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How Germany Could Preserve World Order
Klaus Schlichtmann – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

Today it is impossible for any one nation to effect positive change. No single nation can bring peace to the world. But a single nation can start a war. But why not the other way around? Historically, the first attempt to abolish war as an institution dates back to the Hague Peace Conferences, 1899 and 1907.

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Krishna Appears on Earth 5,252 Years Ago–Today
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

26 Aug 2024 Sri Krishna Janmastami (appearance: 3,228 BC): Why Lord Krishna Descends into This World

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 26 Aug 2024

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French Police Arrest Telegram Founder Durov
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

24 Aug 2024 – The Russian founder of the messaging app Telegram, Pavel Durov, has been detained after he arrived in Paris on a private jet, local broadcaster LCI has reported.

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Johan Galtung’s (1930-2024) Contributions to Peace Research and Practice
Tatsushi Arai | Peace in Action - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – Excerpt of Tatsushi Arai’s presentation from a virtual panel organized by Kent State University’s School of Peace and Conflict Studies.

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Genocide on Gaza
Joe Sacco | The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

22 Aug 2024 – Fantagraphics has released a series of graphic commentaries and reflections by Joe Sacco.

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Neruda’s Beautiful, Humanistic Nobel Literature Prize Acceptance Speech
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

On 13 Dec 1971, Pablo Neruda took the podium in Stockholm to deliver an extraordinary acceptance speech that begins with a lyrical recollection of his 1948 escape to Argentina when Chile’s dictatorial government issued an order for his arrest.

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USA: Revised Campaign Slogans
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

Trump 2024

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Studying Physical Structures of Human Body
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

There are different types of persons with differing bodily characteristics in the world but who have a broad sameness in terms of their physical structures.

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Ten Theses on the Far Right of a Special Type
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

15 Aug 2024 – Fascism is an insufficient term, as it denies the intimacy between liberal and far right forces. We present ten theses to understand this ‘intimate embrace’ and the rise of this far right of a special type.

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Why AI Models Are Collapsing and What It Means for the Future of Technology
Bernard Marr | Forbes - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

19 Aug 2024 – Artificial intelligence has revolutionized everything, giving us tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini, which can generate human-like text or images. But there’s a problem that could undermine all of AI’s achievements known as “model collapse.”

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US Military Base in Bangladesh at the Heart of a Revolution
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

22 Aug 2024 – Former Bangladeshi Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina, has a shocking accusation against the US: “I could have remained in power if I had surrendered the sovereignty of Saint Martin Island and allowed the U.S. to hold sway over the Bay of Bengal.”

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Weep
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

Weep, sisters, for the child with the blown-out skull,
for the other child burned alive,
for the limp, lifeless, tiny bodies,
and the piles of unrecognizable carnage.

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‘An Entire Generation Is at Risk’: Aid Agencies Warn of Mass Polio Outbreak in Gaza
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

20 Aug 2024 – “Without an immediate cease-fire and access to vaccines and humanitarian aid across the strip, the people of Gaza are facing a public health disaster.”

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Contemplation
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

Thoughts of life and death
past, present, and yet to be
somehow, somewhere, sometime

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Old Age
Ralph Waldo Emerson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Aug 2024

Jan 1862 Issue – “Skill to do comes of doing; knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.”

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Existential Struggle
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

15 Aug 2024 – Now the numbers killed in the indiscriminate slaughter in Gaza exceeded 40,000 registered deaths (72% of them women and children). But the number of deaths could be many folds more (at least ten thousand under the rubble, many thousands died for lack of food or medical care, etc.).

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The Responsibility of Western ‘Liberal Democracies’ for Gaza Catastrophe
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – This is certainly either gross incompetence on Israel’s part or a deliberate effort to provoke a wider war. And a shady effort by Israel to compel the engagement of the US in its multiple struggles in the region.

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Reading Chinese FM Wang Yi’s Meetings with Myanmar Military Leaders
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

15 Aug 2024 – Despite Wang Yi’s carefully worded diplomatic message designed to convey China-Myanmar bilateral relations as “friendship with all Myanmar peoples, the political significance of his official and public meetings for the embattled military cannot be overstated.

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The Escalating Conflict in the Sahel: A Geopolitical Quagmire
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

16 Aug 2024 – The Sahel, this vast arid region stretching from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, which has long been a battleground for various forces, shows no signs of abating. Instead, it is intensifying, drawing in both regional and global powers in a struggle that is as much about resources as it is about ideology and control.

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He Had Two Babies
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

14 Aug 2024 – He had two babies. Twins. Aysal and Aser, a boy and a girl, and a loving wife. An Israeli airstrike killed both his babies, and their mother, and their grandmother, while he was out collecting their birth certificates. There’s a video of him screaming, screaming the way any of us would scream.

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(Italiano) Spiare per gli USA – e per la pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

Esporre i crimini di guerra agghindati da “segreti” è un servizio per la pace. Ellsberg ha avuto il Premio Nobel Alternativo per la Pace. E così sarà per Assange.

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US Approves $20 Billion Arms Deal for Israel
Natalie Venegas and Jon Jackson | Newsweek - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – The United States today approved more than $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel. Reuters reported that the move was approved by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken. The deal reportedly includes F-15 fighter jets.

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Freedom of Expression vs. Freedom from Humiliation
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

Of course we can indicate our doubts without humiliating. And of course we can be respectful without submitting. But do so in the spirit of dialogue, not in that continuation of war by verbal means known as a debate. And explore the answers together.

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Why Have Religion when We Can All just Be Spiritual?
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

My Defense of Institutional Religion

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Billionaire Politics: A Danger to Democracy
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

15 Aug 2024 – Donald Trump was “interviewed” this week on X by owner Elon Musk, whose questions were so deferential that End Citizens United filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission. An instance of the power of billionaires attempting to hijack the political process for their own ends.

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‘Words like Slaughter:’ A Comparative Study of The New York Times Reporting in Ukraine and Gaza
Writers Against the War on Gaza | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

16 Aug 2024 – An in-depth comparison of The New York Times coverage of the Russian invasion of Ukraine vs. Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza shows how the Times dutifully launders the news to fit the U.S. government’s agenda.

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The International Court of Justice Finds That BDS Is Not Merely a Right, but an Obligation
Craig Mokhiber | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – In its historic ruling, the ICJ found that Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and Gaza is entirely unlawful, that Israel practices apartheid and racial segregation, and that all states are under a duty to help bring this to an end, including by cutting off all economic, trade and investment relations with Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

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(Italiano) Dopo l’impero statunitense: Un mondo di regioni?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

Un’ipotesi chiave è che il sistema che ci sarà dopo l’impero statunitense non sarà né un’egemonia gestita da un unico grande attore come la Cina o l’UE, né la globalizzazione gestita dalle TNC, ma un mondo di regioni. Potrebbe arrivare una moneta comune globale. Ma le regioni domineranno, il sistema statale sta svanendo.

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UN Rights Office Calls for Accountability for Latest ‘Horrific’ West Bank Killing
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

16 Aug 2024 – The perpetrators of a deadly rampage targeting a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank must face justice to deter future attacks, the UN human rights office insisted today.

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EU Foreign Policy Chief Calls for Sanctions against Israeli Ministers for ‘Incitement to War Crimes’
The Cradle News Desk - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

12 Aug 2024 – Josep Borrell said yesterday that the bloc must impose sanctions against Israeli far-right ministers Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich for “incitement to war crimes.” He called Smotrich’s comments on starving two million Gazans by withholding aid “sinister.”

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Turkey and Syria Both Want the US Military Out of Syria
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

Removing foreign troops from occupation can be done peacefully through diplomatic negotiations in which each side benefits.  Or, it can be achieved through violent attacks on the occupation forces in order to make them decide to leave on their own.

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A Farewell to Truth
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

16 Aug 2024 – The F.B.I. agents did more than seize my personal electronics when they searched my home on Aug. 7, the author writes. They stole the truth.

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The Fajr Massacre: Every 70 Kg Bag of Human Remains Is Considered a Martyr
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

The bodies of Palestinians killed in the latest Israeli massacre in Gaza were destroyed so far beyond recognition that doctors have only been able to give grieving families an anonymous bag of human remains to bury.

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Russia, China and Iran Coordinate Their Support to Palestine Through BRICS
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

18 Apr 2024 – Those countries have also committed to a future long-term plan to the infrastructure economic and political reconstruction of the occupied territories.

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Ursula K. Le Guin on Growing Older and What Beauty Really Means
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

Cats know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. That is why their tail is there. It is a cat’s way of maintaining a relationship.

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We Are the Bad Guys
Craig Murray - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

12 Aug 2024 – When I was reprimanded and officially told that receipt of intelligence from torture in the “War on Terror” was approved by the Prime Minister, it became clear to me that there was a deliberate promoting of false intelligence narratives through torture to justify military policy in Afghanistan and Central Asia.

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A Just and Sustainable Peace in Sudan Is Possible
Hussein Awad Ali | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

16 Aug 2024 – The shortest path to ending this war is through ending the support the RSF receives from certain regional powers.

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“Incomprehensible”: U.S. Approves $20 Billion in New Arms for Israel as Gaza Death Toll Tops 40,000
Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

15 Aug 2024 – Health officials in Gaza said today that the official death toll from Israel’s 10-month genocide has topped 40,000–though that is believed to be a vast undercount–just days after the Biden administration greenlit $20 billion in additional weapons sales to Israel.

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Thou Shalt Not Commit Genocide
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

16 Aug 2023 – Opposing genocide is a moral not a political choice.

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Israelis Use the Same Tactics of the Nazis During WWII
Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – Probe Confirms Israeli Military Using Palestinians as Human Shields – Despite global condemnation, the Haaretz investigation found that the technique is nonetheless a recurrent element of the IOF’s operating routines.

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WHO Declares Mpox Virus a Public Health Emergency of International Concern
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

14 Aug 2024 – The chief of the World Health Organization declared that the rise in mpox cases constitutes a public health emergency of international concern, following advice from members at today’s International Health Regulations Emergency Committee meeting.   

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How to Unmask the Insanity of War on Gaza and Arab-Muslim Leadership Complicity?
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

Global Leadership Failure to Stop the Insanity of War

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O Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

Your sisters stayed in their palaces
With golden chains and shameless lies
Some grinned and aided criminals…

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US of A: The Week in Weird
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

This Modern World

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(Italiano) Il nuovo mondo del (1984) 2030: “Non si possiederà nulla. E si sarà felici”.
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

5 Agosto 2024 – Se impegnate giusto qualche minute a controllare il sito web ‘The Great Reset’ del Forum Economico Mondiale, che comprende copia di quanto chiama ‘La mappa di trasformazione del Gran Reset’ vi accorgerete presto che il WEF intende imporre il nuovo mondo, profondi cambiamenti a circa 200 aree della vita umana entro il 2030.

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Visit to Canada and Toronto
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

17 Aug 2024 – These days I am living in Toronto, Canada which has a population of about 40 million.

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The Future of Our World by Noam Chomsky
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

18 Aug 2024 – This article is a synopsis of some of Chomsky’s responses to questions, and it includes third-party supporting facts surrounding his statements about the two biggest risks to humanity’s continual existence.

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Inside Israel’s Torture, Rape, and Dehumanization Centers [Sickening]
Robert Inlakesh | The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – Shocking even by Israeli standards, the horrifying truth of the occupation’s systematic torture, rape, and degradation of Palestinian detainees reveals a brutality buried in silence.

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Israeli Crowds Storm Al-Aqsa Mosque, West Bank Villages on Jewish Holiday
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – Israeli crowds have stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque in occupied East Jerusalem and villages in the occupied West Bank, as they marked a Jewish holiday. Raid in at-Tawani is part of broader settler violence in the occupied West Bank on Jewish anniversary of temple destruction.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 19 Aug 2024

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Applause for Palestine Under the Dome of the Turkish Parliament
Al-Quds - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

16 Aug 2024 – The Turkish parliament witnessed an unprecedented celebration of Pres. Mahmoud Abbas yesterday, evident in the warm applause he received during his speech, in messages that carry rejection of US bias towards Israel.

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Shifting Economic Balance: BRICS vis-a-vis G7
Wang Wen | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

The unipolar world led by the West has persisted for over two hundred years. Thirty years ago, the economic output of BRICS was only one-third of that of the G7. Now, BRICS has completely surpassed the G7.

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The Murder of Others
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.

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An Anthem for Peace and Justice from Israeli and Palestinian Youth (Music Video of the Week)
Jerusalem Youth Chorus | TED – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

10 Aug 2024 – How music creates cross-cultural understanding — even during times of war. Introducing the young Palestinian and Israeli singers who perform a powerful anthem of nonviolence and call on listeners to choose a different way forward.

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The Empire Is the Real Enemy
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix – TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – The US has offered to drop its ridiculous criminal charges against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro if he agrees to leave power. These freaks really do believe the entire planet is their property.

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Sexual Violence and Famine Stalk Sudan’s Displaced
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Aug 2024

13 Aug 2024 – Sudan’s deepening humanitarian crisis caused by nearly 16 months of war has left countless women and girls subject to sexual violence and rape and tens of thousands of children at risk of death from hunger, UN aid teams said today.

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FBI Raids Scott Ritter’s Residence
Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

9 Aug 2024 – Scott Ritter on the F.B.I.’s search and seizure at his home in New York State yesterday.

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The Criminal Assassination of Ismail Haniyeh in Iran
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

9 Aug 2024 – None of the countries involved in the conflict with Israel–-Lebanon, Iran, Syria, Yemen–-seek a wider war. Only Israel approaches this prospect favorably. This cycle of provocative acts and retaliations initiated by Israel have their own escalating momentum that is difficult to control.

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Released Palestinians Account of Israel’s Use of Torture
TRT World - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

Some of the Palestinian detainees in Gaza are traumatised due to psychological abuse during detention while others’ bodies bear evidence of physical torture, a war crime prohibited under international law.

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Clarifying a Two-state Pattern Language of 64 Modalities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

12 Aug 2024 – This is written in a period in which there are major ongoing conflicts, most obviously with respect to Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine, but less obviously in other arenas. Citizens of other countries are being advised to leave Lebanon in anticipation of major conflict and its probable escalation in the Middle East. Developing an AI-enabled Methodology to Reframe Binary Bias

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The Path Forward
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

11 Aug 2024 – We are 15 million indigenous Palestinians, over 8 million of us are intentionally made refugees or displaced. So far, over 250,000 Palestinians were killed or perished prematurely thanks to genocidal policies since 1948. A million were injured and another million imprisoned since 1948 by Zionists.

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Interrogating the Venezuelan Victory of Nicolás Maduro
Murat Sofuoglu | Richard Falk/Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

6 Aug 2024 – “If Maduro manages to hold on, and especially if he gains support from Brazil and other moderate governments, it will be interpreted as a setback for ideologically motivated US coercive diplomacy, including an effort to exert political influence by imposing sanctions unilaterally,” Richard Falk said. 

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Full Text of Hiroshima Peace Declaration on 79th Anniversary of Atomic Bombing
The Mainichi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

6 Aug 2024 – The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read today by Hiroshima’s Mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony to mark 79 years since the 1945 US atomic bombing of the city.

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What Makes Life Alive: Vassily Grossman on Consciousness, Freedom, and Kindness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

“Every thing that lives is holy, life delights in life,” William Blake wrote in an era when science first began raising questions with spiritual undertones: What is life? Where does it begin and end? What makes it alive?

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Purpose
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

We can help without interfering
In the fate unfolding

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Paris Olympics 2024: Céline Dion Sings l’Hymne À L’amour (Music Video of the Week)
Eurosport - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

26 Jun 2024 – Céline Made History at the Top of the Eiffel Tower

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Venezuela: An Attempted Coup by Any Other Name
María Páez Victor | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

4 Aug 2024 – Once again, as in 2002, Venezuela has been the victim of a combined media and diplomatic coup attempt, but this time with the added element of organized crime and a cyber-attack.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 12 Aug 2024

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(Italiano) Sudan. Un genocidio periferico che non interessa nessuno
Gianni Tognoni | Volere la Luna - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

9 ago 2024 – RSF era la milizia del genocidio, che è stata ribattezzata Janjawee, e finanziata dall’UE con milioni di euro, per fungere da lupi che proteggono i rifugiati africani dal raggiungere l’Europa cristiana bianca, dopo il genocidio del Sudan del Sud.

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Maga-Man and Fertility Lad
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

Meanwhile, in the US of A…

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US Elites Fail to Sink Chinese Swimmers
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

9 Aug 2024 – US political and media elites tried but failed to sink the Chinese swimming team that performed well despite the increased stress caused by media-induced rumors of “Chinese doping” at the Paris Olympics. Now, the tables are being turned as the US anti-doping regime is coming under increasing scrutiny and criticism.

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Lytton’s Disciple: Sorcerer Behind Ripper Murders
Matthew Ehret Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

While the Ripper murders were underway, D’Onston was a patient in London’s Whitechapel Hospital during the total duration of the killings; he began writing articles on the topic of the killer’s identity for his long-time employer The Pall Mall Gazette (for whom he worked since 1869).

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Rethinking Conflict: The Cultural Approach
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

Conflict is a complex human phenomenon and should by no means be confused with violence. Although conflicts may lead to violence, they are totally different conceptually. At the root of a conflict there is always an incompatibility, a contradiction, between goals.

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Palestinian Prisoners Endure ‘Guantanamo-like’ Conditions in Israeli Torture Camps: Report
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

29 Jul 2024 – A new report from The Washington Post published today details Israel’s torture, starvation, and killing of Palestinians in its prison system in a manner resembling the notorious US prison in Guantanamo Bay.

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Between Killing with Nukes and the Possibility of a Nonkilling Global Society
Roland Joseph, Ph.D. | Center for Global Nonkilling, India – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

9 Aug 2024 – 79 years after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the risk of killing directly and indirectly with nukes remains tangible. When I say directly, I mean at any time; nuclear weapons can be used by accident, miscalculation or by the willingness of nuclear states.

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(Italiano) LA PACE E’ POSSIBILE. Sant’Anna di Stazzema 12 agosto 2024 ore 15:00
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

Incontro a cura dei Camminatori per la Pace e il Disarmo.

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‘Another Day of Horror’: UN Rights Office Condemns Israeli Strikes at Gazan School
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

10 Aug 2024 – The UN Human Rights Office condemned today the increasing frequency of Israeli Defense Forces strikes on schools, where hundreds of thousands of forcibly displaced Palestinians have sought shelter, with the latest attacks killing dozens at a Gaza City school.

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Beautiful Encounter
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

10 Aug 2024 – These days I am living in a big city—Toronto–in Canada. I have come to this large city from India, which is having quite a warm and uncomfortable season.

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The Ardent Pipe Dreams of U.S. Voters
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

4 Aug 2024 – No matter how obvious it is that the U.S. is an oligarchy, not a democracy, the ardent pipe dreams of a new face in the White House go to their heads every four years.  It can only be explained by a combination of intellectual ignorance, the acceptance of propaganda, and the embrace of illusions.

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Western Ambassadors to Skip Nagasaki Memorial after Israel Snub
Channel News Asia - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

7 Aug 2024 – Ambassadors from Western countries including the United States will skip a ceremony marking the 79th anniversary of the bombing of Nagasaki after Israel was snubbed, officials said today.

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Human Rights World Report 2024: Israel and Palestine
Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

In 2023, civilians were targeted, attacked, and killed at a unprecedented scale in the recent history of Israel and Palestine.

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Torture, Abuse and Humiliation: Palestinians on Israeli Prison ‘Hell’
Emma Graham-Harrison, Sufian Taha, Bethan McKernan, and Quique Kierszenbaum | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

5 Aug 2024 – Ex-prisoners report sexual assault and starvation in ‘torture camp’ jails presided over by Itamar Ben-Gvir.

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Spying for the USA–And for Peace
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

To expose war crimes parading as “secrets” is a service for peace.  Ellsberg got the alternative Nobel Peace Prize. So will Assange.

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Pakistan: Let the Nation Be Free of Criminals
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

Looking Beyond the Obvious Political Lens

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Hiroshima: The Unknown Images
La 2de Guerre Mondiale – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

29 Jun 2024 – On 6 Aug 1945 at 8:15 a.m., a bright flash set the sky over Hiroshima ablaze as a gigantic column of smoke rises above the city. The first nuclear bomb in history has just been dropped on one of the largest metropolis in Japan. This new documentary shows this tragedy from the inside using photos taken that day.

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World-Ending Maneuvers?
Hekmat Aboukhater and William D. Hartung | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

7 Aug 2024 – Inside the Nuclear-Weapons Lobby Today – The Pentagon’s $2 trillion plan to build a new generation of nuclear-armed missiles, bombers, and submarines, which benefits contractors such as Bechtel, General Dynamics, Honeywell, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman.

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Western Media, Leaders Slammed for ‘Deafening’ Silence Over Israeli Torture Revelations
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

9 Aug 2024 – “Can you imagine the response if Palestinians were holding Israelis in mass rape camps and torturing them to death?” asked one critic.

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And Out of the Ashes
Farah Habad | Poets - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

Out of the ashes,
rose a helicopter. 
An unwelcome phoenix. 

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Gaza: Thousands on the Run again Following New Israeli Evacuation Order
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

8 Aug 2024 – Thousands of people in Gaza have been fleeing west toward Al Mawasi after the Israel military issued a new evacuation order today, UN humanitarian partners on the ground have reported.

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Experts Hail ICJ Declaration on Illegality of Israel’s Presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory as “Historic”
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

30 Jul 2024 – Israel and other UN Member States must immediately comply with the authoritative determination by the International Court of Justice on Israel’s presence in the occupied Palestinian territory, independent human rights experts said today.

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The Ocean and the Meaning of Life
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

The book, The Edge of the Sea, was an ambitious guide to the seashore — the place where Carson found “a sense of the unhurried deliberation of earth processes that move with infinite leisure, with all eternity at their disposal.”

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Three Israeli Army Refusers: ‘We Will Not Participate in Genocide’
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

Conscientious objectors Yuval Moav, Itamar Greenberg, and Oryan Mueller explain why they are willing to go to jail in order to stand against the war.

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The Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples
Aviva Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

Getting Beyond the Stereotypes from Colombia to the US to Gaza – 9 Aug is the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples as the UN declared in 1994, the day the U.N. Working Group on Indigenous Populations had its initial meeting in 1982.

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Israeli Military in Spotlight over ‘Incommunicado’ Detention, Torture of Palestinians
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

31 Jul 2024 – A new UN Report published today into alleged abuses carried out against thousands of Palestinians detained by the Israeli authorities since the genocide erupted in Gaza last October has documented a range of serious violations and torture.

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An Attack on Venezuela’s Democracy
Leonardo Flores | CodePink - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

The reactionary attacks on Venezuela are accelerating, including the propaganda by the corporate press. The accusations are coming out faster than anyone can counter them.

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“Welcome to Hell”: U.S. Silence on Israel’s Network of Torture Camps
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2024

8 Aug 2024 – Palestinian solidarity activists are focusing on presidential candidate VP Kamala Harris, who opted not to preside over Netanyahu’s recent address to a joint session of Congress. Activists disrupted her speech in Detroit chanting, “Kamala, Kamala, you can’t hide. We won’t vote for genocide.”

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The Assassination of Hamas Leader Ismail Haniyeh Will Only Embolden Resistance
Jeremy Scahill | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

31 Jul 2024 – At approximately 2 a.m. local time, Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran. Israel has proven it can kill massive numbers of Palestinian civilians and assassinate political leaders, but it has been unable to defeat an armed insurgency in Gaza.

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A Whirlwind Visit to Beijing for the Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

27 Jul 2024 – Let me take you on a swirling trip to Beijing – to a unique conference, to people, institutions, fun and beauty, street views, media, dinners and more.

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The Victims’ Pact: Rwanda and Israel
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

31 Jul 2024 – Rwanda (Kagame) weaponizes the Rwandan Genocide to justify its violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, just as Israel (Netanyahu) weaponizes the Holocaust to justify its violence in Gaza and the West Bank.

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