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Israel’s Paradox of Defeat
Aluf Benn | Foreign Affairs - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – How the Country’s Military Success Is Producing Political Failure – After a year of war, the long-term threats to Israel’s democracy are graver than ever.
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Nonviolent Resistance in Palestine Is More Dangerous Than Ever — But It’s the Only Way Forward
Sami Awad | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – We are not going to build a better future for all people in this land by killing or dominating each other. We need a proactive nonviolent movement with vision and strategy.
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2024 Nobel Literature Prize: Han Kang Refuses to Celebrate Award while People Die in Wars
The Korea Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024 – Han Kang, the first Korean to win the Nobel Prize in literature, has declined to hold a press conference; she cites the global tragedies of the Ukraine-Russia war and the Israel-Palestine genocide.
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Powerlessness over Genocide
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
US political elites are not powerless to restrain the rogue Israeli regime: They are powerless to act against the grotesque lobby—AIPAC–to which they have sold themselves, their souls, their country.
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Cash Will Soon Flow: The New Climate Colonialism
Joshua Frank | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Robbing Africa’s Riches to Save the Climate (and Power AI) – The Portuguese were the first Europeans to lay claim to Angola in the late sixteenth century.
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Nuclear Weapons: The Price
W.J. Hennigan | The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – The US is set to spend an estimated $1.7 trillion to revamp its nuclear arsenal. The spending spree is underway in at least 23 states and follows a decades-long freeze on designing, building or testing new nuclear weapons. Along with the subs, a new fleet of bomber jets, land-based missiles and thermonuclear warheads.
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The Astonishing Magaverse
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
No Kidding…
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Analysis by AI of Reports of UN Debate on Artificial Intelligence
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
14 Oct 2024 – The UN has just approved an historic Pact for the Future and a Declaration for Future Generations on the occasion of its Summit of the Future. The use of “connectives” in debate — whether logical, emotional, “spiritual”, or action-oriented — is necessarily fundamental to the articulation of coherent strategy.
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The Preposterous Nature of “Reality”
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that seem randomly meaningless, leading nowhere. Thoughts that think us. To dismiss them, however, is a mistake.
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How Blinken Turned the US Diplomatic Corps into a Wing of the Military
Ted Snider | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – Henry Kissinger asserted that little can be won at the negotiating table that isn’t earned on the battlefield. U.S. officials have echoed that approach. In 2021 the administration said it would pursue ‘relentless diplomacy.’ They call it something else today in Ukraine.
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Palestine and the People of the World
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – Israel’s wanton aggression against Lebanon has overshadowed an important decision made by the UN General Assembly linked to the violence and wars that mark our present moment in history.
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A Brave and Startling Truth
Maya Angelou – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
We, this people, on a small and lonely planet
Traveling through casual space
Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns…
US Arms Dealers Witness ‘Record Profits’ from Israel’s Year-Long Genocide in Gaza, War on Lebanon
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – The US and Israel’s ongoing military escalation across West Asia has helped the aerospace and defense industry outperform expectations.
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New Documentary on Who Profits from US Deportations & Border-Industrial Complex
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
17 Sep 2024 – ‘Borderland: The Line Within’ explores the human impact of restrictive U.S. immigration policies and border militarization. The film tells the stories of asylum seekers fleeing violence in their home countries…
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Israeli Troops Fire at 3 UNIFIL Positions in Southern Lebanon, U.N. Source Says
Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Israeli troops opened fire at three positions held by U.N. peacekeepers in southern Lebanon today. The source said one of the locations fired at was the main base of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon-UNIFIL at Naqoura.
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Our World
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
There are different ways of helping poor people.
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Kinship in the Light of Conscience: Peter Kropotkin on the Crucial Difference Between Love, Sympathy, and Solidarity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Scientist and anarchist Peter Kropotkin on the meaning of solidarity–the culmination of his studies of the cooperation networks of social insects and his outrage at the destructive power structures of human society.
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Militarism and Genocide in Gaza: The Bloody Signature of Western Decline
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – The Palestinian ordeal is not a consequence of the inadequacy of legal norms or mechanisms. The primary obstacle is one of political will, especially of the Global West, and of leading Arab neighbors, i.e. Saudi Arabia, Egypt.
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(Greek-ελληνικά) Ιστορική ανάλυση της παγκόσμιας ελίτ: Λεηλασία της παγκόσμιας οικονομίας μέχρι να «μην σας ανήκει τίποτα»
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
This is a Greek translation of the two-part article, ‘Ransacking the World Economy until You’ll Own Nothing’
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UN Commission Finds War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in Israeli Attacks on Gaza Health Facilities and Treatment of Detainees, Hostages
UN Human Rights High Commissioner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities.
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One Year of Genocide in the Books
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – These 25,500 dots represent the over 41,000 Palestinians wiped out by Israel’s relentless assault on Gaza in the past year. Every dot stands for a life erased, a family shattered, in a systematic campaign to destroy an entire people.
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One Year On – Five Things the War on Gaza Taught Us about the Palestinian Struggle
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – One: Palestinians, despite the military occupation, the siege and the numerous failures of their leadership, remain political actors, with powerful agency.
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Hibakusha Receive Nobel Peace Prize
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
On 11 Oct 2024, Jorgen Watne Frydnes, chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, announced that it had been awarded to the Japanese anti-nuclear arms organization Nikon Hidankyo for striving for a world without nuclear weapons.
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Dear Pentagon
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – As someone on the Pentagon’s mailing list, I was recently sent a question: ‘How do you think the Pentagon is faring and what suggestions do you have to improve our performance? My reply:
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Blinken Approved Policy to Bomb Aid Trucks: Israeli Cabinet Members
Yaniv Cogan | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – Since the start of Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in Gaza, the US-backed army has become the leading cause of death for humanitarian workers worldwide.
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What Happened to Protest Music around the World?
Ivie Ani | In These Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – Mainstream musicians–a group once instrumental in amplifying sociopolitical causes and movements–are silent. The business of entertainment pop discourages artists from engaging in protest.
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It Is the Lack of a Two-State Solution That Most Threatens Israel
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – As a result of its belligerence and intransigence, Israel is now almost completely ostracized by the international community, and also faces grave economic and military threats as the regional war expands.
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IDF in ‘Outrageous Threat’ to Irish UN Troops in Lebanon
Mick Hall | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Israel continues to isolate itself diplomatically. A diplomatic crisis has been defused after Israel withdrew its invasion force metres from a U.N. post in south Lebanon staffed by Irish peacekeepers.
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US-Israeli Rampage in the Middle East: Barreling Towards WWIII
Abby Martin | Empire Files – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Journalist Séamus Malekafzali joins Abby Martin to talk about Israel’s invasion of Lebanon, the assassination of Nasrallah, and the potential for war with Iran.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
What happens when the US empire not only declines but falls, will we follow? Will the world poor rise against us? Who am I, with whom am I, on the right side, the wrong? How has my mother-in-law programmed her daughter for it all? A super-complex world.
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Why Is the ‘Liberal’ Media Peddling the Vilest Genocide Apologism?
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – Howard Jacobson’s article in today’s Observer may be one the vilest pieces of journalism in Britain in living memory, arguing that any reporting of Israel’s slaughter of many thousands of Palestinian children in Gaza is a “blood libel” and antisemitic.
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11 Communications Rules for Activists to Live by
David Fenton | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – Advice Learned through 50 Years of Progressive Media Activism
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Occupied Palestinian Territory: Reported Impact since 7 Oct 2023
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs OCHA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – Hostilities in Gaza and Israel are ongoing, and violence in the West Bank has surged. Millions of Palestinians struggle to live with dignity under Israeli occupation, facing coercive practices and Palestinian political divisions.
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Allegro, Ludwig van Beethoven (Music Video of the Week)
Trio Sōra | Philharmonie de Paris – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Sōra: A bird that sings while taking flight (Amerindian name)
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Could Palestine Be the Catalyst for an Islamic Renaissance?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024 – It’s impossible to count on corrupt Arab regimes – the weak link – to stop the Gaza genocide.
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Israel’s Netanyahu Warns Lebanon Could Face Destruction ‘like Gaza’
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
8 Oct 2024 – Netanyahu claimed Israel has killed slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah’s “replacement, and the replacement of his replacement”. His remarks came as Hezbollah strikes Haifa.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 14 Oct 2024
Picking Up the Kids: by Mr. Fish and Roger Waters
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – This cartoon was inspired by an idea from Roger Waters, co-founder of Pink Floyd, and drawn by Mr. Fish. 10 Downing Street, London:
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Speaking Truth to Power
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
All Said…
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The Syrian Civil War Rekindled?
Sakai Tanaka - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – The war in Lebanon, which began in July this year, in which Israel has been ferociously attacking and weakening Hezbollah, is likely to rekindle the Syrian Civil War, which has been virtually over for several years.
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Part of the Mechanism of Genocide in Palestine: The Complicity of ‘Mainstream’ Media
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – Netanyahu justified Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza in a speech to US Congress in July: ‘It’s a clash between barbarism and civilization; between those who glorify death and those who sanctify life.’ The BBC did not provide an editorial warning that many would find such words ‘abhorrent.’
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Jewish-American Calls for Ceasefire in Gaza in Front of the Atomic Bomb Dome, Hiroshima
Jin Yanagawa | Asahi Shimbun/MSN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – “Every Jew has a responsibility to other Jews. We have a responsibility to call on our brethren around the world to stop what is happening in Palestine.”
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The Geopolitics of Southeast Europe and the Importance of the Regional Geostrategic Position at the Turn of the 20th Century
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – A geopolitical issue of Southeast Europe became very important for scholars, policymakers, and researchers with the question of the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire as one of the most crucial features of the beginning of the 20th century in European history.
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Citizenship & Genocide Cards
Natalie Brinham - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
This 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. It examines the multiple uses of state issued ID cards and registration documents in producing statelessness and facilitating genocide.
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I Have Seen the Insides of Too Many Dead Kids
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
I have seen the insides of too many dead kids to have any patience for status quo politics or centrist incrementalism.
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Iran’s Missile Attack on Israel: Explained
Glenn Greenwald | System Update – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Glenn Greenwald uses the mainstream media coverage of the recent Iranian aerial attack on Israel to highlight the contradictions in their reporting.
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“Escalate to De-escalate”: What Led Iran to Attack Israel
Jeremy Scahill and Murtaza Hussain | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Yesterday evening, Iran launched a wave of ballistic missile attacks striking sites throughout Israel, in retaliation for its recent assassinations of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, and Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards officer Abbas Nilforoushan.
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Israel’s Bloody Endgame
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – The assassination of Hassan Nasrallah in Beirut, a widening onslaught against Hezbollah as tensions mount with Iran. Such developments have affected the US relation to the conflict.
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The Chaos Israel Is Sowing Across the Middle East Will Come Back to Haunt It
David Hearst | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – A ritual is performed every time Israel starts another war and the white phosphorus rains down. It’s called the ceasefire ritual – an abject public display of hand-washing, most of it choreographed.
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Reframing Challenges of Governance of SDGs through Music
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Rendering Comprehensible the 16 Logical Connectives of Discourse with AI Assistance – Despite the insights offered and suggested by logic and rationality, it is evident that these are called into question by emotions and spirituality.
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Burn the Planet and Lock Up the Dissidents
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – The fossil fuel industry, and the politician class they own, have no intention of halting the ecocide. As the climate crisis worsens, so do the laws and security measures to keep us in bondage.
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(Italiano) La Guerra Fredda come metafora
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
24 Settembre 2024 – La Guerra Fredda vale la pena rammentarla. C’è molto da imparare sul conflitto e il meta-conflitto. Per l’Occidente vs. l’Islam.
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(Italiano) Più creatività, per favore!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Le istituzioni latin-americane domani possono diventare quelle dell’Asia Orientale, entrambe ispirate da e ispirazione per l’Unione Africana e soprattutto dalla madre delle Unioni, quella Europea, persa nel divario fra il desiderio di essere emulata e la paura d’irritare i nordamericani.
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Happy 75th Birthday, Dear China!
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Today marks the 75th anniversary of Mao Zedong’s proclamation of the People’s Republic of China. There are many reasons to congratulate China.
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We’re the Fucking Terrorists
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
5 Oct 2024 – Hezbollah is killing Israeli soldiers invading Lebanon while Israeli soldiers are killing women, children, medical staff and journalists. Guess which side the west calls terrorists. “Terrorist organization” is an arbitrary designation by western narrative to justify war and militarism.
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Macron Calls for Arms Embargo against Israel
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
6 Oct 2024 – France Asserts Itself against Netanyahu over Lebanon
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Need for Action
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Zionism forcefully transformed a multi-ethnic/cultural/religious/lingual country called Palestine into a “Jewish state of Israel.” There are 15 million Palestinians, 8 million refugees, and millions living in reservations/ghettos/bantustans/concentration camps being subjected to brutal daily attacks and torture for 76 years.
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Assange: ‘My Naivete Was Believing in the Law, I’m Free Because I Pled Guilty to Journalism’
Julian Assange | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Full text of Julian Assange’s remarks to the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe today on the plea deal, WikiLeaks, the Espionage Act, C.I.A.’s retribution, repression of journalism, and his responses during Q&A.
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Pavel Durov, the Superfluous Man–“He Will Share Data about His Telegram Users”
Stephen Karganovic | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
29 Sep 2024 – Contrary to Durov’s initial assurances that he would never betray the trust of his users or renege on his commitment to freedom of expression, he has in fact conceded to the authorities’ key demand and will share data about his users with one or more of the interested governments.
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Israel Confirms Its Ground Invasion of Lebanon Has Begun
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – The Israeli military announced early today that its ground invasion of Lebanon has started, confirming earlier reports. The US says it was informed of the Israeli plans ahead of the invasion.
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We Have a Moral Obligation to Speak Out against Genocide
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Dialogue with Prof. Alex Hinton, a leading anthropologist of genocides at Rutgers Univ.
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Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
28 Sep 2024 – As another October approaches, the beautiful season of colors begins. Yet as November nears, I think we might expect what for many will be the unexpected. A Black Swan event or the expected?
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Inside the US State Department’s Weapons Pipeline to Israel
Brett Murphy | ProPublica - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 –
*Ambassador Jack Lew urged Washington to give thousands more bombs to the Israelis because they have a “decades-long proven track record” of avoiding killing civilians.
*After State Department officials spent months working through weekends and after hours on arms sales, the Israelis sent cases of wine to them just before Christmas.
Remarks for the International Day of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Text of my remarks at UNESCO during a meeting organised by the NGO-UNESCO Liaison Committee with the support of the Association of Former UNESCO Staff Members and the French Commission for UNESCO.
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The Military-Industrial Complex Explained
Mr. Beat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
The Real Reason That the United States Is Permanently at War – Here is everything you need to know about the Military Industrial Complex.
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Lebanese and Syrians Suffer Loss and Displacement amid Surging Attacks
Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Since a deadly escalation of the conflict in Lebanon began just over a week ago, the Government estimates that more than 1 million people have already been forced to flee their homes.
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Provocations and Escalation
Samir Saul and Michel Seymour | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
1 Oct 2024 – Iran faces Israel in 2024 exactly as Russia faced the US in 2021. Provocations make Iranian intervention inevitable, which will justify retaliation from Israel, escalation being exactly what Israel seeks.
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Eliminating Terrorism with Terrorism
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
25 Sep 2024 – Makes sense…
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Reflections on October 7
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
For the several months after 7 Oct 2023, Israel’s public discourse allowed it to carry out the genocidal assault on Gaza with little diplomatic friction in the West but growing discontent among progressive sectors of civil society.
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Biden’s Israel Policy Has Led Us to the Brink of War on Iran
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – Iran has been trying to avoid such a war and signed the 2015 JCPOA nuclear agreement with the US, U.K., France, Germany, Russia, China and the EU. Donald Trump unilaterally pulled the U.S. out of the JCPOA in 2018. Now, Benjamin Netanyahu sees his long-awaited chance to draw the US into war with Iran.
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New BioDB Global Tool Highlights Conservation Efforts Across 180 Countries
BioDB | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
27 Sep 2024 – The Nature Conservation Index: Findings Underscore the Need for Strategic Biodiversity Protection Worldwide
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War on Humanity: How Israel and the US Forged Deception of Collaborative Collision
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Wicked Leaders Pretend to Be Peacemakers
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BRICS and the IMF Debt Traps
Marco Fernandes | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – What the Contingent Reserve Arrangement Can Do for the Global South – In the last two years, BRICS have experienced a popularity hitherto unseen in their existence.
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Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – India is a land of many religions— Hindu, Christianity, Islam and some smaller religions and faiths — Buddhism, Sikhism, etc. All these religions and sects have distinguished leaders and believers.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
We have been there before, many times. For the West, encroaching on Islamic lands was part of the massive exercise known as colonialism.
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Curiosity as an Instrument of Love: Thoreau and the Little Owl
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
True curiosity is an open wonderment at what something is and how it works without emotional attachment to the outcome. “Life! who knows what it is, what it does?” Thoreau exclaimed on the pages of his journal.
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Do Other Animals Have Consciousness? Science Could Force Us to Rethink Our Relationships with Them
Marjorie Hecht | Human Bridges – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
The broad consensus is that many species are sentient.
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One Year of Unspeakable Loss
Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – After a year of genocide against Palestinians, Israel is waging a campaign of terror that has brought the entire region closer to all-out war. A year of impunity for Israeli genocide has landed us here.
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The Loss of Hezbollah and Iran (Part 1)
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – After Israel killed Hassan Nasrallah on 27 Sep, Iran retaliated by firing 180 missiles over Israel on 1 Oct. However, Iran announced that it would not send troops to Lebanon to prop up Hezbollah because it wanted stability in the Middle East, not a war with Israel.
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“Bloodied, Bruised and Broken” – More Than 690 Children Injured in Lebanon in Last Six Weeks
UNICEF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – UNICEF calls for a ceasefire to protect children as physical injuries and psychological suffering rise dramatically.
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Divide & Rule: The Plan of the 1% to Make You Disposable
Vandana Shiva | After Skool – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
TRANSCEND Member Prof. Vandana Shiva is an Indian scholar, environmentalist, physicist, ecofeminist, philosopher, activist, food sovereignty advocate, and an anti-globalization author of more than 20 books and 500 papers.
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Kievan Russia (882−1242): The Original National State of Russians
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – In the years from 882 to 1242 the first and original national state organization of the Russians – the Kievan Russia (not Kyivan Rusia or Kyiv Rus’!) became directly and indirectly subject to external political influences.
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The 2012 Assange Interview with Nasrallah
Julian Assange | Journeyman Pictures - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2012 Interview – A freedom fighter to some, a terrorist to others, this is Hezbollah Secretary-General, Hassan Nasrallah, assassinated by Israeli military in Beirut on 27 Sep 2024. From a secret location in Lebanon, he gave Assange a rare and frank insight into his vision for the future of the Middle East.
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(Italiano) Intelligenza Artificiale: una rete impalpabile o una insostenibile ragnatela?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 settembre 2024 – Si moltiplicano le ricerche e le applicazioni pratiche dell’IA. Un aspetto sorprendente è la vastità di temi e problemi che vedono sempre più l’IA protagonista di cambiamenti radicali nei nostri modi di vivere, di muoverci, di interagire, di interpretare il mondo.
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Looking Up
Sophie Michel | Behind the Curtain - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
I realized recently
That
If you look up at a pine tree
From a certain angle
‘Orphanage City’ Helps Children in Gaza as the Genocide Grinds On
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct 2024 – Some Palestinian orphans in Gaza have gotten a glimmer of hope as the tragedies triggered by the grinding nearly year-long Israeli assault continue to deplete the Strip.
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Meta Is Aggressively Censoring Criticism of US-Israeli Warmongering
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
7 Oct 2024 – I am at risk of getting banned from both Instagram and Facebook as both Meta-owned platforms keep censoring my criticisms of Israel’s US-backed atrocities in Gaza and Lebanon.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
LEBANON, GAZA and WEST BANK, 7 Oct 2024
How the US Destabilized the Horn of Africa
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – The Horn of Africa’s is the geostrategic interface between Europe, Africa, and Asia. In 2018, the leaders of Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia signed a cooperation agreement, but now, six years later, it lies in tatters by destructive foreign intervention and global power competition.
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The Failure of Iran (Part 2)
Sakai Tanaka – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
4 Oct. 2024 – In my previous article, “The Loss of Hezbollah and Iran”, I wrote that Iran had no intention of starting a full-scale war with Israel, so that the war in the Middle East would not expand. However, I have changed my view.
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A Holistic Approach Integrating Galtung’s Theories and Linguistics
Jocelyn Wright et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
With this paper, we attempt an explicit rapprochement between the disciplinary fields by uniting Johan Galtung’s work on peace and violence with linguistics. We begin by defining key concepts related to applied linguistics and peace studies and contributing a holistic model of peace.
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Pact for the Future: A Partly Open Door for NGO-U.N. Cooperation
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
3 Oct 2024 – The Pact for the Future was accepted by the U.N. General Assembly in a three-stage process. It should be seen as a springboard for action rather than as an end point. We will have to see what as NGO representatives we can make of the partly open door.
→ read full articleCircumstantial Evidence
Dietrich Fischer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
A husband and wife spent their vacation at a lake where he enjoyed fishing. One day, while he was taking a nap on shore, the wife took their fishing boat to explore the lake.
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Die with a Smile (Music Video of the Week)
Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
Aug 2024 – Simply Delicious!…
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Israel Declares UN Secretary General António Guterres Persona Non Grata
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
The reason is simply because Mr. Guterres did not condemn the years-long Israeli-provoked attack by Iran on Israeli cities and her most important military airbase, Nevatim. Instead, he called for a ceasefire.
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The Fragments of the World Seek Each Other
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 Oct 2024 – “Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world seek each other so that the world may come into being.” These words of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, from his book The Phenomenon of Man, may well be worth meditating on every day. The forces of . . . love?
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(Français) Remarques pour la Journée Internationale de la Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
2 octobre 2024 – Ce text est le contenu de mon discours à l’Unesco lors de la réunion organisée par le collectif des ONG partenaires officielles de l’UNESCO en coproduction avec l’Association des Anciens Fonctionnaires de l’UNESCO et le soutien de la Commission nationale française pour l’UNESCO.
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Israel’s Ideology of Genocide Must Be Confronted and Stopped
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
30 Sep 2024 – Israel’s violent extremists now in control of its government believe that Israel has the Biblical license, indeed a religious mandate, to destroy the Palestinian people.
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(Português) Um Mundo que Perdeu o Coração
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Oct 2024
6 out 2024 – Acompanhando o curso do mundo, notamos um verdadeiro tsunami de ódio, mentiras, exclusões, verdadeiros genocídios e extermínios em massa como na Faixa de Gaza, que nos deixa perplexos. Até onde pode chegar a maldade humana?
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Large Number of Delegates Leave UN General Assembly as Netanyahu Speaks
AFP – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2024
27 Sep 2024 – Benjamin Netanyahu’s highly anticipated speech at the UNGA, during which he repeatedly denounced the UN as anti-Israel, was met with jeers by many delegates who walked out.
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