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AOC Files to Impeach Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito
Sharon Zhang | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

11 Jul 2024 – Yesterday, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez filed articles of impeachment against the two supreme court justices in the boldest move yet to resolve the court’s “unchecked corruption crisis” as it radically reshapes the U.S. government for worse.

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Biden’s Escapist Vision & Democratic Party’s Evasive Electoral Campaign
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

10 Jul 2024 – My dissatisfaction with Biden’s stubborn resolve to challenge Trump despite his impaired capabilities, his woeful foreign policy toward Ukraine and Gaza, and wooly-headed optimism about the future of the US and his ability to lead the world.

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Assessing the Punitive ‘Release’ of Julian Assange
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

1- What do you make of the plea deal between the US and Assange?
His release was long overdue, although it would have been more widely welcomed at this time if it had not been achieved within the framework of a plea bargain.

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May He Live
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

I reflect on these horrors. I reflect on Western (US, Germany, UK, Australia, etc) collusion and collaboration with an ongoing genocide and ongoing process of ethnic cleansing. I reflect on hypocrisy and on cowardice. I reflect on racism and hate.

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The Old Evil
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

12 Jul 2024 – I returned to occupied Palestine after two decades and experienced once more the visceral evil of Israel’s occupation. It was like this for Blacks in the segregated south and Indigenous Americans. It was like this for Algerians under the French. It was like this in India, Ireland and Kenya under the British.

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USA: A “Culture of Violence”
Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

This “culture of violence” is generated, sustained, and promoted by acts that arise from individual and collective impulse and intent, and that too often find tier tolerance and approval across political, economic, educational, military, and moral policies of institutions.

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The Buddha’s Last Teaching: Be Your Own Island, Your Own Refuge
The Dewdrop - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

“Be your own island, your own refuge, with no other refuge. Let the teaching be your island and your refuge, with no other refuge.” – Sakyamuni Buddha

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Israel Bombs Gaza School Killing 30 Palestinians as Truce Talks Continue
Al Jazeera News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

9 Jul 2024 – Israel ramped up attacks on Gaza killing at least 77 Palestinians, including dozens at a school. Mounting attacks come as mediators travel to Qatar to try and end the bloody conflict.

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Why the Corporate News Media’s Job Is to Groom Us
Jonathan Cook - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

10 Jul 2024 – Large numbers of Palestinians and Ukrainians were killed in missile strikes days apart. The media’s differing treatment of these comparable events is the clue to what the media’s really there to do.

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Genocide Joe (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

9 Jul 2024 – Lowkey releases his new track ‘Genocide Joe’ featuring Mai Khalil.

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A New Israeli Massacre and Why the End Is Near
Mazin Qumsiyeh – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

13 Jul 2024 – Israel slaughters 71 civilians and injures 289 others in Al-Mawasi tent city near Khan Younis, to where Israeli authorities had asked Gaza residents to move to as a “safe place.”

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War on Palestine: Western Leaders Destroying Humanity
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

11 Jul 2024 – Western Leaders Forge Animosities but Seek Peace

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The Vacancy
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

No Comment

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Rwanda’s Stillborn Middle-Income Economy
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

10 Jul 2024 – Rwanda’s Economic Miracle Is a Lie – On July 15, Rwandan President Paul Kagame will be “re-elected” in a sham process. He is well-known for ruling with an iron fist and keeping challengers from even entering the race against him.

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What the Movement for Divestment Misses
Scott Plous - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

9 Jul 2024 – The option for individuals to divest their own finances from companies involved in the Gaza genocide: Here’s how.

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NATO Summit: Alliance’s Endgame Appears to Be Nuclear War
Chris Wright | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

9 Jul 2024 – It is downright puzzling that millions of people aren’t protesting in the streets every day to deescalate the crisis between the West and the Rest pulling humanity back from the brink.

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Letting the Cruelty of the World Break Our Hearts Together
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

5 Jul 2024 – Let’s Allow the Cruelty of the World to Break Our Hearts, Kind Friend

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(Italiano) Religioni: in tutte c’è una garbata saggezza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

Le religioni sanno essere dure, e morbide e garbate, e ogni religione è tessuta di fili duri e morbidi, dove i fondamentalisti agiscono sui duri. Religare suona bene. Ma come?

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The End of Obama’s War on Syria
Steven Sahiounie | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

8 Jul 2024 – Lesson to be learned from Syria: never participate in any U.S. [proxy] war abroad using terrorists as assets.

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X Days Since the Genocide Began
Edward Salem | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

I couldn’t see it but I knew,
as if it had been whispered in my ear,
there were no Palestinians in hell.

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Julian Assange and the Criminalization of Journalism: A Story of Moral Injury and Moral Courage
Kari James | New Matilda - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

8 Jul 2024 – ‘The truth will out’, the saying goes. The question is, how much injury – moral and otherwise – is suffered by the courageous men and women trying to expose it? Psychologist and researcher Kari James explores that answer.

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Peace Shuttle: The Big Picture Behind ‘Viktor the Mediator’
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

9 Jul 2024 – The Big Picture remains: the future of the “rules-based international order” is being decided in the black soil of Novorossiya. It’s Unipolar Order vs. Multipolar, Multi-Nodal Order.

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We Can Defeat the Israeli Lobby
Ilan Pappé | Palestine Chronicle – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

9 Jul 2024 – The sight of the children buried under the rubble, salvaged by older children, is enough for me and, I am sure, for anyone who was ever silenced by the lobby, not to cave in but to overcome any hurdles they put in our way of speaking truth to power. 

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Why the US Let Assange Go
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

12 Jul 2024 – The cumulative factors that led to the United States releasing WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange from prison.

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About Truth
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

The idea of Truth is as relevant for the arts/humanities as for the sciences.  Truth is an attribute of a symbolic articulation–a thesis, a text, a painting-sculpture, a piece of music–when held up against reality: does it reflect, agree with what we consider “reality”? 

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The Ukraine War Could Have Been Prevented If the UN Charter Had Been Observed
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

10 Jul 2024 – We must once again ask ourselves the most important question for a peaceful future for humanity: can there be a world in which peace and an international order can be guaranteed by joint agreements between states, or only if it is enforced by a militarily, economically and politically dominant hegemonic power?

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 15 Jul 2024

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How George Orwell Paved Noam Chomsky’s Path to Anarchism
Robert F. Barsky | The MIT Press Reader - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

Robert Barsky examines the profound impact of Orwell’s “Homage to Catalonia” on Noam Chomsky’s early embrace of left-libertarian and anarchist ideologies.

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Desiderata
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

Go placidly amidst the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.

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Gender and Diversity in Research
Elsevier - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

Elsevier’s 2024 Gender Report tracks and analyzes data across 18 countries and 2 regions (EU 27 and the world) examining women’s performance in research and innovation across disciplines and career stages. Our Report provides new insights and also alternative metrics including policy and media citations. 

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The NATO Declaration and the Deadly Strategy of Neoconservatism
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

13 Jul 2024 – For the sake of security and world peace, the U.S. should immediately abandon the neocon quest for hegemony in favor of diplomacy and peaceful co-existence. NATO has just done the opposite.

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China’s Soft Power
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

12 Jul 2024 – It is of extreme importance to understand the concept and motivation of soft power by China – the most rising emerging market power today and already the first export nation with the second-largest economy in the world.

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Unusual Means of Travelling
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

We are aware of different types of travel around us. Here I am going to talk of different type of vehicles  — bikes or cars or carts that are common place in today’s conditions in India.

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The US Came Close to Having TWO Presidential Candidates with No Brain
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

14 Jul 2024 – The western political-media class hasn’t been this sympathetic and supportive toward Trump since he bombed Damascus. Seems like everyone’s got a theory about what happened and why right now. As of this writing I’m content to just sit back and not know until more information comes in.

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Wars, Militarism and Arms Trade – What Peace Activists Can Do
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

13 Jul 2024 – One of the most pressing issues of our time is the prevalence of wars, militarism and thriving arms trade–three scourges blighting our humanity. What can we do to contain and eventually abolish war and suffering of people?

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NATO Summit: Not a Shield but a Bloodied Sword
John Wight | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

12 Jul 2024 – When leaders of the military pact’s member states pontificate about its invaluable role in defending democracy, you can almost hear history guffawing in the background. 

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(Italiano) Israele a Gaza: l’incrinatura ebraica col sionismo
Richard E. Rubenstein | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

Quando si diradi il fumo a Gaza, ci si accorgerà che i soli non “investiti” sono i proprietari e gestori del complesso militar-industriale USA e i politici che li hanno messi in condizione di fare il proprio gioco. Che conteranno i propri soldi, si presenteranno alla rielezione, e programmeranno la prossima guerra. Che non sarà no un incidente.

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Prof. John Mearsheimer on the Catastrophic Outcomes of the Ukraine and Middle East Armed Conflicts
The Strategist – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

2 Jul 2024 – NATO’s actions and escalation in Ukraine, the risk of nuclear conflict, the influence of Israeli lobby, the potential war with Hezbollah, Iran, and Russia, the outcomes of the war in Gaza, the impact of the US election results, and Biden vs. Trump foreign policy.

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Hegemony or Bust
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

Hegemony. The term holds a central place in the present discourse about the United States’ place in the world: what it has been, its sustainability, and alternative ways of formulating the country’s national interests.

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As Ukraine’s Largest Children’s Hospital Is Hit, Anger Towards Russia Rages
Mansur Mirovalev | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

8 Jul 2024 – Moscow denies targeting the civilian site as its forces bombard cities across the country, killing more than 30 people.

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The Biden Administration Has Exposed the Brain Rot of Western Liberals
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

At the NATO summit in Washington on 11 Jul 2024, Biden referred to Zelensky as “President Putin”, to Kamala Harris as “Vice President Trump”, and said he is “following the advice of my commander-in-chief.” This man’s brain clearly does not work. Dementia has sunk in the rear naked choke, and Joe Biden’s neurology is tapping.

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Genocide on Gaza: Did We Learn Nothing from the Srebrenica Genocide?
Nadina Ronc | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

11 Jul 2024 – The Srebrenica Memorial Center conceals a horrific history. Here lie the remains of Bosnian Muslims brutally murdered in Jul 1995 under the command of the now-convicted Serbian war criminal General Ratko Mladic. This tragic legacy must serve as a call to action to shape a more compassionate world that does not stand by as Israel annihilates the Palestinians.

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Hundreds of Scientists Urge Biden to Cancel $100 Billion Nuclear Weapons Boondoggle
Edward Carver | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

8 Jul 2024 – More than 700 scientists today called for an end to the US nuclear weapons program set to be replaced by the Pentagon despite soaring costs. “There is no sound technical or strategic rationale for spending tens of billions of dollars building new nuclear weapons,” an expert said.

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Elections
Unknown – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

Cliché – Ring any bells?

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Gazans Reeling from Closed Hospitals, Malnutrition and Heat Risks, Warns UN Health Agency
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jul 2024

9 Jul 2024 – In Gaza, overwhelmed hospitals, soaring temperatures, hunger and a lack of even basic sanitation present an ever more deadly threat to a population under constant attack, UN humanitarians warned today.

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How Albert Einstein Started Out as a Zionist but Ended Up Opposing the Israeli Occupation of Palestine
Ayaan Paul | MSN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

Albert Einstein’s journey from early reservations about a Jewish state to strong opposition to Zionist occupation of Palestine is a testament to his deep ethical convictions and pacifist principles.

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Confronting NATO’s War Summit in Washington
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

1 Jul 2024 – The summit’s goal is to cement NATO’s plans to escalate the war in Ukraine and prevent the negotiated peace most North Americans support and the UN Charter requires. We wonder whether NATO can ever be the force for peace that it claims to be.

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Success
Ralph Waldo Emerson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

To laugh often and much
to win the respect of intelligent people…

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The Summit of the Future
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

21 Jun 2024 – The world’s geopolitical system is not delivering what we want or need. UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres has wisely called for a Summit of the Future (SOTF) at the UN on 22-23 Sep; endorsed by the 193 UN Member states.

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Israeli Forces Kill Over 38,000 Palestinians in Gaza Since 7 Oct
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

4 Jul 2024 – During the last 24 hours, the Zionist military committed four massacres, resulting in 58 martyrs and 179 wounded.

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Journalist Bisan Owda Documents Western/Zionist Genocide in Real Time
Mark Taliano | Voices from Syria - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

1 Jul 2024 – Gazan journalist Bisan Owda, currently trapped in Gaza like so many others, reports that “there are no places for people… no places to go to”. It is a game of “death and hunger” she says, and it has been so for nine months.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 8 Jul 2024

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‘Film Was the Best Way to Convey Our Art Amid the Suffering in Gaza’
Ruwaida Kamal Amer | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

2 Jul 2024 – Gaza was defiantly present at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in May, despite efforts by the event’s organizers to prevent it from appearing. Shunned Palestinian director Rashid Masharawi organized a protest screening of short films made by Gazans during the war.

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Change: The Paradoxes and Possibilities of Transformation
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

Adam Phillips on Our Ambivalent Desire for Change: Are you the same person you were as a child?

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Protest New Invasion of Haiti by US-backed Kenyan Police Force
Haiti Action Committee - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

9 Jul 2024, 5 pm, San Francisco, CA – Protest the New Invasion of Haiti by US-backed Kenyan Police Force * Protest the Murderous Repression in Kenya by the same Police Force

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‘The [U.S.] President Is Now a King Above the Law,’ Sotomayor Warns in Chilling Dissent
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

1 Jul 2024 – A legal journalist described the liberal justice’s dissent as “one of the most terrified and terrifying pieces of judicial writing I’ve ever encountered.”

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The U.S. Supreme Court’s Disastrous Trump Immunity Decision, Explained
Ian Millhiseris | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

1 Jul 2024 – The Court’s decision is a blueprint for dictatorship. The six Republicans handed down a decision today that gives Donald Trump sweeping immunity from prosecution without any legal checks on his behavior if he returns to the White House.

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Did the Media Botch the Biden Age Story?
Brian Stelter | Vox - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

3 Jul 2024 – Asleep at the wheel? Complicit in a cover-up? The real story is far more complicated — and more interesting. [With a rebuttal from Matt Taibbi]

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Spain Becomes First EU State to Back ICJ Genocide Case against Israel
The Cradle - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

1 Jul 2024 – Spain has been a strong supporter of Palestinians, calling Israel’s war on Gaza a genocide and recognizing Palestine as a state.

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My Heart Is Heavy: Please Stop (Music Video of the Week)
Roger Waters | Palestine Chronicle TV – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

A special message from rock legend Roger Waters: “The scream of each bomb that falls on Gaza is the dying scream of a failed state. My heart is heavy. Please stop!”

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Schizophrenia
Jehad Awrtani - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

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The Russell-Einstein Manifesto 69 Years Later
Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell | Pugwash Conferences – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

9 July 1955 – “In view of the fact that in any future world war nuclear weapons will certainly be employed, and that such weapons threaten the continued existence of mankind, we urge the governments of the world to realize, and to acknowledge publicly, that their purpose cannot be furthered by a world war, and we urge them, consequently, to find peaceful means for the settlement of all matters of dispute between them.”

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This Obvious Genocide Is Not What It Looks Like
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

This obvious genocide is not what it looks like, smirks the man behind the podium. Don’t trust your lying eyes, or your lying ears, or your lying mind, or your lying heart.

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Beyond Vegetarianism
Stephen Knapp (Sri Nandanandana dasa) – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

On the spiritual path, those who are inclined to lead a peaceful existence that respects all life, often adopt the vegetarian lifestyle.This is in accordance with the yogic principle of ahimsa, which is to observe nonviolence.

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The Abolish NATO Catalogue
Jan Oberg and TFF Associates | The Transnational - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

NATO 75-year Summit, 9-11 Jul 2024: Abolish NATO or Convert It to Serve Peace–30 Arguments & 100s of Inspirations

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Away from Global Attention, Sudan Is Starving
Othman Moqbel | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

4 Jul 2024 – We need to take urgent action to prevent what could be the largest hunger crisis of our times.

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Biden: ‘I’m Running the World’
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

6 Jul 2024 – The comment by the sitting U.S. president in yesterday’s interview has been ignored by the mainstream, but its megalomania is at the heart of why Joe Biden is defying his party and remaining in the race.

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Israel’s Starvation Policy in Gaza Is Forcing People to Eat Tree Leaves
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

3 Jul 2024 – The state of hunger in Gaza is growing. Its long-term health effects are starting to show.

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Excel at Any Cost
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

Most people would want their children to be the best — to excel — be it in studies, sports, music or politics. In academics, if a parent is a scientist, doctor or an engineer, they usually want their child also to follow their profession.

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A Flawed Peace Conference Offers a Radical Proposal: Hope
Haggai Matar | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

4 Jul 2024 – In a context of fear, hatred, and violence, an Israeli-Palestinian gathering that seemed detached from reality actually represented something revolutionary.

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The System of Elections and Political Parties in the USA
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

1 Jul 2024 – In the USA, elections are organized on a regular basis for President, Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate), and state and local government offices. In practice, …

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Gaza ‘Split in Two’ as Civilians, Humanitarians Reset Lives, Aid Efforts
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

4 Jul 2024 – The Gaza Strip is virtually “split in two”, with blockades not only restricting the movement of displaced people seeking shelter, but also aid workers trying to assist civilians in desperate need, a UN relief official said yesterday.

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Zionist Terrorists Must Not Have any Control over Palestine, Einstein’s Letters Resurface
Ummid – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

One of the greatest scientists of all time, Einstein is one of the most prominent Jews the world knows. He was opposed to establishing Israel as a separate Jewish state and spotted the flaws and fault lines in 1946 at the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on the Palestinian issue. Einstein said the differences between Jews and Arabs were artificially created by the British.

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Religions: There Is Gentle Wisdom in Them All
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

Religion can be hard, and soft and gentle. Any religion is a tissue with hard and soft strands, where the fundamentalists are playing on the hard. Religare sounds fine. But how?

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The Neck and the Sword
Prof. Rashid Khalidi interviewed by Tariq Ali | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

Rashid Khalidi talks to Tariq Ali about the history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught relations with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the US-run ‘peace process’, Israel’s grip on the Biden Administration and the strategic calculations – or miscalculations – of Hamas.

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God Bless Anglo America
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jul 2024

Joke? No Joke!!

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AI Commentary on an Envisaged Synthesis Dialogue
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

1 Jul 2024 – On the Occasion of the Proposed Summit of the Summits and Its Possible Enhancement by AI – The early web version of the program to be held in Hakone, Japan, Sep 2024, invites critical commentary in an exercise appropriate to the times.

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Really Think about What It Means That the US President Has Dementia
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

28 Jun 2024 – It’s very revealing how everybody’s focusing on what Biden’s dementia-addled debate performance says about his ability to win re-election instead of on the fact that the current, sitting president of the United States has dementia.

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BlackRock: No Compromise with Evil
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

BlackRock has extensive investments in companies closely allied to Israel’s arms industry. It has a 7.4% stake in Lockheed Martin, a defence contractor that has played a critical role in arming the Israeli military.

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Stories of Survival and Suffering: Inside Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital
Reem A. Hamadaqa | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

28 Jun 2024 – Reem Hamadaqa spent 96 days in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza recovering from an Israeli attack that killed the rest of her family. Here are the stories of women and children she met while she was there.

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Modi’s Moscow Mission: What the Indian PM’s Visit to Russia Signals to the West
Kanwal Sibal | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

28 Jun 2024 – The prime minister’s prompt visit to Russia after re-election sends an important message: New Delhi is committed to boost relations with its time-tested partner despite Western pressures.

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The Jews in Palestine
Mahatma Gandhi | The Harijan – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

26 Nov 1938 – “And now a word to the Jews in Palestine. I have no doubt that they are going about it in the wrong way. The Palestine of the Biblical conception is not a geographical tract. It is in their hearts. But if they must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs. They should seek to convert the Arab heart.”

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Children Starving, Parents Helpless as Famine Consumes Northern Gaza
Ibrahim Mohammad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

18 Jun 2024 – Famine: With aid blocked and stores empty of basic goods, Palestinian children are being hospitalized with malnutrition and acute anemia.

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Assange Released from Prison after Agreeing to Plead Guilty to Espionage Act Violation
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

24 Jun 2024 – The plea bargain allows the Wikileaks founder to return to Australia after a court date in the Mariana Islands.

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Finally, an Answer to a Mystery Surrounding These 1,000-Year-Old Trees
Tom Page | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

24 Jun 2024 – For millions of years, mighty baobabs have been standing sentry on three different landmasses, posing each other an existential question: Which came first?

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In the Material World, the Search for the Spiritual World
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

26 Jun 2024 – Many are fed up with material goods and the consumerism of our culture. As a counterpoint, I want to place spiritual goods in the dramatic, dangerous and hopeful context in which humanity currently finds itself, especially the humiliated and offended Global South.

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French Far Right Wins the First Round of the Snap Parliamentary Elections
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

30 Jun 2024 – Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Grouping (RN) party has won the first round of the French legislative elections, being in a position to achieve an absolute majority in the second round and appoint the Prime Minister of France.

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Did the West Provoke the Ukraine War? Sorry, That Question Has Been Cancelled
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

26 Jun 2024 – Is it possible for an entire ‘mainstream’ media system–every newspaper, website, TV channel–to completely suppress one side of a crucial argument without anyone expressing outrage, or even noticing? Consider the following.

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A Call for Retraction: The Recent American Psychologist Article on Antisemitism
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

25 Jun 2024 – It is disappointing and distressing to see that the American Psychologist has published an article titled “The American Psychological Association and Antisemitism: Toward Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.” In my view, the article should be retracted, and I will explain why.

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Russian Health Minister Reveals Cancer Vaccine Progress
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

9 Jun 2024 – Russian researchers are finalizing trials on a vaccine against cancer, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko revealed yesterday. The results of preclinical trials should be ready by the end of the year, he said.

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A Month Traveling in China
Stansfield Smith | Orinoco Tribune/Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

18 Jun 2024 – My Chinese-speaking wife and I recently traveled to nine different cities and towns in China over the course of a month, our fourth trip since 2005. Of our most significant impressions of China…

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Palestine – Israel
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

30 Jun 2024 – Like many Jews, I am in presumed disagreement with fellow Jews on current events. I say “presumed” because I imagine that some of us could reach common ground if true and deep dialogue was not automatically suppressed.

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Genocide on Gaza: Hunger ‘Worse Than Bombings’ for Starving Palestinians–Mostly Children
Lubna Masarwa and Rayhan Uddin | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

25 Jun 2024 – Food is scarce, spoilt and often non-existent in besieged enclave, leaving people dizzy and weak.

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Julian Assange Arrives in Australia Back from UK Prison
9 News Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

26 Jun 2024 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had an emotional reunion with his wife Stella and his father as he disembarks from the plane in Australia welcomed by an applauding crowd after more than five years of wrongful captivity at the Belmarsh maximum security prison in England.

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Israel in Gaza: The Jewish Break with Zionism
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

Zionism as Ethnic Chauvinism – When the smoke clears in Gaza, the only people not “run over” are the owners and managers of the U.S. military-industrial complex.  They will be counting their money, running for reelection, and planning the next war.  And that will be no accident.

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Why Is NATO Expanding Its Nuclear Force?
Stephen Bryen | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

Is Washington Extending the Nuclear Umbrella to Ukraine?

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The End of the Biggest Press Freedom Case of the Century
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

25 Jun 2024 – A global effort by advocates, campaigners, journalists, organizers, and supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pushed President Joe Biden’s administration to finally free Assange.

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(Italiano) Gli umani si trastullano mentre l’umanità brucia: sarà una morte a breve o schiavitù transumana?
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

25 Giugno 2024 – Confrontati da un attacco ben coordinato e multidimensionale alla nostra umanità – l’identità di Homo Sapiens, la nostra libertà e addirittura la nostra esistenza – la gran parte degli umani si ritrae timorosa; e in tale stato, incapace di resistere.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 1 Jul 2024

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Mairead Maguire: Israel’s ‘Genocidal Policies’ Have to Change for Peace in Palestine
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal interviews Mairead Maguire | Anadolu Ajansı - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2024

27 Jun 2024 – ‘You cannot build peace on a genocide,’ says Mairead Maguire, winner of 1976 Nobel Peace Prize and member of the TRANSCEND Network.

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