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Starvation–No Food or Medical Supplies Are Entering Gaza–the Casualty Rate Is a Mere Fraction of the Death Rate
Paul Larudee | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

31 Jul 2024 – As planned, the people of Gaza are now dying in much larger numbers from starvation and disease than from Israeli weaponry as no food or medical supplies are getting into Gaza. Even the handcarried supplies that outside medical personnel used to bring in are now prohibited and confiscated.

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The Assassination of Aung San in 1947 also Killed the Federalist Democratic Myanmar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

30 Jul 2024 – Aung San and his post-World War II colleagues hammered out the twin framework for the nature of the post-colonial political state, namely the federalist power-sharing arrangement, which recognized the right of self-determination of ethnic communities, and an inclusive citizenship framework.

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How Israeli Soldiers Film Their War Crimes for Social Media
Charles Villa – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

5 Jul 2024 – Must Watch

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The Beach and the Soul: Anne Morrow Lindbergh on the Benedictions of the Sea
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

“No one could write truthfully about the sea and leave out the poetry.” Because the beach is where the body meets the sea, it is a place of encounter with the native poetry of the soul.

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False Flag? Syria Attributes Deadly Golan Strike to Israel, Denounces Attempts to Expand War
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

28 Jul 2024 – Damascus said Tel Aviv is using the incident to ignite the region, warning that the people of the Golan Heights ‘will not be fooled.’

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Does Israel Really Believe It Can Win a War Against Hezbollah?
Jeremy Scahill | Drop Site – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

30 Jul 2024 – Amal Saad, a leading expert on the Lebanese resistance movement, says all-out war could lead to Israel’s downfall.

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Olympic Boxing Controversy: Gender-Bending Is the New Doping
Rachel Marsden | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

3 Aug 2024 – The Paris Olympics triggered culture warriors by dumping drag queens all over the opening ceremony. Is it time to make DNA and other tests to ascertain athletes’ gender as important as drug screenings?

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‘An Entirely Preventable Disaster’: Health Officials Warn of Catastrophic Polio Epidemic in Gaza
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

2 Aug 2024 – In July health officials in Gaza detected the polio virus in the water. Now, the threat of a polio outbreak has been declared an epidemic, and officials are demanding an immediate ceasefire and vaccination campaign “before it’s too late.”

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79 Years after Hiroshima & Nagasaki: A Grim Reminder of Nuclear Annihilation
Thalif Deen | Inter Press Service – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

The upcoming 79th anniversary of the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, which took place on 6 and 9 Aug 1945, remains a grim reminder of the destructive consequences of nuclear weapons. The US bombings killed an estimated 90,000 to 210,000.

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Israel: It’s Time for All of Us to Divest
Scott Plous | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

29 Jul 2024 – You may be profiting financially from the war in Gaza. It’s easier than you think to change that.

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(Italiano) La sentenza della Corte Internazionale di Giustizia sull’occupazione israeliana della Palestina è importante
Richard Falk | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

29 Luglio 2024 – Questo livello di consenso giudiziario, in un’atmosfera così politicamente polarizzata, depone a favore della considerazione della sentenza della Corte internazionale di giustizia come autorevole quando si tratta di valutare il comportamento di Israele come potenza occupante in relazione al diritto internazionale umanitario.

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Humanitarian Situation in the Gaza Strip
Update #199 | United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

2 Aug 2024 – The Humanitarian Situation Update is issued by OCHA Occupied Palestinian Territory three times per week. The Gaza Strip is covered on Mondays and Fridays, and the West Bank is covered on Wednesdays.

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On Greatness, MAGA
Ireland for Peace in Palestine | X - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

No Comment

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The Undemocratic Reality of Capitalism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

2 Aug 2024 – Fans of capitalism say it is democratic and supports democracy. Some equate capitalism with democracy, using the terms interchangeably; it is simply not true and never was. It is more accurate to say that capitalism and democracy are opposites.

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(Français) Projet d’un Manifeste 2025
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

1 Août 2024 – Le blog précédent proposait de reprendre le Manifeste 2000 là où il s’était arrêté, de le renommer Manifeste 2025, de recueillir à nouveau des signatures et de lancer des actions.

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House or Home
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

Many would believe that a House and a Home are the same thing. However, there is a significant difference between these two words despite the fact that it is a dwelling where a family or one or two (or more) people live together. Yet, there is a marked difference between the two terms.

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UN Report on Arbitrary Detention and Abhorrent Abuse of Palestinian Prisoners
Talia Mullin | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

31 Jul 2024 – A new 23-page report has been released from the UN Human Rights department detailing the arbitrary detention, abuse, mistreatment, humiliation, torture, and prolonged incommunicado sentences of thousands of Palestinians including sexual abuse and deaths in Israeli custody.

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Israeli Soldiers Will Soon Find Ways to Tell Their Media about the Terror Inside Gaza
Ralph Nader – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

2 Aug 2024 – Israeli soldiers bask in the self-serving praise showered upon them by politicians, but privately they know BS when they hear it… If you don’t care what Netanyahu is doing over there, you’d better care about what he’s doing to the US, our Congress, our tax dollars, our freedom of speech and our national security.

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Let’s Abolish the Colonial IMF on Its 80th Birthday
Arthur Larok | Open Democracy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

24 July 2024 – From Kenya to Pakistan, protesters want the International Monetary Fund to stop exploiting countries in debt crisis.

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Too Many Things Are Happening
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

29 Jul 2024 – Meanwhile in the US of A

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Put a Woman in Charge (Music Video of the Week)
Keb' Mo' – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

“My mother just recently passed at the age of 91. She was smart. She was strong. She was a leader. This video is dedicated to her and amazing women everywhere that are getting the job done.” — Keb’ Mo’

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Under Israeli Law, UNRWA Is about to Become a Terrorist Organisation
Moncef Khane | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

27 Jul 2024 – The UN must urgently take decisive action against the latest Israeli affront on the entire international community.

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Gazans Need Polio Vaccines Amid ‘Deathly Cycle’ of Hunger, Heat and Disease, Say UN Aid Agencies
Daniel Johnson | UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

30 Jul 2024 – In a bid to prevent a polio epidemic in Gaza, UN humanitarians today repeated calls for a ceasefire to allow mass vaccination “at a time when water, sanitation and hygiene conditions are being further eroded, with infectious diseases on the rise”.

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Build Stronger Track-II Networks in the Absence of Governmental Negotiations
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

Track-I Diplomacy are official governmental negotiations with their research and intelligence resources. Track-II “back channels” of informal contacts are non-official efforts, usually by NGOs with backup resources from academic institutions.

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Starvation in Sudan
Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

30 Jul 2024 – As in Gaza, the Deprivation Is Deliberate – Sudan should simply no longer be callously ignored.

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After the US Empire: A World of Regions?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

The successor system to the US empire will be neither a hegemony run by one big actor like China or the EU, nor globalization run by the TNCs, but a world of regions. A global common currency may come but the regions will dominate as the state system is fading.

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Despite ‘Tough’ Talk on Netanyahu, US Enforces Israeli Aggression
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

4 Aug 2024 – As US officials have quietly acknowledged, the US is not defending Israel from any threats, but Israel’s right to threaten everyone else – what the New York Times described as Israel’s “aura of power.” Blocking multiple diplomatic opportunities, the US and Israel threaten new regional escalation.

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Photographs Expose Thomas Merton Murder Cover-up
Hugh Turley | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

Thomas Merton was the most influential Catholic writer of the 20th century. He was almost as well-known in the United States as the author Ernest Hemingway or the popular Bishop Fulton J. Sheen. 

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Invitation to the Memorial Gathering for Johan Vincent Galtung in Hardanger, Norway
Susanne Urban - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

Dear friends of Johan Galtung and his great and persistent impulse for peace until he died on 17 Feb this year, aged 93. We invite you to a gathering in Jondal to commemorate the extensive work of the father of peace research.

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How Unelected Regulators Unleashed the Derivatives Monster – and How It Might Be Tamed
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

4 Aug 2024 – While the world is absorbed in the U.S. election drama, the derivatives time bomb continues to tick menacingly backstage. Warren Buffet famously labeled derivatives “financial weapons of mass destruction” in 2002. Twenty years later, financial commentators have put it as high as $3.7 quadrillion.

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The Uncounted Gaza Victims: Why Hundreds of Thousands Are Being Allowed to Die
Eva Bartlett | – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

23 Jul 2024 – The Lancet published an article estimating that the number of Palestinian civilian deaths could be five times higher than the official death toll. “Up to 186 000 or even more; this would translate to 7.9% of the total population in the Gaza Strip.”

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Growing Demands for Peace in Ukraine as the Kiev Regime Criminalizes 7 Million Ukrainian Men Refusing to Join the War
Dmitri Kovalevich | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

As of mid-July, widely-read bloggers begun to advocate an early cessation of hostilities and several legislators voiced support. Vladyslava Rogovenko on Instagram, 8 Jul: “Let the clown [Zelensky] go and negotiate peace. Enough of innocent deaths and this horror! How long will this continue? My anger has no limit!”

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 5 Aug 2024

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If Only
Jocelyn Wright - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

Violence and killing
Originating multifariously
In lethal minds

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Nagasaki Excludes Israel from Nuclear Bombing Memorial
Al Mayadeen English - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

31 Jul 2024 – The Japanese city of Nagasaki will not invite Israel to its annual ceremony for the victims of the US 1945 nuclear attack on 9 Aug, the city’s mayor announced today. He said the decision stems from a desire for peace during the ceremony. 

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Draft for a Manifesto 2025
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

1 Aug 2024 – The previous blog proposed taking up the Manifesto 2000 where it left off, renaming it the Manifesto 2025, gathering signatures once again and initiating action.

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Venezuelans Re-Elect President Maduro Despite U.S. Organized Coup Attempt
Gloria Guillo | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Aug 2024

30 Jul 2024 – Sanctions are a misnomer when it comes to Venezuela. Here, the U.S. isn’t “just” illegally punishing a nation-state to effect regime change. It is also committing racketeer-level crimes against its people.

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An Open Letter to Kamala Harris and the Democratic Party
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

26 Jul 2024 – Glad that Joe Biden finally acted responsibly by withdrawing his candidacy. To consider this overdue act ‘brave’ and ‘courageous’ is to rob those precious words of their proper meaning. Harris seems to have handled the political [Netanyahu] situation in an encouragingly skillful manner.  

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Where Do We Go Now, Ask Gazans Uprooted by New Israeli Evacuation Orders
Daniel Johnson | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

23 Jul 2024 – Gazans uprooted by the Israeli military’s latest evacuation orders have fled their shelters and homes “running for their lives”, with barely any belongings and little idea where they will end up, UN humanitarians said today.

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Congress: Netanyahu Commands, US Obeys
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

24 Jul 2024 – USA as ‘Savior,’ Israel as ‘Victim’ – Bibi, who addresses a joint-session of Congress today, is the subject of an arrest warrant from the ICC. He has demanded the US shield Israel from criticism while continuing to arm and support its genocide — and the U.S. has answered his call.

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China Throws Clout behind Palestine
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

26 Jul 2024 – The Beijing Declaration cements the idea that global conflict resolution is now Made in China. But it also throws a wrench in US–Israeli efforts to manufacture a collaborator Palestinian government after the war in Gaza.

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Israel’s Bombing of Gaza 4.6 Times Stronger in Total Explosive Force Than Hiroshima Nuclear Bombing
TRT World - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

14 Jun 2024 – Israel has dropped 70,000 tons of bombs on Palestine’s Gaza since 7 Oct, exceeding World War II bombings of Dresden, Hamburg and London combined, according to Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor.

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Reframing “Two-state” Possibilities
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

29 Jul 2024 – Beyond the Constraints of Disciplinary Frameworks in a Two-state Civilization – There is no lack of references over an extensive period to “the” Israel-Palestine “two-state” solution.

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Leaked UN Report: Israel Has Killed 366 UN Staff and Family Members as Netanyahu Addresses US Congress
Ryan Grim | Drop Site - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

24 Jul 2024 – The confidential report is the first to detail the toll faced by the families of UN workers in Gaza.

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Anti-Zionist Rabbi Calls for Continued Boycott of Companies Backing Israel
MalaysiaNow - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

22 Jul 2024 – Rabbi Yisroel Dovid Weiss has called on opponents of the Zionist state to continue boycotting companies allied to Israel when asked about the Putrajaya’s deal with a company owned by US fund manager BlackRock.

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Israeli Killings of Children in West Bank Skyrocket
Julia Conley | Common Dreams/Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

23 Jul 2024 – UNICEF says 143 children are among the more than 500 Palestinians killed in Israeli raids and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank over the last 10 months.

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Nonkilling Political Science, Human Rights, and the Threat Posed by Nuclear Weapons
Roland Joseph, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

First, I will briefly define the terms non-killing, nuclear weapons, and human rights. Second, I will discuss how the concept of non-killing relates to human rights and how activists and scholars from these two areas can work together to eliminate the nuclear weapons threat.

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My Thoughts on Biden Dropping Out
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

22 Jul 2024 – Barely able to stumble his way through the words on a TelePrompter and not always cognizant of what is happening around him, Joe Biden’s billionaire supporters pulled the plug. He was their creature. The Democrats gave us Trump in 2020. They look set to give us Trump again. God help us.

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The City of Nine Gates
Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarmā dāsa) | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

17 Jul 2024 – Is there a Conscious Self distinct from the physical mechanism of the body? Is there a mind distinct from the brain? Those who answer yes to such questions are called dualists, and they are rare in contemporary science and philosophy.

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Gaza City-bound UN Aid Convoy Comes under Israeli Fire, Says UNRWA
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

22 Jul 2024 – A UN convoy has been hit by “heavy shooting” from Israeli forces at a checkpoint while en route to Gaza City, the United Nations agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, said today.

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US Domestic Policies and Laws Regarding Weapons Transfers to Israel
Daniel Horgan – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

26 Jul 2024 – Irony? The same week the ICJ declared Israel’s occupation of The West Bank illegal under International Law, Netanyahu broke the record (formerly held by Winston Churchill) for the number of times a head of state addressed the US Congress. 

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Israel Destroys Gaza and Palestine and Arab Leaders Lost the Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

Monsters of History Defy Truth, Justice, Sanctity of Life and Earth

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[No Joke] Pure Ugly Propaganda
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

25 Jul 2024 – Tragicomedy among War Criminals

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Cry, the Beloved World
Gus Speth | Democracy Collaborative – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

18 Jul 2024 – Occasional reflections on the systemic crisis and the next system.

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Thousands Shut Down the US Capitol to Protest Israel’s Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

25 Jul 2024 – Thousands of people of conscience from across the US turned out to protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to D.C. this week — including hundreds of American Jews who were arrested while engaged in prayerful civil disobedience, demanding an immediate arms embargo on Israel. 

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Footsteps in the Sand: Gaza Antiwar/Peace/Protest Songs (Music Video of the Week)
Jazz Attack | Vision Music Videos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

26 Jan 2024 – The hope for Peace and Reconciliation, return of the hostages, and the despair especially of the children.

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Burning Injustice: Activists Battle to Shut Down California’s Toxic Incinerator
The Story of Stuff Project – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

18 Jul 2024 – A powerful short documentary of the fight against one of the last trash incinerators in California. The film exposes the devastating health consequences of pollution and highlights their tireless efforts to close the facility for good.

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Humiliation Upon Request
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

25 Jul 2024 – Israel’s inhumane treatment of the Palestinians leaves Europeans unmoved. European political elites above all.  Instead, they cheer on the Israelis in effusive displays of solidarity so that the IDF can better carry out their odious campaign.

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200 Years of Solitude: Great Writers, Artists, and Scientists on the Creative and Spiritual Rewards of Fertile Aloneness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

There is a silence at the center of each person — an untrammeled space where the inner voice grows free to speak. That space expands in solitude. To create anything — a poem, a painting, a theorem — is to find the voice in the silence that has something to say to the world. In solitude, …

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Dramatic Moment Anti-Whaling Campaigner Paul Watson ‘Ambushed’ and Arrested
Michael Dahlstrom | Yahoo News/RSN – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

22 Jul 2024 – Anti-whaling campaigner, Greenpeace co-founder, and Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson has been reportedly “ambushed,” handcuffed and arrested in Denmark by 14 police and SWAT on an international arrest warrant.

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Unacceptable
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

25 Jul 2024 – No Comment

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Water War Crimes: How Israel Has Weaponized Water in Its Military Campaign in Gaza
Oxfam International - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

18 Jul 2024 – This report presents a detailed analysis of how the Government of Israel has systematically weaponized water against the Palestinians in its latest assault on Gaza, raising grave concerns of human rights violations and breaches of international law.

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China Designs an Economic Road Map All the Way to 2029
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

22 Jul 2024 – There can hardly be a better place to track the four-day, twice-a-decade plenum of the Communist Party of China than dynamic, “one country, two systems” Hong Kong.

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The Palestine/Israel Conflict
Chomsky's Philosophy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

From 2016 – Parts I & II

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Europe’s Path to War and Self-Destruction
Fabian Scheidler - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

26 Jul 2024 – Brussels is working hard to boycott Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán’s EU Council Presidency. His trips to Kiev, Moscow and Beijing to negotiate a ceasefire are infuriating EU leaders and the governments in Berlin, Paris and other capitals.

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Encountering the Bhakt: Transformation in Religious Thought
Abinash Dash Choudhury | The India Forum - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

Two examples from mediaeval Odisha’s bhakti tradition show how debates and differences about the sacred were part of devotional practice, and not forced onto us after the institutionalisation of modern, secular, and democratic visions.

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ChatGPT Isn’t ‘Hallucinating’—It’s Bullshitting!
Joe Slater, James Humphries & Michael Townsen Hicks | Scientific American – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

17 Jul 2024 – It’s important that we use accurate terminology when discussing how AI chatbots make up information.

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School Students
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

Sometimes I try to teach a few topics to students on the road itself. I think that students enjoy themselves when I teach them — it is a novelty for them.

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Johan Galtung: Positive and Negative Peace
Baljit Grewal | School of Social Science, University of Auckland - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

In the present essay, the word peace is the central focus. It is often stated that the word peace is very often used and abused and that since it lacks an agreeable definition and difficult to conceptualise, it is unreal and utopian.

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UN Needs the Earth Constitution to Deal with World Criminals
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

25 Jul 2024 – As we watch helplessly, violators of international law go free, unable to be arrested by the UN, the ICJ (World Court), or the ICC.  Leaders of Bully nations break the Law with impunity. There is no world federal enforcement to protect the citizenry.

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Palestinian Factions Sign Beijing Agreement but Deep Obstacles Remain
Omar Karmi | Electronic Intifada - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

24 Jul 2024 – Yesterday, Palestinian factions in Beijing signed yet another unity agreement to overcome 17 years of internal division between the two main Palestinian political factions, Hamas and Fatah.

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The Money War: How Four U.S. Presidents Unleashed Economic Warfare Across the Globe
Jeff Stein and Federica Cocco | The Washington Post – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

25 Jul 2024 – The US imposes three times as many sanctions as any other country, targeting a third of all nations with financial penalty on people, properties or organizations. Sanctions have emerged as the key instrument of U.S. foreign policy.

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The Brave New World of (1984) 2030: ‘You’ll Own Nothing. And You’ll Be Happy.’
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

If you spend just a few minutes checking out ‘The Great Reset’ website of the World Economic Forum, which includes a copy of what it calls ‘The Great Reset Transformation Map,’ you will quickly recognize that the WEF intends imposing profound changes to about 200 areas of human life by 2030.

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Transformation of BRICS: From Symbolic Power to a Real Financial Pole in the Modern World
Dr. Oleg Barabanov | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

25 Jul 2024 – This year, Russia will be hosting the BRICS summit in October in Kazan. Our governmental circles, our ministries and our NGOs are all preparing for the summit. It is considered the key foreign policy event in Russia this year.

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(Italiano) Camminata per la Pace e il Disarmo 6-12 agosto 2024
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

28 Lug 2024 – Da Pian di Venola a Sant’Anna di Stazzema – Camminare è (una) azione nonviolenta. Un atto politico. Una buona pratica.

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Project 2025
Liz Theoharis and Shailly Gupta Barnes | TomDispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

A New Pax Romana

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Science Must Protect Thinking Time in a World of Instant Communication
Editorial | Nature - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

24 Jul 2024 – Emails and instant messaging are core to research — but also a distraction. Researchers should study their impact on science, and how they can claw back time to concentrate.

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Tribute to Johan Galtung (1930-2024)
Jake Lynch | International Journal of Communication Ethics - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jul 2024

A Personal Recollection – A tribute to one of the founders of peace journalism whose death in February 2024 went largely unnoticed by the Western corporate media.

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Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

17 Jul 2024 – Debunking Biodiversity Credits, the Next Wave of Bio-Imperialism – In the name of biodiversity “conservation” and “protection”, the corporate sector is increasingly making calls for the financialisation of nature.

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AI-enabled Mapping and Animation of Learning Pathways
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

22 Jul 2024 – Use of Polyhedra in Configuring Memorable Integrative Frameworks – The early web version of the program of the Summit of the Summits to be held in Japan in Sep 2024 invited critical commentary in an exercise appropriate to the times.

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Legal Consequences of the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and East Jerusalem
International Court of Justice ICJ – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

19 Jul 2024 – The International Court of Justice has today given its Advisory
Opinion in respect of the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in
the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.

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US President Joe Biden Drops Out of the Presidential Race, VP Kamala Harris Announces Her Candidacy
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

21 Jul 2024 – After being diagnosed with COVID-19 last week, Biden remains at his Delaware beach house, and said he would address the nation later this week. Kamala has rushed to announce her nomination to the US presidency endorsed by Biden.

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(Italiano) Verità: una riflessione
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

16 Luglio 2024 – L’idea di Verità è rilevante per le arti/materie umanistiche quanto per le scienze. La Verità è un attributo di un’articolazione simbolica – una tesi, un testo, un dipinto, una scultura, un brano musicale – allorché confrontato con la realtà: riflette, concorda con ciò che consideriamo “realtà”?

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170 Years of U.S. Aggression against Nicaragua
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

15 Jul 2024 – When the Monroe Doctrine was declared, in 1823,  it was aimed at European colonial powers to butt out: the US “sphere of influence” included all of Latin America and the Caribbean. During the past two centuries, virtually all of them had to endure US intervention and interference in their internal affairs.

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New Report: Biodiversity Is Life, Not an Asset Class
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

17 Jul 2024 – The financialization of nature by mechanisms and schemes like Biodiversity Credits and Nature Asset Companies represent the latest attempt to extend the old colonial bio-imperialism under the veneer of environmentalism.

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What the Top UN Court’s Ruling Means for Israel
Tarik Cyril Amar | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

21 Jul 2024 – Though non-binding, the ICJ’s rulings on the ongoing Gaza genocide strip away the Jewish zionist state’s ability to obfuscate its crimes.

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Will the ICC Act? The Netanyahu/Gallant Arrest Warrants are a Truth or Dare Moment?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

17 Jul 2024 – The ICC would be widely viewed as a weak institution by not obtaining participation or cooperation of states such as USA, Russia, China, Israel. It was most unfavorably compared to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) to which all members of the UN were automatically parties.

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(Français) Un Manifeste Pour l’action
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

13 juillet 2024 – Le blog du mois dernier sollicitait vos suggestions sur la manière de relancer un mouvement mondial pour la culture de la paix. Vous avez répondu généreusement et 10 suggestions sont imprimées au bas du blog.

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ICJ Says Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territory Is Illegal and Must End
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

19 Jul 2024 – The UN highest court argued that Israel’s large-scale expansion of settlements amounts to annexation, a crime under international law. The vote at the International Court of Justice against Israel’s occupation was 11-4. It also voted for Israel to evacuate all settlers from the West Bank.

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Israel’s Invitation to This Year’s Atomic Bomb Commemorations in Japan Has Sparked a Controversy over Double Standards
Chris Lau, Nodoka Katsura and Rinka Tonsho | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

19 Jul 2024 – Hiroshima, the Japanese city devastated by a US atomic bomb in 1945, is at the center of a growing controversy after local officials dismissed calls to disinvite Israel from its annual ceremony promoting world peace as war rages in Gaza.

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When Einstein Called “Fascists” Those Who Rule Israel
Giorgos Mitralias | CADTM - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

Netanyahu and his government are fully confirming what Einstein publicly denounced in 1948: Likud members are “fascists”, “racists”, “criminals” and “terrorists” who will inevitably lead Israel to its “final destruction”.

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Exposing the Myth of the ‘Good War’
Nicky Reid | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

12 Jul 2024 – The USA has a problem but don’t worry, because we can stop anytime we want. I speak of course of USA’s bottomless appetite for warfare, the fact that we can’t seem to go fifteen minutes without lighting up a third world country like a fucking spliff. But this doesn’t make us addicts…

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(Português) Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

Siga tranquilamente por entre a agitação e a pressa e lembre-se da Paz que pode haver no silêncio. Procure, o mais que possa, viver em harmonia com as pessoas ao seu redor, sem abrir mão das suas próprias convicções.

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Caged in Oligarchic Contradictions
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

19 Apr 2024 – A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other.  Two examples are the word bolt, which can mean to lock with a bolt and to flee, and clip, which means to attach and to detach.

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My Chance
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

I am waiting for a chance whereby I can post some messages that would have cultural or spiritual values. The reason I am looking for such messages is that there is violence around me everywhere — near where I live and around me.

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Rule by Militia
Joshua Craze | Boston Review – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

Governments wracked by debt have found militias an efficient way of managing restive populations.

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Jesus Taught Bhakti Yoga
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

By studying the teachings that are ascribed to Jesus, we can easily recognize that the essence of what Jesus taught was an elementary level of the Vedic process of bhakti-yoga and karma-yoga.

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Important 4-min Exposition
Robert F. Kennedy Jr | X – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

12 Jul 2024 – The truth about Putin, Ukraine, and NATO.

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He Called the Dog Habibi
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

He called the dog “habibi” — my darling — as it mauled him to death while his family listened nearby.

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Our Top Story
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2024

15 Jul 2024 – Shocking Attempt at Former President’s Life

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