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Refugee Experiences of Identity Documents and Digitisation in India and Myanmar
Natalie Brinham and Ali Johar | Forced Migration Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
May 2024 – Drawing on the authors’ joint activism on the rights of refugees and stateless people in India and Myanmar, this article considers how digital ID systems can be used to exclude minorities.
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Kenya’s President Ruto Defies His Own Country’s Constitution and High Court to Invade Haiti
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
29 May 2024 – I spoke to William Sakawa, a producer and reporter with the Nairobi-based media outlet African Stream, about Kenyan President William Ruto’s agreement to invade Haiti for the US.
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If The Wars Go On
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – It’s a long hard road, this anti-war business. During the first Cold War and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis in the early sixties when Kennedy and Khrushchev narrowly avoided blowing the world to smithereens, Bob Dylan put it right.
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Here Are the People–Where Is the Vision?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1 Jun 2024 – Here are the people who can take advantage of the looming crash of the US empire and create a new world. We can see their faces in the streets, on the university campuses and in the city halls.
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(Italiano) ICJ, ICC, Società Civile (Tribunali Popolari): chiarificazione di un tessuto giudiziario
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
31 Maggio 2024 – Un curioso spettacolo collaterale durante i sette mesi di selvaggia violenza genocida contro la popolazione palestinese intrappolata [a Gaza] di 2,3 milioni stimati è stata l’attenzione prestata al diritto internazionale e alle relative procedure disponibili per la sua interpretazione ed applicazione.
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The Global Demand for a Gaza Ceasefire Grows, Leaving Biden Behind
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – Israel’s ongoing bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza has provoked unprecedented global outcry. On 24 May, the International Court of Justice ordered Israel to halt its attack on Rafah.
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Taiwan Continues Toward US-Engineered “Ukraine-ization”
Brian Berletic | Journal NEO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – The Chinese Island province of Taiwan continues to be targeted by the US and its political proxies through efforts to further consolidate political control over it and transform it into a geopolitical “battering ram” against the rest of China. Déjà-vu all over again.
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Israel’s Tents Massacre in Rafah Is a Heinous War Crime
Seraj Assi | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
27 May 2024 – In a flagrant violation of international norms and humanitarian laws, Israel continues to act with total impunity in Gaza, enjoying Western complicity and emboldened by U.S. unconditional military and diplomatic support.
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The West Is Hell-Bent on Provoking Russia into Hot War
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
31 May 2024 – The warning by President Putin could not be starker: “In the event of the use of long-range weapons, the Russian Armed Forces will again have to make decisions about expanding the sanitary zone further (…) Do they want global conflict?
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(Français) Voici le Peuple; Ou Est la Vision?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1er juin 2024 – Voici ceux qui peuvent profiter du krach imminent de l’empire américain et créer un nouveau monde.
On peut voir leur visage dans les rues, sur les campus universitaires et dans les mairies.
As Israel Bombs Ambulances and Levels Refugee Camp, Netanyahu Receives Bipartisan Invitation to Address US Congress
Oscar Grenfell | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
1 Jun 2024 – Signaling support for the genocidal Israeli onslaught, the Democratic and Republican parties issued a letter to Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday [31 May], hailing him in the fight against “terrorism” and inviting him to address the US Congress.
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Race, Policing, and the Limits of Social Science
Lily Hu | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
6 May 2024 – Studying the social world requires more than deference to data—no matter the prestige or sophistication of the tools with which they are parsed.
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The Flower and the Meaning of Life: Emily Dickinson, Michael Pollan, and The Little Prince
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
“To be a flower,” Emily Dickinson wrote, “is profound Responsibility.” A century later, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry made his hero’s central preoccupation the responsibility for a single flower — the Little Prince’s beloved rose.
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Abandoned by the State, Palestinian Citizens of Israel Face Record Crime Wave
Baker Zoubi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
30 May 2024 – Amid a proliferation of weapons and worsening police negligence, violence by criminal organizations in Arab towns has reached historic levels.
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On Johan Galtung’s Approach to Peace Studies
Burak Ercoşkun | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Peace studies and research are fascinating because they delve into some of the quintessential questions concerning human relations, behavior, cooperation, and conflict. So how should we define peace at this point?
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 3 Jun 2024
Let’s Get Rich!
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
No Comment
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When a Lie Becomes the Truth: “Israel Is the Victim of Palestinian Aggression” -ICC
Michel Chossudovsky | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
26 May 2024 – Outright Fraud: The Criminalization of International Law – According to the ICC, “There Is No Genocide”
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Three Evils: Occupation, Apartheid, Genocide
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
My Heart Makes My Head Swim – A short primer on why these three terms are accurate and at the heart of the situation in Gaza, despite the baseless claim that using them is tantamount to antisemitism.
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After Pegasus Was Blacklisted, Its CEO Swore Off Spyware – Now He’s the King of Israeli AI
Georgia Gee | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2024
23 May 2024 – Shalev Hulio is remaking his image but is still involved in a web of cybersecurity ventures with his old colleagues from NSO Group.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 230: Israel Lashes Out at West Bank in Wake of ICC Request
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 May 2024 – Airstrikes continue across the Gaza Strip; Israeli ground invasion continues in Jabalia and Rafah, displacing thousands; Israeli army launches a wide-ranging invasion of Jenin refugee camp, West Bank, killing 12 people.
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Food for Starving Gazans Rots in the Sun as Israeli Military Keeps Rafah Crossing Shut
Stuti Mishra | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
26 May 2024 – Aid Monitor Warns of Imminent Famine in Parts of Palestinian Territory
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Israel Stands Increasingly Isolated
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar and Joseph Camilleri | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
21 May 2024 – Its Genocidal Actions Must Be Stopped and Brought to Account – The widespread activism in solidarity with Gaza in so many institutions of higher learning in the US, Europe and beyond is a source of inspiration. Such nonviolent activism has become a moral imperative.
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‘Nobody Is Above the Law’: ICC Prosecutor Seeks Arrest Warrants for Israel, Hamas Leaders
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
20 May 2024 – Karim Khan, chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, accuses Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant of numerous crimes including “starvation as a method of war” and “deliberately targeting civilians.”
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How Two Debunked Accounts of Sexual Violence on 7 Oct Fueled a Global Dispute over Israel-Hamas Atrocities
Tia Goldenberg and Julia Frankel | Associated Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
More evidence of false narratives: False flag.
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This Undisclosed WhatsApp Vulnerability Lets Governments See Who You Message
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
22 May 2024 – Engineers warned Meta that nations can monitor chats; staff fear Israel is using this trick to pick assassination targets in Gaza.
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Why the ICC’s Prosecutor’s Recommendation to Arrest Israeli and Hamas Leaders May Be Historic
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 May 2024 – Ironically, the misplaced rhetoric of outrage from Israel and its allies has endowed the ICC’s pronouncements with an importance that the institution never before possessed.
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Renowned Burmese Genocide Scholar & Rights Activist Sounds Rohingya Genocide Warning on BBC
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Dr Maung Zarni (member of TRANSCEND and Nobel Peace Prize nominee) told the BBC World Service Newsday on 22 May 2024 that the genocidal process is unfolding again in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, albeit the principal perpetrators are ultra-nationalist Arakan Army of ethnic Rakhins.
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Jewish Prophets Who Predicted Nightmarish Escalation of Israeli-Palestine Conflict Were Blacklisted and Ignored
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Israel’s Claim to Be a Great Democracy Is Undermined by Its Mistreatment Not Only of the Palestinians but also of Jewish Writers and Intellectuals Who Exposed the Ugly Truth behind Israeli Policies and Strove for Peaceful Cohabitation with the Palestinians
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Netanyahu’s Response to the ICC Invokes Another Genocidal Biblical Reference
Jonathan Ofir | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
21 May 2024 – Netanyahu’s rant against the ICC quoted a biblical verse that warns against the dangers of not completely wiping out your enemy’s society. It doesn’t take much to figure out what this means for Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
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South Sudan Government and Rebel Groups Sign ‘Commitment’ for Peace in Kenya Talks
Evelyne Musambi | AP - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
16 May 2024 – The government of South Sudan and rebel opposition groups today signed a “commitment declaration” for peace during high-level mediation talks in Kenya.
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For Muslims in the Global South, US Hostility Began in 1979
Michael Charney | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
24 May 2024 – If anyone wonders why the USA has backed off so far (and beyond) from responding to humanitarian catastrophes, presented as security operations, against the Tamils in Sri Lanka, the Rohingya in Myanmar, and the Palestinians in Gaza, they do not understand the structure of the contemporary world–since 1979.
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(Italiano) Arresto di leader israeliani e di Hamas: decisione storica della Corte Penale Internazionale
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 Maggio 2024 – Ironia della sorte, la retorica fuori luogo dell’indignazione di Israele e dei suoi alleati ha conferito ai pronunciamenti della Corte penale internazionale sull’arresto di leader israeliani e di Hamas un’importanza che l’istituzione non aveva mai avuto prima.
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Palestinian Resistance Denounces U.S. Floating Pier in Gaza
Sara Flounders | Workers World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
22 May 2024 – The pier, built at a cost of $320 million, is part of the enormous $26 billion in additional aid to Israel that Biden recently approved as part of the supplemental aid package. That package was a public statement of complete support for genocide in Gaza.
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
22 May 2024 – Morehouse College professors protested US complicity in Congo Genocide by unfurling a Congolese flag behind Joe Biden as he addressed the 2024 graduating class. A brief, quixotic coup took place in Congo on the same day.
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The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on Expediting Recovery from Illness and Burnout
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
“I cannot say exactly how nature exerts its calming and organizing effects on our brains,” the poetic neurologist Oliver Sacks wrote, “but I have seen in my patients the restorative and healing powers of nature and gardens, even for those who are deeply disabled neurologically.”
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Israeli Government Seizes AP’s Media Equipment in Latest Act of Censorship
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
21 May 2024 – The Associated Press called it “an abusive use by the Israeli government of the country’s new foreign broadcaster law.”
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Assange Wins Right to Appeal on 1st Amendment Issue
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
20 May 2024 – The High Court in London ruled today that Julian Assange can appeal his extradition to the U.S. on the grounds that he is being denied his First Amendment rights.
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Life in a Dystopian Satire
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Evidence that we are living in a dystopian satire written by an utter hack.
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Breaking Ranks with Biden, on Gaza
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 May 2024 – Another protest movement has emerged: dissenters within the U.S. government who offer a behind-the-scenes critique of U.S. policies devastating Gaza. Despite this wave of informed dissent, Biden continues to provide arms and diplomatic cover to Israel.
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Top UN Court Orders Israel to Immediately Halt Rafah Assault in Landmark Ruling
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
24 May 2024 – The International Court of Justice aims to protect over a million people in the Southern Gaza city from the Israeli offensive.
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The UK Infected Blood Scandal: A Shocking Window into Big Pharma’s ‘Business with Disease’
Paul Anthony Taylor | Dr. Rath Health Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
24 May 2024 – From 1970s to 1990s, over 30,000 patients in the UK received blood transfusions contaminated with HIV or hepatitis C. Authorities covered up; Bayer and Armour Pharmaceuticals knowing that treatments were infected continued to sell them anyway. The profit-driven nature of big pharma’s ‘business with disease.’
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Hawaii: The Origin of the Shaka Hand Sign
Cheryl Chee Tsutsumi | Hawaiian Airlines - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Hawaii’s Symbol of Aloha Traces Its Roots Back to the Early 1900s – “Hang loose” “Right on” “Thank you” “Things are great” “Take it easy” – in Hawaii, the Shaka sign expresses all those friendly messages and more–a lot of aloha.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 27 May 2024
Myanmar: Probability of Return to Peace and Restoration of Human Rights
Taing Rinith interviews Maung Zarni | Khmer Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 May 2024
23 May 2024 – Maung Zarni, Myanmar peace activist and 2024 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, talks about peace and human rights.
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In Gaza, the Genocide Convention Has Been ‘Bent to the Will of Powerful States’
Michelle Chen | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
8 May 2024 – An Interview with Maung Zarni, a member of the TRANSCEND Network, activist and human rights scholar from Myanmar who founded the Free Burma Coalition. In 2024, Zarni was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Nobel laureate Mairead Corrigan Maguire for his work with the Rohingya in Myanmar.
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Gaslit to Death: Giving Cover to Israel’s Rafah Atrocity with Phony Gaza Numbers Game
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
15 May 2024 – Playing with the death toll from Israel’s genocide on Gaza is not as cruel as actually killing over 35,000 people, the majority women and children. But it is still cruel and heartless. It is also another way we are being gaslit by the pro-Zionist US establishment.
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Israel Descends into Barbarism
Lawrence Davidson | To The Point Analysis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
13 May 2024 – Unless you are the victim of a moral narrow-mindedness, it should be obvious to you that Israel has descended into barbarism because cruel, murderous, and otherwise criminal behavior has become state policy in Israel. Let’s review the signs of this meltdown.
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Envisaging a Game of Subtlety Enabling New Global Dynamics
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Design Implications from an Artificial Intelligence Perspective
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Greater Israel, the Maximal Zionist Imaginary, and Gaza Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
19 May 2024 – Israel Continues Unfettered Colonization of the West Bank amid Genocide in Gaza – The WB has posed the biggest challenge to the Zionist settler movement’s pursuit of a “Greater Israel.”
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Pepe Escobar | Sputnik International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
13 May 2024 – Get ready for what may well be the geoeconomic bombshell of 2024: the coming of a decentralized monetary ecosystem.
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Einstein’s “Why Socialism?” and ‘Monthly Review’: A Historical Introduction
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Albert Einstein, the world’s most famous physicist and celebrated scientist, had fled Nazi Germany for the US where he became a citizen in 1940. But for the FBI Einstein remained a dangerous and Un-American figure, threatening the security of the US by his very presence.
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Hermann Hesse on Hope, the Difficult Art of Taking Responsibility, and the Wisdom of the Inner Voice
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
“Character — the willingness to accept responsibility for one’s own life — is the source from which self-respect springs,” Joan Didion wrote in her timeless essay on self-respect.
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Peace Researcher Johan Galtung’s Human Rights Violated as He Approached Death
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
17 May 2024 – Johan Galtung – my dear mentor, colleague, TFF Associate and friend over 50 years – died on February 17, this year in Norway, his native country. Now his caring daughter needs your help.
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The US State Department Says Israel Isn’t Blocking Aid–Videos Show the Opposite
Prem Thakker | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
18 May 2024 – From targeting humanitarian vehicles to standing by as mobs attack trucks, Israel is blocking aid from reaching Gaza.
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Campus in Crisis
Eli Valley | Jewish Currents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
On the US Media’s ‘Unbiased’ Reporting… 3 May 2024
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The Heroism of David McBride
John Kiriakou | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
16 May 2024 – By 2014 McBride had compiled a dossier into profound command failings that saw examples of potential Australian war crimes in Afghanistan overlooked, and other soldiers wrongly accused. On 14 May he was sentenced to nearly six years in prison.
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The Writing Was on the Wall for Israel’s Torture of Prisoners
Janan Abdu | The Landline/+972 Mag – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
14 May 2024 – The government has ensured that horrific practices in sites like Sde Teiman can continue with impunity, in violation of international law and medical ethics.
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Inspired
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
19 May 2024 – We had positive vibes in every one of these engagements and also grew ourselves with knowledge, new friends (thousands), and energy (spiritual and mental and physical- good food for heart, spirit and even stomach) and we thank all hosts and organizers for exceptional arrangements.
→ read full articleThe Palestinian Nakba, from 1948 to Today
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Palestinians and allies marked the 76th anniversary of the Nakba, May 15th – the day after the state of Israel was formally declared. “Nakba” is Arabic for “catastrophe.” Israel’s genocidal mass slaughter in Gaza must end immediately. It’s not good for Israel or its national security. It’s devastating for Palestinians. It’s illegal and immoral.
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Gaza Lost Much More Than a Hospital When It Lost Al-Shifa
Dr. Bahzad Al Akhras | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
15 May 2024 – The medical complex destroyed by Israel was the beating heart of Gaza, and a symbol of our hopes for the future.
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(Italiano) Una soluzione a cinque stati per l’Asia occidentale
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Prendiamo spunto dall’idea di Galtung e immaginiamo una soluzione a cinque stati in una comunità dell’Asia occidentale. Abbandoniamo l’obsoleto termine eurocentrico di “Medio Oriente” e nominiamo questo gruppo di Stati in base alla loro posizione geografica.
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US Medical Missions Trapped in Gaza, Facing Death by Dehydration as Population Clings to Life
Ryan Grim and Hind Khoudary | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
13 May 2024 – Upward of 20 US doctors and medical workers are trapped in Gaza because of Israel’s closure of the Rafah crossing into Egypt; the plight of two ill-fated medical missions.
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World’s Largest CO2 Removal Plant Opens in Iceland
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
9 May 2024 – Swiss company Climeworks has opened the biggest operational direct air capture plant in the world to pull carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The Mammoth plant, located in Iceland, is nearly ten times bigger than Orca, its second-largest plant.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 20 May 2024
Automated Apartheid: Walking through Hebron Smart City | Documentary
Mnar Adley | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
7 May 2024 – MintPress director Mnar Adley walks us through the city of Hebron dubbed by Israel as ‘Hebron Smart City’ due to the Draconian surveillance technology on the Palestinian population as part of what is called the Wolfpack surveillance system.
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Fanon the Universalist
Susan Neiman | The New York Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
6 Jun 2024 Issue – Edward Said said that Fanon’s radical hopefulness freed him from Michel Foucault’s relentless pessimism. But Shatz asks whether Fanon was naive to hope for a radical universalism minus the hollowness of the French (and American) versions. Fanon lived in more hopeful times.
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A World Under Spiritual Construction
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
15 May 2024 – Recent announcement by Union Theological Seminary, affiliated with Columbia University, that it is divesting from “companies profiting from war in Palestine/Israel,” fully supporting the student encampments, and condemning arrests and police violence on the peaceful, culturally diverse protests. There’s something happening here . . .
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Home – Naive Melody (Music Video of the Week)
David Byrne | Talking Heads – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
From the movie ‘This Must Be the Place’ (2011) starring Sean Penn
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If We Say Yes: On Open Letters and Campus Protests
Amia Srinivasan | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 May 2024
An open letter is an unloved thing. Written by committee and in haste, it is a monument to compromise: a minimal statement to which all signatories can agree, or – worse – a maximal statement that no signatory fully believes. Some academics have a general policy against signing them.
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Can the ICC Finally Gain Credibility?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
13 May 2024 – I want to call more explicit attention to the crude efforts by Netanyahu to call openly for the exertion of pressure on the ICC by the USA and other ‘democracies,’ seeking to induce the ICC rejection of this Global South attempt to criminalize Israel’s use of a genocidal force.
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Let Israel’s Leaders Get Arrested for War Crimes
Gideon Levy | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
5 May 2024 – They cannot be allowed to go unpunished. Nor is it possible to blame only Hamas, even if it has a part in the crimes. We are the ones who killed, starved, displaced, and destroyed on such a massive scale. Someone must be brought to justice for this. Netanyahu is the head, of course.
→ read full articleComprehension of Singularity through 4-fold Complementarity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
13 May 2024 – Enhancing Interdisciplinary Dialogue and Integration with AI – There are widespread calls for unity and unification in the face of division, fragmentation and polarization — with some endeavouring to impose particular understandings of hegemony as the only viable response.
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As Gaza Assault Intensifies, Egypt Joins ICJ Case Accusing Israel of Genocide
Olivia Rosane | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
12 May 2024 – Egypt announced today that it would join South Africa’s case before the International Court of Justice accusing Israel of committing genocide in Gaza. “It’s a real diplomatic punch,” a former Israeli diplomat said. “Israel would have to take it very seriously.”
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“We Feel Unheard”: Hunger-Striking Princeton Students Vow to Fast until Divestment Demands Are Met
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
10 May 2024 – Over a dozen students at Princeton University have been on hunger strike for the past week as part of a Gaza solidarity encampment on campus protesting Israel’s war on Gaza and calling on the university to disclose and divest from companies with ties to Israel, among other demands.
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‘The Scenes of the Nakba Are Repeating’: Rafah in Panic as Israeli Invasion Begins
Ruwaida Kamal Amer and Mahmoud Mushtaha | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – With Israeli forces entering Gaza’s southernmost city, Palestinians describe their hardships and fears in the Strip’s last vanishing refuge.
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Pro-Israel Literal False Flag Exposed
Briahna Joy Gray | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
24 Apr 2024 – Briahna Joy Gray delivers a radar on the media’s disingenuous coverage of pro-Palestinian protests on college campuses.
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India, Mexico, Japan, UK, Australia, France, Canada, USA: Pro-Palestine Protests Grow around the World
Pressenza | Redazione Italia - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
10 May 2024 – In the last two weeks, more than 160 actions and 125 camps in solidarity with Palestine have been registered in at least 17 countries. The common demand of the students is to divest from companies that support Israel and the Gaza genocide.
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When Students Are a Shock to the System
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – War Culture Hates the Ethical Passion of the Young in the Thrall of a Dominant Death Culture – The movement to stop Israel’s genocidal oppression of Palestinians is up against the entire murderous military-industrial-media-congressional complex.
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What’s Really Happening on College Campuses, According to Student Journalists
Catherine Kim | POLITICO Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
3 May 2024 – Over 50 schools. Nearly 2,000 arrests. One canceled graduation ceremony–so far. Leaders of campus news organizations were asked to set the record straight about campus unrest, antisemitism and what the media is getting wrong.
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The U.S. Ultimatum to Israel
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – “The U.S. has suspended the shipment of weapons to Israel,” US Secretary of Defense, Lloyd Austin, just told the Senate. “We are examining the short-term security support in the context of the events in Rafah; we have not yet decided how to proceed.” This is huge.
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Genocide Joe
Paul Street | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
7 May 2024 – This morning the sorry-ass arch-imperialist warmonger Genocide Joe Biden did a nationally televised address painting the US campus protests against US-backed genocide in Gaza as a “violent,” “antisemitic,” and “chaos”-causing threat to the educational process and to the “rule of law.” F’ this guy.
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Palestinians as “Human Dust”: Israel’s Genocide and Its Anglo-American Imperialist Patrons
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – Israel Uses the Holocaust as a Cover for its Ongoing Genocide in Gaza – Israel has institutionalized a national policy of ethnic cleansing of the native people of Palestine while progressively depopulating the land with people to establish the Jewish majority state, from its very inception in 1948.
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Gazans Salute University Students’ Uprising for Palestine
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
7 May 2024 – As Israel’s invasion of Rafah begins, people in Gaza are holding out hope that international pressure will force Israel to stand down. Part of that hope is tied to the heroic actions of students across the world rising up for Palestine.
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600,000 Palestinian Kids in Rafah Can’t “Evacuate” Safely, UNICEF Official Says
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – Rolling its tanks into Rafah, the Israeli military moved to take control of the Palestinian side of the border crossing with Egypt, severing the only corridor to land not controlled by Israel. An Israeli tank bulldozed the “I love Gaza” monument greeting visitors as they cross into the territory from Egypt.
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‘Barbaric’: Whistleblowers Further Expose Israel’s Torture of Detained Palestinians
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
10 May 2024 – Three Israeli whistleblowers who worked at the notorious Sde Teiman prison offered horrifying accounts of torture, saying the facility’s doctors amputated limbs due to handcuffing injuries, allowed detainees’ wounds to rot, and carried out vicious beatings. “What we know about Gaza is only tip of atrocity iceberg.”
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Listen to the Students!
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – Hopefully, the political movement on US college campuses will be a game changer in stopping Israel’s U.S.-backed genocide in Gaza.
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Bio-Imperialism vs. Bio-Diversity
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Seeds are the connections between our lives, our food, our health and our freedom; the first link in the food chain. The cultivation of seeds and their free exchange is the foundation of our biodiversity and our food security. To have control over seeds is to have control over our lives, our food and our freedom.
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Interview: The Walls Are Closing in on the Ability to Dissent, Says Cancelled Chris Hedges
George Galloway, MP interviews Chris Hedges | MOATS – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
5 May 2024 – “It’s clear nothing is going to impede the Israeli assault on Gaza. They’ve sold out their own hostages.”
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The Invention of Zero: How Ancient Mesopotamia Created the Mathematical Concept of Nought and Ancient India Gave It Symbolic Form
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
If the ancient Arab world had closed its gates to foreign travelers, we would have no medicine, no astronomy, and no mathematics — at least not as we know them today. Central to humanity’s quest to grasp the nature of the universe and make sense of our own existence is zero.
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What Choice Do the Rohingya Have?
Maung Zarni | Democratic Voice of Burma – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
6 May 2024 – Who will protect the Rohingya in Myanmar? This is becoming an urgent question. And yet there are no easy answers. The latest tactic by the Myanmar military is the forceful conscription of Rohingya males to fight against the ethnic Rakhine Arakan Army.
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Kudos to Journalists Who Tell the Truth
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
UNESCO should be congratulated for awarding the Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize for 2024 to Palestinian journalists covering Gaza. The prize this year was announced in Santiago, Chile in conjunction with World Press Day on 3 May 2024.
→ read full article“Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship”—a Rwanda Review
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – Ann Garrison continues her series of reviews of books important to understanding the Rwandan Genocide and Rwanda as it is today during this 30th anniversary year of the 1994 massacres.
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – What if universities negotiated with students engaged in Gaza solidarity protests, instead of calling the police to violently arrest them? A mass movement opposing Israel’s ongoing assault on Gaza has spread like wildfire this Spring.
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Tackling California’s Budget Crisis: Raise Taxes, Cut Programs, or Form a Bank?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
8 May 2024 – The usual solutions are to cut programs or raise taxes, but both approaches are facing an uphill battle. The remedy for unemployment is employment, and the remedy for the unhoused is affordable housing. An I-Bank expanded into a state-owned depository bank could provide both.
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Night’s Guardians Unveiled: The Enigmatic World of Bats
Assaf Levy | BioDB - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Every year on April 17, the world celebrates Bat Appreciation Day as a tribute and a call to recognize these nocturnal creatures’ vital roles in our ecosystems. Bats are fascinating beings that play key roles in pollination, insect control, and seed dispersal. As twilight creatures, they embody the intersection between day and night, serving as crucial contributors to the health of our planet.
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UN Vote Was for Palestinian Membership, Not Statehood
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
10 May 2024 – In a blow to the U.S., the U.N. General Assembly voted today to give Palestine, whose statehood it has already acknowledged, full U.N. membership, forcing the U.S. into another embarrassing veto at the Security Council.
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Oh, Rascal Children of Gaza
Khaled Juma | Jewish Voice for Labour - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Oh rascal children of Gaza,
You who constantly disturbed me with your screams under my window,
Killer AI Is a Patriotic Duty? Silicon Valley Comes to Washington
Connor Echols | Responsible Statecraft - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
2 May 2024 – Yesterday’s conference showed the increasing power defense tech startups wield in the Beltway.
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Packers QB Aaron Rodgers vs. the White Coat Supremacy of Dr. Anthony Fauci
Lloyd Billingsley | Chronicles - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Fauci’s favored cure for AIDS was indeed AZT, also known as azidothymidine and Zidovudine, a DNA-chain terminator found to be useless against cancer. The highly toxic drug failed to prevent or cure AIDS but Fauci inflicted AZT and other dangerous drugs on foster children in New York City.
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