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Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
Tim Ferris is the amicable, quick-witted, high-energy writer, adventurer, and interviewer devoted to optimizing human performance on physical and mental health. But in addition to nearly dying at birth and growing up with no material luxury, Tim survived a period of suicidal depression that nearly claimed his life
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence –
5 Feb 2024, GAZA and WEST BANK: 27,365+ killed and at least 66,630 wounded in the Gaza Strip. Some rights groups put the death toll at more than 35,000.
State Department Declares “Ethnic Cleansing” in Sudan but Won’t Say the Same about Israel’s War in Gaza
Ryan Grim and Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
4 Feb 2024 – The U.S. risks complicity with Israeli atrocities, experts say.
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Bayer Ordered to Pay $2.25 Billion after Jury Links Herbicide Roundup to Cancer
Frances Vinall | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
27 Jan 2024 – A jury handed down the verdict, including $2 billion in punitive damages, against agrochemical giant Monsanto-Bayer, to a man who developed cancer from the company’s weed killer, Roundup.
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Will a South African Victory Stop the Gaza Genocide?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
27 Jan 2024 – As much as the ICJ may be dismissed as a collective West farce, the fact is that the ruling explicitly calls for Israel to stop the killing. Let’s cut to the chase.
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US Strikes in Iraq and Syria Kill about 40, Including Civilians
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
3 Feb 2024 – A massive US bombing campaign struck scores of targets in Iraq and Syria with over 100 bombs, leaving about 40 people dead, including civilians. President Joe Biden ordered the strikes as tensions in the Middle East are rapidly escalating.
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Five Variables Defining Our Future
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
25 Jan 2024 – For Germany it was a question of ‘organizing Europe’. The USA must ‘organize’ the world. Face to face with the volcanic eruption of US imperialism. Under some pretext, it will intervene in the clash to maintain its world dominion.
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(Français) La Culture de la Guerre A-t-elle Changé ? Est-Ce Toujours le Monopole de L’état ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
1 février 2024 – Je maintiens la conclusion suivante de mon livre de 2009, « L’histoire de la culture de la guerre », mais il y a eu des changements importants comme je l’expliquerai ci-dessous.
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Has the Culture of War Changed? Is It Still the Monopoly of the State?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024 – Will the US empire finish its time without destroying the planet with a nuclear war? Will it be succeeded by a new culture of war based in the Global South and led by China? Or will we be able to reform the UN to be based on ‘We the People’ instead of the nation-states of the world?
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Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
Anya Parampil’s book tells the story of US hybrid warfare on Venezuela and of the tectonic social and economic shifts reshaping the world today.
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Defunding UNRWA Is Worse Than Collective Punishment
Moncef Khane | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Jan 2024 – Cutting funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees at this time means furthering the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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Turkey ex-PM Ahmet Davutoglu | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
Watch via X: Prof. Richard Falk, Turkey ex-PM Ahmet Davutoglu, and British MP Jeremy Corbyn – Global Intellectuals of Conscience – 27 Jan 2024
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Why International Law Matters even if Israel Refuses to Comply with ICJ Provisional Measures Ruling
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
17 Jan 2024 – How should we interpret the South Africa allegation that Israel’s military operations in Gaza violate the country’s obligations under the United Nations Genocide Convention and that its actions constitute genocide?
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 114: UN Chief Urges Western Countries to Restore Funding to UNRWA
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
28 Jan 2024 – Casualties:
• 26,422+ killed(*) and at least 65,087 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
• 387+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
• Israel revises its estimated 7 Oct death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
• 557 Israeli soldiers killed since 7 Oct, and at least 3,221 injured.
(*) Some rights groups put the death toll number CLOSER TO 32,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.
Neglect of Higher Dimensional Solutions to Territorial Conflicts
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
22 Jan 2024 – Conventional Dependence on “Flat Earth” Thinking Ignoring Insights of Mathematics and Physics
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This Holocaust Remembrance Day, ‘Never Again’ Is Now
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
27 Jan 2024 – Today, Gaza is a shell of its former self. Entire neighborhoods have been wiped from the face of the Earth, replaced by a gray wasteland unfit for human life: bustling markets and crowded cafes, libraries home to thousands of precious books, bakeries filled with the smell of fresh bread — all of it turned to ash by Zionist IDF forces.
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Red Sea Politics: Ethiopia, Somalia, and the US/EU/NATO
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
17 Jan 2024 – An MOU pairing Ethiopia’s Red Sea ambitions with Somaliland’s secessionist aspirations heightens tensions in the Horn of Africa.
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“Depopulating” Palestine: Israel Through the Bifocal Lens of Hitler and Lemkin
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
20 Jan 2024 – As a human rights campaigner and a student of genocides, in my attempts to understand Israel’s physical destruction of Gaza in particular, and its foundational Zionist policies in Palestine, I find most helpful to turn to Raphael Lemkin’s grounded and multi-faceted conception of genocide and Hitler’s “blood-based” ideas of “race-state” and racialized land.
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Reality and Reflection
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 – Day 110 of the Israeli Genocide in Gaza
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False Messiahs
Barnett R. Rubin | Boston Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.
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Gaza: Nearly 1 Million Women and Girls Have Been Displaced and more Than 17 Thousand Women and Children Have Been Killed
UNRWA | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
23 Jan 2024 – Women and girls are among the most vulnerable groups in any society. Their vulnerability is typically amplified in times of crisis, such as the displacement of Gaza’s population because of the Israeli genocidal massacre.
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The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
“Give me solitude,” Whitman demanded in his ode to the eternal tension between city and soul, “give me again O Nature your primal sanities!”
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Cobalt Red: How Congolese Blood Powers Our Lives
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
24 Jan 2024 – “Unspeakable riches have brought the people of the Congo little other than unspeakable pain.” So writes Siddharth Kara in ‘Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.’ His book exposes the exploitation behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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UN Chief Blasts Israel’s War in Gaza for ‘Killing Civilians on Unprecedented Scale’
Kyle Anzalone | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
23 Jan 2024 – “In Gaza, Israel’s military operations have spread massive destruction and killed civilians on a scale unprecedented during my time as Secretary General, including more than 150 members of our own staff,” Guterres said on Sunday [21 Jan]. “This is heart-breaking, and utterly unacceptable.”
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The Futility of Genocide Studies after Gaza
Abdelwahab El-Affendi | Journal of Genocide Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
• (Mis)Understanding Genocide
• From Tolerance to Justification to Participation
• Genocide in Palestine?
• The Senselessness of Genocide Studies?
In Gaza, the West Is Enabling the Most Transparent Genocide in Human History
Richard Falk | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
17 Jan 2024 – This is extraordinary because the states supporting Israel, above all the United States, have claimed the high moral and legal ground and lectured the states of the Global South about the importance of the rule of law.
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How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions from Developing Countries
Nicholas Kusnetz and Katie Surma | Inside Climate News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
14 Jan 2024 – A case in point: When Ecuador placed a windfall tax on foreign oil operations, French and U.S. companies filed claims—and were awarded more than $800 million.
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Sixty Years of ‘Dr. Strangelove’: A Nuclear War Planner on the Nightmare Comedy
Kevin Gosztola | The Wide Shot – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
24 Jan 2024 – The nightmare comedy in Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece remains as razor-sharp as ever with the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight.
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The Shocking Inhumanity of Israel’s Crimes in Gaza
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
17 Jan 2024 – Survivors of Israel’s ground invasion in northern Gaza tell chilling stories of kidnappings, torture, and the rampant use of civilians as bait and human shields. The world still has no idea how inhumane Israel’s genocidal war really has been.
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With God on Our Side (Music Video of the Week)
Bob Dylan | BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
This is one of the very few surviving television broadcasts from Bob’s early days aired on 12 May 1964, five days before his legendary concert at Royal Festival Hall.
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War with China in 2025
Carlos Latuff | Global Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
Suicide Planetcide
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Year of the Dragon: Silk Roads, BRICS Roads, Sino-Roads
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
12 Jan 2024 – China, Russia and Iran will take the fight towards a more equal and just system to the next level.
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77 Groups Worldwide Back Genocide Lawsuit against Biden in U.S. Court
Prem Thakker | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
10 Jan 2024 – Dozens of legal and civil society organizations from around the world have thrown their weight behind a U.S. lawsuit accusing President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for failing to “prevent an unfolding genocide” in Gaza.
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Gaza’s Economy Has Been Erased–Famine and Black Markets Are All That Remain
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
24 Jan 2024 – Even in areas like Rafah, where the Israeli ground invasion has not reached, Gaza’s society has been decimated. Its economy no longer exists and basic goods can only be found on the black market where they cost ten times their prewar price.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 29 Jan 2024
Peace Journalism
Christos Frangonikolopoulos and Naya Kalfeli | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
The term “peace journalism” was originally introduced in the 1960s by the Norwegian academic Johan Galtung, a pioneer in the study of news values, to describe the orientation of journalism focusing on the causes and possible solutions of a conflict, with the aim to improve the prospects for peace.
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The Power of Arts in Encountering Individual Unspoken Values within Peacebuilding
Miho Taka and Michaelina Jakala | Coventry University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
When we associate our values with the experiences of pain, grief, regret, guilt and trauma that we live with, many of us may try to find solace and catharsis (consciously or unconsciously) by working with others in similar contexts but without having an avenue to explore why we are doing this.
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Houthis Emerge as Latest Threat to U.S. Control Over Global Shipping
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
On 30 Dec 2023, a ship owned by Maersk Line came under missile attacks by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, announced it was suspending operations in the sea indefinitely, joining major Western shipping and energy companies going away from the region.
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The International Court of Justice Stops Short of Ordering Gaza Ceasefire to Stop Genocide
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
26 Jan 2024 – The ICJ ruled that Israel’s military shall not commit acts forbidden by Article 2 of Genocide Convention but stopped short of ordering Israel to cease its military operation in Gaza.
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A Unified Theory of Presidential Folly
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 – From Hiroshima to the Houthis, American presidents tend to overreach when they believe they are facing down communism or terrorism, and the world pays the price.
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Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another ‘Lehman Moment’?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
In 2008, derivatives brought down investment bank Bear Stearns and insurer A.I.G. They could not fail because the trillions of dollars in credit default swaps would have been wiped out, forcing banks and financial institutions to write down their own risky and now “unhedged” loans. Bear and A.I.G. were bailed out; but the Treasury drew the line at Lehman Brothers, and the market crashed.
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Many Say They Want Peace When What They Really Want Is Obedience
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
24 Jan 2024 – Pay less attention to people’s words about wanting “peace” and focus instead on what actions they are supporting to accomplish that end. This will show you the truth about what they really want.
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Doomsday Clock Remains at 90 Seconds to Midnight
Sarah Starkey | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
23 Jan 2024 – The Doomsday Clock was reset at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to midnight, reflecting the unprecedented danger the world faces. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists emphasized that the Clock could be turned back, but governments and people needed to take urgent action.
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The Enduring Mystery
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
Meanwhile, in the US of A…
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Gaza and Germany’s Departure from Reason
[decoco] decolonial research group | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
22 Jan 2024 – In an open letter, 300 scholars from across the world condemn Germany’s role in silencing Palestinians and contributing to Israel’s genocide.
→ read full articleFrom the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
Dear friends, it is the first time since 2008 that I miss two weeks in a roll. So, at the very least you deserve a truthful explanation. No drama intended.
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Israel Defends Itself at the International Court of Justice: From Genocide Victims to Perpetrators
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
11 Jan 2024 – Israel’s legal team, a member of which is a Holocaust survivor and the country’s ex-Attorney General, will likely frontload the politico-legal mantra of Israel’s right to “self-defence”.
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(Italiano) L’energia ‘richiesta’ per il futuro: utopia o autodistruzione?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
10 Gennaio 2024 – La quantità di energia richiesta per i prossimi 30 anni è quasi inimmaginabile: dalle due alle quattro volte superiore a quella che usiamo oggi: qual è la soluzione, utopia o autodistruzione?
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There’s No Free Press without a Free Assange
David S. D’Amato | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
“The truth alone will make the people free. And for this reason, the truth must not be permitted to reach the people. The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be ruthlessly suppressed.” — Eugene V. Debs
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The Barbaric Conduct of the Israeli State Must Be Stopped
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar, Joseph Camilleri | SHAPE – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jan 2024
14 Jan 2024 – The genocidal violence unleashed by Israel in Occupied Palestine has produced unspeakable tragedy and suffering for the Palestinian people. Such barbaric behaviour places the State of Israel outside the bounds of a civilized world. Israel has become a pariah state and must be treated as such by the international community.
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All Roads Lead to Jerusalem: A Lucrative Border Industrial Complex
Petra Molnar | Transnational Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
19 Dec 2023 – Hebron, a laboratory for both technology and violence, reflects the Israeli occupation’s impact on daily life, with sterilized roads, military checkpoints, and settler violence defining the landscape. This journey unveils the complex layers of trauma, dispossession, and dehumanization, challenging preconceptions and raising questions about freedom and oppression.
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Useful Quotes Resisting Corporate, Congressional, Police State, Judicial, or Oval Office Tyranny
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
8 Jan 2024 – When Fascist-leaning, Anti-democratic Collage of Multibillionaires, White Supremacists, Wall Street Tycoons, Washington-DC Insiders, Christian Dominionists, War-Mongering Military Generals, and Climate Change Deniers Try to Impose Their Will on the Voters Who Did Not Technically Vote for Fascism
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Pyar Karne Wale Pyar Karte Hain Shan Se (Music Video of the Week)
Asha Bhosle | Desi Music Library – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
Enjoy the hit song from the Hindi movie Shaan vibrantly portrayed by Bollywood actors.
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The Myth of Israel’s ‘Democracy’
Ilan Pappé | The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
5 Jan 2024 – Israeli historian Ilan Pappé on Israel’s end game in Gaza and the future of the Israeli apartheid state.
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Inside Israel’s Torture Camp for Gaza Detainees
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
5 Jan 2024 – Palestinians arrested in the northern Gaza Strip describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence.
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How Israel Failed to Learn from the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Colin John Irwin | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jan 2024
3 Jan 2024 – There is no peace in the Middle East because there is no effective peace process. The Good Friday agreement which brought peace to Northern Ireland a quarter of a century ago, provided a clear guide. The parties have to do what the negotiating teams, of which I was a part, did in Northern Ireland.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 93: Israel Surpasses Three Months of Gaza Bombing Campaign, UN Warns of Starvation
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service ,
8 Jan 2024
7 Jan 2024 – Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians in the West Bank in overnight raids. In Gaza, an Israeli airstrike killed Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, in Khan Yunis.
22,835+ killed and 58,416+ wounded in the Gaza Strip.
Just War Theory as an Inspiration for “Just AI Theory”?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
8 Jan 2024 – In Quest of a Robust Ethical Framework for AI Aided by ChatGPT – Just AI theory and Just suffering theory?
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The US Can’t Stop China’s Rise, but It Will Cripple the EU while Trying
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Washington’s desperate attempts to curb Beijing’s high-tech development are hurting U.S. allies more than the Chinese.
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An Immense Hunger
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – What can we do, how create the new when we are such stuff as dreams are made on? To escape the period that ends every sentence, every year, every life, one only needs winged words to take flight, to shimmer in the ascending iridescent light.
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Genocide in Gaza
John J. Mearsheimer | John’s Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Important document that should be circulated and read by anyone interested in the Gaza atrocities: the 84-page “application” South Africa filed with the ICJ on 29 Dec 2023 accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.
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Kristina Borjesson Broke the Truth about TWA 800: Exiled from CBS and the Profession Because of It – RIP
Celia Farber | The Truth Barrier - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
30 Dec 2023 – It was just as in Orwell’s 1984, an Immediate Rewriting of History Occurred–U.S. Journalism Lost a Giant
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2024
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – We at the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University wish you all the best in 2024 and that this year brings an end to the genocide/carnage of our people and to suffering people everywhere (Palestine, Western Sahara, Rohingya in Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen).
→ read full articleFor Ministries and Infrastructures of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – In a world torn by the wars in Ukraine and Palestine, and threatened by the Bidens, Putins and Netanyahus, we must not forget the slow, patient work of those who cultivate peace.
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A Compelling Theory to Explain a Key Trait of Modern Humans
Marjorie Hecht | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Behavioral and cultural traits define human evolution; brain size, climate, and new technologies cannot explain the overall process. Hyperprosociality provides a comprehensive explanation. H. sapiens is the only species that has high levels of cooperation with those who are not related.
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A Hindu Perspective on Ambition and Unsatiated Lust
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Every living being is ambitious to have the topmost level of enjoyment in the material world and yet he is always unhappy here. This unhappiness is present in all the above-mentioned planets in spite of long life and standard of comfort more and more increased. That is the law of material nature.
→ read full articleThe T.T.C.U.
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – Cinematic Universe
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 8 Jan 2024
Turkey, Malaysia Back South Africa’s ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
3 Jan 2024 – “Israel’s murder of more than 22,000 Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom were women and children, in Gaza for nearly three months should not go unpunished in any way,” said a Turkish spokesperson.
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Gaza Webinar: Is Israel Cornered?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Wed, 10 Jan, 7 PM Eastern: The Gaza War, Short & Long-Term Diplomatic Imperatives and Implications for the Middle East and Geopolitics, with panelists Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier, and Assaf Kfoury
→ read full article(Français) Pour les Ministeres et Infrastructures de Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 janvier 2024 – Dans un monde déchiré par les guerres en Ukraine et en Palestine, et menacé par les Biden, Poutine et Netanyahu, nous ne devons pas oublier le travail lent et patient de ceux qui cultivent la paix.
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Family of Israeli Woman in NYT Oct 7 Sexual Violence Renounces Story, Says Reporters Manipulated Them
The Short String | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – A New York Times story claiming a pattern of Hamas’ gender-based violence on Oct 7 hinged on the story of Gal Abdush, but her family says there is no proof she was raped, and that Times reporters interviewed them under false pretenses.
→ read full articleMandela, King, Malcolm X – and Jesus: Black Liberation Activists Who Are Safely Dead – and Widely Ignored
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Dead men make such convenient heroes.
They cannot rise to challenge the images
we would fashion from their lives.
And besides,
it is easier to build monuments
than to make a better world.
The Nuclear Energy Dilemma: Climate Savior or Existential Threat?
Leslie Alan Horvitz | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – Nuclear power has promise and peril, posing many challenging questions for environmentalists.
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Gaza: South Africa Seeks Justice
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
2 Jan 2024 – JUST commends South Africa for requesting the ICJ to issue an urgent order declaring Israel in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Geneva Convention for its massive slaughter of Palestinians living in Gaza.
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Zelensky’s Former Top Adviser Wants Kiev to Ally with Moscow against the West – What Exactly Is Going On?
Tarik Cyril Amar | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – Aleksey Arestovich’s latest idea is that the two warring countries should sue the US-led bloc together.
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Successful!
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Which is the best? Why?
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As China-Russia Economic and Diplomatic Ties Advance, Their Cultural Bond Flourishes with Ballet, Theatre and Music
South China Morning Post | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – As the Russian musical Anna Karenina is set to be staged in Shanghai and Beijing this month, theatre director Alina Chevik hopes to see how it can connect the two peoples at a time when Russian artists have been shunned in Western markets.
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The Forgotten Jewish-Christian-Muslim Alliance and China’s Silk Road
Matthew Ehret | Rising Tide Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – I would like to go a little deeper into the history that shapes our age by taking a look at the forgotten Jewish Kingdom of Khazaria and at some remarkable and unknown examples of inter-religious collaboration.
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Moral and Strategic Consequences of S. Africa’s Case against Israel at the World’s Court
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
5 Jan 2024 – The post-apartheid Republic of South Africa filing a genocide case against Israel is a significant act pregnant with positive moral consequences while handing the Palestinian liberation struggle an unprecedented strategic weapon.
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Imagine (Music Video of the Week)
Written by John Lennon | Worthwhile Music – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
Performed by 49 Musicians from 40 Countries
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The Empire Strikes Back
𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖋𝖆𝖈𝖊 (𝕾𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖞) | Where Is John Fisher? – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
6 Jan 2024 – A fantastic piece of analysis.
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We’re Still Breathing: Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia
Graham Peebles | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jan 2024
18 Dec 2023 – Ignored by western governments and largely overlooked by media, a genocide is taking place in Ethiopia. The Amhara people, a large ethnic group, are being ethnically cleansed from the region of Oromia, the largest region on the country.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 86: Israel Falls in ‘Serious Strategic Trap’ in Gaza as Netanyahu Vows to Fight ‘for Months’
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
31 Dec 2023:
• 21,822+ killed* and at least 56,451 wounded in Gaza.
• 316 Palestinians killed in West Bank and East Jerusalem.
• 504 Israeli soldiers killed and 1,952 injured.
* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 28,000 when accounting for those disappeared in the rubble.
‘In a Roaring Flood’: How Israel Provoked October 7 Attacks, Yet Was Caught by Surprise
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
28 Dec 2023 – The Spark That Lit the Fire: The Untold Story
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Why the U.S. Holds Israel as a Sacred Cow?
Noam Chomsky | Free Will – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
Noam Chomsky on Israel
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Beyond the US Veto: UN Options to Protect Gaza
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – Any party to the Genocide Convention can submit the matter to the World Court, which could make a finding of genocide. The General Assembly also has an option left.
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Stunning Atrocities in Gaza Funded by US Taxpayers
Ralph Nader | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
26 Dec 2023 – The US Congress is poised to send $14.3 billion to Israeli militarism—a “genocide tax.” The atrocities are being recorded by drones and by brave Palestinian journalists targeted by the Israeli army. Over 66 journalists have been slain by the IDF so far in Palestine.
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Meet the Companies Profiting from Israel’s Gaza Genocide
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
20 Dec 2023 – As global resistance to war and apartheid grows, it is important that the public know exactly who is making this violence possible.
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Israeli Airstrikes Kill 76 Members of One Gaza Family
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
24 Dec 2023 – Israeli airstrikes killed 76 members of an extended family in “one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history. This war must end,” said the head of the UN agency where one of the victims worked.
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When I Grow Older – A Gaza Poem
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
25 Dec 2023 – To Gaza’s little angels – in heaven, and here on earth.
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In the West Bank, I Saw How Peace Will Require Confrontation with Israel
David Ignatius | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
16 Dec 2023 – For three days this past week, I traveled the West Bank from Hebron in the south to Nablus in the north. What I saw was a pattern of Israeli abuse that makes daily life a humiliation for many Palestinians — and could obstruct the peaceful future that Israelis and Palestinians both say they want.
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Operation Condor: The Cold War US Conspiracy That Terrorized South America
Giles Tremlett | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
During the 1970s and 80s, eight US (Henry Kissinger)-backed right wing military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their left wing political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice.
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Let’s Hope for a Happier New Year!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
1 Jan 2024 – Dear friends, I hope that you, your family and friends have a Happy New Year of 2024. But to be candidly honest, I have my doubts.
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Choose Kindness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
— Leo Tolstoy
John Pilger, on the Betrayers of Julian Assange
John Pilger | New Matilda – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
More than a decade on from his forced asylum and subsequent torture in 2012 at the hands of British and US authorities, Julian Assange remains abandoned by his own government and the media.
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Prof. Galtung: Nationalism and Migration in Relation to Peace
Johan Galtung | University of Antwerp – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
25 Apr 2016 – The University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp–UCSIA
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The Unbridgeable Gulf between Israeli Politicians’ Rhetoric and the Reality in Gaza
Amos Harel | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
24 Dec 2023 – The Israeli army is planning stage three of the atrocities, but – unusually – it is facing no pressure to meet a timetable ■ Hamas’s Sinwar is in no hurry to make another hostage deal.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
Parental Guidance: [Sanitized] Pornographic Violence – Palestine, 1 Jan 2024 – (Un)Happy New Year!
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Israel’s War Crimes
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jan 2024
29 Dec 2023 – Every time the UN can get more aid into Gaza, the Israeli bombardment of civilian areas intensifies, and the civilian deaths increase.
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