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UK Judge Blocks US Request to Extradite Assange
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jan 2021

4 Jan 2021 – A British judge has ruled that Julian Assange should not be extradited to the United States to face espionage charges, saying that such a move would be “oppressive” because of the WikiLeaks founder’s mental health.

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Community Champions Law to Castrate Pedophiles in Nigerian State
Nosmot Gbadamosi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Dec 2020

16 Dec 2020 – Despite criticism from rights groups, families of young rape victims in Kaduna state say they support the new law.

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The End of U.S. History Begins in the USA
Prof. Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Dec 2020

America’s aggressions around the globe have now come full circle and boomeranged into its domestic affairs.

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Israeli Army Razes Entire Village in Occupied West Bank
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Nov 2020

4 Nov 2020 – Bulldozers and diggers demolish Palestinian village of Khirbet Humsa, leaving 74 people, including 41 minors, homeless. The bulldozers and diggers also demolished sheds used as livestock enclosures, portable toilets, water containers and solar panels, on top of confiscating vehicles and tractors belonging to some of the residents.

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Trump’s Normalization of Israel Spreads to Africa
Patrick Gathara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Nov 2020

31 Oct 2020 – Trump’s ‘normalization’ deals are hurting not only Palestinians, but all who hope for a moral international order. “No peace is possible with violent racists who abuse the weak under the protection of the army’s rifles”.

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Rohingya Refugees Are Being Ignored
Jeremy Corbyn | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Nov 2020

2 Nov 2020 – Those of us that spoke up for Aung San Suu Kyi when she was under house arrest will also speak up for the Rohingya people. There are approximately one million Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh who have been driven out of their homes in Myanmar. The world must better support the Rohingya, and address the politics of why they have sought refuge in the first place.

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One-On-One+ with Johan Galtung
Al Jazeera | The Transnational – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Oct 2020

23 Oct 2020 – On the occasion of Galtung’s 90th birthday tomorrow on UN Day, we bring you a conversation he had ten years ago with Riz Khan at Aljazeera about his life.

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Big Pharma Is Not Willing to Help Us Defeat COVID-19
Nick Dearden | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Oct 2020

18 Oct 2020 – To efficiently deal with the pandemic and keep everyone safe, we first need to transform the pharmaceutical industry. TRIPS extended Western-style patent protections across the whole world, allowing the business to sit on patents for a minimum of 20 years, during which time they are able to dictate who can use their creations and at what price.

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The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Noam Chomsky | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Sep 2020

According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, corporate/mainstream media operate through 5 filters: ownership, advertising, the media elite, flak and the common enemy.

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The World Cannot Forget the Rohingya
Tun Khin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Aug 2020

25 Aug 2020 – This week marks exactly three years since the Myanmar military poured into Rakhine State and launched a vicious operation against the Rohingya people. Thousands of women, men and children were killed, mutilated and raped, whole villages were burned to the ground, and hundreds of thousands fled into neighbouring Bangladesh. Abandoned by the international community, the Rohingya have only one glimmer of hope: international justice.

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The End of American History Begins in America
Hamid Dabashi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Aug 2020

America’s aggressions around the globe have boomeranged into its domestic affairs. In the 1980s, Francis Fukuyama, a bureaucratic functionary, declared that “history” had ended and USA was the triumphant trophy. Had he inadvertently played a satirical spoof to the end of American history itself?

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There Is Still Much to Be Learned about the Beirut Explosion
Habib Battah | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Aug 2020

17 Aug 2020 – To prevent a tragic repeat, we should not be satisfied with simple, convenient, yet incomplete explanations.

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Palestine and Israel: Mapping an Annexation
Mohammed Haddad | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jul 2020

26 Jun 2020 – What will the maps of Palestine and Israel look like if Israel illegally annexes the Jordan Valley on July 1?

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Hubris: Israel’s Endgame in Palestine
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jul 2020

30 Jun 2020 – The “peace process” has been exposed for what it is – a colonisation operation. This surreal process has long served as a cover up for deep Israeli entrenchment in the West Bank and Jerusalem. Having secured Trump’s approval, Netanyahu will go forward with annexation despite warnings of an international backlash, the demise of the two-state solution, and the erosion of the “democratic Jewish state”.

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Who Should Try Rwandan Genocide Suspect Felicien Kabuga?
Nicola Palmer | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jun 2020

2 Jun 2020 – Many Rwandans would like to see the man accused of funding the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi put on trial in Rwanda. When French police entered Kabuga’s flat, they were acting on an indictment and arrest warrant by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, charging Kabuga with genocide.

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Correa’s Trial Is an Attack on Ecuador’s Democracy
Steve Striffler | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jun 2020

2 Jun 2020 – The court case against Ecuador’s former President Rafael Correa expands ‘lawfare’ to a dangerous level. Perverting the legal system in order to subvert the democratic process has become the defining strategy – indeed, the essence – of the Moreno government [similar to Brazil’s Bolsonaro government], which is faced with plummeting popularity and an opposition that would win in any fair election. This is not good news for democracy in Ecuador or Latin America.

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The Price of America’s Quest for an External Enemy
Morgan Godvin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 May 2020

22 May 2020 The US spent so much fighting phantom enemies and creating the myth of good versus evil that it ignored the real threat.

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Gangster Geopolitics and Israel’s Annexation Plans
Richard Falk | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 May 2020

13 May 2020 – The Israeli plan to annex parts of the occupied West Bank shows a shocking disregard for international law.

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What Would and Should a Post-Pandemic World Look Like?
Marwan Bishara | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Apr 2020

19 Apr 2020 – Since the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic, there has been a general feeling that the world is at an historical turning point, that nothing will ever be the same again. A post-American, post-liberal world order awaits us. But what shape will it take?

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Coronavirus, Herd Immunity and the Eugenics of the Market
Vito Laterza and Louis Philippe Romer | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Apr 2020

14 Apr 2020 – There is a clear element of eugenics in the proposals to pursue herd immunity as a strategy against the pandemic. Despite the dramatic rise in the number of COVID-19-related deaths around the world, governments of several countries heavily affected by the pandemic continue to send mixed messages about their responses.

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The Coronavirus Outbreak Is Part of the Climate Change Crisis
Vijay Kolinjivadi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Apr 2020

30 Mar 2020 – The two emergencies have their roots in the world’s current economic model – that of the pursuit of infinite growth at the expense of the environment on which our survival depends – and both are deadly and disruptive. The pandemic is part of climate change and therefore, our response to it should not be limited to containing the spread of the virus. What we thought was “normal” before the pandemic was already a crisis and so returning to it cannot be an option.

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Israel’s Propaganda War Waged through TV Shows
Yara Hawari – Al Jazeera, 24 Feb 2020

12 Feb 2020 – Israel’s latest propaganda war is being waged through slick TV shows on various media service providers such as Netflix and HBO. There has recently been a surge in programmes venerating the Israeli secret services while demonising Palestinians as threats to global security and erasing their history. Netflix’s The Messiah is just the latest.

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Christian Zionist Archaeology: A Tool of Palestinian Subjugation
Mimi Kirk – Al Jazeera, 24 Feb 2020

16 Feb 2020 – Archaeological projects in Palestine led by US evangelical Christians contribute to Palestinian dispossession.

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Pompeo: US Rejects UN Database of Israeli Settlement Companies
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Feb 2020

13 Feb 2020 – US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo today said the US government would not furnish any information for a database of companies operating in the occupied West Bank that the United Nations’ human rights office released. “The United States has long opposed the creation or release of this database,” he said in a statement.

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It’s High Time to End Medical Complicity in Torture
Dr. William Hopkins – Al Jazeera, 17 Feb 2020

10 Feb 2020 – As a psychiatrist and as a human being, I know that we can and must do better. Those responsible for these horrifying actions, such as James Mitchell, must be held to account. Our humanity depends on it.

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Trump Plan Will ‘Finish Off Palestinian Cause’, PM Warns
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2020

Trump on Monday [27 Jan] held separate meetings with right-wing Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his election rival, Benny Gantz, in Washington, DC over his long-delayed proposal that has been kept secret. “We reject it and we demand the international community not be a partner to it because it contradicts the basics of international law and inalienable Palestinian rights,” Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said.

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Cambridge Analytica and the End of Elections
Nanjala Nyabola – Al Jazeera, 27 Jan 2020

18 Jan 2020 – The latest Cambridge Analytica leaks show just how compromised voting – one of the pillars of democracy – has become. The future of elections is at stake, and this is just one part of the emerging picture.

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Rohingya Campaigners Say Won’t Be ‘Silenced’ by Online Threats
Usaid Siddiqui – Al Jazeera, 30 Dec 2019

Ro Nay San Lwin and Maung Zarni tell Al Jazeera they fear for their lives but will not be ‘silenced’ by online abuse.

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Iran Nuclear Deal Stays Alive after Talks, Avoids Sanctions Blow
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2019

6 Dec 2019 – Today’s three-hour meeting in Vienna came as tensions continue to rise with Tehran rolling back its commitments under the deal following Washington’s withdrawal last year and imposition of “maximum pressure” sanctions. “They try to keep Iran in the deal but then take no action against America’s bullying and pressure,” a senior Iranian official said, according to Reuters.

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Forget about Water at Your Peril
Rachael McDonnell – Al Jazeera, 9 Dec 2019

4 Dec 2019 – Even by climate change’s destructive standards, water is in an increasingly grim bind. Climate change is gutting global water security. We have solutions but lack the political will to implement them.

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Julian Assange Rape Charge Dropped in Sweden
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2019

19 Nov 2019 – Swedish prosecutors dropped their rape case against Julian Assange, a cofounder of WikiLeaks, it was announced today. Assange waited out the nine-year investigation as prosecutors said the alleged victim’s memory faded.

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Palestinians Slam US Policy Reversal on Israeli Settlements
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2019

19 Nov 2019 – Palestinians, rights groups, politicians and others have sharply criticised the Trump administration after it announced the United States was no longer considering Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank “inconsistent” with international law.

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Bolivia’s Evo Morales Steps Down: Reaction from Latin America and Beyond
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2019

11 Nov 2019 – A round-up of international reactions to the news of the resignation of Latin America’s longest-serving leader.

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Turkey’s Operation in Syria Exposed Europe’s Double Standards
Ali Bakeer – Al Jazeera, 28 Oct 2019

European powers condemn Turkey over its Syria operation, but turn a blind eye to Saudi Arabia’s crimes in Yemen.

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Palestinians Need to Learn from South Africa’s Mistakes
Ramzy Baroud – Al Jazeera, 7 Oct 2019

4 Oct 2019 – Palestinians who look up to post-apartheid South Africa have to critically examine its many failures.

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What Is Really Behind the Crisis in Haiti?
Keston K Perry – Al Jazeera, 30 Sep 2019

29 Sep 2019 – Decades of neoliberalism, neocolonialism and now climate injustice have pushed Haiti to the brink.

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Pakistan Is No Friend of Kashmir, Either
Taha Siddiqui – Al Jazeera, 16 Sep 2019

11 Sep 2019 – Here’s why. While the world indeed needs to take action on ongoing crackdown and rights abuses in India, it should not overlook the role Pakistan has played in the Kashmiri tragedy.

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The Eternal Fruit of Toni Morrison’s Iroko Tree
Nanjala Nyabola – Al Jazeera, 16 Sep 2019

Toni Morrison was and forever will be an inspiration for those who seek to set their imagination free.

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When Pyromaniacs Lead, the World Burns
Marwan Bishara – Al Jazeera, 2 Sep 2019

As global crises are pushing the world towards disaster, the G7 could not even agree on a final communiqué.

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Inaction on China and India’s Crimes Emboldens Myanmar
Maung Zarni – Al Jazeera, 2 Sep 2019

25 Aug 2019 – How can Myanmar reverse its anti-Rohingya policies if it has China and India as an example? Today, Rohingya refugees and survivors in refugee camps, as well as their diasporic communities, commemorate the second Rohingya Genocide Memorial Day.

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The Abrogation of Kashmir’s Special Status: Why Now?
Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay – Al Jazeera, 19 Aug 2019

8 Aug 2019 – What motivated the BJP to renounce Kashmir’s autonomy and what are the implications of this decision? For Prime Minister Narendra Modi, this was the most politically opportune time to make the move and secure Kashmir’s “complete integration” into the Indian Union.

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Trump Imposes Economic Embargo against Venezuela
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Aug 2019

6 Aug 2019 – US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order imposing an economic embargo against Venezuela, in the latest move against President Nicolas Maduro and his government. First-ever expanded sanctions against a western hemisphere government in over 30 years similar to those faced by Cuba.

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UN Calls for Sanctions, Arms Embargo against Myanmar Army
Joshua Carroll – Al Jazeera News, 12 Aug 2019

6 Aug 2019 – A week after his soldiers began storming villages in Myanmar’s Rakhine state, slaughtering thousands as they burned people alive in their homes and raped women and children, the country’s military chief invited local businesses to a donation ceremony to support the bloody campaign. UN panel calls for international community to sever all ties with country’s military.

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Wadi Hummus: Another Israeli Celebration of Ethnic Cleansing
Yara Hawari – Al Jazeera, 29 Jul 2019

In the early hours of 22 Jul 2019, Israeli armed forces began their biggest demolition push since 1967 in Jerusalem. Palestinians and international activists attempted to resist the demolitions, for which they were greeted with brute force, with dozens reporting injuries from tear-gassing and beatings. The demolitions are part of a grand and continuous plan to rid Jerusalem of its indigenous Palestinian inhabitants.

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ASEAN Can No Longer Turn a Blind Eye to Myanmar’s Atrocities
Eric Paulsen – Al Jazeera, 29 Jul 2019

22 Jul 2019 – The Myanmar military has been killing and maiming thousands of Rohingya civilians, raping hundreds of women and girls, and burning entire villages to the ground. The Association of Southeast Asian Nations has a responsibility to help facilitate a repatriation process that prioritises the well-being of the Rohingya.

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The Rise of Corporate Nations
Lorenzo Marsili – Al Jazeera, 22 Jul 2019

19 Jul 2019 – “There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT and AT&T and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today … The world is a collage of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business.” Last month, Facebook announced that it is introducing its own currency, Libra, which the more than two billion users (or “citizens”) of the platform will be able to use to pay for goods and services.

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China Will Determine the Future of Venezuela
Carlos Eduardo Pina – Al Jazeera, 22 Jul 2019

14 Jul 2019 – There are a number of reasons why Beijing continues to back Maduro’s government despite suffering financial losses.

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One on One – Johan Galtung
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jul 2019

Johan Galtung, considered the father of peace studies, discusses why he dedicated his life to waging peace in the world.

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The Slumlords’ Peace
Ismail Khalidi – Al Jazeera, 1 Jul 2019

25 Jun 2019 – Trump and Kushner have crafted a Palestinian ‘peace’ plan with the same ignominy they’ve done dirty real estate deals.

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The Holocaust and the Nakba: The Jew as the Arab
Hamid Dabashi – Al Jazeera, 17 Jun 2019

16 Jun 2019 – Can Jews and Palestinians see each others’ pain? No amount of “sensitivity training” can ever replace the necessity of the Jew and the Arab to see each other’s history of suffering as their own: Close their eyes for one moment and imagine themselves in the shoes of the other.

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In Memory of Binyavanga Wainaina, a Literary Gangster
Christine Mungai – Al Jazeera, 3 Jun 2019

Kenyan writer Binyavanga Wainaina died on May 21, 2019 after a short illness. He inspired me and a whole generation of Kenyans to put pen to paper. He publicly came out as gay in 2014, in a country where homosexuality is criminalised, becoming the only openly gay public figure that I know of in this country. Rest in Peace.

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Sri Lanka: How the UN Failed Tamil Civilians in 2009
Nirmanusan Balasundaram – Al Jazeera, 3 Jun 2019

And how the legacy of this failure is still endangering lives in Sri Lanka and beyond. Today, May 18, 2019, marks one decade since the armed conflict in Sri Lanka came to a brutal end.

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Jerusalem: A Rock and a Hard Place (Part 1)
Al Jazeera English – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2019

31 Mar 2019 – During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jewish forces captured West Jerusalem as the eastern half became part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Almost two decades later, the 1967 Six-Day War would see the Jewish state claim rights to the Golan Heights, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and all of Jerusalem. Since then, Israel has established over 200 illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land with about 600,000 settlers in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.

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Jerusalem: A Rock and a Hard Place (Part 2)
Al Jazeera English – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2019

7 Apr 2019 – A remarkable new two-part documentary special from Al Jazeera English, goes behind the scenes with residents from each of the three monolithic faiths who share one of the world’s most extraordinary cities: Jerusalem.

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Binyavanga Wainaina, Kenyan Author and Activist, Dies Aged 48
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2019

22 May 2019 – Kenyan author and activist Binyavanga Wainaina, winner of the 2002 Caine Prize and once listed as one of Time Magazine’s ‘most influential people’ has died at the age of 48 at a Nairobi hospital following a short illness. Following the passage of a series of anti-gay laws across Africa in 2014, Wainaina publicly announced that he was gay. “I am, for anybody confused or in doubt, a homosexual. Gay, and quite happy,” he tweeted.

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Gaza Has Made Its Choice: It Will Continue to Resist
Haidar Eid – Al Jazeera, 13 May 2019

6 May 2019 – And no amount of Israeli propaganda and Eurovision whitewashing can erase the legitimacy of its right to do so. We have spent sleepless nights under Israeli bombs before – in 2006, 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2018. On Saturday [4 May], apartheid Israel decided to launch yet another murderous campaign of bombardment against one of the most densely populated areas on earth. Again, the victims were children and women.

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The ICC Was Wrong to Deny Prosecution Request for Afghan Probe
Mark Kersten – Al Jazeera, 22 Apr 2019

12 Apr 2019 – Judges at the International Criminal Court have denied a request to open an investigation into atrocities committed in Afghanistan. US officials will never end up before ICC judges, but speaking truth to power could still boost the court’s credibility.

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Ghana Child Slavery: When Seeking Context Overlooks Harm
Kuukuwa Manful – Al Jazeera, 8 Apr 2019

1 Apr 2019 – That Africa and Africans are often misrepresented and stereotyped in Western imaginations is not new, or news. From the many lazy and insulting depictions of Africans in Western cinema to respected academic publications that overgeneralise and cast Africa as backward, negative representations abound. However, even if we don’t have exact data on how pervasive child slavery is in Ghana, we can’t accept harmful child labour as normal.

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Johan Galtung: The American Empire Will Fall by 2020
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Mar 2019

Jan 2017 – Famous researcher-prognosticator, father of Peace Studies John Galtung explains his prediction.

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New Zealand Mosque Attacks and the Scourge of White Supremacy
Mohamad Elmasry – Al Jazeera, 18 Mar 2019

15 Mar 2019 – Today’s New Zealand mosque shootings, which killed at least 49 people and were allegedly carried out by white supremacists, are only the latest on a long list of recent acts of white supremacist terrorism. Despite the growing and constant threat, Western governments have failed to adequately address the danger of white supremacy.

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Why Has Kashmir Been Forgotten?
Samreen Mushtaq & Mudasir Amin – Al Jazeera, 4 Mar 2019

2 Mar 2019 – Amid all the talks of India-Pakistan war, the issue at the very heart of present tensions has been completely ignored.

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Violence Breeds More Violence in Kashmir
Ather Zia – Al Jazeera, 25 Feb 2019

18 Feb 2019 – As the militarisation of Kashmir has grown, so have victimisation and radicalisation.

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Palestine’s Other Open-Air Prison
Jalal Abukhater – Al Jazeera, 18 Feb 2019

13 Feb 2019 – Under a debilitating siege for more than a decade, Gaza has been rightfully declared the biggest open-air prison in the world. But there is another, similar, prison in Palestine that is less obvious because it suffers from a different kind of siege, undeclared and indirect: the West Bank. Every Palestinian who resides there and holds official Palestinian identification papers is a prisoner in their own home. Here is what a West Bank Palestinian resident has to go through every time s/he tries to get out of home.

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Digital Prophecies: The Medium Is the Message
Marshall McLuhan – Al Jazeera English, 18 Feb 2019

In the 1960s, way before anybody had ever tweeted, Facebook Live-d or sent classified information to WikiLeaks, one man made a series of pronouncements about the changing media landscape. His name was Marshall McLuhan and you’ve probably heard his most quoted line: “The medium is the message”.

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Rohingya Activists Demand Action against Myanmar at NYC Summit
Azad Essa – Al Jazeera, 18 Feb 2019

9 Feb 2019 – – The question of justice has dominated discussions at a New York conference on the persecution suffered by the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar. A two-day international conference urges collective and decisive action.

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The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Noam Chomsky – Al Jazeera English, 11 Feb 2019

According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: Ownership, Advertising, the Media Elite, Flak, the Common Enemy

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India’s Rohingya Shame
Ashley Starr Kinseth – Al Jazeera, 4 Feb 2019

29 Jan 2019 – The Indian government has adopted attitudes similar to Myanmar’s towards the Rohingya.

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Venezuela’s Slow Coup Continues
George Ciccariello-Maher – Al Jazeera, 4 Feb 2019

Opposition leader Juan Guaido’s support base is not the Venezuelan people but foreign right-wing governments.

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Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News
Edward Said – Al Jazeera English, 4 Feb 2019

Palestinian-American literary historian Edward Said showed how the West had the power to represent the colonial ‘other’ – while simultaneously leaving them silent.

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Oxfam: World’s Richest 26 Own Same Wealth as Poorest Half
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Jan 2019

21 Jan 2019 – The world’s 26 richest people own the same wealth as the poorest half of humanity, according to Oxfam International, as it urged governments to raise taxes on the wealthy to fight soaring inequality. Billionaires’ fortunes grew by billions daily as poorest saw wealth decline by 11 percent last year.

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Tales of Torture from Israel’s Prisons
Ramzy Baroud and Abdallah Aljamal – Al Jazeera, 28 Jan 2019

22 Jan 2019 – Earlier this month, Israel’s Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan announced plans to “worsen” already horrific conditions for Palestinian prisoners in Israel’s jails. We asked six former inmates about their experiences.

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What the US Needs to Heal Is [Nobel Peace Laureate] MLK’s Radical Revolution of Values
David A Love – Al Jazeera, 21 Jan 2019

On his 90th birthday, understanding Martin Luther King’s real message is more crucial than ever before.

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Johan Galtung on Peace Economy, Palestine, and More
Al Jazeera | The Stream – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Jan 2019

The Founder of Peace Studies discusses Sociocide, Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and building economies of peace.

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How Capitalism Is Killing Us
Belen Fernandez – Al Jazeera, 7 Jan 2019

2 Jan 2019 – And how we may have passed the ‘point of no return”.

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2018: A Year of Living Dangerously
Hamid Dabashi – Al Jazeera, 31 Dec 2018

31 Dec 2018 – A multitude of man-made disasters marked 2018 on the Christian calendar. If we cannot change the world we live in, we can at least shift the consciousness of our lives we have forgotten. Imagine a world in which Jewish, Islamic, Chinese, Iranian or any other calendar were more meaningful measures of our daily lives in the unique way they arranged the world and our place in the universe.

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The Good and the Bad in the New Peace Agreement on Yemen
Osamah Al-Rawhani – Al Jazeera, 24 Dec 2018

19 Dec 2018 – More than two years after talks between the internationally recognised Yemeni government and the armed Houthi movement collapsed in Kuwait, the two warring sides finally sat down for another round of negotiations. The Stockholm Agreement marks a much-needed breakthrough but there are major issues with its provisions.

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‘Combat Proven’: Israel’s Thriving War Business in Europe
Romana Rubeo & Ramzy Baroud – Al Jazeera, 24 Dec 2018

Europe is increasingly sharing Israel’s racist approach to border security and adopting its deadly technologies.

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How Britain Stole $45 Trillion from India – And Lied about It
Jason Hickel – Al Jazeera, 17 Dec 2018

14 Dec 2018 – There is a story in Britain that the colonisation of India was not of economic benefit to Britain itself. As the story goes, it was a gesture of Britain’s benevolence. But new research by economist Utsa Patnaik just published by Columbia University Press calculated that Britain drained nearly $45 trillion from colonized India. It happened through the trade system.

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For China, Islam Is a ‘Mental Illness’ That Needs to Be ‘Cured’
Khaled A Beydoun – Al Jazeera, 3 Dec 2018

28 Nov 2018 – China’s relentless campaign to erase the identity of the Uighurs continues, as the world remains silent.

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Radio Rohingya
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Dec 2018

26 Nov 2018 – In a refugee camp in Cox’s Bazaar, a young Rohingya refugee dreams of giving a voice to his people. “Wherever I go in the camp, everyone is waiting and looking for any news … My people need information. News about not just the camp but also the people we have left behind in Myanmar.”

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Ongoing Rohingya Repatriation Efforts Are Doomed to Failure
Nasir Uddin – Al Jazeera, 26 Nov 2018

22 Nov 2018 – Earlier this month, Bangladesh and Myanmar attempted to repatriate thousands of Rohingya refugees currently residing in Bangladesh but were forced to postpone their plans amid intense international pressure. Bangladesh is the only player in the Rohingya crisis that actually wants repatriations to take place.

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Why Is Netanyahu so Desperate for a Ceasefire with Hamas?
Ibrahim Fraihat – Al Jazeera, 26 Nov 2018

20 Nov 2018 – The ceasefire in Gaza has destabilised Netanyahu’s government, yet he has no other choice but to commit to it. Israel will continue to search for a long-term truce with Hamas as long as the project of confronting Iran remains on the table. For this reason, another full-fledged conflict in Gaza in the near future is unlikely. Hamas was victorious.

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Israel’s $72m ‘War Chest’ to Fight BDS Arrives in Europe
Ramzy Baroud & Romana Rubeo – Al Jazeera, 19 Nov 2018

14 Nov 2018 – The Israeli war on the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement took a serious turn last year when Benjamin Netanyahu dedicated a largesse of about $72m to defeat the civil society-led campaign. But every Israeli attempt to discredit the Palestinian boycott movement is helping it gain more supporters. No amount of money could have saved the racist Apartheid regime in South Africa when it came tumbling down decades ago.

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U.S. ‘War on Terror’ Has Killed over Half a Million People: Study
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018

The report published on 3 Nov 2018 by the Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs put the death toll between 480,000 and 507,000. It states that between 182,272 and 204,575 civilians have been killed in Iraq; 38,480 in Afghanistan; and 23,372 in Pakistan. Nearly 7,000 US troops were killed in Iraq and Afghanistan in the same period.

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Are Anti-Gay Witch Hunts Really Protecting ‘African Values’?
Tafi Mhaka – Al Jazeera, 12 Nov 2018

11 Nov 2018 – Homophobia, not homosexuality, is a western import to Africa. “I would not worship a God who is homophobic and that is how deeply I feel about this,” Tutu said. Africans should follow the archbishop’s lead.

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UN Investigator Says Myanmar Genocide against Rohingya ‘Ongoing’
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Nov 2018

25 Oct 2018 – Genocide continues to take place against Muslim-majority Rohingya in Myanmar and the government is increasingly demonstrating it has no interest in establishing a fully functioning democracy. UN Security Council urged to take action as ‘most severe’ repression continues.

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The Past Six Months in Gaza Have Been like another War
Mohammed Abu Mughaiseeb – Al Jazeera, 8 Oct 2018

1 Oct 2018 – As a doctor living and working in Gaza all my life, I thought I had seen it all. I felt I knew the limits of what Gaza can endure. But the last six months have been the most difficult I have experienced in my 15 years with MSF in Gaza.

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Yemen Is Undeniably the World’s Worst Humanitarian Crisis: WFP
Ruairi Casey – Al Jazeera, 1 Oct 2018

28 Sep 2018 – Chief of UN’s food agency raises alert over Yemen’s hunger crisis at the UN General Assembly as famine fears loom. “The week’s discussions saw no serious decision to move from hostilities to negotiation.”

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It’s Time We Listened to the Plight of Assam’s ‘Foreigners’
Harsh Mander – Al Jazeera, 13 Aug 2018

After being excluded from a controversial citizen register, millions of Muslims in India’s Assam state are in legal limbo.

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Israel’s ‘Nation-State Law’ Parallels the Nazi Nuremberg Laws
Susan Abulhawa – Al Jazeera, 30 Jul 2018

Israel’s new ‘nation-state’ law follows in the footsteps of Jim Crow, the Indian Removal Act and the Nuremberg Laws.

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‘Death Penalty’: Gaza Merchants Suffer as Trade Crossing Shuts
Mersiha Gadzo & Anas Jnena – Al Jazeera, 23 Jul 2018

13 Jul 2018 – After Israel’s measure, 55 percent of goods can no longer enter the Gaza Strip, exacerbating already dire conditions.

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Bulldozing Palestine, One Village at a Time
Mariam Barghouti – Al Jazeera, 16 Jul 2018

10 Jul 2018 – Israel wants the village of Khan al-Ahmar razed to the ground to cut off Jerusalem from the West Bank. We will continue to stand with their residents because their resistance is part of the greater struggle against the entire framework of Israel’s brutal settler-colonialism.

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Walk or Die: Algeria Abandons 13,000 Refugees in the Sahara
Al Jazeera News– TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jul 2018

Associated Press report details witness accounts of migrants and refugees from Africa left to die in the Sahara Desert.

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Why Is Macedonia Changing Its Name?
Dimitar Bechev – Al Jazeera, 2 Jul 2018

A resolution of the Macedonia name dispute is the good news the Balkans badly needed.

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Israel Approves More Than 2,000 Settlement Units in West Bank
Al Jazeera News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jun 2018

31 May 2018 – The Israeli government has approved the construction of 2,070 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, local media reported. Since US President Donald Trump came to office, Israel has approved construction of more than 14,000 settlement units.

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What Can Palestinians Expect from the ICC?
Nada Kiswanson – Al Jazeera, 4 Jun 2018

The International Criminal Court has become a court of last resort for Palestinians.

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The ICC and the Plight of the Rohingya
Wayne Jordash and Uzay Aysev – Al Jazeera, 4 Jun 2018

The ICC can, and should, hold Myanmar’s authorities to account for the crimes they committed against the Rohingya.

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How the Gaza Massacre Exposed International Cowardice
Andrew Mitrovica – Al Jazeera, 28 May 2018

Cowardice. No other word suffices. No other word captures the signature essence of diplomats – from Canada, the United Nations, Europe – and their obscene, code-word-laced responses to the massacre of Palestinians. As Palestinians were getting killed in Gaza, political leaders around the world switched to their usual doublespeak.

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The Rohingya’s Hope for Justice Lies with the ICC
Tun Khin- Al Jazeera, 28 May 2018

The UN Security Council must refer the Rohingya’s case to the International Criminal Court.

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EU Launches Nine-Point Economic Plan to Rescue Iran Nuclear Deal
Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 May 2018

16 May 2018 – The foreign ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom, along with Iran’s foreign minister, have agreed on a nine-point economic plan to keep the Iran nuclear deal alive, including maintaining economic ties with Iran, ensuring Iran’s ability to sell oil and gas products and protecting EU companies doing business in Iran.

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