and in Megiddo Prison – and perhaps you will see us, finally.
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Israel Wanted Disease and Genocide in Gaza, So Why Is It Agreeing to the Polio Vaccine Being Given?
Sam Husseini - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
1 Sep 2024 – A good tiny step, a public relations ploy given the UN’s failure to stop the carnage — or something even more sinister: “Is Israel engaging in biological warfare against the Palestinians?”
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(Italiano) Libertà d’espressione vs. libertà d’umiliazione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Tesi base: Una falsa dicotomia. con un po’ d’abilità possiamo permetterci entrambe, rifiutando di farci intrappolare dai fondamentalisti dell’uno o altro fronte. Come? Beh, facciamo prima del nostro meglio per chiarire le due libertà, la libertà d’espressione e la libertà d’umiliazione.
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ICC Prosecutor Says World Leaders ‘Threatened’ Him over Israel Arrest Warrants
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The International Criminal Court judges have yet to issue arrest warrants for the Israeli prime minister and defense minister four months after prosecutor Karim Khan requested them.
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Buddhist Scholar Maung Zarni among Interfaith Delegation Visiting Palestine
Justin Whitaker | Buddhistdoor Global - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The delegation, organized by Rabbis for Ceasefire and Christians for Ceasefire, included Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims, and Buddhist scholar Maung Zarni (member of TRANSCEND).
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September Challenges
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
On Sep 22-23, the UN “Summit of the Future” where high level representatives from many countries will be present. On Sep 20-21, meetings where representatives of non-governmental organizations, academic institutions and corporations can be present.
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The Battle over Closed vs. Open Systems
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – The world is in an epoch-shifting transition, and a new system will be brought online as the $1.2 quadrillion derivatives time bomb, which has cancerously taken over the western economy, crashes. Now, this may not be a bad thing
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Palestinians: The Final Victims of the Holocaust
Allan C. Brownfeld | Washington Report on Middle East Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
When we discuss the Holocaust, we forget that it had other victims, the Palestinians, whose country was taken from them as the world sought a place for Jews displaced by the Nazis without inviting them into their own countries.
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Catastrophic Hunger Doubles in 2024; Gaza and Sudan Worst Hit
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The number of people experiencing catastrophic hunger has surged more than twofold in 2024, due largely to the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Sudan, according to new figures released by the UN today.
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(Norwegian–Norsk) Vår vidunderlige nye verden (1984) 2030
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Aldous Huxley og George Orwell var godt posisjonert til å oppfatte trender i samfunnet og forutseende nok til å advare oss i romaner skrevet mange tiår før deres spådommer gikk i oppfyllelse. Dessverre dro ikke menneskeheten nytte av advarslene deres.
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After Gaza, the West Bank Will Be Destroyed
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
The IDF has mostly completed the destruction of Gaza and will continue to monitor it for many years to prevent the citizens from returning. That is the meaning of the new humanitarian officer. Meanwhile, the IDF has begun the final destruction of the West Bank.
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Don’t Look Back: Diary of a Life in Gaza
Nahil Mohana | Literary Hub – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
The Toll of Living with Endless Displacement and Fear
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FOIA Files: How Academics Identified “Misinformation” Around COVID-19
James Rushmore | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – Another 836 pages from the University of Washington shows how researchers and “power users” in media cooperated to identify “misinformation” themes.
→ read full articleThe Technocracy Advances: Your Car Is Spying on You and Destroying Your Freedom
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
The Elite program to kill off a proportion of the human population and technologically enslave those left alive advances rapidly. Unless you take the personal action to defend yourself/family, you cannot escape the outcome that the Elite is imposing on you.
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US Seizes Venezuelan Jet Plane: Confirming Who Is the Rogue Nation
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
On 2 Sep 2024 US officials seized a plane belonging to the Venezuelan government in the Dominican Republic and flew it to Florida. Contrary to a false report in the NY Times, the plane was not “owned by Nicolas Maduro” but by the Venezuelan government and used for travel by the president and various Venezuelan officials.
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Conflict Dynamics and Models
TutorChase - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Conflict is a part of human society fuelled by differences in opinions, interests, and needs. To better understand these dynamics, there are various theoretical models. Two key models: Galtung’s Conflict Triangle and the Positions-Interests-Needs framework.
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Abandon Biden Becomes Abandon Harris, Focuses on Battleground States
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – Abandon Harris is now campaigning to defeat Kamala Harris in the battleground states, saying that genocide is a red line. A new poll shows Muslim voters evenly divided between Kamala Harris and Jill Stein.
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The Seven Scary Stages of AI vs AGI vs ASI vs Singularity
Technomics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
We’ll start from rule-based systems and move through smart digital assistants like Siri and Google. Then, how AI has mastered complex tasks like AlphaGo and where AI gets smarter by learning from data.
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Who Wants to Kill and Die for the U.S. Empire?
Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – How the U.S. policy of proxy war, relying on allies to do the killing and dying to avoid domestic political blowback over U.S. casualties, has led us to the brink of war with Russia and Iran.
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From the Labor Camp to the Pantheon of Literature: How Dostoyevsky Became a Writer
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was twenty-seven when he was arrested and sentenced to death for belonging to a literary society deemed dangerous by the tsarist regime. His sentence was repealed at the last moment.
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You Can’t Arm a Genocidal State into Moderation. So Why Does the West Keep Trying?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – Western governments will never isolate and sanction Israel. The war machine will roll on until either we stop it or its lethal games blow up in all our faces.
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Aren’t Palestinians Human?
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
The West Truly Doesn’t See Palestinians as Human – Israelis dying is a terrible tragedy, while Palestinians dying is just the normal way of things. Israeli strikes killed 47 Palestinians in Gaza on Sunday [1 Sep], receiving not a fraction of the attention Western officials have given six Israeli hostages.
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From the Arsenal of Democracy to an Arsenal of Genocide
William J. Astore | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – The Pernicious Price of Global Reach, Global Power, and Global Dominance
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Meta’s Role in Israel’s Digital Proxy War on The Cradle
Kit Klarenberg | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
3 Sep 2024 – The banning of The Cradle from Facebook and Instagram shows a troubling alliance with Israeli-linked groups to silence voices critical of the occupation state, especially those media outlets covering its adversaries’ narratives.
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Two for the Road
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
An armed robber held up a convenience store.
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How the Neocons Chose Hegemony Over Peace Beginning in the Early 1990s
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
As with finance, the West was militarily dominant in the 1990s, and certainly had the means to promote strong and positive relations with post-Soviet Russia. Yet the US was far more interested in Russia’s subservience to NATO than it was in stable relations with it.
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There’s Something in the Kool-Aid
Vern Loomis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – “Drinking the Kool-Aid,” is a now familiar and oft-used phrase to describe the naïve obedience to the will of another at the expense of one’s own well-being. Its current context stems from the 1978 “Jonestown Massacre.”
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Snowden on Durov
Edward Snowden | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Ditto!
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Beautiful Tree
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Oh you beautiful tree
With large green leaves
With birds and squirrels…
The EU Must Change Course on Ukraine or Risk Breaking Itself Apart
Michael von der Schulenburg and Ruth Firmenich – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
7 Sep 2024 – Whereas an increasing majority of Europeans reject further weapon deliveries to Ukraine and demand a negotiated solution, the EU Parliament has just adopted an extreme pro-war resolution.
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UN Expert Says Impunity for Israel Must End as ‘Genocidal Violence’ Spreads to West Bank
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
3 Sep 2024 – “Apartheid Israel is targeting Gaza and the West Bank simultaneously as part of an overall process of elimination, replacement and territorial expansion,” said UN special rapporteur Francesca Albanese.
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Three New Kinds of Refugees in a World of Migrants
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – No migrant wants to leave their home and be treated as a second-class citizen by countries that forced their migration in the first place.
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How Wars and Political Wickedness Destroy Humanity? The Case of Palestine
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Politics of Wickedness Overshadows the Meaning of Peace, Humanity and Conflict Management
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Lord, Make Me an Instrument of Thy Peace (Music Video of the Week)
Mary McDonald | maestroz25 - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Northern Lights Chorale and Conductor David Phelps perform the Prayer of St. Francis of Assisi: “Lord, Make Me an Instrument of thy peace.”
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Richard Falk Discusses ICJ Ruling and Implications for Israel
Prof. Richard Falk | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Richard Falk, a professor of international law emeritus at Princeton University, speaks about the significance of the International Court of Justice’s decision. “Israel will pay a high price whether or not they comply.”
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Testing the Boundaries for Ethnic Cleansing in the West Bank
Abdaljawad Omar | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
4 Sep 2024 – The current operation in the West Bank is meant to test the boundaries of what Israel will be allowed to get away with and is setting the stage for the forced ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people. The groundwork is being laid for a broader offensive.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 9 Sep 2024
How the Opiate Conspiracy Widened
Matt Bivens, M.D. | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
5 Sep 2024 – Preying on Pain – Many businesses will gleefully sell you a harmful addiction. The sociopathic push by big pharma to cash in on opiate production.
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(Italiano) Dal genocidio degli ebrei nella seconda guerra mondiale all’odio di oggi verso i palestinesi
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Sep 2024
30 Agosto 2024 – Omer Bartov, scrittore e accademico israeliano, è nato nel 1954 in Israele. Suo padre, Hanoch Bartov, era un autore e giornalista i cui genitori erano immigrati nella Palestina dalla Polonia; la madre di Bartov emigrò nella Palestina dall’Ucraina a metà degli anni ’30.
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Israel Exposes Its Political Agenda: ‘Land’ not ‘Security’–Gaza as Prelude, West Bank as Prize
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
31 Aug 2024 – The concerted Israeli military operation extending the tactics and devastation of its attack on the Gaza Strip to the occupied West Bank. Again, Washington’s silence is almost as dismaying as Israel blatant disregard of law and standards of decency.
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Comprehensible Mapping of the Variety of Fundamental Governance Functions
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
AI-assisted Clarification of Cognitive Challenge of Organization of Disparate Memes – There is no lack of recognition of the dangerously fragile condition of global civilization, epitomized by ever increasing threats of nuclear catastrophe. The period is witness to major conflicts, most obviously Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine, but less obviously in other arenas.
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The Scary Different Stages between AI + AGI + ASI + Singularity
Center for Humane Technology - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
This video dives into the distinctions between Artificial Intelligence, Artificial General Intelligence, Artificial Super Intelligence, and the Singularity. We’ll discuss the differences between these concepts and what they might mean for the future of humanity.
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‘There Was No Mercy, Even on Children’: Trauma in the West Bank after Israeli Raids
Julian Borger and Sufian Taha | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
31 Aug 2024 – Israel accused of using a 10-year-old girl as a human shield as it carried out its devastating attack on the occupied Palestinian territory.
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Which Countries Are Constantly at War in the 21st Century?
24/7 Wall St. Staff - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
25 Aug 2024 – War remains a persistent issue in the 21st century as many nations grapple with frequent bloodshed. The reasons for such conflicts are complex: economic interests, cultural differences, historical disputes, political challenges, and more.
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Blinken Marks Anniversary of Rohingya Genocide Even as US Finances Genocide of Palestinians
Maung Zarni | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – The US secretary of state’s genocide memorial tweet is a Zombie-esque, self-unaware act of supreme hypocrisy.
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Israel Says US Shipments of Arms, Equipment During Gaza Massacre Top 50,000 Tons
Emanuel Fabian | The Times of Israel - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
26 Aug 2024 – Five hundred transport planes and 107 ships have delivered more than 50,000 tons of armaments and military equipment from the US to Israel since the start of the war [genocide], the Defense Ministry says.
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Mozart Piano Concerto Nº 21 (Music Video of the Week)
Herbert von Karajan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
In C major, K 467. II. Andante
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The Haditha Massacre Photos That the US Military Didn’t Want the World to See
Madeleine Baran | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – When U.S. Marines killed twenty-four people in an Iraqi town, they also recorded the aftermath of their actions. For years, the military tried to keep these photos from the public.
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Nuclear Civilization for Peace Science in a Harmonious Multipolar Future
Bishnu Pathak, Mairead Maguire, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
30 Aug 2024 – From Hiroshima and Nagasaki to Western and Alternative Globalization – This paper, by coauthors from the Gandhian Global Harmony Association, commemorates the 79th anniversary of the tragedy that occurred in the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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You and the Universe: N.J. Berrill’s Poetic 1958 Masterpiece of Cosmic Perspective
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
Before we set foot on the Moon and sent rovers to Mars, before we built supercolliders to search for the “God particle” and heard the sound of spacetime in a gravitational wave, marine biologist N.J. Berrill took up the eternal question of how to harmonize our cosmic smallness with the immensity of our creaturely experience.
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How Exxon Chases Billions in US Subsidies for a ‘Climate Solution’ That Helps It Drill More Oil
Andy Rowell | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
29 Aug 2024 – Climate experts raise red flags as oil giant spends millions lobbying while touting ‘underperforming’ carbon capture.
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What They Talk about When They Talk about War
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – How reporting, and the way the US government speaks about the wars it sponsors, has changed between the Bush and Biden administrations.
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Pōhakuloa, Hawaii: A Land Besieged
Puanani Fernandez-Akamine | Ka Wai Ola - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
1 Sep 2024 – Social justice and peace activist Jim Albertini has been an outspoken critic of the military’s misuse of Pōhakuloa for decades. According to him, millions of live rounds are fired annually at PTA and “B-52 and B-2 bombers fly non-stop missions to and from Louisiana, Missouri and Guam to drop bombs on Pōhakuloa.”
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Justice Delayed, Not Yet Denied: An Update on the ICC Arrest Warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
David Kattenburg | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – ICC Chief Prosecutor Karim Khan’s request for arrest warrants against Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant has been mired in attempts to shield Israel from accountability since May, but this soon could change.
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Suspending Israel from the UN
Anton Ferreira | PassBlue - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – Members could employ the same mechanism used in 1974 to freeze apartheid South Africa out of the General Assembly.
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France Slaps Telegram CEO with 12 Criminal Charges after Israel Calls Platform ‘Uncooperative’
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – Billionaire Russian born Telegram founder Pavel Durov is being held in custody by French authorities as part of a cyber-criminality investigation. Telegram has been the ‘least cooperative’ among the social media sites in responding to Israeli censorship requests during its genocide in Gaza.
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Jewish Terror Has Exploded and Nothing Is Standing in Its Way–It May Bring Israel Down
Editorial | Haaretz - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
25 Aug 2024 – The letter sent by Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar to the prime minister, cabinet members and the attorney general, in which he warns that Jewish terror is a danger to the state’s existence, constitutes a flashing warning light.
→ read full articleConflict Transcendence as Driving Force in History
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
The mediation theory of TRANSCEND opens for five possibilities for simple conflicts and much more for more complex conflicts; but they are hidden in history. To transcend is to go beyond, into a new reality accommodating opposed theses, also such as the goals of actors.
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A Brief Guide to Israel’s Cultural Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – Since its genocide against Palestinians in Gaza began, the Israeli military has destroyed hundreds of historical and religious sites, and centers of culture and learning like libraries, archives, and museums.
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Israel and U.S. Plan to Destroy Palestine as Arab Leaders just Wait for the End Game
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – The Israeli-U.S. fraudulent scenario of a ceasefire ended at Cairo without any agreeable outcome. Monsters of History Defy Truth, Justice and Humanitarian Values
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Toronto Again
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – I have been living in Toronto — the important and popular city of Canada, for about a month now and plan to stay here for about ten days more before returning to India.
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Geopolitics of Natural Resources and the Ukrainian Conflict
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – Geopolitics is an approach to politics that stresses the features imposed on foreign policy by geographical location, environment, and natural resources. As a discipline, it contributes to the emphasis on continuity in contemporary political realism.
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US Rushes Weapons Shipments to Israel
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
29 Aug 2024 – The US has been rushing weapons shipments to Israel since the end of July, Haaretz reported today, citing open-sourced aviation data.
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Israel Launches Largest Occupied West Bank Offensive since Second Intifada
Fayha Shalash and Huthifa Fayyad | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – Drones Bomb Jenin, Tulkarm and Tubas as the Military Begins Major Assault
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COVID Vaccines: Japan Declares State of Emergency after ‘Nanobots’ Found in 96 million Citizens
Baxter Dmitry | The People's Voice - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
10 Aug 2024 – Japan has issued an apology to its citizens for the disastrous consequences of the COVID-19 mRNA vaccines and has launched far-reaching scientific inquiries and criminal investigations to establish the truth and punish the perpetrators.
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War Crimes: Does The Talmud Explain Why Jews Have Openly Murdered 17,000 Children?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | The Intel Drop/DWF News- – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
23 Aug 2024 – This brief snapshot of ideology found in the Talmud needs an explanation from theological experts. That is not this author. But in view of the accusations of genocide, might Jewish religious extremism in Israel be partly to blame?
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Of Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
When I die, bury my ashes in my town
Joining my memory with that of beloved soil
that gave us life, education, and love
In Palestine
Achieving Peace in the New Multipolar Age
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
26 Aug 2024 – The US “unipolar” moment was short-lived. US geopolitical dominance ended with the rise of China, the recovery of Russia from the Soviet collapse, and the rapid development of India. We have arrived at a new multipolar age. The US still fights to remain world hegemon, but this is delusional and doomed to fail.
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BRICS Model for a New World Order
Amb. Evgeny Tomikhin | BRICS Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – BRICS is an innovative format of interaction rather than a union of individual states. Partnership is based on sovereign equality, respect for individual paths, consideration of each other’s interests, and a common effort for the realisation of developing countries’ aspirations.
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Janmashtami in Gaza, the World’s Largest Open-Air Prison
Sunita Viswanath | After the Truth Shower - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
26 Aug 2024 – Krishna was born in a prison in Mathura, and while his evil uncle Kamsa planned to kill him, the guards fell asleep and the prison doors mysteriously opened. Krishna’s father Vasudeva carried him across the Yamuna River to safety in Gokul. Gaza has been described as the “world’s largest open air prison” by the UN and Human Rights Watch.
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The US Is Israel’s Accomplice, Not a Ceasefire Mediator
Belén Fernández | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
28 Aug 2024 – Washington is purposefully dragging out negotiations to enable Israel’s pursuit of its genocidal goals.
→ read full articleMirages
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
30 Aug 2024 – Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. let his justifiable hatred of the Democratic Party, their undermining of his presidential campaign, and their pro-war and genocidal agenda get the best of him. His trust in Trump is naïve in the extreme.
→ read full articleEntire Kennedy Family Changes Last Name
The Borowitz Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
26 Aug 2024 – Declaring that “enough is enough,” the entire Kennedy family is changing its last name, a spokesman for the former Kennedys announced today.
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Artificial Intelligence – Eureka!
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
27 Aug 2024 – AI promises all sorts of wondrous things. We are told that it will add trillions to GDP; diagnosis, prescribe treatment and register cures for all manner of illnesses; relieve us of mind-numbing tasks at work and at home; and ensure that every one of us is better than average.
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Renowned Surgeon and Lead Author of New Lancet Study Tortured by Israeli Military
Ryan Grim | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
31 Aug 2024 – Dr. Khaled Alser was held for at least three months at notorious Sde Teiman detention/torture camp and remains “forcibly disappeared,” according to colleagues.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 2 Sep 2024
Israeli Foreign Minister Calls West Bank Invasion ‘a War in Every Sense’
Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2024
29 Aug 2024 – The Israeli army’s large-scale assault on the northern West Bank has entered its second day. During a battle in Nur Shams refugee camp, the Israeli army killed wanted resistance fighter Muhammad Jaber “Abu Shuja’,” leader of the Tulkarem Brigade.
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Israel Has Unleashed a Staggering 70,000 Tons of Explosives Upon Gaza!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
21 Aug 2024 – Israel has launched a massive and relentless bombing campaign on Gaza, releasing over 70,000 tons of explosives into the densely populated area. Compare:
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I Was Arrested at Heathrow Airport as a “Terrorist” for My Journalism
Richard Thomas Medhurst - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024 – “I was arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport under the Terrorism Act because of my reporting. Six police officers were waiting for me at the entrance of the aircraft. I believe I’m the first journalist to be arrested under the UK Terrorism Act and feel that this is a political persecution that hampers my ability to work as a journalist.”
→ read full articleAbout Truth
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
The idea of Truth is as relevant for the arts as for the sciences. Truth is an attribute of a symbolic articulation when held up against reality: does it reflect, agree with what we consider “reality”?
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How Artificial Intelligence Challenges the Concept of Authorship
Leslie Alan Horvitz | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024 – If AI creates the content, who owns the work? Answering this complex question is crucial to understanding the legal and ethical implications of AI-generated content.
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Journalist Richie Medhurst Arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport under ‘Terrorism Act’
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – The British journalist revealed on X his treatment by the authorities after being arrested under Section 12 of the U.K.’s Terrorism Act.
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Mpox: What You Need to Know about the Latest Public Health Emergency
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
20 Aug 2024 – The swift spread of a new virulent strain of the Mpox virus across Africa triggered the World Health Organization to declare it once again a public health emergency of international concern last week.
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Accusations of US Regime-Change Operations in Pakistan & Bangladesh Warrant UN Attention
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – The very strong evidence of the U.S. role in toppling the government of Imran Khan in Pakistan raises the likelihood that something similar may have occurred in Bangladesh.
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US: Democratic National Convention Fiddles while the World Burns
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
21 Aug 2024 – While election year politics dominates the news, the control of both major U.S. political parties by the fossil fuel industry and the military-industrial complex makes the policies they agree on more dangerous than their disagreements.
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Bombed Hospitals, Buried Children: We Have Become Numb to Gaza’s Destruction
Hala Alyan | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – As we are saturated with horror, it gets normalized – and Israel’s assault continues unfettered. A Palestinian American poet on dehumanization.
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The Ukrainian War Prolongs the U.S. vs. Non-U.S. Divide
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
14 Aug 2024 – On August 6, Ukrainian troops crossed the border into Russia’s Kursk Oblast. As of August 13, the Ukrainian army had violated the border by 40 kilometers and occupied an area 12 kilometers from the border with 6,000-10,000 troops. This invasion has caused 180,000 Russians to become refugees.
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Why We Fight Wars? Can a Culture of Peace Revolution Work Towards Their End?
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
The reasons for war are complex and multifaceted, often involving a mix of political, economic, social, and psychological factors. Nations have fought over territory, resources, ideological differences, and power… War is an archaic and barbaric practice that modern society should outgrow.
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Nagasaki Day Panel Presentation
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – On Friday, August 9, the 79th anniversary of the US atomic bombing of Nagasaki, I was honored to present as an expert panelist for this dialogue organized by the Earth Constitution Institute.
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John Lennon’s ‘Imagine’ Receives Star-Studded Olympics Tribute at Paris 2024 (Music Video of the Week)
Eurosport - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
26 Jul 2024 – Opening Ceremony of Paris 2024 Olympic Games
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Defence Correspondents: The Journalistic Wing of the UK Military?
Des Freedman | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – There are stenographers – and then there are UK defence correspondents. An analysis of broadcasters’ coverage of defence shows that reporting is virtually 100% in line with the government’s own priorities. This isn’t journalism but public relations.
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Why Russia Saved the United States: The Forgotten History of a Brotherhood
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
Is it really so bad that the US could collapse in the not-so-distant future? Isn’t it acting like the worst of empires? Isn’t it wreaking havoc on the world? Is it not a good thing that it collapses internally and spares the world from further wars?
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René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
22 Aug 2024 – U.S.-sponsored talks began in Geneva on 19 Aug 2024 to address the ongoing conflict in Sudan, which has been devastating the country for more than 16 months. The representatives of the Regular Sudanese Army are not participating in the talks, so little progress is expected.
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Conflict Transformation by Peaceful Means
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
TRANSCEND Method: To prevent violence and develop the creative potential of a conflict, there has to be transformation. At the root of the method is the understanding of conflict as incompatible goals, meaning as a problem to be solved; not as incompatible parties.
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Meta Permanently Bans The Cradle in Latest Attack on Free Speech
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2024
19 Aug 2024 – The social media giant has singled out an independent West Asian media outlet, as it intensifies its crackdown on Palestinian and regional voices, both on its platforms and among its employees.
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