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Israel Holds Multiple Palestinian Doctors Captive–Some Are already Dead
Eva Bartlett | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

22 Jan 2025 – Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya is one of many unlawfully imprisoned medical professionals, reportedly tortured and abused in detention.

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Think Tanks Fueling Endless War – Think Tanks or Stink Tanks?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

22 Jan 2025 – The use of think tanks to anticipate, plan and justify wars is a key obstacle to world peace. Think tanks funded by defense (war) contractors and bully governments may claim they offer objectivity, but they mostly provide analyses that neglect peaceful alternatives (nonviolent solutions).  

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The Geopolitics of Elite Insanity (Part 3): The Dangerous Delusion that Governments, including BRICS, are Sovereign and Can Stop the Technocratic Takeover
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

As the geopolitical order is being rapidly reshaped to better serve Elite interests, most analysts writing on the subject are being suckered into perceiving the BRICS as some sort of ‘alternative’.

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How to Base Human Institutions on Reality
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

22 Jan 2025 – The Necessary Failure of Trumpism and Fascism

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Rwanda Advances toward Annexing DRC’s Kivu Provinces with the West’s Tacit Blessing
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jan 2025

The US and EU have collaborated with Rwanda’s colonization project since it first invaded DRC, at that time Zaire, in 1996. The minerals traffic is so profitable that the European Commission shocked Congolese in Feb 2024 by announcing a “Memorandum of Understanding on Sustainable Raw Materials Value Chains ” between the EU and Rwanda. 

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The Ceasefire Charade
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

16 Jan 2025 – Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault.

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Martin Luther King, Jr., Vietnam, and Gaza
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

No doubt Satan will be laughing with delight as Donald Trump is sworn in as president on Martin Luther King Jr. Day. I still wonder: Are the dead nostalgic?  I hope so.

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Transcending Mutually Assured Insanity
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

17 Jan 2025 – Uh oh, nukes coming in. Should we retaliate? This is the stupidest question a human being could ask. If we kill more of them than they kill of us, we win! Yes, all life will likely be destroyed in a nuclear war, but that’s just the way things work. That’s not our concern.

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The Future of Peacekeeping: Navigating Ethical Artificial Intelligence Deployment in Conflict Zones
Brenda K. Wiederhold | Liebert Publishers - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

The introduction of AI raises important ethical and psychological considerations for UN peacekeepers, from malicious cyberattacks to artificially altered images and videos eroding the trust that they foster among civilians.

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Mafia Don? Trump and Other Presidents Who Flirted with the Mob
Martin Pengelly | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

13 Jan 2025 – A new book looks into the complicated relationship between the mob and the White House from Roosevelt to Biden.

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The Worldwide “TRANSCEND International” Network
Glen T. Martin, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

12 Jan 2025 – I have recently been invited to join “TRANSCEND International: A Peace Development Environment Network. Why is it called “Transcend Peace Movement”? What does “transcend” mean in this context? I have long been interested in the concept of “transcendence.”

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US Pet Now President of Lebanon
Craig Murray | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

14 Jan 2025 – That General Joseph Aoun is the U.S. and Israel’s man is not in doubt. This is another defeat for Hezbollah following its disastrous ceasefire agreement, which led to the same-day start of the assault on their ally Assad.

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Black Skin, White Masks: This Man Wanted to Cure the Disease of Colonialism
Tamara Ryzhenkova | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

13 Jan 2025 – In the book ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ Fanon was able to use tools from various fields, including psychoanalysis, philosophy, linguistics, literature, and early concepts of negativity, to analyze the state of neurosis caused by colonialism. It is a basic introduction to understanding the multiple levels of colonial oppression.

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Donald the Dove Takes Office on 20 Jan 2025!
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

Trump conducted more drone strikes in one term than Obama (the “Drone Warrior in Chief”) in two terms, removed the reporting requirements on future drone attacks, attempted a coup in Venezuela, and assassinated Qassem Soleimani from Iran…

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Five-Year-Old Kindergarten Children Play Dovorzak (Music Video of the Week)
Izumi Kindergarten, Tokyo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

Symphony No.9 – “From the New World”

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BRICS Expands to 54.6% of World Population by Adding Nigeria, Africa’s Most Populous Country
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2025

19 Jan 2025 – BRICS added Nigeria with the 6th-biggest population on Earth. BRICS+ now has 10 members and 9 partners, which make up 54.6% of the world population and 42.2% of global GDP.

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(Português) A Geopolítica da Insanidade da Elite (Parte 2): Criando Eretz Yisrael para Remodelar a Ordem Mundial
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Dinâmica Global – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025

À medida que o programa multifacetado das Elites para remodelar a ordem mundial, capturar a propriedade e o controle de todos os recursos-chave, matar uma proporção substancial da população humana, e impor uma ditadura tecnocrática sobre os “transumanos” que sobraram vivos, avança rapidamente.

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Genocide: The New Normal
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025

6 Jan 2025 – Israel and the U.S. government will continue the genocide in Gaza for many months until the Palestinians are annihilated or driven from their homeland and Greater Israel is consolidated.

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How the Human Rights Industry Manufactures Consent for “Regime Change”
John Perry | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025

According to the UN, “human rights” range from the right to life to rights to food, education, work, health, and liberty, but this has become distorted both by the UN and what Alfred de Zayas calls the “Human Rights Industry.”

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Fire Weather
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025

12 Jan 2025 – The wildfires in California replicate the massive fire storms in the boreal forest in Canada and Siberia, the lungs of the earth. Our addiction to fossil fuel has ignited an age of fire.

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US Homegrown Terrorism!
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025

10 Jan 2025 – On New Year’s Day, 14 people were killed and dozens injured in two homegrown terrorist truck attacks by US Army decorated Afghanistan war vets: one in New Orleans and one by an active-duty Green Beret in Las Vegas.

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BBC Middle East Editor Collaborated with CIA, Mossad
Alan MacLeod | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025

7 Jan 2025 – The connections of Raffi Berg, now at the center of a scandal over the BBC’s systematic pro-Israel bias, to the U.S. national security-state and Mossad, the Israeli intelligence agency.

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Strategic Goals to Halt the Genocide in Gaza and Liberate Palestine
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025

If the genocide in Gaza is to be halted and the occupation of Palestine ended, it will require a substantial mobilization of people to participate in a comprehensive strategically-oriented campaign that precisely identifies the tactics to be undertaken (not just a random list of actions) and, as the historical record demonstrates, not by using secrecy and sabotage in their execution.

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A World’s Soul in Tatters
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Jan 2025

8 Jan 2025 – “I left you for God, Daddy.” Let those words resonate across the planet. The boy, Jumaa, froze to death in the family’s tent in Gaza. An increasingly normalized genocide . . .

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(Português) A Geopolítica da Insanidade da Elite (Parte 1): Oscilando à Beira do Armagedom, o Perigo da Guerra Nuclear
Robert Burrowes, Ph.D. | Dinâmica Global – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

Praticamente todos os grupos de bate-papo, como as “notícias” distribuídas pela mídia corporativa via televisão, rádio e jornais, encontram uma sequência infinita de questões inconsequentes para distrair as pessoas da realidade. E assim nossa morte ou escravidão transumana nos aguarda.

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Six Scenarios for Syria
As'ad AbuKhalil | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

29 Dec 2024 – It is naive to assume that the current regime in Syria will remain in place–as it is. The situation resembles the chaos of Libya but there are many more actors operating, making it difficult to foresee what will happen. However, the next phase will not be peaceful.

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Finding a Cure for Humanity’s Cancer
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

1 Jan 2025 – I welcome in the new year with a sense of abstract helplessness, as the headlines continue to bring us dead children, bombed hospitals, torture, rape and, of course, ever more “self-defense” (sometimes known as genocide).

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20 Years after His Death, Gary Webb’s Truth Is Still Dangerous
Belén Fernández | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

In Aug 1996, Webb penned a series for the Mercury News documenting how profits from the sale of crack cocaine in Los Angeles in the 1980s had been funneled to the Contras, the CIA-backed mercenary army perpetrating a terrorist war against Nicaragua.

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Can We All Get Along?
Maung Zarni | WORT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2025

22 Dec 2024 – Recently it seems the situation in Myanmar has become more complicated. We asked Zarni, born there and who has studied here at the UW-Madison to talk about the country and what is happening there.

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The One Hundred Billion Dollar Bitcoin Heist
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

23 Dec 2024 – This is corruption in its purest form happening in the open. Trump is ramming through the “Bitcoin Act” to blow $1 billion on Bitcoin, slapping taxpayers with $100 billion tab. A blatant wealth transfer to the crypto elite.

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The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: An Exercise in Omnicidal Duplicity
Dr. Glen T. Martin – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

28 Dec 2024 – An overview of the paradigm-shift that took place on our human self-understanding resulting from the scientific breakthroughs since the works of Max Planck and Einstein in the early 20th century. The two aspects of our world system: interface of capitalism and sovereign nation-states.

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Syria Is on the Verge of Becoming a Failed State–There’s only One Way to Save It
Murad Sadygzade | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

23 Dec 2024 – Interventions by the US that created failed states: Kosovo, Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine… now, Syria. The new Damascus authorities can set their country on a path to peace – or plunge it deeper into turmoil.

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The Geopolitics of Elite Insanity (Part 2): Creating Eretz Yisrael to Reshape World Order
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

29 Dec 2024 – The multifaceted Elite program to reshape world order, capture ownership and control of all key resources, kill off a substantial proportion of the human population, and impose a technocratic dictatorship over those ‘transhumans’ left alive, advances rapidly

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Good and Bad War Criminals
Mark Curtis | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

23 Dec 2024 – Tony Blair sent the SAS to hunt down suspected Bosnian war criminals in the 1990s who were accused of lesser abuses than Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant.

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Disarmageddon: Do We Have a Choice?
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

All religions have certain texts declared to be “sacred.” One cannot question the directives or prophecies in them. Which raises an unusual question: If Jesus returned today, either in spirit or in person, would he become a peace activist? Would he speak out against nuclear war and Armageddon?

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Can We All Get Along?
Maung Zarni | WORT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

22 Dec 2024 – Recently it seems the situation in Myanmar has become more complicated. We asked Zarni, born there and who has studied here at the UW-Madison to talk about the country and what is happening there.

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BRICS Expands with Nine New Partner Countries
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

25 Dec 2024 – Now It’s Half of World Population, 41% of Global Economy

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How Fascism Came
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

23 Dec 2024 – US democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties that sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.

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Science and Religion
Albert Einstein | Panarchy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

This text is from an address at Princeton Theological Seminary on 19 May 1939. Einstein presents with extreme clarity what are the different realms of religion (values) and science (facts) and also their connections.

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U.S. President Jimmy Carter (1 Oct 1924 – 29 Dec 2024)
Ryan Bort | Rolling Stone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

A Prolific Humanitarian, Dead at 100 – His one term was rocked by multiple crises, but the 39th president will be remembered for his extraordinary decency and philanthropic legacy.

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Exposed: US Military Supported Syrian Rebel Offensive That Toppled Assad Government
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

21 Dec 2024 – Syrian rebel commanders have admitted that the US military helped them overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. NATO member Turkey and Israel played a key role as well.

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BRICS’ Daringly Autonomous Model for Financial Sovereignty
Udaibir Das | BRICS Portal – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Dec 2024

19 Dec 2024 – In the world of economic policy-making, where the public is distanced from decision-making, communiqués serve as windows into the ambitions, hesitations and geopolitical leanings of powerful economic blocs.

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The Fenzel Plan: How the US Engineered the PA’s West Bank Crackdown
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

18 Dec 2024 – The US initiative to create a specialized Palestinian Authority security force to carry out military assaults like the one now in Jenin, is focused on suppressing Palestinian opposition to Washington’s agenda and is paving the way for Israeli control by crushing grassroots resistance.

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Albert Einstein on Jews in Palestine
Albert Einstein | Panarchy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

Letters and excerpts from Albert Einstein’s writings (1932-1949) in which he repeatedly reiterated his opposition to the creation of a state for Jews, preferring the formation of a simple spiritual and cultural centre to serve the Jewish world and all humanity.

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Brussels Further Damages European Industry by Approving 15th Sanctions Package on Russia
Ahmed Adel | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

17 Dec 2024 – The Council of the European Union approved the new sanctions yesterday. The EU is willing to continue destroying its own industries by persisting on the economic warfare despite the boomerang effects.

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The Counter Narrative to US Foreign Policy by Establishment Defectors
Ann Robertson | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

NYT, WaPo and other MSM banished criticisms of US foreign policy: Putin is a dictator that will invade other European countries, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was unprovoked, Hamas’s Oct 7 attack was unprovoked, Israel is a democracy not committing genocide in Gaza, and its military actions in Lebanon, Yemen, Syria, and Iran are for self-defense.

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Enduring the Trauma of Genocide (w/ Gabor Maté)
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

13 Dec 2024 – While the trauma that Palestinians face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the universal susceptibility to trauma unites humanity as much as it divides the self. Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician/psychiatrist and expert in trauma and childhood development, illustrates this point articulately.

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Chess King Gukesh: How an 18-Year-Old Indian Dreamer Checkmated the World
S. Sujatha | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2024

19 Dec 2024 – Gukesh Dommaraju is one of the six Indians in the world’s top 26 chess players.

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Enduring the Trauma of Genocide (w/ Gabor Maté)
The Chris Hedges Report - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

13 Dec 2024 – While the trauma that Palestinians face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the universal susceptibility to trauma unites humanity as much as it divides the self. Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician/psychiatrist and expert in trauma and childhood development, illustrates this point articulately.

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Nuclear Nobels on Human Rights Day
Cartoon Submitted by Diane Perlman – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

The 2024 Nobel Prize ceremony is held on 10 Dec 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden.
The 2024 Nobel Peace Prize is awarded on 10 Dec in Oslo, Norway.
The UN Human Rights Day is celebrated on 10 Dec 2024 worldwide.

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(Italiano) La geopolitica della follia delle élite
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

Mentre il mondo si trova contemporaneamente sull’orlo di una guerra nucleare in Asia centrale per la geopolitica della follia delle élite, manda in frantumi ogni residuo senso di “giustizia internazionale” non intraprendendo alcuna azione efficace per fermare il genocidio televisivo in Palestina…

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French Court Convicts French-Cameroonian Journalist Charles Onana for Speech Crime
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

11 Dec 2024 – A French criminal court has convicted a journalist for writing dissident history about Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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From Tyrant to Tyrant?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

11 Dec 2024 – Assad’s fall didn’t come with a roadmap to democracy or stability. Instead, it is handing power to Jihadi extremists, the kind who burn books and crush the public under their so-called morality. It’s not enough to overthrow a tyrant if what comes next is worse than what came before.

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Letter to Refaat Alareer
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

A year ago, on 6 Dec 2023, Israel murdered Palestinian poet Refaat Alareer in Gaza. His poems, however, remain, condemning his killers and beseeching us to honor our shared humanity.

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(Indonesian-bahasa Indo) Mengapa Elite Melakukan Great Reset Menghancurkan Dunia? Bagaimana Melawannya?
Robert J. Burrowes | Bergelora - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

Sejak awal peradaban manusia 5.000 tahun yang lalu, orang-orang biasa seperti Anda dan saya telah terlibat dalam perjuangan tanpa henti untuk melawan upaya para elit, baik lokal, nasional, internasional atau global, untuk menegaskan kendali penuh atas kita dan sumber daya di sekitar kita.

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Syria Now
As'ad AbuKhalil | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

9 Dec 2024 – The Assad family regime, sustained by force, was destined to collapse and the infighting between the various armed militias now may produce a situation not unlike Afghanistan.

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Mysterious Global Hotspots
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

13 Dec 2024 – A worrisome trend in the global climate system has popped up. Specific regions of the world are experiencing repetitive severe heat waves so extreme and so deadly that scientists’ models are thrown into a tizzy.

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Our Right to Sing — and Create the Future
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

11 Dec 2024 – The world “celebrated” International Human Rights Day the other day, even as wars across the planet continued, bombs fell, children died. What if “freedom from war” were a human right?

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Popular Revolt Looming in Ukraine? Zelensky’s Battle Over Death Numbers Speaks for Itself
Uriel Araujo | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

12 Dec 2024 – Donald Trump stated on 9 Dec that Ukraine lost around 400,000 soldiers in its armed conflict with Russia: “This is a war that should never have started, and could go on forever.”

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US Hypocrisy Reaches a New Level: Israel’s Occupation of Syria Is ‘Security,’ Russia’s Moves in Ukraine Are ‘Aggression’
Nadezhda Romanenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Dec 2024

10 Dec 2024 – Netanyahu’s reasoning for his latest land grab lays bare the stark hypocrisy of his Western supporters.

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The Geopolitics of Elite Insanity (Part 1): Teetering on the Brink of Armageddon
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

As the world teeters on the brink of nuclear war in Central Asia, shatters ‘international justice’ by not halting the televised genocide in Palestine, and runs into the technocracy, the bulk of the human population yawns while scrolling the latest entries in chat groups on their phone.

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(Castellano) Reseña: Cinco ejes en el pensamiento de Johan Galtung
Beatriz Martínez Pérez | Dykinson Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

Cosmología, Conflicto, Violencia y Paz – Cinco ejes en el pensamiento de Johan Galtung by Beatriz Martínez Pérez; Dykinson Books; ISBN 9788410707252; 181 pp; Madrid 2024

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Trump Names El Chapo Ambassador to Mexico
The Borowitz Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

Trump told reporters that the appointment of El Chapo was consistent with his policy of surrounding himself with “only the best people.” When asked about El Chapo’s ten felony convictions, he said, “I wish he had more, but I still think he’s qualified.”

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Food NOT Bombs!
Submitted by James Albertini | Malu Aina - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

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How the US and Israel Quietly Revived Al-Qaeda Allies in Syria’s Idlib Offensive
Robert Inlakesh | MintPress News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

4 Dec 2024 – As the Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham intensifies the offensive after capturing Aleppo, Washington distances itself from the attack although its complicity was laid bare in leaked cables: Al-Qaeda “is on our side in Syria.”

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The Forces on the Offensive in Syria Are Today’s Khmer Rouge
John Wight | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

6 Dec 2024 – The common denominator behind the rise of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia in the 1970s and Salafi-jihadism in our time is Western foreign policy.
“History never really says goodbye. History says, ‘See you later.’” – Eduardo Galeano

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Lena Herzog: You Cannot Win a Nuclear War
Robert Scheer - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

6 Dec 2024 – “The word ‘war’ is disorienting, because in war, you can have a battle, you can lose a battle, you can win a war. You cannot win a nuclear exchange. It’s omnicide. It’s not war.”

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Tearing Down Our Emotional Walls
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

4 Dec 2024 – War, war and more war. It’s possible because of the belief that only some people are fully human. Those who aren’t . . . well, they can be killed when necessary. Is there a way to get things to change?

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Forced Recruitment Causing Serious Problems in Ukrainian Society
Lucas Leiroz | BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

29 Nov 2024 – Ukraine’s unpopular mobilization measures are causing serious problems in the country and worsening internal tensions. Ukrainians have spoken about conscription, revealing the brutal reality behind the Kiev’s army.

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Israeli Historian Produces Vast Database of War Crimes in Gaza
Nadav Rapaport and Oscar Rickett | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

6 Dec 2024 – Internationally recognised Israeli historian Lee Mordechai concluded that his country is committing genocide in Gaza after compiling a vast, methodical report documenting war crimes.

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Beyond Trump and Nukes: Unmaking War, Remaking Men
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Dec 2024

3 Dec 2024 – Trump as a macho warrior. What if his “machismo” is a psychological trait which increases the likelihood that he will impulsively order a nuclear strike to prove that he (the U.S.) is “the boss”?

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ICC Application for an Arrest Warrant in the Situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar
ICC International Criminal Court - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2024

27 Nov 2024 – Statement from International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor Karim A.A. Khan KC

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Washington Post Attacks Eritrean Americans for Organizing in Their Own Defense
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Dec 2024

27 Nov 2024 – The Washington Post’s latest anti-Eritrea propaganda demonizes Eritrean immigrants defending themselves in the West.

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ICC Rejects Israel’s Challenges to Jurisdiction and Issues Arrest Warrants for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant
International Criminal Court - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2024

21 Nov 2024 – The Chamber issued warrants of arrest for two individuals, Mr Benjamin Netanyahu and Mr Yoav Gallant, for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed from at least 8 October 2023 until at least 20 May 2024, the day the Prosecution filed the applications for warrants of arrest.

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Trump Will Exploit Fear of Russia to Dominate Europe’s Security Policies, Says Academic Maung Zarni
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal | Anadolu Ajansi - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2024

18 Nov 2024 – “US policy towards Europe will be anchored in the attempt to make Europeans feel insecure about Russia. I think it’s going to create major internal societal upheavals within European society.”

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Organized Oblivion
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2024

18 Nov 2024 – Gaza is destroyed. It will not, at least for the Palestinians, be rebuilt. Those who lived there will spend their lives, like survivors of the Armenian genocide, desperately trying to protect memory.

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It’s Not You, It’s CAPITALISM
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2024

20 Nov 2024 – Malaika Jabali’s book explains our toxic relationship with capitalism and says it’s time to break up.

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Mourning in North America (Music Video of the Week)
Brother Ali | Rhymesayers Entertainment – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2024

A critique of US culture of death and murder–from actual war zones around the world to our inner cities that rival war zones—and of our national hypocrisy regarding violence. We have a zero-tolerance of violence committed against us, but a lot more lenient and patient with our violence against others.

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Lucid Summations of Fundamental Issues
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2024

U.S. sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote that ordinary people feel trapped and overwhelmed by the glut of information available. They have great difficulty to make sense of the connections between their personal lives and society, the links between biography and history, self and world.

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Zionists in Amsterdam
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

12 Nov 2024 – What happened in one Dutch city is the world since the Zionist regime began its limitlessly barbaric assault on Gaza: Zionist Israel lost, lost big in Amsterdam. The horror it has made of itself is now plain for the world to see.

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Lee Lakeman and the Whoredom of the Left
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

16 Nov 2024 – The radical feminist Lee Lakeman has spent her life calling out patriarchy for its oppression, the left for its bankruptcy, neoliberalism for its cruelty and organizing women to fight back.

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A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2024

I reviewed a film – Four Died Trying – about four men assassinated by the U.S. government because they opposed their wars: President John F. Kennedy, Malcolm X, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

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What about Palestinian Hostages???
Mark Albert | Rumble - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

1 Nov 2024 – The numbers tell a different story about the justification for genocide against Palestinians by Zionist Israel.

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World Peace Summit in Argentina
Alberto Portugheis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

Held in-person and via Zoom – Mon, 25 Nov 2024, 10:00 – 17:00 GMT-3

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The Politics of Cultural Despair
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

6 Nov 2024 – It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.

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Prepping Readers to Accept Mass Slaughter in Lebanese ‘Strongholds’
Belén Fernández | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

9 Nov 2024 – Only after 11 full paragraphs of transmitting the Israeli line did Kershner manage to insert the disclaimer that “the Israeli claims could not be independently verified.” But by that time, of course, the damage had been done, the reader having already been persuaded that south Lebanon was one big Hezbollah military installation.

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Segregation Wasn’t That Long Ago
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

4 Nov 2024 – Segregation isn’t some dusty relic from the museum of US history. It’s alive in ways that people don’t want to admit, barely sixty years buried, and yet very much alive in our political bloodstream.

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The Hangover
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

Democracy in the USA

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Bill Clinton and the “Dictators Club”
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

6 Nov 2024 – Bill Clinton couldn’t be cozier, or more richly rewarded, in what he calls “the dictator’s club.”

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Everybody Knows: Do They?
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Nov 2024

8 Nov 2024 – When the polls closed on Tue 5 Nov, I was sound asleep. Every presidential election is a contest between two sides of the ruling monied elite, chosen to represent their interests. It is corrupt beyond repair.

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The Earth Constitution Emerging in Surprising Ways
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024

1 Nov 2024 – The Earth Constitution has been getting an unusual attention, both good and “bad,” omens of its growing geopolitical importance as the UN continues to flounder, unable to prevent wars or to stop Israel’s genocidal Gaza land grab by extinguishing the Palestinian people.    

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Israel’s War on Journalism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024

25 Oct 2024 – Israel’s genocide includes the most draconian censorship and intentional murder of journalists since the creation of the modern war correspondent. The consequences will be catastrophic.

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Genocidal Scorecard
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Nov 2024

30 Oct 2024 – The Nakba that in 1948 saw Zionist militias drive 750,000 Palestinians from their homes, carry out more than 70 massacres and seize 78 percent of Palestine, has returned on steroids. It is the final chapter in “a intentional, systematic, State-organized forced displacement and replacement of the Palestinians.”

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Kazan Declaration Adopted at BRICS Summit
BRICS Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

23 Oct 2024 – Kazan Declaration: Strengthening Multilateralism for Just Global Development and Security

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Iran’s Bomb Is Real–and It’s Here
Scott Ritter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

20 Oct 2024 – For months now, the world has focused on the danger of nuclear war between the United States and Russia. But Iran and Israel could beat them to it.

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New York Times Attacks “Peace-peddling” Jill Stein as the Presidential Race Comes Down to the Wire
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

23 Oct 2024 – The New York Times scapegoats Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein as polls indicate a dead heat between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris.

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BRICS Expands to 13 ‘Partner Countries’ at Historic Summit in Kazan, Russia
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

27 Oct 2024 – BRICS held a summit in Kazan, Russia in October 2024, where it expanded with 13 “partner nations”, after adding four new members. These are the most important takeaways from the historic meeting.

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Soul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered
Edward J. Curtin, Jr. | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

It is impossible to understand the United States’ full-fledged support today for Israel’s genocide in the Middle East without understanding this history.  Israel’s genocide is the United States’ genocide; they cannot be separated.

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Dismantling the US Empire (w/ Cornel West)
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2024

23 Oct 2024 – Prof. Cornel West, renowned political activist, philosopher, public intellectual, author and now independent US presidential candidate, joins host Chris Hedges to highlight the critical issues that define his fight for justice and equality.

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ICJ Position Paper on the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
International Court of Justice - TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2024

18 Oct 2024 – Legal analysis and recommendations on implementation of the International Court of Justice, Advisory Opinion, Legal Consequences from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including East Jerusalem

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