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The Night of Peace Propagation: Maha Shivatri in Hinduism
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Hinduism, with its diverse beliefs and practices, emphasises pluralism, karma, and the pursuit of liberation (moksha), impacting global culture through unique practices such as yoga, meditation, interfaith dialogue, renunciation, as well as fostering a tolerant and inclusive worldview, as a major global religion.

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Johan Galtung, “the Father of Peace Studies,” Dies at 93
Right Livelihood Awards - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, who has developed an academic understanding of peacebuilding, passed away on 17 Feb 2024. A recipient of the Right Livelihood Award in 1987, Galtung was a dedicated peace advocate whose influence extended far beyond national borders.

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3 Things to Know about the Current Crisis in Haiti
Eyder Peralta | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

6 Mar 2024 – Haiti is entering its second day of a state of emergency, after gangs attacked the capital city’s prisons releasing thousands of inmates. The country’s airport is under siege, and on Monday, 4 Mar, evening, it was still not clear whether Haiti’s prime minister had made it back into the country.

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Achieving the Two-State Solution in the Wake of Gaza War
Jeffrey D. Sachs and Sybil Fares – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

5 Mar 2024 – Peace can come through the immediate implementation of the two-state solution, making the admission of Palestine to the UN the starting, not the ending point. The two-state solution is enshrined in international law and is the only viable path to a long-lasting peace.

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Israel at Seventy Six
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Israel is celebrating its 76th anniversary of David Ben Gurion’s unilateral declaration of independence. And the bill for shoa is increasingly placed at the feet of Arabs in general, the Palestinians in particular, starting with al naqba, the horror of 711,000 chased out of their homes in Palestine, to camps, diasporas. To death. [Leading to the 2024 Genocide.]

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Johan Galtung, “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,” Dies at 93
Amy Goodman | Democracy NOW! - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Click to Watch Videos by Democracy NOW! throughout the Years

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The Public Bank That Wasn’t: New Jersey’s Excursion into Public Banking
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

9 Mar 2024 – In 2017, Phil Murphy, a former Goldman Sachs executive, made the establishment of a public, state-owned bank a centerpiece issue during his run for New Jersey governor. He regularly championed public banking in speeches, town halls and campaign commercials.

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I Don’t Need Guns I Need Fire Extinguishers
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

8 Mar 2024 – Pointing pistols as the man burns, as Gaza burns, as civilization burns, as the planet burns. I don’t need guns I need fire extinguishers.

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May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Solitude is the seedbed of creativity. Living alone can be deeply rewarding and challenging. It is not for everyone. It is not for those who romanticize its offerings of freedom and focus, but excise its menacing visitations of loneliness and alienation.

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The Orphans of Gaza: How Can We Help?
Elizabeth West – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

8 Mar 2024 – The official death toll in Gaza is now above 30,000. Of that figure, accrued in just 22 weeks, about 70% were women and children, and a goodly portion of the rest were non-combatant males. Just under half the population of Gaza—prior to the current massacre—were kids. 

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The Biden Doctrine in Gaza: Bomb, Starve, Deceive
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

8 Mar 2024 – At his State of the Union yesterday, Pres. Biden announced that the US military will install a pier in Gaza to deliver emergency aid to the enclave. In reality, the emergency project underscores Biden’s real priority: to prolong Israel’s rampage in Gaza, the US is even willing to deploy its own military for face-saving public relations stunts.

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The World Must Calculate the Real Gaza Death Toll
Ralph Nader | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

6 Mar 2024 – With virtually no healthcare left, no medications, and infectious diseases spreading, can anybody believe that the fatalities have just gone over 30,000? 2.3 million defenseless Palestinians in Gaza have been on the receiving end of over 65,000 bombs and missiles plus non-stop tank shelling and snipers.

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Hypocrisy: Dropping Bombs and Bread on Gaza
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

7 Mar 2024 – “It is absurd and hypocritical to publicly profess horror at Netanyahu’s inhumane war,” US Sen. Bernie Sanders said on the Senate yesterday, “while…we ship tens of thousands of bombs to his army. It is absurd to criticize Netanyahu’s war and provide him another $10 billion to continue that war.”

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Human Security and Its Dimensions
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

The concept of human security is a controversial approach by a certain group of post-Cold War 1.0 academicians (after 1990) for the purpose of redefining and at the same time making broader the meaning of security in global politics and the studies of international relations.

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Romance – Romanza (Music Video of the Week)
Al Marconi – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Romance d’Amour on Spanish Classical Guitar – Delightful!

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Remembering Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024)
Magnus Haavelsrud, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

He was 93 years old. We miss a great man, who broke down the walls between university disciplines in a constant search to understand people and society from a perspective from below and from within.

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European Parliament Finally Calls for a Gaza Ceasefire but Rejects Arms Embargo against Israel
Global News Service – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

8 Mar 2024 – The major sponsors of Israel in the U.S. and Europe continue to support the slaughter and the escalation of the conflict in the entire West Asia region. The European Parliament was able to call for a permanent, immediate, and unconditional ceasefire in Gaza only on 28 Feb, more than 140 days after the genocidal war began.

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Pakistan: The Elite Who Betrayed the Nation
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Corrupt Elite Is Always Self-Deceptive and Fearful

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The West’s Reckoning?
Michael Brenner – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

6 Mar 2024 – Western leaders are experiencing two stunning events: defeat in Ukraine, genocide in Palestine. The first is humiliating, the other shameful. Yet, their actions show vividly that those sentiments are alien to them – unable to penetrate the entrenched barriers of dogma, arrogance and deep-seated insecurities.

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The Power Behind the Throne and the Bankers’ Forever Wars
Alex Krainer | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

3 Mar 2024 – In untangling the causal factors behind the many crises we face today, the trail of breadcrumbs always leads to the international banking cartel which appears to have the determining influence shaping the system of governance under which our societies operate.

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Canada and Sweden Restore UNRWA Funds as Report Accuses Israel of Torturing Agency Staff
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

9 Mar 2024 – The governments of Canada and Sweden have announced they will resume funding for the UN’s agency that provides humanitarian aide and protection to Palestinians. A move that other powerful nations, including the US, continue to refuse.

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Not So Special
Richard J. Evans | London Review of Books – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

During WWII and afterwards, historians of modern Germany focused on one question: how did Nazism, with its negation of freedom and democracy, its aggressive commitment to war and conquest, its creation of a totalitarian state, and its visceral and genocidal antisemitism, take hold in Germany but not elsewhere in Europe? Review of:
Germany in the World: A Global History, 1500-2000, by David Blackbourn. Liveright, 774 pp., July 2023

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A Personal Tribute to Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024): The Man for Just Peace
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

“USA? I love the Republic, but I hate the Empire.” Galtung made unparalleled intellectual and practical contributions to the advancement of our understanding of peace, its social objectives and the conditions for peace, in terms of our global understanding of such an elusive goal.

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(Italiano) Johan Galtung: Pace con mezzi pacifici (parti da 2 a 5)
Enrico Peyretti – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

(Parte Seconda) Analisi della Violenza

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US Totalitarian “Crypto Dollar” May Come before the Election
Aaron R. Day | Brownstone Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Central Bank Digital Currencies threaten to replace the cash we use with programmable, trackable, and censorable government tokens. Your financial choices could be suppressed and privacy eliminated and this could happen before the 2024 election. The best way to stop it is through direct action, not through politics. 

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International Women’s Day 2024 – UNSG Antonio Guterres Message
António Guterres, UN Secretary General - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

8 Mar 2024 – On International Women’s Day, we celebrate women and girls around the world, and we applaud all they have achieved in the fight for equality. They have made great gains – demolishing barriers, dismantling stereotypes and driving progress towards a more just and equal world…

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Tell the Truth about Israel’s Crimes against Humanity
Sonali Kolhatkar | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Israeli forces killed more than a hundred Palestinians and wounded more than 700 on 29 Feb 2024 during a distribution of food aid in Gaza city. And yet, Western media headlines went out of their way to obscure and protect the perpetrators of this awful crime.

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Spin Cycle
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Western Civilization… as Gandhi said, ‘It Would Be a Great Idea’

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Contemporary Conflict Resolution Processes: Diagnoses and Therapies
Fabio Fossati – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

31 Dec 2023 – The empirical evidence shows that since 1989 many conflicts have crystallized incompatibilities among different nations and/or civilizations, and that many conflicts have degenerated into wars. These conflicts may be defined as ‘cultural’ because they involve collective identities along ethnic, linguistic or religious cleavages.

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The Tears of War Belong to All of Us
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

6 Mar 2024 – First you call them terrorists. Then you say you’re defending yourself. Moral problem solved! Now you can kill as many of them as you want.

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How the ‘Fight against Antisemitism’ Became a Shield for Israel’s Genocide
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

7 Mar 2024 – Western capitals no longer treat Israel like a state, a political actor capable of slaughtering children, but rather as a sacred cause. So any opposition has to be a blasphemy.

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(Português) Os Novos Bárbaros: A Comunidade Europeia e os EUA
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

5 Mar 2024 – A guerra de extermínio que Israel está perpetrando contra os mais de dois milhões de palestinos da Faixa de Gaza, apoiado pelos EUA, pela inteira Comunidade Europeia e pela NATO, nos legitima de chamá-los de novos bárbaros.

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Genocide in Numbers
Human Rights Monitor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

Despicable, Abject Crimes Against Humanity and Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine

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(Italiano) 11 marzo 2011 – Incidente di Fukushima. Chi se lo ricorda?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

6 Marzo 2024 – Tra pochi giorni ricorrerà l’anniversario dell’incidente di Fukushima. Sono già passati 13 anni, e probabilmente non ci saranno grandi manifestazioni di ricordo… la tecnologia ha fatto grandi passi avanti, e la possibilità di sfruttare in piena sicurezza le potenzialità dell’energia nucleare è ormai alle porte. Questo – almeno – è il messaggio trasmesso dal recente film di Oliver Stone, Nuclear Now:

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Rajghat
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Mar 2024

As most people know, the place Rajghat is associated with Mahatma Gandhi. This place is in central part of New Delhi and is understood to comprise the life, thoughts and feelings of Gandhi – ji. 

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Gaza: The Wider Context
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

In Gaza, the West Is Enabling the Most Transparent Genocide in Human History

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 149: Palestinian Children Die of Malnutrition as Israel Blocks Aid into Gaza
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

3 Mar 2024 – U.S. airdrops of food and aid in Gaza have been described as “performative BS” that “fools no one.” Meanwhile, Hamas’s delegation has arrived in Cairo for ceasefire talks as Ramadan is due to start next Sunday [10 Mar].

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Eliciting a Pattern that Connects with AI?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Experimental Exchange with ChatGPT in Quest of Memorable Integrative Configuration – At the moment, there is a real risk that more and more countries end up in a lose-lose situation, which is no longer about who gains more, but only about who loses less.

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(Italiano) Trasformazione del conflitto come modalità di vita
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

l conflitto è il nostro destino. Come lo sono i microrganismi, allora meglio imparare a maneggiare tali situazioni. L’esporsi al conseguimento di obiettivi bloccati dal conseguimento di altri obiettivi si può superare se la nostra capacità di resistenza è sufficiente, come un’infezione si può superare con il sistema immunitario.

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Investigations of Attacks on the Eritrean Diaspora Are Underway
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

28 Feb 2024 – Ann Garrison spoke to Eritrean British attorney Feven Yemane regarding attacks on Eritrean diaspora festivals and gatherings and the investigations underway.

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How the West Robbed and Abused the Best Figure Skater in the World While Provoking the War in Ukraine
Rick Sterling – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

On 7 Feb 2022, after the Russians had won the team skating event at the Beijing Winter Games, news emerged that one of the Russian skaters, the brilliant young Kamila Valieva, had tested positive for a banned substance. The charges created one of the biggest international sport controversies of the past 50 years.

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(Italiano) Mattatoio Gaza
Miki Lanza | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

29.02.2024 – Oltre 100 uccisi e 700 feriti nel campo di sterminio di Gaza-sud, in una fila di disperati in attesa (quanto spesso frustrata) di rimandare la morte per sfinimento (fame, sete, freddo, ferite, malanni antichi e nuovi): fila composta ma intollerabilmente vicina a corazzati IDF e dunque minacciosa! Altra mossa spudorata dei terroristi di stato israeliani nel dispiegarsi sapiente e rigoroso della Soluzione Finale sion-nazista, di fronte a un Occidente in coma pre-elettorale para/pre-bellico.

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The Role of Vision in History
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

We are entering an era of economic and political contradictions that will lead to revolutionary change. Capitalism, clothed in its cover of bourgeois democracy, is crumbling. This is already evident with the rejection of traditional establishment political candidates.

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Collective Israeli Tyranny and Peace Disruption in the Occupied Territories
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

The fallacy of the international community in accepting that the Palestinians in the occupied territories are safe is denial of the truth because the tentacles of operation of the oppressive apparatus of Israel are being deployed through the services of the Israeli settlers in the ongoing harassment, oppression, violent attacks, stealing and expropriation of their property.

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(Italiano) In morte di Johan Galtung (Parte Prima)
Enrico Peyretti | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Questo volume è il manuale universitario di Johan Galtung, lo studioso norvegese (vikingo, dice lui), matematico e sociologo, iniziatore degli Studi per la Pace contemporanei, decano dei peace researchers, docente in molte università ai quattro angoli del pianeta, direttore di Transcend (www.transcend.org; transcend@transcend.org), rete di studiosi e attivisti per la trasformazione nonviolenta dei conflitti.

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John Scales Avery–One of the Greatest Intellectuals of Our Time Passes Away
Binu Mathew | Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

I’m informed of the passing of  [TRANSCEND Member] John Scales Avery (26 May 1933 – 4 Jan 2024). He was 91. He was also a fierce peace activist. John was part of Pugwash Conferences that shared the 1995 Nobel Peace Prize. He was also chairman of the Danish Peace Academy.

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Dengue Fever Surges by 400% in Brazil after Bill Gates-Backed Gene-Edited Mosquitos Released
Jamie White | Infowars - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

26 Feb 2024 – Money and Weaponized Mosquitos: The dramatic spike in dengue cases has prompted Brazil to purchase millions of doses of the dengue vaccine.

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Israel & USA Sugar Daddy (Music Video of the Week)
Marvelous Material - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

28 Feb 2024 – Parody with Eminem Song

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Only Laughter for Attention
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Why do we see Society Leaders or business personnel laughing all the time in videos that are circulated?

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“Who Owns the World?” A Small Group of Big Money
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

26 Feb 2024 – “Who Owns the World” is an extraordinary documentary describing how Big-Big Money controls every aspect of your life, has a stranglehold on every government, the UN, and all industries and services of this globe. These largest investors are BlackRock, Vanguard, and State Street.

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(Italiano) Ricordando Johan Galtung, il “padre” degli studi sulla pace
Kelly Rae Kraemer | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Autore, educatore e praticante prolifico, Johan Galtung aveva una genialità unica che continuerà a ispirare un mondo affamato di pace. Lo scorso fine settimana il nostro mondo ha perso un gigante della ricerca sulla pace. Johan Galtung, “il padre degli studi sulla pace”, autore di oltre 100 libri e 1.000 articoli scientifici sulla pace nel mondo, è morto il 17 febbraio all’età di 93 anni.

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Only Peace Negotiations Can Save Ukraine
Michael von der Schulenburg – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

27 Feb 2024 – The Ukrainian War Must Not Go into a Third Year

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The Shoah after Gaza
Pankaj Mishra | London Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Gaza has become for countless powerless people the essential condition of political and ethical consciousness in the 21st century – just as WWI was for a generation in the West. And only those jolted into consciousness by the calamity of Gaza can rescue the Shoah from Netanyahu, Biden, Scholz and Sunak.

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On Hypocrisy and Genocide: How Gaza Has Exposed the West like Never Before
Ramzy Baroud | Palestine Chronicle – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

1 Mar 2024 – The Israeli genocide in Gaza will be remembered as the moral collapse of the West. Now that some western leaders have begun to feel increasingly uncomfortable as the enormity of the Gaza genocide unfolds, a few, though bashfully, are declaring that Netanyahu may be ‘going too far.’

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Johan Galtung on Peace Studies, Peace Communication, Peace Journalism: Transcending the Underlying Conflicts
Joan Pedro-Carañana and Eva Aladro-Vico – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

This interview was one of Professor Johan Galtung’s last public appearances. It was conducted by the editors of a special issue of CIC 28 in 2023. Professor Galtung founded peace studies and was an authority in mediation, communication, and peace journalism.

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Tomorrow’s News Today
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Dispatches from the Very Near Future

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So, They’re Experimenting with Military Robots in Gaza Now
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

4 Mar 2024 – Haaretz has a new article out titled “Gaza Becomes Israel’s Testing Ground for Military Robots”, which reports that “In an effort to avoid harming soldiers and dogs, the IDF has been experimenting with the use of robots and remote-controlled dogs in the Gaza War [read Genocide].”

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(Français) Le Rôle de la Vision dans l’Histoire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Nous entrons dans une ère de contradictions économiques et politiques qui mèneront à un changement révolutionnaire. Le capitalisme, sous son couvert de démocratie bourgeoise, s’effondre. Cela est déjà évident avec le rejet des candidats politiques traditionnels de l’establishment.

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Rohingya, the Palestinians of Southeast Asia: A Forgotten Genocide
Maung Zarni | VOICESEA - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

27 Feb 2024 – A talk with Maung Zarni, a scholar of genocide who explains the context in which Rohingya people are so marginalised and vulnerable that they have no choice but to seek asylum in neighboring countries. How can solidarity among people of the world advocate for the human rights of victims of genocide, people fleeing political persecution, conflicts, and other human rights violations?

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Aaron Bushnell’s Divine Violence
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

29 Feb 2024 – Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation was ultimately a religious act, one that radically delineates good and evil and calls us to resist. Divine violence terrifies a corrupt and discredited ruling class. It exposes their depravity. It illustrates that not everyone is paralyzed by fear. It is a siren call to battle radical evil. That is what Bushnell intended. His sacrifice speaks to our better selves.

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(Italiano) Le 180 Vite sul caicco Summer Love potevano essere salvate
Silvia Berruto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

3 Mar 2024 – Il 26 febbraio 2023 a Steccato di Cutro. Crotone, Calabria, Italia

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US Vetoes UN Resolution Condemning Israel for Flour Massacre
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

1 Mar 2024 – The US vetoed a UN Security Council resolution condemning Israel for a massacre of civilians surrounding an aid convoy in Gaza, a motion supported by all other member states. The Israel Defense Forces has acknowledged its soldiers fired on the crowd.

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More Anti-Russian Hysteria from the New York Times
Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Putin is a ruthless autocrat, but once again the news media get the “Russian threat” all wrong. One can only hope that a few sane leaders will call a halt to jingoist assumptions of our own side’s essential innocence and the other side’s essential aggressiveness.

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UK Trident Missile Failure Exposes Folly of Nuclear Weapons
Kate Hudson | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

26 Feb 2024 – Britain’s nuclear arsenal has failed two tests in a row. Why must we still pay for these extortionate weapons of mass destruction? Last month, the Royal Navy failed to test fire a Trident missile, the only delivery system for Britain’s nuclear warheads. A malfunction in the system caused the missile to spin out of control.

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Lula, Israel’s Genocide, and Racism on Brazilian Corporate Media
Gabriel Rocha Gaspar | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

28 Feb 2024 – Lula’s statement was based on principles: antiracist, anticolonialist, humanist. What Israel is doing to Gaza is definitely comparable to the lowest standards humankind has ever reached, including the Holocaust. It’s the mass extermination of a whole population whose overwhelming majority is comprised of women and children.

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Where There’s Smoke
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

5 Feb 2024 – The Usual BS…

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New York Times Report Demolishes the Narrative of the “Unprovoked War” in Ukraine
Patrick Martin | WSWS - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

26 Feb 2024 – Nearly every reference in the US media to the Feb 2022 invasion of Ukraine by Russia has been preceded by an obligatory word—“unprovoked.” However, the NYT just published a lengthy article revealing that the invasion was instigated by a systematic and widespread campaign of military-intelligence aggression on the part of the CIA-USA.

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Hermann Hesse on Discovering the Soul Beneath the Self and the Key to Finding Peace
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

We call this consciousness, this higher unity of personhood, soul.

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Changing the World with Fire and Love
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

28 Feb 2024 – The easiest way to cope with the news is to shrivel it into an us-vs.-them abstraction and, thus, to extract as much humanity from it as possible.

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The Polish-West Ukrainian Conflict over East Galicia in 1918−1919
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

The Eastern Portion of Europe and the End of WWI

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Up to 3 Mar 2024 Casualties:
20,410+ killed* and at least 71,700 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 35,000 when accounting for those presumed dead under extensive rubble.

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Haiti a Paradise for State Crime–Unspoken Agenda: Offshore Natural Gas
Peter Koenig | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

27 Feb 2024 – Haiti is by far the poorest country in all Latin America according to official UN/World Bank indices. Haiti is also one of the world’s richest countries, per capita, judged by available natural resources, oil and gas.

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Quantum Mechanics and Its Vedic Influence
Prof. C.P. Girija Vallabhan | Sanskriti Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

Erwin Schrodinger, discoverer of wave mechanics, was deeply influenced by the philosophical wisdom of the Hindu scriptures Vedanta and Upanishads. He also wrote about “The Basic view of Vedanta” by expounding advaitha and non-dualism.

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Forward, into the Breach
The Kucinich Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

1 Mar 2024 – The USA used 9/11 to further a hidden agenda with catastrophic results. Not only did we lose blood and treasure, we lost whatever moral high ground we once had. Israel needs to learn from our mistakes.

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Aaron Bushnell & Johan Galtung, Rest in Peace
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

The world lost two principled opponents of war. Johan Galtung died on 17 Feb at the age of 93; known as the father of peace studies, he spent his life researching for peace. Aaron Bushnell was just 25 years old, a member of the US Air Force. On 25 Feb he doused himself with a liquid and set himself on fire in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, DC.

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Nicaragua Hits Germany with ICJ Case for Aiding Israel in Gaza Genocide
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

1 Mar 2024 – Nicaragua today launched a case against Germany at the International Court of Justice, accusing the nation responsible for the deaths of 6 million Jews during the Holocaust of helping Israel commit genocide in the Gaza Strip over the past five months.

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Who’s Brain-Dead Now, Macron?
Finian Cunningham | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

28 Feb 2024 – Macron wants to start World War Three based on sheer lies and vanity. He’s not only brain-dead. He’s soul-dead too.

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US Airman Aaron Bushnell’s Self-Immolation Outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington D.C.
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

The live-streaming of US active duty airman Aaron Bushnell’s extreme sacrifice in front of the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C. on 25 Feb 2024 should make us reflect on the complicity of our governments in the genocide by Israel on the hapless Palestinian people.  30,000 dead – overwhelmingly civilians, women and children.

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Palestine Lights the Way Forward
Walden Bello | FPIF – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

22 Feb 2024 – In these worst of times, still there is hope.

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Remembering Johan Galtung, the ‘Father of Peace Studies’
Prof. Kelly Rae Kraemer | Waging Nonviolence - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

29 Feb 2024 – Our world lost a giant of peace research last weekend. Johan Galtung, “the father of peace studies,” author of more than 160 books and 1,700 scholarly articles about world peace, passed away on Feb. 17, at age 93. A prolific author, educator and practitioner, Galtung had a unique brand of genius that will continue to inspire a world hungry for peace.

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Tell the Truth About Israel’s Crimes against Humanity
Sonali Kolhatkar | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

1 Mar 2024 – Western news bias in favor of Israel is more and more apparent as media outlets go out of their way to obscure the perpetrators of genocide.

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Israel Defying ICJ Ruling to Prevent Genocide by Failing to Allow Adequate Humanitarian Aid to Reach Gaza
Amnesty International - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

26 Feb 2024 – One month after the International Court of Justice (ICJ) ordered “immediate and effective measures” to protect Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip from the risk of genocide by ensuring sufficient humanitarian assistance and enabling basic services, Israel has failed to take even the bare minimum steps to comply, Amnesty International said today.

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The USA Supports Israeli War Beyond Gaza onto the Arab World
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Mar 2024

U.S. and Israel Aligned to Challenge Global Humanity

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The US Must Stop Arming Israel’s Assault on Hospitals
Kathy Kelly – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

21 Feb 2024 – If we can’t find the morality to stop, we may find we have created a world in which no one can count on upholding basic human rights.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 142: UN Experts Call for Arms Embargo
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

25 Feb 2024 – Israel bombs near Egypt’s fortified wall with Rafah as talks resume to reach a captive exchange with Hamas. UN experts call for arms embargo against Israel and say states supplying weapons, ammunition or intelligence risk violating international law.

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Burma Undergoes Quasi-Balkanization and the Embattled Junta Resorts to Mass Conscription
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

23 Feb 2024 – No Burmese in their right minds have bought into the spin “service to the nation” from the junta leadership. Reportedly, young men and women are frantically finding ways to exit the country.

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Rugs, Cosmetics, Motorbikes: Israeli Soldiers Are Looting Gaza Homes en Masse
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

20 Feb 2024 – Soldiers describe how stealing Palestinian property has become totally routine in the Gaza atrocities, with minimal pushback from IDF commanders or anybody else.

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(Italiano) Memoriale del Prof. Johan Galtung
Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

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What’s the ICJ Case against Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Palestine?
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

19 Feb 2024 – The International Court of Justice will hear 52 countries on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Here’s all you need to know about the case:

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(Italiano) Johan Galtung, il mio maestro
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

18 Febbraio 2024 – Il 17 febbraio, intorno alle 8 del mattino, si è spento serenamente Johan Galtung dopo una vita straordinaria, animata da uno spirito di missione a cui non è mai venuto meno, neppure negli ultimi giorni.  Aveva 93 anni.

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PRIO on Johan Galtung’s Passing
Nils Petter Gleditsch | PRIO Peace Research Institute Oslo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Saturday, 17 Feb 2024 – Johan Galtung passed away this morning. He was born in 1930 on 24 October, the same day that 15 years later would see the founding of the United Nations. There is something symbolic about having the same birthday as the UN. As a researcher, Galtung’s orientation was unusually international. An excellent linguist, he was well-travelled and made his home in several countries.

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At ICJ Hearing, Global South Countries Call for End to Occupation of Palestine; US and Allies Back Israel
Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

25 Feb 2024 – The ICJ is conducting hearings before giving an opinion on the legal consequences of Israel’s occupation of Palestine. The US and its allies have asked the court to not demand an end to the occupation.

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Global Evils Today (Part 2): Misinformation, Disinformation and Media Propaganda Demystified
Prof Hoosen Vawda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

The system controls and manipulates the media in whatever form it deems necessary. Ethics, morality and subversion are of no consequence, as long as the tenets of the system are propagated and totally subscribed to by the subjugated citizenry.

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Dilemmas around Making a “Safe Space” in Peacebuilding Training (Part Three)
Kyoko Okumoto – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

When conducting peacebuilding training workshops, facilitators/trainers often encounter ethical dilemmas. How do values, ethics and trust interrelate each other in the peacebuilding training settings?

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In Memory of Prof. Johan V. Galtung
Raïs Neza Boneza – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

A friend, a father, a mentor to many,
His wisdom transcended, like a beacon, so plenty.
As the founding father of Peace studies,
He nurtured minds, spreading love and unity.

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The Mongol Eurasian Empire 1206−1405: The Greatest Continental State in World’s History
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

History remembers the Mongols as a pastoral nomadic people from Central Asia who made a significant impression on the world’s history. In essence, the Mongol territorial occupation was of a scope and range never equaled.

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Grand Delusions
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

20 Feb 2024 – This year’s Munich Security Conference was predictably all about the imaginary danger that Russians intend to proceed westward into Europe as soon as they finish in Ukraine.

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When Things Fall Apart: Tibetan Buddhist Nun and Teacher Pema Chödrön on Transformation through Difficult Times
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

In every life, there comes a time when we are razed to the bone of our resilience by losses beyond our control — lacerations of the heart that feel barely bearable, that leave us bereft of solid ground. What then?

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In Memory of Johan Galtung: An Inspiration for Fundamental Peace and Happytalism
Luis Gallardo - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

20 Feb 2024 – Johan Galtung, often hailed as the father of Peace Studies, left behind a rich legacy that continues to inspire and guide those committed to understanding and fostering peace worldwide.

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Passing Away of Prof. Johan Galtung
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Feb 2024

Galtung had enriched knowledge with practical solutions which impacted directly upon the lives of ordinary people. In that sense he helped ease the pain and suffering of his fellow human beings. May his soul repose among the righteous.

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