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The JFK Assassination Chokeholds That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Here is an excellent book that, if they would read it with open minds, would, as its subtitle says – inescapably prove that there was a conspiracy – and if Jack Ruby had not killed Oswald and he had been given a fair trial, Oswald would have been acquitted.
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Protecting and Serving in the Old US of A
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
Protecting and Serving WHO or WHAT Exactly?
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How Israel Violates International Law in Gaza: Expert Report
Steve France | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
An independent expert report lays out how Israel systematically violated U.S. and International Law in Gaza, concluding that Israel launched indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks on civilian areas due to “extremely relaxed rules of engagement.”
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The Russia–Iran–China Search for a New Global Security Order
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
3 May 2024 – While the collective west is in the grips of an existential legitimacy crisis, the RIC is devising its own security order to protect the rest of the world from the ‘genocidals.’
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Liberalism without Accountability
Gareth Fearn | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
2 May 2024 – Many of the US universities’ billionaire donors support the Israeli government and believe university students are suppressing the free speech of others. Right-wing politicians are forcing some university presidents out of their jobs for tolerance of antisemitism, while others submit to congressional demands to restrict academic freedom. This is a toxic combination.
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We Tried to Bring Food into Gaza—but Israel Blocked and Arrested Us
Brant Rosen | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
6 May 2024 – As Israel continues to starve the people of Gaza, a delegation of rabbis marched toward the Erez Crossing during Passover carrying sacks of flour and demanding a cease-fire. They were arrested.
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Africa to France: ‘Get Out!’
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
9 May 2024 – After decades of brewing anti-imperialist sentiment in the Sahel, events in the region are now unfolding at a rapid pace. France has long sought to undermine African sovereignty since the national liberation struggles of the twentieth century. But Africa would not tolerate French dominion then, nor will it now.
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Trial, Triumph, and the Art of the Possible: The Remarkable Story Behind Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy”
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 May 2024
On the early evening of May 7, 1824, the Viennese crowded into the concert hall — but they were not the usual patrons. Looking up to the royal box, Beethoven was crushed to see it empty. He was going to be playing for the people.
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Kenya Floods Death Toll at 228 as Crisis Persists
Agence France-Presse | VOA News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
5 May 2024 – Kenya said today that the death toll from weeks of devastating rains and floods had risen to 228 and warned that there was no sign of a let-up in the crisis.
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Palestine, Iran, and Populist Resistance: The Limits of Law, Morality, and the UN
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
3 May 2024 – The Palestinian struggle, connected with wider regional and global conflict patterns, is giving rise to worldwide student protests against genocide and complicity with genocide, as well as a tidal wave of global consciousness sweeping away the cobwebs of political and moral complacency.
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The Hidden Messages of the Power Elite’s Cultural Apparatus
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
2 May 2024 – To be crucified is to suffer and die slowly and agonizingly. It is generally associated with Rome’s killing of Jesus and carries profound symbolic spiritual meaning for Christians. It also refers to many types of suffering and death inflicted on the weak by the strong, such as the ongoing genocidal slaughter of Palestinians by the Israel government.
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Beyond Palestine: A Burmese Activist Salutes Anti-Genocide US Campus Protestors
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
5 May 2024 – US students’ courageous and passionate activism is inspiring their peers in other institutions of higher learning in places as diverse as Waseda University in Tokyo, the universities of Sydney and Melbourne, the Sorbonne and Sciences Po in Paris, and Britain’s universities at Warwick and Bristol.
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Campus Crackdown: 300+ Arrested in Police Raids on Columbia & CCNY to Clear Gaza Encampments – VIDEO
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – New York police in full riot gear stormed Columbia University and the City College of New York Tue [30 Apr] night, arresting over 300 students to break up Gaza solidarity encampments on the two campuses.
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‘We Must Shame Pro Genocide Israel Defenders’
Abby Martin | Katie Halper – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
27 Apr 2024 – I anchored a livestream of a “Seder in the Streets to Stop Arming Israel” held on Passover Tue 23 Apr night. The demonstration was held in Brooklyn hours before the Senate approved a package of $17 billion in arms and security to Israel. Hundreds of protesters were arrested.
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Regenerating Our Planet, Regenerating Our Health
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
22 Apr 2024 – The health of the planet and the health of the people are One, maintained through the cycles of food, life, and regeneration. We are part of nature and of its complex living processes. The earth, food and our bodies are interconnected living systems.
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Mapping Pro-Palestine College Campus Protests Around the World
AJLabs | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
29 Apr 2024 – Pro-Palestinian demonstrations and sit-ins are spreading at universities across the US and around the world. From the US to Australia to Europe and Latin America, students are calling for their universities to divest and sever ties with Israel.
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The One Video Israel Doesn’t Want You to See
Al Jazeera Investigations | Double Down News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
10 Apr 2024 – What Really Happened on October 7
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Columbia University Student Journalists on the Student Encampment and the Crackdown
Anna Oakes and Claudia Gohn | Rolling Stone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – Columbia student journalists report on the pro-Palestine protest movement that roiled the university and ended in mass arrests.
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Governing Gaza after Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
Q: Israeli officials are weighing sharing power with Arab states in postwar Gaza. How do you see that?
A: Such a format seems like nothing more than a cover for continued Israeli governance of Gaza. The governments of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE are more opposed to Hamas (and Iran) than to Israel, fearful of their own stability.
What’s Next as ‘Heavy-Handed’ US Negotiates Pullout from Niger?
Lorraine Mallinder | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – US ‘touched a nerve’ in security dealings with Niger, opening door to ‘transactional’ Russia as Sahel violence spirals.
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‘Dead Aid’: What’s Behind the West Helping Africa?
Denis A. Degterev | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
30 Apr 2024 – Why international aid meant to help doesn’t, and what can be done about it. Western financing only worsens Africa’s development prospects. In 2009, Zambian economist and former World Bank consultant Dambisa Moyo defined such assistance as “dead aid.”
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A Middle East Peace That Could Happen (But Won’t)
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
5 May 2024 – In Washington-Speak, “Palestinian State” Means “Fried Chicken”
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Ukraine War: Washington Moves on to Plan B
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
26 Apr 2024 – Here’s what everyone needs to understand about Ukraine: The US has already moved on to Plan B, but the Biden administration has not issued an official statement; the shift has already begun. The Washington Brain-trust has abandoned any hope of winning the war outright.
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How Israel Violates International Law in Gaza: Expert Report
Steve France | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
29 Apr 2024 – An independent expert report lays out how Israel systematically violated U.S. and International Law in Gaza, concluding that Israel launched indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks on civilian areas due to “extremely relaxed rules of engagement.”
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Will They Crush the Biggest Student Movement Since Vietnam?
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – Gaza solidarity encampments sprung up on over a hundred university campuses across the U.S. It’s the biggest student movement since the anti-Vietnam War protests in the 1960s. In response to the peaceful protests against genocide, many school administrations have invited police onto campus for violent crackdowns.
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Blame South Sudan’s Civil War on Elites, Not “Ethnic Tensions”
Stefan Bakumenko | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
30 Apr 2024 – South Sudan’s post-independence instability is often blamed on ethnic tensions. But exploitation by international companies and zero-sum competition over resources between local elites are the real causes of ongoing violence in the country.
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US Working to Prevent International Criminal Court Arrest Warrant for Netanyahu
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
28 Apr 2024 – The US and Israel are working to prevent the ICC from issuing an arrest warrant for Israeli PM Netanyahu and other high-level officials. -The US Backed the ICC Issuing an Arrest Warrant for Putin-
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Extraordinary International Conference on Killer Robots and Killer AI – Austria
Ousman Noor | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
See X Below
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Can Democracy Survive? Maybe in Africa and Latin America
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – Lula da Silva, the former trade unionist, continues as President of Brazil. “Like other countries in Latin America, Brazil is developing a culture of peace which can support a true democracy,” he said. In his speech to the African Union Lula said, “We are reviving our democracy and making it increasingly participatory.”
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How Artificial Intelligence Kill-Lists Drive Israeli Genocide in Gaza
Bappa Sinha | NewsClick - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
27 Apr 2024 – A probe report reveals how AI programmes, such as Lavender and The Gospel, were used to target supposed Palestinian militants in Gaza through bombing attacks that resulted in mass civilian casualties.
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Masked Israel Supporters Attack UCLA’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment with Weapons
Niko Georgiades | Unicorn Riot - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
Over more than five hours on Tue 30 Apr night, pro-Israel Zionist agitators violently beat, pepper sprayed and threw fireworks at hundreds of college students and protesters in a “unilateral, surprise attack“ as they held UCLA’s Palestine solidarity encampment while security and police stood by idly.
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Happy May Day
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024
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It’s Time to Declare Israel a Rogue State
Somdeep Sen | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
25 Apr 2024 – Another day, another tragedy in Gaza. Rescuers pull bodies out of the rubble after an Israeli air strike on a residential building in southern Gaza’s Rafah city. It is time for the international community to accept that Israel is a rogue actor and start treating it as such.
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(Italiano) L’approccio di Johan Galtung ad argomenti tabù
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
2 Maggio 2024 – Un argomento cui non è permesso di essere trattato nelle venerate sale accademiche è qualunque accenno che la narrazione ufficiale dell’11 settembre 2001 possa non essere interamente vera. I professori con rispetto per sé stessi non solo eviteranno come la peste tale argomento, ma proibiranno a chiunque di trattarlo in loro presenza, come temendo di poter essere stigmatizzati quali “teorici della cospirazione/ complottisti” per associazione.
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Protestors Confront White House Correspondents’ Dinner
News2Share | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
27 Apr 2024 – As corporate media members enter the venue for the annual White House Correspondents’ dinner today, anti-genocide protestors are literally in their faces over the mainstream media covering for Israel.
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Israel Uses Foreign Mercenaries in Gaza
Steven Sahiounie | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – The international community is not only silent about Israel’s genocide but also sends foreign mercenaries to fight alongside IDF in Gaza. The US are trying to make the Kurds partners with Israel but many Kurds take the side of the people of Gaza and the Palestinian resistance.
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AI, Big Tech Seek to Consolidate Hold on Journalism
Patrick Boylan | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
2 May 2024 -“Can Journalism Survive AI?” was the provocative title of one of the key presentations at the recent Perugia International Journalism Festival (April 17-21). Young activists from the Perugia Social Center “Turba” say no, it cannot.
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Sensible Responses
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
…to Bothersome Student Protesters
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The Failure of Pacifism and the Success of Nonviolence
Dustin Ells Howes | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
Although pacifism and nonviolence bear a close relationship to one another historically, pacifism is the ideological assertion that war and violence should be rejected in political and personal life, whereas nonviolence refers to a distinct set of political practices.
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A Poet and a Geologist’s Love Letter to Life Lensed Through a Mountain
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
How astonishing to remember that nothing has inherent color, that color is not a property of objects but of the light that falls upon them, reflected back. So too with the light of the mind — it is attention that gives the world its vibrancy, its kaleidoscopic beauty.
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(Français) La Démocratie Peut-Elle Survivre ? Peut-Être en Afrique et en Amérique Latine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1er mai 2024 – Il y a quelques mois, j’affirmais sur ce blog que nous assistions « au début de la fin de la démocratie bourgeoise ». J’étais pessimiste quant à la possibilité que la démocratie survive sous une autre forme.
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Profs Urge NYT to Probe False Oct. 7 Rape Story
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
29 Apr 2024 – To Remove ‘Cloud of Doubt,’ Journalism Professors Urge Review of NYT Story on Oct. 7 Sexual Violence – More than 50 journalism professors call for an independent review into the debunked NYT story “Screams Without Words.” Nothing can “reverse the damage done to Palestine and to Palestinians,” said the professors.
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War, Money and Universities
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
1 May 2024 – Peaceful protest, violent response – that says it all. Human politics – from global to local – remain mixed with hatred, dominance and . . . well, dehumanization. We’ve organized ourselves across the planet around one primary principle: the existence of an enemy.
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Enforcing Silence on Genocide
Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
4 May 2024 – The U.S. public should by now be realizing that instead of stopping genocide, U.S. institutional and media authority is actively stamping out cries to stop the mass murder being committed with U.S. complicity.
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Campus Protests, Press Freedom and Palestine
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
2 May 2024 – World Press Freedom Day comes this week amidst Gaza solidarity protests on campuses across the world. In this election year, with the likelihood of mass protests at the Democratic and Republican National Conventions, let us remember: a free press is essential to the functioning of a democratic society.
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Gaza Freedom Flotilla: Activists Blocked from Sailing to Gaza but Vow to Keep Trying to Break Siege – Video
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 May 2024
Hundreds of activists aboard the Gaza Freedom Flotilla were blocked in Turkey on Sat 27 Apr as they attempted to set sail for the besieged Palestinian territory with 5,500 tons of aid. Organizers say Guinea-Bissau withdrew its flagged ships under pressure from Israel and the United States.
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Implication of Mathematics in Human Experience from an AI Perspective
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
29 Apr 2024 – From Sexual Attraction to Existential Preoccupations of Discipline Practitioners – Scientists (and notably mathematicians) pride themselves on their objectivity and tend systematically to deprecate anything characterized as subjective or experiential.
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Netanyahu Failed in Gaza, Tries to Widen War
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
20 Apr 2024 – It now seems either that the US reaction to the Damascus attack or the concerns of the Netanyahu war cabinet rejected the temptations of a wider war. Iran as well seemed to accept an outcome of its retaliation directed at Israel, resulting in neither death nor damage, was nevertheless sufficient for its purposes.
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Israel Just Launched a Brutal Attack on Rafah. “Beyond Shame, Beyond Crime…”
Peter Koenig | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – Brutality, atrocity no end.
Horrendous indiscriminate firebombing of Gaza’s southernmost city, Rafah.
We know Netanyahu does not move a finger without Washington’s OK.
What We Are Seeing in Gaza Is a ‘Repeat of Auschwitz,’ Says Genocide Expert
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal | Anadolu Ajansi - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – What Israel is doing in Gaza is ‘simply mass extermination without the gas chambers,’ says human rights activist and genocide scholar Maung Zarni, [a member of TRANSCEND]. ‘This is a collective white imperialist man’s genocide,’ Nobel Peace Prize nominee says.
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Israel/Iran Tensions: Provocation, Retaliations, Wider War Option/Fears
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – The focus is on the Israeli April 1st attack on Iran’s Damascus consulate, and the international law implications of Iran’s retaliation against Israeli targets on April 13, followed a week later by Israel’s second drone attack on a military base not far from Isfahan, which both countries somewhat downplayed. Israel seemed to have given up the wider war option at least for the present in response to diplomatic pressures from allies to deescalate regional tensions.
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DC Police Refuse George Washington University Request to Arrest Students
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
27 Apr 2024 – The Washington, D.C. police turned down a request by GWU president to clear out the anti-genocide encampment on campus.
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Palestinian Genocide: Worse Than You Can Imagine
Craig Murray | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – The author has no doubt the Western political elite are complicit in the genocide of Palestinians at a much deeper level than the people have yet understood.
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UK and Others Cut Funding to UNRWA but Israel Gave NO EVIDENCE of Terror Links
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – An independent report has just exonerated the UN relief agency that is the main channel of humanitarian support to Palestinians across the Middle East. The report by former French foreign minister Catherine Colonna has said Israel has yet to provide any supporting evidence of its claims that employees of the UNRWA are members of terrorist organisations.
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The World Dumps 2,000 Truckloads of Plastic into the Ocean Each Day: Here’s Where a Lot of It Ends Up
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
23 Apr 2024 – The western coast of Java in Indonesia is popular with surfers for its world-famous breaks. There’s a majestic underwater world to explore, too. But it’s impossible to surf or snorkel without running into plastic water bottles, single-use cups and food wrappers.
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‘The Soldiers Opened the Way for the Settlers’: Pogroms Surge Across West Bank
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
18 Apr 2024 – Armed Israeli settlers raided more than a dozen Palestinian communities under the army’s guard, leaving a trail of death and destruction in their wake.
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The Gaza Genocide as Explicit Policy: Michael Hudson Names All Names
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – The essential background to understand the unthinkable: a 21st century genocide broadcast live 24/7 to the whole planet–a first.
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
NO JOKE!
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Gaza Genocide: The Abysmal Moral Failure of the ‘West’
Jeremy Salt | Palestine Chronicle - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – There is little that could be more uncivilized, cruel and barbarous than the crimes Israel is committing or more morally depraved than the complicity of the governments helping it along.
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Poison Ivy
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
Not necessary any comment…
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Eighty-Six Percent of Guantanamo Bay Inmates Were Sold to US Troops in Response to $5,000 Bounty Offer
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – I Am Gitmo spotlights the story of an Egyptian man who was incarcerated in notorious torture chamber for a decade after being wrongfully accused of being part of 9/11 plot.
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War & Genocide on Earth Day
Melissa Garriga | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – On Earth Day, Mon 22 Apr, prepare for the annual spectacle of U.S. lawmakers about their love for the planet. U.S. military aggression and imperial ambitions leave a trail of natural destruction — all under the guise of national security.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 29 Apr 2024
Iran’s ‘New Equation’ Reaches Way Beyond West Asia
Pepe Escobar | Sputinik International - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2014 – A Holy of the Holies was shattered in the Holy Land as Iran staged a quite measured, heavily choreographed response to the Israeli terror attack against its consulate/ambassador residence in Damascus, a de facto evisceration of the Vienna Convention on diplomatic immunity.
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US Campus Crackdowns Ignite Gaza Solidarity Movement
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – “What starts here changes the world. It starts with you and what you do each day.” So reads a sign that greets students at the University of Texas–Austin. But a photo shows the sign in front of a row of state troopers in riot gear to disperse students protesting genocide in Gaza. Armed with semi-automatic rifles and mounted on horseback, they proceeded to violently arrest at least 50 students, including a journalist.
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How Banksters and Investors Are Fueling a Global Biodiversity Crisis
Laurel Sutherlin | Independent Media Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – Commercial financial flows to the forest-risk commodity sectors are driving the majority of tropical deforestation.
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Massive Study of 99M COVID Vaccinated People “Exposes the Lies They Told Us”
Clayton Morris, Dr. Peter McCullough | Redacted - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
“This COVID study is MASSIVE and exposes the LIES they told us.”
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United States Hypocrisy – Again
Robert Fantina | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
24 Apr 2024 – On 18 Apr, a proposal was submitted to the UNSC to admit Palestine as a full member. Of the fifteen members, twelve voted in favor, two abstained, and the USA opposed it after frantic lobbying to convince at least one of them to align, so it would not stand alone, again, in its support for the apartheid regime of Israel.
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A Gift to Cat-Lovers and Soul Mates: A Poem of T.S. Eliot
T. S. Eliot | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
The Naming of Cats
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An Entirely Avoidable Humanitarian Crisis—US Embargo Continues to Inflict Immense Suffering on Cuba
Bharat Dogra | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – Cuba is an inspiring example of a small country whose doctors have reached difficult areas of human distress and disasters to provide free medical services. What is the reward? Cubans cannot get essential services and medical equipment due to the embargo imposed by the USA for over six decades.
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The Years 1968 and 2024: Will History Repeat Itself?
Melvin A. Goodman | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – In 1968, the Vietnam War was the decisive moral issue of the time. In 2024, Israel’s genocidal warfare in Gaza is the decisive moral issue. The likelihood of an ugly Israeli military campaign in southern Gaza will lead to additional Palestinian deaths and to increased fury at home and abroad.
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The Human Animal
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
Just Another Type of Savagery
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‘Barbaric’ Sexual Violence in Sudan
UNOCHA | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
25 Apr 2024 – Reports of sexual violence reveal the war’s disproportionate impact on women and girls. Allegations of rape, forced marriages, sexual slavery, and trafficking of women and girls – especially in Khartoum, Darfur and Kordofan – continue to be recorded.
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Selling Weapons ‘like Vacuum Cleaners’
Dilip Simeon | After the Truth Shower – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2024
26 Apr 2024 – Photographer’s Look at the Bizarre World of Global Arms Fairs: No Blood, No Bodies
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How the CIA and US Special Forces Manufactured a Migrant Crisis and Orwellian Police State in Vietnam Before Going to the Americas
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – If such tactics continue, it is possible that an enlargement of such a program could lead to a pacification program of areas of the United States, such as the CIA and the US Army have carried out in Indochina.”
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Mathematical Modelling of Silo Thinking in Interdisciplinary Contexts
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
22 Apr 2024 – AI Perspectives on Balancing Integration and Identity Faced by Strategic Complexity – Mathematics, notably through the complexity sciences, is upheld as vital to insightful understanding of complexity. Governance of global society is faced with complexity. A question of interest is whether there are mathematical insights of great potential relevance that are a challenge to comprehension.
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Trials and Tribulations of Palestinian Refugees in Syria & Palestine/Iran/Israel
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
15 Apr 2024 – What will happen with this Israeli effort to get the US involved in a wider war directed at achieving regime-change in Iran remains uncertain, but it raises doubts about the war-prevention capabilities, and even motivations, of the US and to a lesser extent, China and Russia.
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US Vetoes Palestine UN Membership as Russia Walks Out
Joe Lauria | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – The USA yesterday vetoed a UNSC resolution granting Palestine full membership in the UN. Palestinian statehood was recognized by the U.N. General Assembly in Nov 2012 when it was given non-member, Observer State status. The U.S. defied 12 council members who voted for full membership. Britain and Switzerland abstained.
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Pivot to Iran? Decoding April 1st
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
18 Apr 2024 – April 1st Pivot from Gaza: Damascus Massacre, Al Shifa Hospital, World Central Kitchen Attack, the Biden/Netanyahu Diplomatic Dance, and Iran’s Retaliation – Developments arising from these convergent incidents on 1 Apr continue to reverberate, making updating a high priority.
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Google Contract Shows Deal with Israel Defense Ministry
Billy Perrigo | TIME - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
12 Apr 2024 – Google provides cloud computing services to the IDF and has negotiated deepening its partnership during Gaza’s genocide. The Israeli Ministry of Defense has its own “landing zone” into Google Cloud—a secure entry point to computing infrastructure that allows the ministry to access AI services–Project Nimbus.
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Yale Students Launch Hunger Strike Over School’s Connection to Gaza
Michael Arria | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
15 Apr 2024 – Fourteen student activists at Yale University are on a hunger strike over the school’s connection to arms manufacturers currently supplying Israel with weaponry. They have been pushing the school to divest from Israeli human rights abuses for months, but the administration has ignored their demands.
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(Italiano) Distruggere Hamas? No! Porre fine alla guerra di Gaza e iniziare il processo di pace!
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Nell’Irlanda del Nord i repubblicani cattolici e gli unionisti protestanti hanno imparato a condividere il potere pur se organizzazioni come l’Esercito Repubblicano Irlandese (IRA) e l’Alleanza di Difesa dell’Ulster avevano entrambe massacrato civili “nemici”. Sudafricani neri e bianchi hanno concordato un nuovo ordine politico benché militanti dell’African National Congress e del Partito Nazionale si erano terrorizzati l’un l’altro per decenni. Distruggere Hamas, pare chiaro, non è la strada per la pace.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 22 Apr 2024
The New German Chauvinism (Part 1)
Bue Rübner Hansen | Lefteast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
In Germany, people are currently forced to choose between two critical and profound commitments: to accept their government’s complicity in the mass murder of civilians or to be accused of antisemitism.
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The US Did Not Fail to Intervene in Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – The most widespread and pernicious myth about the Rwandan Genocide may be that the US stood by and let it happen, but nothing could be further from the truth. The US in fact intervened aggressively—to make sure there would be no UN intervention.
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Dead on Arrival
Ellen Cantarow | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
14 Apr 2024 – Words can’t express the horrors of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. To actually feel the nightmare, you would have to be there under the bombs, fleeing with Palestinians desperately seeking a safe place that doesn’t exist; seeing building after building destroyed…
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What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
The measure of growth is not how much we have changed, but how harmoniously we have integrated our changes with all the selves we have been — those vessels of personhood stacked within the current self.
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The North American Peace Movement at an Inflection Point
Roger D. Harris | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – The North American peace movement is contesting ongoing US wars in Ukraine and Palestine and preparations for war with China. Giving peace a chance has never been more plainly understood as opposition to what Martin Luther King, Jr., referred to as “the greatest purveyor of violence in the world: my own government.”
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Nicaragua’s Case against Germany Arming Israel
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
18 Apr 2024 – Unlike Washington, Berlin — Israel’s second-largest arms supplier — has consented to full jurisdiction of the ICJ so it is an easier target for Nicaragua’s lawsuit.
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Israeli Settlers, Soldiers ‘Wiping Palestinian Communities Off the Map’ in the West Bank
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
17 Apr 2024 – While the attention of the world is focused on Gaza, Israeli soldiers have either passively watched or participated in the uprooting of at least seven communities in the West Bank, Human Rights Watch said today in a new report.
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How Do You Define Peace? — Johan Galtung
The Stream | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Is the USA global dominance in decline? Discussing the future of geopolitics with the father of Peace Studies, Prof. Johan Galtung. Interview from 26 Apr 2012 [Please read a note from TMS Editor]
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Gaza Ceasefire Petition by International Lawyers
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
This petition offers international lawyers to show solidarity with the grave plight of the Palestinian civilian population of Gaza that is continuing to endure daily onslaught by Israel that causes widespread suffering so far supported to varying degrees by the leading liberal democracies of the West.
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Myanmar Activist Zarni Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize Questions Award’s Legacy
Zuhal Demirci | Anadolu Ajansı - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
20 Apr 2024 – ‘I was very happy but of course that is not to say that I see a Nobel Peace Prize as something that is perfect.’
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Palestinian Paramedics Said Israel Gave Them Safe Passage to Save a 6-Year-Old Girl in Gaza. They Were All Killed.
Meg Kelly, et al. | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024 -For 3½ long hours on Jan. 29, the cellphone in 6-year-old Hind Rajab’s hands was the closest thing she had to a lifeline. Alone in the back seat of a car outside a Gaza City gas station, she was drifting in and out of consciousness. Paramedics were on their way, the dispatchers kept telling her: Hold on. The paramedics were driving to their deaths.
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(Italiano) Non siamo innocenti: collaborare o non collaborare con il complesso militare-industriale-accademico-mediatico?
Giorgio Barazza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Non siamo IMPOTENTI, neppure ONNIPOTENTI, abbiamo un POTERE PERSONALE che possiamo esercitare. Cosa significa non collaborazione.
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The New German Chauvinism (Part 2)
Bue Rübner Hansen | Lefteast - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Does the German state’s adoption of Holocaust memorialization blocks the re-emergence of the far-right, strengthens democracy, prevents racism, and undermines antisemitism?
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Etiquette for US College Students
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
20 Apr 2024 – The University of Southern California recently cancelled the commencement address of its pro-Palestinian Muslim valedictorian, Asna Tabassum, after pressure from Jewish groups, and as of today has also cancelled the appearances of commencement speakers John Chu, director of ‘Crazy Rich Asians,’ and the tennis star Billie Jean King.
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Fanmi Lavalas on Haiti
Maryse Narcisse | Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
16 Apr 2024 – Despite the insecurity and the gangs threatening people in poor neighborhoods, the struggle continues. This war has not weakened the determination of the population and will not succeed in making them accept the unacceptable. To succeed in the struggle for the development of our country, we must question the models and habits inherited from the colonial system.
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15 Witnesses, Three Confessions, a Pattern of Naked Dead Bodies. All the Evidence of Hamas Rape on October 7
Liza Rozovsky | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – Hamas’ acts of rape on October 7 have turned into one of the massacre’s most contentious topics. Each testimony and detail that emerges is weaponized in the clash between Israel’s supporters and its opponents. Now, based on conversations with dozens of sources, a Haaretz investigation delineates which proof exists for sex crimes committed by Hamas – and what is missing.
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More Than Fifty Species of Fish Circling and Spinning until They Die
Arthur Firstenberg | Cellular Phone Task Force - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Whirling Fish, Bees, Worms, Sheep, Turtles, Penguins – No cause for this has been found. There is no evidence of a red tide, low oxygen levels, high temperatures, or parasites in the dead fish.
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