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Drug-Induced Dementia IS NOT Alzheimer’s Disease
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

Do expect denials, dismissals, distractions, delays and ad hominem attacks against the whistleblowers rather than honest mea culpas. It is up to consumers of toxic substances to do the research themselves, for they may not show symptoms until a tipping point is reached when their livers can no longer detoxify the cocktail of poisons.

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Now More Than Ever We Need a True Philosopher of Civilization
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

22 Dec 2023 – Abu Nasr al-Farabi (872-950), Islamic scientist, philosopher, mathematician and musical theorist, lived at the golden age of Islamic civilization. The medieval Latin world knew him as Magister Secundus: the second greatest teacher of philosophy after Aristotle. Al-Farabi should be heeded as the quintessential philosopher of civilization, built under the aegis of truth, virtue and compassion.

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Christmas Wishes
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

25 Dec 2023 – Merry Christmas!!

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 79: Bethlehem Cancels Christmas Celebrations as Israel Continues to Bomb Gaza
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

24 Dec 2023 – Palestinian pastor Munther Issac says, “If Jesus was born today, he’d be born under the rubble of Gaza” as Israeli forces flattens entire neighborhoods to create buffer zones in north, east, and south of the Gaza Strip.

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Jesus, Gaza, and the Murder of Useless People
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem who grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. What we celebrate at Christmas is the opposite of what he stood for. Once there was a mother, father and child on the run to safety in Egypt; today, there are millions of Palestinian refugees on the run to nowhere but a dead-end.

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Declaration of Conscience and Concern of Global Intellectuals on Gaza Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – This Declaration calls not only for the denunciation of Israel’s genocidal assault but also for taking effective action to permanently prevent its repetition. The urgency of the moment obliges global intellectuals to stand against the ongoing horrific ordeal of the Palestinian people and, most of all, to implore action by those who have the power, and hence the responsibility, to do so.

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Climate Profiteers Exploit Somali Suffering
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – NGOs and other climate profiteers treat Somalia as a poster child for global warming.

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Artificial Intelligence as an Aid to Thinking Otherwise — but to What End?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

25 Dec 2023 – Cognitive Clarification Enabled by ChatGPT in Eliciting Strategic Coherence

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Yemen’s Houthis in Defense of Gaza
Huseyin Vodinali | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

21 Dec 2023 – Zionazis massacre children, women, babies, elderly journalists and doctors without showing the slightest sign of humanity. 70 days have passed since the massacre started on 7 Oct and at least 25 thousand Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army, at least 22 thousand of them civilians, and most of the civilians children and babies.

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Israel’s Latest Weapon Against Palestine Is Egypt’s Debt
Alfons Pérez and Nicola Scherer | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

18 Dec 2023 – Will Egypt agree to take in the Palestinian population expelled from Gaza in exchange for the cancellation of its external debt?

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Israel Killed Thousands of Children in Gaza—How Can So Many Israelis Remain Indifferent?
Amira Hass | Haaretz/Peace & Planet News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Fall 2023 – The Gaza Strip is gradually being erased, along with its families, its people, its children, their smiles and laughter. What enables the majority of Jewish Israelis to support this systematic and mass erasure?

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“Big Money” Behind the Genocide: Israeli Settlers Plan ‘Dream Beach Houses’ in Gaza
Marc Vandepitte | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

21 Dec 2023 – The advertisement reads: “We are working to prepare the ground for the return to Gush Katif. Our employees are working on the rehabilitation of the region, cleaning up waste, and deporting the occupiers (Palestinians). We hope that in the near future, the kidnapped and our soldiers will somehow return to their homes, and we can start construction in the entire Gush Katif area in the Gaza Strip.”

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Why Empathy Constitutes the Ultimate Leadership Skill
Dr. Julia Milner | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Managers rated ‘expressing empathy’ as the most challenging communication skill, above ‘asking questions’ and ‘providing feedback’. The trend appears to be linked to a number of old-school thinking errors.

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Boycotts and Protests – How Are People Around the World Defying Israel?
Alia Chughtai, Marium Ali and Delaney Nolan | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

15 Dec 2023 – Al Jazeera takes a look at the movements against Israel and illegal settlements in Palestine.

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Poetry Bleeds from the Shattered Normal
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – It seems more relevant than ever, as innocent blood flows in the wars being waged by military-political bureaucracies across the planet. How many more stunned facial expressions will I see on YouTube, of parents who have just lost their children, their spouse, their siblings?

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Christmas Wishes
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

25 Dec 2023 – Merry Christmas

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Human Rights Groups Demand ICC Issue Arrest Warrants on Israeli Officials
People's Dispatch | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

22 Dec 2023 – A joint letter sent to the International Criminal Court also demands an urgent investigation into the allegations of war crimes committed by Israel against Palestinians.

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False Transitions and Global Stocktakes: The Failure of COP28
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – The sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences is a series of the failed and the abysmally rotten.  It shows how a worthless activity can provide assurance that something worthwhile was done.  Always the same beneficiaries: fossil fuel magnates and satirists.

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Can the US-led Maritime Force Stop Yemen’s Houthi Attacks During Gaza War?
Maziar Motamedi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – The Houthis say they won’t stop attacking ships unless Israel stops its attacks on Gaza. So far, the shipping industry doesn’t appear convinced the task force can halt them.

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David Krieger (27 Mar 1942 – 7 Dec 2023): A Life of Dedication to the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Although David Krieger devoted his professional life to anti-nuclear scholarship and activism, his underlying motivations were for a world anchored in dignity for all, respect for international law, and a robust UN. Remembering my long, close, cherished friendship reinforces my sense of loss resulting from David’s death. RIP

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COP28 a “Tragedy for the Planet” as Stockholm Syndrome Took Hold
David Spratt and Ian Dunlop | Pearls and Irritations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – Up to 100,000 people from climate-related politics, advocacy and business flew into Dubai for the UN COP28 climate policy-making event. And the result? An unmitigated disaster: unfair, inequitable “business as usual” that did not call for the phase-out of fossil fuels.

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Hospital Bulldozed and Shelled: Kamal Adwan Was Only Hospital in Northern Gaza
Tareq Abou Azzoum | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

16 Dec 2023 – Days of intensive Israeli bombardment of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza have left it barely functional. It was the only working hospital in the North of Gaza.

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Murdering Fish in a Barrel
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – IDF in Gaza

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Parental Guidance: [Sanitized] Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 25 Dec 2023

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That Can’t Be True about Israel
Caitlin Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Israel’s actions are so horrific and depraved I keep thinking I must be misinterpreting what I’m reading or disregarding a claim as over the top, only to find out it’s true.

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Twenty More Countries Have Applied to Join BRICS
Chris Devonshire-Ellis | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – BRICS Ambassador Anil Sooklal stated that, “over 20 countries have formally applied to join BRICS, while the same number have expressed interest. This is affirmation that BRICS is playing an important role in championing emerging and developing economies.”

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A Desperate Plea from Palestinians: Drop Your Nuclear Bomb on Gaza–and Exterminate Us
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

18 Dec 2023 – The unrestrained destruction of Gaza and the disproportionate killings of over 20,000, mostly civilians, in retaliation for 1,200 killings and 120 hostages by Hamas, have left the Palestinians in a state of deep isolation and a feeling of being deserted by the world at large.

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Iran Threatens to Shut Strait of Gibraltar as Tensions Ramp Up
Jörg Luyken | The Telegraph - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

23 Dec 2023 – Iran has threatened to close the Strait of Gibraltar and the Mediterranean Sea unless Israel stops bombing Gaza. Tehran issues warning on the day tanker is struck by drone in Arabian Sea.

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Fredrik S. Heffermehl (11 Nov 1938 – 23 Dec 2023)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Fredrik S. Heffermehl was a member of the TRANSCEND Network, ex-Vice President of the International Peace Bureau, and founder of Nobel Peace Prize Watch. He died on 23 Dec 2023 at the age of 85. The world lost an exemplary human being and a courageous activist for disarmament and the abolition of war. RIP

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 72: Israeli Forces Kill Palestinians in Church, UNRWA Warns of Mass Flight to Egypt
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

From 7 Oct to 17 Dec 2023:
– 18,800+ killed and more than 51,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip
– 297 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
– 450 Israeli soldiers killed since 7 Oct, and at least 1,682 injured

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Regenerative Agroecology: The Necessary Solution to Counter Climate Change
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – Industrial agriculture sees the world as a machine, not as a self-organized living system, and has created devastation contributing to climate change. Our latest report, ‘Regeneration is Life‘, presented at Cop28 in Dubai, analyzes the causes of climate change and the regenerative solutions vis-a-vis the false solutions by polluters.

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How to Assess the Carbon Footprint of a War
Benjamin Neimark | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – The US military alone contributes more greenhouse gas emissions than over 150 countries. There are tepid attempts by militaries to green their war machines–electric tanks or ships run on biofuels–yet there is practically no discussion of how they contribute to climate change, especially during war.

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West Sabotaged Ukraine Peace Deal with Russia, Admit Zelensky Official and Germany’s Ex-Leader
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

4 Dec 2023 – Russia wanted to sign a peace deal with Ukraine in March 2022, but NATO countries sabotaged it, according to Germany’s former Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and the parliamentary faction leader of Zelensky’s political party, Davyd Arakhamia.

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Sustainable Development Goals through Self-reflexive Root Cause Analysis
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

Strategic Clarifications from Experimental Interaction with ChatGPT

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‘Like We Were Lesser Humans’: Gaza Boys, Men Recall Israeli Arrest, Torture
Linah Alsaafin and Maram Humaid | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – Rounded up by Israeli forces in Gaza City, Palestinians describe being stripped, blindfolded, numbered and tortured while detained.

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US Blocks Gaza Peace Proposal at UN for 3rd Time, Holding World Hostage
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

10 Dec 2023 – The USA voted alone against the rest of the world preventing peace in Gaza by vetoing three different resolutions in the UNSC. Meanwhile, Washington [the Good Guys] continues giving weapons to Israel [the other Good Guys] to commit genocide against Palestinian civilians in Gaza [the Bad Guys]. Tragicomic.

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Big Oil Wins Big at COP28 in Dubai
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

14 Dec 2023 – COP29 next year will be in Azerbaijan, another repressive petrostate where on 5 Dec six journalists were arrested. Petrostates like the UAE and Azerbaijan play predictable roles in protecting the status quo, but it’s the world’s biggest petrostate that brandishes the most power inside the COPs: the United States.

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How to Bless Each Other: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Light Within Us and Between Us
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

Every once in the bluest moon, if you are lucky, you encounter someone with such powerful and generous light in their eyes that they rekindle the lost light within you and return it magnified.

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The Weapons Israel Tests on Palestinians Will Be Used Against All of Us
The Chris Hedges Report | Real News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

11 Dec 2023 – As Antony Loewenstein explains, Palestine has been a testing ground for repressive technologies exported around the world, from spy software to killer drones.

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This Is Not a War against Hamas
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

11 Dec 2023 – The events of the past week should obliterate any doubt that the war against the Palestinians of Gaza is a joint U.S.–Israeli operation. The notion that the war would end if Hamas was overthrown or surrenders is as ahistorical as it is false.

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Dr Mahathir on Euro-North American Imperialist Crimes and the Need for Cooperation against Climate Change
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

9 Dec 2023 – Former two-time Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr Mahathir Mohamad (98) shared his no-hold-barred reflections on the sordid state of the world, still in the grip of the Euro-North American powers.

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Four Died Trying: A Powerful, Riveting, Masterful Documentary Series Begins
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

13 Dec 2023 – It is hard for those who have not lived through the shattering political assassinations of the 1960s to grasp their significance for today.  Many might assume that that was then, long before their time, so let’s move on to what we must deal with today. This is an understandable but mistaken attitude that this documentary will quickly shatter, visually and audibly.

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Is the ICC Still Relevant? Not So, Says Brazil’s Lula da Silva–and He Is Not Alone
Uriel Araujo | BRICS Information Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

Brazil’s President Lula da Silva questioned the value of a court that does not include the US, Russia, or China. The ICC cannot be that relevant considering that major powers do not submit to its jurisdiction. The ICC is about geopolitics as much as it is about international law.

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Suspicious Israeli Stock Market Activity Hints at Foreknowledge of October 7 Attack
Kit Klarenberg | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

7 Dec 2023 – False Flag Like 9/11? Hearkening back to the days preceding the 9/11 attacks, suspicious stock market activity suggests that someone with prior knowledge of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood sought to capitalize on the events on October 7.

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What Next after the End of the U.S. Empire?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

11 Dec 2023 – In the short term there is not an effective means to stop the Israeli genocide of Palestine. Perhaps in the long term Israel can be stopped by boycotts, divestment and sanctions. But Israel depends completely on the support it receives as part of the US empire. With the end of that empire, Israel will not be able to survive.

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UN Members Support Gaza Cease-Fire in Overwhelming 153-10 Vote
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – The United Nations General Assembly today passed a resolution demanding “an immediate humanitarian cease-fire” in Israel’s two-month war on Gaza after the U.S. on 8 Dec used its permanent member status to veto a similar Security Council measure.

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Death and Destruction in Gaza
John J. Mearsheimer | John’s Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – As I watch this catastrophe for the Palestinians unfold, I am left with one simple question for Israel’s leaders, their North American defenders, and the Biden administration: have you no decency?

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Birds of a Feather
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

Who says no to stopping a genocide?

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Takes One to Know One
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

13 Dec 2023 – There are a number of blatant ways for terrorist organizations – by which I mean national governments – to justify committing mass murder.

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Christmas Greetings from Bethlehem
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

14 Dec 2023 – This year, the message seems tougher considering the ongoing and unprecedented genocide/holocaust in Palestine. In the ten weeks before Christmas, more than 20,000 civilians (>8000 of them children) were killed. 2.3 million have been denied food, water and medicines; all means of life around them systematically targeted for destruction.

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Clash of Civilizations in Kazakhstan
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

15 Dec 2023 – Several round tables set to examine the full spectrum of the “megacycle of turmoil” we’re all immersed in – generating massive challenges to an ever-integrating Eurasia, home to ¾ of the world’s population and over 60% of global GDP.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 18 Dec 2023

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Gazan Catastrophe Shows Why the UN Needs the Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

14 Dec 2023 – The UN General Assembly votes by a wide margin for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza but Israel ignores the resolution because it has the “protection” of the U.S., which uses its UN Security Council veto power to prevent UN intervention. What must be done?

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From the Heart of Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Palestine Museum of Natural History – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

15 Dec 2023 – We know that the destruction was/is intentional, hand in hand with intentional targeting of schools, hospitals, UN facilities, refugee camps, water facilities, streets, to make the Gaza Strip even more unlivable for 2.3 million Palestinians. So far, 1.9 million Gazans have been displaced (half children) and, as of this writing, over 20,000 civilians killed and 51,000 injured (70%, women and children), with practically all medical facilities pulverized.

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(Français) Et Après la Fin de États-Unis Empire?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Dec 2023

11 décembre 2023 – À court terme, il n’existe aucun moyen efficace pour mettre fin au génocide israélien de la Palestine. Mais il y a un autre facteur : Israël dépend entièrement du soutien qu’il reçoit en tant que membre de États-Unis Empire. Avec la fin de cet Empire, Israël ne pourra plus survivre.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 65: U.S. Rushes Arms to Israel as Palestinians Announce Over 250,000 Homes Destroyed in Gaza
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

10 Dec 2023 – 17,400+ killed and 46,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
274 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem

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[False Flag] Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago
Ronen Bergman and Adam Goldman | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings.

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What Time’s 2023 Person of the Year Reveals about the West
Rachel Marsden | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

7 Dec 2023 – Each year, editors of Time magazine choose a person, group, idea, or object that made the most impact on the world. This year’s winner is US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The choice is totally valid; it speaks volumes about the current state of the Western world. 

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An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of the Art of Connection
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

Friendship is the sunshine of life — the quiet radiance that makes our lives not only livable but worth living.

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Inside a Southern Gaza Hospital: Screaming Orphaned Children, Amputee Toddlers and The Stench of Rotting Flesh
Bel Trew | Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

8 Dec 2023 – As Israel expands its ground assault into Khan Younis, a surgeon at the European Hospital describes desperately trying to treat a relentless stream of wounded children as critical supplies run out.
Warning: this article contains distressing detail about people’s injuries.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

GAZA and WEST BANK, 11 Dec 2023

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Socialism’s Self-Criticism and Real Democracy
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

5 Dec 2023 – Democracy is incompatible with class-divided economic systems. Masters rule in slavery, lords in feudalism, and employers in capitalism. Whatever forms of government coexist with class-divided economic systems, the hard reality is that one class rules the other.

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EU Reaches Agreement on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Law
Xinhua | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

10 Dec 2023 – European Union lawmakers and member states reached an agreement on rules governing artificial intelligence. “Historic! The EU becomes the first continent to set clear rules for the use of AI.”

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Damning Analysis: Short-Selling Deluge Suggests Prior Knowledge of Oct 7 Hamas Incursions
Ben Bartee | Armageddon Prose - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

6 Dec 2023 – The totality of evidence continues to make mincemeat of the official story that the Israeli government — home of the most vaunted national security apparatus on Earth, engaged in constant, near-total surveillance of the Gaza Strip — was caught unawares on October 7.  

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Gaza Divides the World, Again
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

7 Dec 2023 – As the brutal crisis unfolds, the savage exercise of power by the U.S. and Israel has catalyzed world reactions. A significant transformation in global diplomacy is underway as the oppressed became the oppressors.

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Carbon Colonialism, COP28 and the Climate Crisis
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

7 Dec 2023 – Exhibit One: COP28 is being hosted by the UAE, the seventh largest oil producing nation on the planet, and the COP Presidency is currently held by Minister of Industry Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the CEO of the UAE’s state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Conflict of interest…?

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The UN Is Threatening Privacy under Pretense of New Cybercrime Treaty
Didi Rankovic | Reclaim the Net - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

A Trojan Horse

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The Gaza Atrocities, “Big Money” and the Insidious Role of the World Economic Forum
Ernst Wolff | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

8 Dec 2023 – Under the pretext of eradicating the “Hamas terrorist threat” once and for all, the IDF is once again slaughtering as much of the Palestinian civilian population as they can.

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Genocide Resumes
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

6 Dec 2023 – After an uneasy seven-day truce, Israel and Hamas are now once again locked in a violent combat. Each side has accused the other of violating the truce. What is really important is the consequence of this resumption of conflict.

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Dr. Jill Stein: A Ballot Challenge to the Crimes of Empire
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

6 Dec 2023 – Dr. Jill Stein stepped up to compete for the Green Party presidential nomination after Dr. Cornel West decided to run as an independent. Ann Garrison spoke with her.

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Open Letter to the Irish Government to Invoke the Genocide Convention
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

To Protect Gazans from Genocide – We, the undersigned, watch with horror the death toll and humanitarian crisis in Gaza and believe there is an urgent need for action under the Genocide Convention. A public statement has highlighted the overwhelming evidence that the government of Israel has carried out acts of genocide against civilians in Gaza.

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US Sabotaged the Kiev-Moscow March 2022 Peace Agreement in Istanbul
Nauman Sadiq and Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

8 Dec 2023 – The End Game is the Destruction and Privatization of Ukraine – Ukrainian negotiators would agree not to join alliances or host bases of foreign troops. The proposals would require a referendum in Ukraine.

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Humanity’s Bombs Are Aimed at Evolution
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

6 Dec 2023 – In most media coverage of war, the unexamined assumption is that we, the readers, are spectators, looking on as the missiles fly (mostly in one direction) and Good dukes it out with Evil yet again, Paradoxically, Good and Evil are in complete agreement about one thing: The only way to deal with conflict is through violence.

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The Anti-Semite
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

5 Dec 2023 – No Comment

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ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in South America
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

4 Dec 2023 – In 2022, ExxonMobil [read Rockefeller] made a profit of $55.7 billion, making it one of the world’s richest and most powerful oil companies. Companies such as this exercise an inordinate power over the world economy and over countries that have oil reserves. It has tentacles across the world, from Malaysia to Argentina.

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Is Information a Form of Aid? Communication in Humanitarian Interventions
Dr. Valentina Baú | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Dec 2023

In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, communication takes on a very important role as affected communities are in need of critical information that, at times of crisis, is a form of aid. However, this key aspect of communication has long been unrecognised by humanitarian actors.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 58: Israel Kills 700 in Gaza over 24 Hours as Palestinians Get Forced Further South toward Egypt
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

3 Dec 2023 – At least 700 Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombing in Gaza over the past 24 hours as Israel pushes people south to Rafah. In Jerusalem, Israeli forces stormed the house of Al-Aqsa Mosque Iman Shiekh Ekrima Sabri.

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Gaza: After Genocide What Future?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

29 Nov 2023 – My responses waver between fears of a resumed Israeli military operation and hopes of confronting day-after issues of post-genocidal economic reconstruction and scenarios of political transformation.

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Cop28 President Says There Is ‘No Science’ Behind Demands for Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels
Damian Carrington and Ben Stockton | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

3 Dec 2023 – The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed. He said a phase-out would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.

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A Corrupted Dubai COP28
Bill McKibben | The Crucial Years – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

28 Nov 2023 – Revelations that the host nation [UAE] had used its official position to leverage new oil and gas deals around the world were a reminder that there are nations that operate as oil companies, with the same attention to morality as Exxon or Shell.

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How Can War Crimes Be Stopped?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

1 Dec 2023 – Julian Assange languishes and may die in prison for having documented the war crimes of the American Empire. The UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch agree about daily war crimes by Israel against the people of Gaza, crimes that are financed and supplied by the USA and its allies.

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Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Brief History in Maps and Charts
Mohammed Haddad and Alia Chughtai | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

27 Nov 2023 – As Gaza reels from Israel’s devastating bombardments, here’s a brief history of the conflict using maps and charts.

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Hamas Uses Human Shields? The Evidence
Behind the Headlines | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

28 Nov 2023 – For years we have heard in Western corporate media that Hamas uses civilians as human shields. So, what does the evidence show?

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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping Not Attending the Cop28 Climate Meeting in Dubai
Reuters | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

27 Nov 2023 – US President Joe Biden is not attending a gathering of world leaders focused on climate change in Dubai this week. Xi Jinping of China is also not expected to attend. Envoys for Biden and Xi have signaled their close cooperation before the talks.

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‘A Mass Assassination Factory’: Inside Israel’s Calculated Bombing of Gaza
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

30 Nov 2023 – Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest assault on Gaza, investigation reveals.

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Kissinger: A War Criminal with a Nobel Peace Prize
Ahmed Twaij | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

The former US secretary of state left a legacy of bloody policies, some still embraced today. Kissinger was directly responsible for the murders of three to four million people during his eight years in office, 1969-1977.

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Israel’s Insidious Narrative about Palestinian Prisoners
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

26 Nov 2023 – More than two-thirds of the Palestinians proposed for release by Israel under the truce have not been convicted of any crimes. Most were arrested as children.

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Assault on Education
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

1 Dec 2023 – Over 56 days, the Israeli Occupation Forces denied water, food, electricity and fuel to 2.3 million Gaza residents. The IOF killed over 14,500 civilians (72% women and children) and injured over 27,000 in 40 days. Zionism is a genocidal settler project built on false mythology and sustained through perpetual violence against Indigenous Palestinians.

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(Français) Comment Arrêter les Crimes de Guerre?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

1 décembre 2023 – Les événements récents nous amènent plus que jamais à nous demander : pourquoi ne peut-on pas faire quelque chose pour arrêter et prévenir les crimes de guerre ?

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While Fire Rages in Gaza, the West Bank Smolders
Omar Shakir | Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

22 Nov 2023 – While global attention is focused on Gaza, Israeli authorities are tightening their repression in the West Bank and settler attacks on Palestinians are surging. That repression was already at a peak before the 7 Oct Hamas-led attack, but it has gotten much worse since.

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New York Governor Announces Plans to Implement Pre-Crime Surveillance, Target Online “Hate”
Tom Parker | Reclaim The Net - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

21 Nov 2023 – In a press conference today, New York Governor Kathy Hochul outlined her administration’s aggressive new strategy for combating online “hate” and implementing pre-crime-esque online surveillance.

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False Flag: Documents Expose Israeli Conspiracy to Facilitate Hamas 7 Oct Attack
Andre Damon | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

2 Dec 2023 – Yesterday the New York Times published a report establishing conclusively that Israel was fully informed, in detail, of plans by Hamas to attack its border on 7 Oct. These revelations make clear that Israeli officials made a deliberate decision to stand down to facilitate the attack. 9/11 Redux.

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Israel’s Objective in the Gaza Incursions: Kill the Buildings
Ted Rall | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

24 Nov 2023 – People die when buildings get bombed. But killing people is not the Israelis’ goal. They’re out to flatten Gaza. Flattening some Gazans is a side effect of flattening buildings. Ethnic cleansing with the goal of annexing Gaza is the only plausible explanation for Israel’s behavior.

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FOI Request Reveals Bellingcat Collusion with Western Intelligence
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

30 Nov 2023 – An extraordinary email uncovered by a Dutch researcher under freedom of information laws confirms what many have long charged: Bellingcat, the “open source” collective widely cited by mainstream journalists and loved by the CIA, collaborates directly with Western intelligence agencies.

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How to Build Peace while Covering War: Peace Journalism and the Israel-Hamas Massacre
Leo Weakland | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

Peace News Network spoke with three experts on Peace Journalism: Prof Jake Lynch, Prof Steven Youngblood, and Vanessa Bassil. They shared their thoughts on the current media coverage of the conflict, and how this could change to enhance the prospects for peace.

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This Simple Move by China Could Demolish the EU’s Aggressive Agenda
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

29 Nov 2023 – Beijing announced that the citizens of Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain will be allowed to visit China for a 15-day period visa-free. It may throw a spanner in the works of the rhetoric about a “closed” and “bad-for-business” Beijing.

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From Cambodia to Bangladesh: A Brief History of [Nobel Peace Laureate] Henry Kissinger’s War Crimes
Bevan Hurley | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

2 Dec 2023 – Kissinger sided with military dictators and genocidal regimes in his pursuit of projecting US power during the Cold War, resulting in the deaths of many millions of innocents.

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The Enduring Legacies of Edward Said
Richard Falk | AUC, School of Humanities and Social Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

21 Nov 2023 – The Department of English and Comparative Literature hosted the Edward Said Memorial Lecture given by Dr. Richard Falk, public intellectual and professor of international law.

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Germany’s ‘Military Schengen’ Proposal Shows EU as Geopolitical Pendant of NATO
Drago Bosnic | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

28 Nov 2023 – To Ease the Movement of NATO Troops Across the European Union

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Trilateral Missile Defense System a Step towards Asian NATO
Jeffrey Wagner and Dae-Han Song | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Dec 2023

29 Nov 2023 – The United States, Japan and South Korea will fully operationalize a missile warning system “by the end of December.” While justified as a means to counter North Korea, it escalates tensions in the region with China through the “NATOfication” of the three countries.

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