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West Votes against Democracy, Human Rights, Cultural Diversity at UN–Promotes Mercenaries, Sanctions
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
26 Nov 2023 – The West voted [as a block] against the rest of the world on United Nations General Assembly resolutions opposing democracy, human rights, and cultural diversity, while supporting mercenaries and unilateral coercive measures (sanctions).
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
GAZA 4 Dec 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
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Media’s Fatal Compromises
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
28 Nov 2023 – The practice of “embedding” struck me as a repellent compromise with power. It is no longer enough to tether correspondents to the perspective of the military from whose side they report. We are on the way to huge, bloody, consequential wars fought without any witnesses.
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The Real Cost of Bottled Water
Daniel Jaffee | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
30 Nov 2023 – The price of bottled water is vastly more expensive than the tap water it often replaces for consumers…. In these ways, bottled and packaged water intersects with, highlights, and exacerbates economic and racial injustice.
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What Happens When We Die
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
Here we are, each of us a trembling totality, made of particles both absolutely vulnerable and absolutely indestructible, hungering for absolutes in a universe of relatives, hungering for permanence in a universe of ceaseless change, famished for meaning, for beauty, for emblems of existence.
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The Sound of Silence
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
Meanwhile, in the Homo Sapiens’ 21st Century…
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Gaza: A Pause Before the Storm
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
23 Nov 2023 – The US and its allies will continue backing Israel’s war on Gaza after a brief truce. But as the case for ‘genocide’ grows stronger, the new multipolar powers will have to confront the old hegemons and their Rules-Based Chaos.
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Reflections on the Deep State’s Media Watchdog Tool
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
29 Nov 2023 – NewsGuard at first glance looks like a media watchdog organization, a group that seeks to keep misinformation and disinformation out of the mainstream. That notion is quickly dispelled, however, as soon as one takes a look under the hood.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 51: Israel Fires at Palestinians Attempting to Return to Northern Gaza Amid Shaky Truce
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
26 Nov 2023:
* 15,000 killed, including 6,150 children, and 33,000 wounded in Gaza Strip
* 235 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
* Israel revises its estimated 7 Oct death toll down from 1,400 to 1,200
Al-Shifa Hospital, Hamas’ Tunnels, and Israeli Propaganda
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
21 Nov 2023 – As the death toll in Gaza surpasses 13,000, including more than 5,500 children, the IDF propaganda machine sought to use Al-Shifa Hospital as its main exhibit in justifying the unjustifiable. Israel simultaneously lays siege to another medical facility.
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Justifying Genocide, a Shameful Transparent Spectacle
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Revised version of an interview by Mohaddeseh Pakravan of Mehr News Agency published in the Tehran Times on 16 Nov 2023.
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IDF Knew Real Hamas HQ while Lying about al-Shifa
Gareth Porter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023 – While lying to the world that Hamas HQ was under al-Shifa Hospital, the IDF had already found the actual command center 8.5 km away.
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Coherent Reconciliation of Eastern and Western Patterns of Logic
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Towards a Polyhedral Rosetta Stone in Aid of a Paradigm Shift Respecting Opposition
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Interrupting Genocide: Humanity Challenged as Never Before
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
25 Nov 2023 – The ‘pause’ or ‘truce’ as it frequently called in Western media, is detached from the genocide that preceded and closely linked to the Hamas Attack of 7 Oct, which is characterized as ‘terrorism’ whereas Israeli genocidal violence is treated as Israel defending itself on target inflicting massive casualties on Palestinian civilians.
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COP28: When Is the Climate Summit and Why Is It Being Held in Dubai?
Chen Ly | New Scientist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
World leaders, scientists, activists and more will convene at the UN climate conference in Dubai from 30 Nov to 12 Dec 2023. After a year of extreme weather and the hottest 12 months ever recorded, here’s what you need to know about it.
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I Condemn Myself
Abdelfattah Abusrour, Ph.D. | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
9 Nov 2023 – A poem by a visionary arts educator from the West Bank, occupied Palestine.
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Tunnels for Safety and Tunnels for Death
Kathy Kelly | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
22 Nov 2023 – An underground nuclear arsenal in Israel dwarfs the tunnels alleged at a Gaza hospital.
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Actual U.S. Military Spending Reached US$ 1.537 Trillion in 2022—More than Twice Acknowledged Level (US$ 765.8 billion)
Gisela Cernadas and John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Nov 2023 – How much does it cost to maintain an empire? A stunning new analysis shows the true scale of U.S. military spending, which far outstrips conventional estimates, which use data gleaned from traditional sources.
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Activating the Genocide Convention
Craig Murray | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
19 Nov 2023 – There is no room to doubt that Israel’s bombing of Palestinian civilians and depriving them of food, water and other necessities of life are grounds to invoke the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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BRICS Condemns Israel War on Gaza in Signal to the West
Shola Lawal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
21 Nov 2023 – In a virtual summit, the BRICS grouping denounced attacks on civilians in Palestine and Israel, with many leaders calling the forced displacement of Palestinians within Gaza or outside the territory “war crimes.”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
GAZA 27 Nov 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
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Thankfulness Buried in the Rubble
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
22 Nov 2023 – Much as I love Thanksgiving, I find myself struggling to let a sense of thankfulness flow, because when I do–and doing so has always been a crucial part of the holiday–my gratitude for my blessings starts to feel more like luck and, even worse, privilege. Yeah, how nice.
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Israeli Intelligence to Be Granted Full Access to National Biometric Database
Ken Macon | Reclaim the Net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Expanding Data Collection and Use – The Israeli government is implementing significant amendments in the usage and access of biometric data that could have profound implications for privacy rights.
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Ours Is an Indigenous Struggle: How Gaza United the World
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
The consequences of this war will certainly be felt for many years to come, not only in Palestine or even the Middle East, but worldwide as well.
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Three US Presidents Who Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday — and What They Were Thankful for
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
24 Nov 2023 – All three were giving thanks for bringing the country through a major financial crisis related to war, and they achieved it through the “American system” of banking and finance.
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Sunday Morning (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | GlobalFaction – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
This song is about the loss of a child.
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Emissions of Richest 1% Will Cause 1.3 Million Heat Deaths: Oxfam
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
20 Nov 2023 – “The super-rich are plundering and polluting the planet to the point of destruction and it is those who can least afford it who are paying the highest price.”
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Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
All of our creativity, all of our compulsive productivity, all of our poems and our space telescopes, are but a coping mechanism for our mortality, for the elemental knowledge that we will lose everything and everyone we cherish as we inevitably return our borrowed stardust to the universe.
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(Italiano) Come finiscono le guerre?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Sparavano sulla Colonna nemica da dietro steccati, alberi, granai, muri, da dentro le case, poi ricaricavano, avanzavano in fretta e sparavano di nuovo. Uno strano tipo nuovo di guerreggiare per i britannici senza esperienza né addestramento in merito. A loro pareva disonorevole, nascondersi e sparare a uomini allo scoperto che non potevano neppure vedere i propri nemici. Come scrisse una Giubba Rossa alla famiglia: Non ci combattevano da esercito regolare, solo come selvaggi”.
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18 Nov 2023–>Day 43: Today’s News on Palestine & Israel
Israel-Palestine News | If Americans New - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Humanitarian aid & fuel update, new Israeli airstrikes, Al Shifa Hospital crisis, Palestinian deaths in West Bank, and more.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 44: WHO Says Israel Turned Al-Shifa Hospital into Death Zone
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
19 Nov 2023 – Thousands of Palestinians ‘Humiliated’ as They Flee to Southern Gaza – A Doctors Without Borders convoy was targeted by Israeli fire as Palestinians describe the “humanitarian” route to flee south as a “corridor of death and humiliation.” Israeli forces raid Jenin and Bethlehem.
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What Israel Wants? Why Genocide?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
16 Nov 2023 – As the genocidal assault on Gaza continues, Israel remains defiant and the US stands firm in support of its supposed goal of destroying Hamas as a presence in Gaza, but also intent on mounting an ethnic cleansing crusade with a West Bank focus but a Gaza subtext.
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Israel Faces Wave of International Condemnation over Hospital Raid
Patrick Wintour | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – The scale and virulence of the global condemnation from Arab and western governments raised questions about how much longer Israel can continue with its offensive. The US distanced itself from the military takeover of the hospital, saying it had not authorised the Israeli decision.
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The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers
Isaac Chotiner | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – A leader of the settlement movement on expanding into Gaza, and her vision for the Jewish state. For decades, Daniella Weiss has been one of the leaders of Israel’s settlement movement. She became involved in settlement politics in the wake of the 1967 war.
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US Blows Off the Whole World to Punish Cuba
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – On Nov 2, the UNGA voted overwhelmingly for a resolution calling on the US to lift the trade embargo against Cuba that John Kennedy imposed in 1962. The US and Israel were the only two nations to vote no, with Ukraine abstaining. Total dependence creates total compliance.
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“One Holocaust Does NOT Justify Another”: Britain’s National March for Palestine and the World’s Moral Majority
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Saturday’s [11 Nov 2023] march that drew 300.000 Britons is a clear testament to the global consensus moral position among hundreds of millions of people around the world.
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Gaza
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
17 Nov 2023 – From Bethlehem
11800 murdered civilians: men, women, 4600 children
But the victim we are told is the villain…
… No point to count the thousands rotting under the rubble
For no one has tools or equipment to go to the trouble
Six Unique Factors about Gaza Genocide
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – The genocide goes on: babies died when taken out of incubators that had no power and many more cancer patients sent home died. Most injured people cannot be helped since the medical system is completely collapsed and there are 27,000 injured.
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The Israeli Model vs the Global Intifada
Satya Sagar | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – Watching the unbelievable destruction wrought by the Israelis in Gaza a simple question very high on many minds must be ‘ How in hell does this illegitimate child of European guilt and American ambition get away with all this again and again and again?’
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Long Live Palestine – Part 3 (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | GRM Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
From Lowkey’s Soundtrack to the Struggle 2
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Pro-Palestine Protests Are Ignored by the Western Elite, and It May Be a Fatal Mistake
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – Liberal democracy is being destroyed from within by leaders who refuse to stand up to Israel despite public pressure.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
GAZA 20 Nov 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
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Special Delivery
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
13 Nov 2023 – Diplomacy? No Joke…
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Lucille Clifton on the Balance of Intellect and Intuition in Creative Work and the Healing Power of Connection
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
How to Be a Living Poem
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Hey Joe
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Peace through Horror
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‘The Hinge of History’
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – Palestine and the New World Order – Bombing hospitals was, just a few days ago, a red line the IDF dared not cross without provoking international condemnation. Today the IDF is bombing hospitals and its soldiers are shooting invalid patients as Gazans try to evacuate bombed buildings.
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Plato’s Fight against Apollo’s Temple of Delphi and the Cult of Democracy
Cynthia Chung | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Homer’s great poems that are left to us today, The Iliad and The Odyssey, describe the events of the Trojan War, which marked the descent of Greece into a Dark Age. Following the Trojan War, c.1190 BCE, the civilization of Greece collapsed, written language was lost, and cities disappeared.
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Bill Gates ‘Digital IDs’ Will Be Mandatory to Participate in Society
Patricia Harrity | The Exposé – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – On 7 Nov was launched the “50-in-5” agenda. The UN, Bill Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation are launching a campaign to accelerate digital ID, digital payments, and data-sharing rollouts in 50 countries under the umbrella of digital public infrastructure by 2028.
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Palestinians Fear ‘Slow Death’ as Hunger and Thirst Spread in Gaza
Mahmoud Mushtaha | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – Israel’s assault has created a severe food and water crisis, with bakeries, shops, and local authorities unable to meet the population’s minimum needs.
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Anyone Who Believes in the Hollywood Image of the CIA Should Come to Serbia—Where the Agency Has Long Aligned with One of the Country’s Most Notorious Criminal Gangs
Olga Peterson | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – Most people tend to believe that the CIA is just an intelligence service, gathering information to enable better public policy. However, its real purpose is to engage in political skullduggery and subvert or destabilize other countries in order to help facilitate the goal of U.S. global domination and hegemony.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 37: Al-Shifa Hospital No Longer Functioning as Israeli Ground Troops Surround the Hospital
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
12 Nov 2023 – Thousands of lives are at risk as Al-Shifa Hospital becomes non-operational, with ICUs and incubators shutting down due to lack of fuel, and medical staff and patients trapped waiting to die. Israeli forces continue to shell hospitals in north Gaza.
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Doctors in Gaza Respond to Israeli Doctors Who Endorsed Bombing of Hospitals
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – “Israeli doctors who signed a letter promoting [the] bombing of hospitals with patients inside have committed a betrayal to their noble profession and bear responsibility,” said a group of doctors in Gaza.
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Does the Truth Matter?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – The Israeli government just downgraded the number of killed in Oct 7 to 1200 from 1400. George Galloway wrote: “The foul allegations of rape have been dropped by the Israeli government. The forty beheaded babies have been downscaled to one, not beheaded, and killed by persons unknown.” The truth matters because lies are being used to justify an ongoing genocide.
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Can Crimes of Resistance Ever Justify Genocide? The Tragic Reality of Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
3 Nov 2023 – Israel has seized this opportunity to fulfill Zionist territorial ambitions amid “the fog of war” by inducing one last surge of Palestinian catastrophic dispossession. Whether it is called “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide” is of secondary importance; it qualifies as the predominant humanitarian catastrophe of the 21stcentury.
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On Gaza
Phil Wilayto | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 marked 106 years since one Englishman, Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, gave another Englishman, Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, the right to establish a “homeland” for his people. The land targeted in the Balfour Declaration was in the Middle East and it already was home to millions of Palestinians.
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The Nobel Peace Prize Can Still Become Our Rescue
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
‘The Real Nobel Peace Prize: A History of Squandered Opportunities’ by Fredrik S. Heffermehl, 2023, 406 pp. –
Address by the author at book launch, 11 Nov 2023
An Epistle to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
10 Nov 2023 – Seeing you stumble on your way by throwing your full support to the Zionist leaders of Israel has been a body blow to me. That you have not defended the children of Gaza and condemned their massacre by the thousands has shocked and sickened me.
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Militarism vs. Our Shared Humanity
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – If you don’t care about the victims, the dehumanization process kicks in and, if you’re reading about it on the Internet or watching it on TV, it starts morphing into a video game. Crash, boom, hooray! This is war and we’ve got no choice but to win, no matter the cost.
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US Corporate Media Outlets Allow IDF to Vet ‘All Materials’ from Embedded Reporters in Gaza
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – U.S. corporate media outlets have granted Israeli military commanders pre-publication review rights for “all materials and footage” recorded by their correspondents embedded with the Israel Defense Forces during the invasion of Gaza, a precondition condemned by press freedom advocates.
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The Dangers of ‘Minstrel Diplomacy’
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III | The Seattle Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
Black faces are being used by the failing empire to sell failed racist, neocolonial militarism.
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West Asian Governments Take Assertive Stances against Israeli Occupation and Its Crimes
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
10 Nov 2023 – A large number of Arab and other West Asian countries have defied the US pressures and openly taken a stand against the Israeli war in Gaza for the first time in decades.
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Will David again Slay Goliath?
Steve Corbett | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – Lambs being led to the slaughter, these and countless other children need all the good shepherds we can provide to protect them before desperation and suffering drive them to kill in the name of the free Palestine they deserve. Peace, not war, is always worth the effort.
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Conflating Jewish and Pro-Israel Is Wrong and Misleading
Ari Paul | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – As protests erupt worldwide against Israel’s ferocious bombardment and invasion of Gaza, US media ponder how this impacts Jewish people. The way this is framed completely mischaracterizes Jewish opinion, falsely acting as if it is unquestionably unified in support of Israeli military attacks.
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Mainstream Media Kills Truth
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
7 Nov 2023 – We in the West Bank witness this genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and know we are next. Already 163 Palestinians were murdered by the army and settlers since 7 Oct. Israel blocked our cantons and arrested/kidnapped over 2500 more Palestinians in the West Bank.
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Alain de Botton on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
“The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n,” Milton wrote centuries before modern science came to illuminate how the mind renders reality — the mind, this sole lens we have on what the world is and what we are.
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Reflections on Evil
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – In light of current events, I am posting my exploration of evil, written 15 years ago.
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The ICC Must Investigate the Crime of Genocide in Gaza
Jeremy Corbyn | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – We need a ceasefire. The existence of the Palestinian people is at stake.
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Good Times for the Military-Industrial Complex
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
But Is It Truly the Arsenal of Democracy?
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Genocide Convention Analysis and Explanation
William A. Schabas | UN Library of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
The term “genocide” was first used by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. Although the word appears in the drafting history of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, the final text of that instrument uses the cognate term “crimes against humanity” to deal with the persecution and physical extermination of national, ethnic, racial and religious minorities.
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Full Steam Ahead
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – Killing Democratically
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Media Coverage of Israel and Gaza Is Rife with Deadly Double Standards
Editorial | The New Humanitarian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
‘Terrorism’ vs. ‘self-defense’ – Journalism that presents Palestinians as less than human makes their killing more acceptable: Palestinians “die” while Israelis are “killed”.
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Why Native Hawaiians Are Being “Pushed Out of Paradise” in Their Homeland
Adam Yamaguchi and Kerry Bree | CBS News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
4 Nov 2023 – Doreen Hall is among the thousands of native Hawaiians who decided to leave the state with her family because of rising prices. Each year, 15,000 native Hawaiians leave for the US mainland. There are fears that rebuilding from the wildfires from Maui will lead to even more displacement.
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Slaughter in Gaza: The Failures of International Law and Responsible Statecraft
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – Israel’s bloodlust shows international law is ‘a manipulated series of norms.’ International Law Professor Richard Falk says Western leadership becomes “self-righteous” to enforce international law “when it’s in their interest” while in other cases, they remain silent.
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Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – Israel has long been a master of what is called in Hebrew hasbara–the spinning, manipulating and distorting of public discourse so that it either justifies what Israel is doing or diverts attention from the message of critics and skeptics to the supposedly questionable credibility of the messenger. ‘The weaponizing of antisemitism’ is a cynical example of the deployment of hasbara.
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(Italiano) L’uomo allo specchio: Uno sguardo al cuore e alla mente dietro TRANSCEND Media Service
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Rincantucciati in un appartamentino all’ottavo piano di un caseggiato non lontano dal fiume Douro a Porto, in Portogallo, ci sono uno scrittoio, due computer laptop e una poltrona ortopedica. “Questo è il TMS!” proclama Antonio, l’uomo allo specchio, con ostentazione.
→ read full articleLetter to the World (from Palestine)
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – I will start by saying THANK YOU on behalf of all Palestinians. Thank you for keeping your humanity. Thank you for not succumbing to the lies and distortions from corrupt politicians and media. Do not underestimate your individual power to act. Millions went to the streets in the last few days in this global uprising.
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Why Israel Wants to Erase Context and History in the War on Gaza
Ilan Pappé | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
5 Nov 2023 – The dehistoricisation of what is happening helps Israel pursue genocidal policies in Gaza.
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – Consideration of AI Safety versus Safety from Human Artifice
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New Document Leak on Plan to Expel Gaza Population
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
30 Oct 2023 – A leaked document from the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence to an Israeli news site today lays out a plan to transfer more than 2 million Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai desert. [Moses, 13th century BCE, Redux]
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Japan, G-7 on Different Pages Regarding Middle East Conflict
Shino Matsuyama and Akira Nemoto | The Asahi Shimbun - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Despite being its chair, Japan was “excluded from the G-7.” On 22 Oct Biden held talks with the leaders of the G-7 nations, except for Japan, and the six leaders issued a joint statement in support of Israel’s right to self-defense. Japan has long supported the two-state solution, in which Israel and Palestine coexist as independent nations.
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Come Back, just Come Back!
Refaat in Gaza | X – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Oh Rascal Children of Gaza.
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William A. Schabas | UN Library of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
The term “genocide” was first used by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. Although the word appears in the drafting history of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, the final text of that instrument uses the cognate term “crimes against humanity” to deal with the persecution and physical extermination of national, ethnic, racial and religious minorities.
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Iran-Russia Set a Western Trap in Palestine
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
27 Oct 2023 – The only country that could possibly distract the West from Ukraine is Israel. But the US and its allies are walking into an existential trap if they think a West Asian victory will be more easily won than a European one.
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US House Passes $14.3 Billion in Military Aid for Israel
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – The US Congress today passed a bill to provide Israel with $14.3 billion in military aid, a strong show of support for the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, which has killed over 9,000 Palestinians in last 26 days.
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Debate Palestine-Israel: Noam Chomsky & Rudy Rochman (must watch)
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Noam Chomsky Destroys Israel
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Some Documents of Hope
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
1 Nov 2023 – Your students, like all young people today are pushed towards pessimism by the mass media and the pronouncements of their national governments. Is there some way that we can give them hope for the future? I want to give you four documents of hope.
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Where Is the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ in Gaza?
Abdelwahab El-Affendi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Yesterday’s proponents of the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine are today’s biggest supporters of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.
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(Italiano) Il pianeta non può sopravvivere alla crescente corsa agli armamenti
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Novembre 2023 – TNI ha da poco pubblicato uno ‘studio di caso’, mettendo in relazione le spese militari previste dalla NATO e gli obiettivi di riduzione delle emissioni di gas serra. La conclusione è netta: “il pianeta non può sopravvivere all’attuale corsa agli armamenti”.
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United Nations General Assembly Overwhelmingly Adopts Resolution Calling for an End to Violence in Gaza
Nicolas Boeglin | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – On 27 Oct the UNGA adopted a resolution entitled “Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations .” See which 14 countries voted against in the placard above.
→ read full articleHow the Forgotten Prodigy William James Sidis Presaged the Quantum Undoing of Time and Thermodynamics
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Dismantling the Dogmas of Life and Death
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Gaza Children Buried Alive, Buried Alive, Buried Alive
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – State Terrorism: As I watch the relentless airstrikes on Gaza, I can’t stop thinking about children trapped underneath the tons of concrete rubble and buried alive. Netanyahu, his generals, and President Biden must be prosecuted by the ICC for genocide and “collective punishment” — a scholarly way of describing mass murder of civilians.
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(Italiano) Comprendere il passato per guardare al futuro
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
30 Ottobre 2023 – La storia è lo scenario nel quale si collocano e acquistano senso gli eventi dell’oggi. Comprendere il passato per guardare al futuro, come ha affermato il segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite, Guterres…
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Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – The video provokes a disgust as profound as any I have ever felt. It features Israelis recording themselves sadistically ridiculing Palestinians in the most cruel manner. They imitate Palestinian children dying or starving. They apply racially offensive makeup and mock Gazans as Israel deprives them of power, potable water, food and much else.
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Operation False Flag to Set the Middle East on Fire
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
28 Oct 2023 – Facts, not opinion, are increasingly showing that the attack carried out by Hamas on 7 Oct in Israel was the detonator for an Operation False Flag, similar to the 11 Sept 2001 attack in the US. The U.N. Secretary General reports that more than 35 U.N. personnel have been killed by Israeli shelling in Gaza.
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The Jewish-Arab Peace Song (Music Video of the Week)
Shamai Leibowitz | TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
A beautiful song with an inspiring message. There are many Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs working for peace and this Middle-Eastern jazzy song should be their hymn!
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Israel in Search of Its Hiroshima: Massive Bomb Wipes Out 20 Apt. Buildings, Kills, Wounds 400 Civilians
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
In one of the biggest massacres it has so far committed, the Israeli Air Force on Tuesday [31 Oct 2023] bombed the Jabaliyaa refugee camp in Gaza, killing or wounding at least 400 persons and destroying the Block Six residential complex, felling 20 buildings. Many more victims are under the rubble.
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Israel’s Big Lie of “Self-Defense”
Kieran Kelly | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – An occupier does not have the right to use arms in “self-defense.” Is the mass slaughter of civilians self-defense?
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How to Stop Genocide and Prevent Atrocities
Taylor O’Connor | Everyday Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
3 Nov 2023 – Outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights writes: “Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it.” He explains that with Western leaders providing weapons and diplomatic cover, the only hope we have is that people around the world demand that governments stop Israel’s ongoing atrocities.
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Joe Biden Gives Speech Detached from Reality Justifying U.S. Support for Ukraine and Gaza Wars
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Right out of a George Orwell Novel – As the U.S. escalates its involvement in wars in Ukraine and Gaza, Joe Biden gave a speech at the Oval Office on 19 Oct trying to legitimize $106 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, Taiwan.
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(Français) Quelques Documents d’Espoir
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
1 novembre 2023 – Vos étudiants, comme tous les jeunes d’aujourd’hui, sont poussés au pessimisme par les médias et les déclarations de leurs gouvernements nationaux. Existe-t-il un moyen de leur donner de l’espoir pour l’avenir ? Je veux vous donner quatre documents d’espoir.
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