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Think Twice…
Maung Zarni - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
No Comment…
→ read full articleThink Cosmically, Act Globally, Eat Locally…
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Apr 2025
A unifying story calls for something above all individual humans, something out there, and in here; like life itself, human life, humanity as such, the net of human relations, the god(s) of our faiths. It cannot be I-me-my-mine, that is egocentrism.
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(Italiano) Impero USA: declino progressivo e caduta inevitabile (Parte 1)
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
Gli Imperi hanno profili differenti. L’Impero USA ha una configurazione completa, articolata in una asserzione di un pianificatore del Pentagono: “Il ruolo di fatto delle Forze Armate degli Stati Uniti sarà di mantenere il mondo al sicuro per la nostra economia e aperto al nostro assalto culturale. A tali fini, faremo un discreto numero di uccisioni”.
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AI’s $4.8 Trillion Future: UN Warns of Widening Digital Divide without Urgent Action
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025 – Artificial Intelligence is to become a $4.8 trillion global market by 2033 – roughly the size of Germany’s economy – but unless urgent action is taken, its benefits may remain in the hands of a privileged few, a new UN report warns.
→ read full articleTwo Empires Falling – But How?
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
The significance of the Rosenstrasse nonviolence in the heart of Berlin in the middle of the war is neglected, just like Obama neglected the role of nonviolence in ending both colonialism and the cold war in his Nobel Peace Prize speech, probably the most belligerent ever given.
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Earthquake-Hit, War-Devastated Myanmar Needs a Lasting Humanitarian Ceasefire and the Establishment of a Myanmar Fund
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
3 Apr 2025 – TRANSCEND member Dr Maung Zarni calls for the establishment of a Myanmar Earthquake Relief Fund out of the $1 billion of Myanmar assets frozen by then Pres. Joe Biden in response to the Feb 2021 coup.
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A Landmark Forum for AI Governance in Security and Defence
Jessica Abowitz and Yasmin Afina | UNIDIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2025
14 Mar 2025 – As AI becomes integrated into the military, governance must adapt. UNIDIR’s Conference on AI, Security and Ethics convened nearly 500 experts to discuss AI development and deployment in security and defence.
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Mineral Deal Gives the US Total Control over Ukraine’s Future
TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
29 Mar 2025 – Imagine Russia or China had suggested a deal with this content and these intentions, depriving Ukraine of its sovereignty.
→ read full articleOn the Unavoidable, Ongoing Decline–and Fall–of the US Empire
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Mar 2025
Empires have different profiles. The US Empire has a configuration articulated by a Pentagon planner: “The de facto role of the US Armed Forces will be to keep the world safe for our economy and open to our cultural assault. To those ends, we will do a fair amount of killing”. Direct violence to protect structural violence legitimized by cultural violence.
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The “BRICS Sovereigns” vs the “Globalist Oligarchy”
Nicholas Jones | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
20 Feb 2025 – The state of the world has cause for optimism with the arrival of new and old actors on the global stage who are capable of changing the present into a shared future for humanity bringing about more economic prosperity by eradicating major conflicts and poverty on earth.
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DOGE Plays Hardball in U.S. Institute of Peace Takeover
Karen DeYoung and Derek Hawkins | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2025
The Department of Government Efficiency took over the U.S. Institute of Peace on Monday [17 Mar]. Its president was removed from the headquarters with the assistance of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, the FBI and D.C. police.
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The Realpolitik of Transhumanism
Cynthia Chung | Through a Glass Darkly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
3 Mar 2025 – A Cyborg Bohemian Rhapsody
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Putin Is No Hitler
Craig Murray | Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
16 Mar 2025 – The economies of Western Europe are being realigned onto a war footing, led by the utterly transformed European Union, whose leaders are now channeling an atavistic hereditary hatred of Russia.
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‘Haiti’s Survival Is at Stake,’ Says UN Expert, Warning of Worsening Crisis
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
11 Mar 2025 – Haiti is in free fall. Gangs are tightening their grip on the capital, violence is spreading, and “suffering permeates all social strata” in a nation teetering on the brink, according to the UN human rights office’s designated expert on the country, William O’Neill.
→ read full articleEmerging Powers – and Retiring Powers
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2025
In the name of justice and symmetry any focus on what is emerging invites a focus on the opposite: “demerging”, vanishing, retiring powers. There is not that much space at the top, in the limelight.
→ read full articlePerfide Albion
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2025
The focus is on the United Kingdom, or England, or simply Albion, known for its perfidy–Lord Palmerston’s famous “No permanent friends, no permanent enemies; permanent interests.”
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With US Backing, Israel Has Already Set in Motion De Facto Annexation of Lands in the West Bank
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
27 Feb 2025 – The de facto annexation by ethnic cleansing is the direction in which Israel is moving not only in Gaza but also in the West Bank, after 57-years of its savage occupation of Palestine.
→ read full articleIslamism, Christianism, Judeaism
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2025
US empire christianism is fighting not only for the economic-political-military-cultural empire, but also for God’s rule on earth via USA, a country under God, invoking His support. And at the root of it all is Cana’an, Zion, Israel; one land for all the chosen ones, bent on defending itself by all means, nuclear included.
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Dialogue with 2024 Right Livelihood Awardee Issa Amro on Palestine/Israel
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
Hebron’s Palestinians Resist Israel’s Evil Occupation, Violent Settlers, Daily Humiliations – “Israel is the only apartheid in the Middle East, defending its occupation (not its existence),” said the 45-year-old Issa Amro, an engineer and creative nonviolence resister in the Old City of Hebron.
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80 Years after Auschwitz: Milk the Holocaust while Ignoring Nakba, the Israeli Genocide
Maung Zarni | TRT World – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Feb 2025
3 Feb 2025 – Zionists are unleashing the same horrors on Palestinians that the Nazis once heaped on the Jewish people.
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(Norwegian-Norsk) Hva kommer etter USAs imperium?
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
En nøkkelhypotese i The fall of the US empire – and then what? er at etterfølgersystemet til det amerikanske imperiet verken vil være et hegemoni drevet av en stor aktør som Kina eller EU, eller globalisering drevet av transnasjonale selskaper, men en verden av regioner med regionale valutaer.
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The Evolution of the Militarized Data Broker
Mark Goodwin | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
16 Jan 2025 – Mythologized as created to champion human freedom, the internet and many of its companies were birthed out of the national security apparatus of the USA. What appeared as a guiding light towards free speech and financial freedom is Uncle Sam’s boot making its next step.
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Tribute to Tapan Bose (8 Jun 1946 – 30 Jan 2025): Documentary Filmmaker, Rights & Peace Activist, Writer and Public Intellectual
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
Despite his fame, impactful and life-long activism, and standing among activists, members of the South Asian intelligentsia and state functionaries, Tapan was such a grounded and down-to-earth person. He mentored younger generations of activists and rights defenders across South Asia.
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War in Sudan: Nearly One Million People Forcibly Displaced to Chad
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
29 Jan 2025 – Since war broke out in Sudan, one million people fled into Chad. Nine out of ten are women and children and many have endured terrible acts of violence including torture, rape and sexual slavery.
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How Trump Can Turn Back the Doomsday Clock
Ivana Nikolić Hughes and Peter Kuznick | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2025
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has reset the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock 26 times since its debut in 1947, most recently in 2025 when it moved from 90 seconds to 89 seconds to midnight.
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(Italiano) Civiltà come modo di vivere
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
Sei civiltà definiscono 15 muri, religiosamente-filosoficamente ed economicamente-politicamente, come modelli di sviluppo. Lo scontro principale è l’Occidente contro il resto. Colonialismo, imperialismo. La soluzione: vincere, dominare. Ci sono altri modi: compromesso, trascendenza, nuove civiltà.
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Military Expenditures as a Percentage of GDP: A 100% Indefensible and Stupid Idea
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
– that everybody seems to love.
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Black Poet-Scholar El Jones Reads Her Poetry of Resisters’ Solidarity at the Ramallah Cultural Palace, West Bank
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jan 2025
21 Jan 2025 – For Palestinians, “history” began in November 1917, not 7 October 2023, as the White Supremacist genocidal ruling classes and cultural and intellectual elite of the West prefer.
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Norman Finkelstein on the Gaza Ceasefire Agreement
Prof. Norman Finkelstein | Community Church of Boston - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2025
18 Jan 2025 – Prof. Norman Finkelstein Talks about the Genocide in Gaza
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(Italiano) 1421 – 1434
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Nel 1421 i cinesi viaggiarono nelle Americhe. Arrivarono, videro, non conquistarono, molti rimasero. A differenza dell’Occidente, nessun impero, nessun tentacolo succhiante. Inoltre, a differenza dell’Occidente, impararono e conservarono molto di ciò che avevano imparato. Il centro del mondo ora si sposta verso la Cina.
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(Italiano) I tre temi scottanti nucleari
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
3 Gennaio 2025 – I tre temi sono disarmo-proliferazione, uso militare e uso teologico delle armi nucleari. Tutti piuttosto intrattabili.
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(Italiano) Famiglia Scuola Lavoro: bullismo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
24 Dicembre 2024 – I tre pilastri delle nostre società, la Famiglia che passa figli ragionevolmente socializzati alle Scuole, che a loro volta passano studenti ragionevolmente istruiti al Lavoro, che a sua volta passa cittadini inutili alla pattumiera detta Pensionamento – questi pilastri sono carichi di violenza.
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Which Is the Best Winner?
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
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The Syria Carve-Up Creates a de-Facto Israel-Turkey Border Ensuring a Broader ME War
Mike Whitney | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 – One Plan To Guide Them All: “…..The dissolution of Syria and Iraq… into ethnically or religiously unique areas… is Israel’s primary target… while the dissolution of their military power serves as the primary target. Syria will fall apart in accordance with its ethnic and religious structure.”
→ read full articleWhat’s Next for Youth Engagement in Disarmament?
Robin Geiss and Melissa Nyoni | UNIDIR – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
In the lead up to the Summit of the Future, more than 1,500 youth attended the Action Days. Young leaders from all over the world made recommendations, which were presented to the Secretary-General and Assistant Secretary-General for youth affairs.
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‘Famine Conditions Are Spreading’ as Sudan’s Crisis Worsens: UN Security Council
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
6 Jan 2025 -Human suffering in Sudan has reached devastating levels, with over 11.5 million people internally displaced and 3.2 million seeking refuge in neighbouring countries.
→ read full articleCivilization as a Way of Life
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jan 2025
Six civilizations define 15 walls, religiously-philosophically and economically-politically, as development models. The major clash being the West against the Rest. Colonialism, imperialism. The solution: winning, dominating. There are other ways: compromise, transcendence, new civilizations.
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“What’s Wrong with Rights?” The West and Its Cherry-Picking of Universal Human Rights
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – An Interview with Amnesty International’s Jack Healey, “Mr. Human Rights” In the Cold War Era
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World Renowned Scholar of Education Michael Apple on Fifty Years of Scholarship-Activism
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
5 Jan 2025 – A member of Jewish Voice for Peace and a Ukrainian Jewish American, the UW-Madison sociologist condemns Israel’s Genocide in Palestine.
→ read full article1421 – 1434
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
In 1421 the Chinese traveled to the Americas. They came, saw, did not conquer, many stayed. Unlike the West no empire, no sucking tentacles. Also unlike the West they learnt, and preserved much of it. The center of the world now moves toward China.
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Powerful 5-Min Speech
Arundhati Roy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
5 Dec 2024 – Arundhati Roy delivers a passionate critique of the oppression faced by Palestinians: historical context and ongoing violence from Israel’s occupation.
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“What’s Wrong with Rights?” The West and Its Cherry-Picking of Universal Human Rights
Maung Zarni | FORSEA - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2025
1 Jan 2025 – An Interview with Amnesty International’s Jack Healey, “Mr. Human Rights” In the Cold War Era
→ read full articleCan 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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Federico Mayor Zaragoza (27 Jan 1934 – 19 Dec 2024): A Tribute
UNESCO - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
A Legacy for Peace and Education: The former director of UNESCO (1987-1999), passed away at the age of 90. RIP
→ read full articleCan 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.
→ read full articleThe Three Nuclear Issues
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Dec 2024
The three issues are disarmament-proliferation, the military use, and the theological use of nuclear arms. All rather untractable.
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(Italiano) Cina: Yin/Yang
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
Discorso alla Beijing Foreign Studies University, settembre 2010. Altri hanno molto da imparare, come la Cina dagli altri, per un beneficio reciproco e paritario: l’essenza della pace positiva.
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Death of a Nation: Black Flags, Massacres, Land Grabs as Vultures Feed on the Carcass of Syria
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
11 Dec 2024 – The standard modus operandi of the Hegemon is always Divide and Rule. Will the collective West rise to defend the remaining Syrian Christians when the Black Flags come to purge them?
→ read full articleFamily-School-Work Bullying
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
The three pillars of our societies, the Family delivering children reasonably socialized to School, which in turn delivers students reasonably educated to Work, which in turn delivers people to the garbage heap for useless citizens called Retirement, are fraught with violence.
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‘Sickening Normalization’ of Suffering, amid Attacks on People and Aid Convoys in Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
13 Dec 2024 – Ongoing military operations by Israeli forces in Gaza continue to cause devastation for civilians trying to escape the fighting, with mounting casualties and a critical lack of humanitarian aid for the desperate population.
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‘Dying Hungry and in Pain’: an Increasingly Likely Outcome in Gaza
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
19 Dec 2024 – The head of the UN aid coordination office in Gaza, Georgios Petropoulos, issued a harrowing update on the dire situation in the enclave today, describing it as “the most dangerous place on earth right now.”
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Gaza: Nearly One Million Palestinians Face Winter without Shelter
Norwegian Refugee Council | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2024
16 Dec 2024 — Thousands of families in Gaza are struggling as the winter season brings heavy rains, causing floods in their tents and exposing them to the cold and wind.
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Gaza: ‘Devastation Is Absolutely Staggering’, Says Senior WFP Official
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
12 Dec 2024 – Describing the level of devastation across the Gaza Strip as “absolutely staggering”, the representative of the World Food Programme said that civilians are desperate for lifesaving aid and there’s a growing risk of widespread famine.
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In Memoriam: Anthony J. Marsella, Ph.D. (13 Dec 1947 – 2 Nov 2024)
University of Hawaii News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
TRANSCEND and University of Hawaii’s Trailblazing Cultural Psychology Leader
→ read full articleYin/Yang: China
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2024
Talk at the Beijing Foreign Studies University, Sep 2010. Others have much to learn, as China from others, for mutual and equal benefit–the essence of positive peace.
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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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China Bans Export of Critical Minerals to US as Trade Tensions Escalate
Amy Lv and Tony Munroe | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
3 Dec 2024 – China today banned exports to the United States of the critical minerals gallium, germanium and antimony that have widespread military applications, escalating trade tensions the day after Washington’s latest crackdown on China’s chip sector.
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(Italiano) A lode del non-allineamento
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Dec 2024
4 Dicembre 2024 – Questo editoriale è stato originariamente pubblicato il 22 marzo 2010 – #105. Lo riproponiamo per la sua rilevanza in quanto allusione a USA/NATO come terrorismo di stato da guerra nucleare per eccellenza.
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(Italiano) Riscaldamento globale: 12 approcci
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Si fa un gran parlare di riscaldamento globale, giustamente. Ma servono idee concrete per passare dalle parole ai fatti, magari con preoccupazioni che fan capolino in fondo alla mente:
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ChatGPT Turns 2: Evolution of Groundbreaking AI Chatbot
Muhammed Yasin Güngör | Anadolu Agency - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
Launched on 30 Nov 2022, ChatGPT reached 1 million users within five days and surpassed 100 million in just two months. On Oct 2024 it had 200 million weekly active users worldwide. ChatGPT Plus has around 10 million paying subscribers.
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Understanding ICC’s Arrest Warrant Application for Myanmar Military Leader: Anti-Genocide Perspective
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
28 Nov 2024 – Without the willing executioners and cheerleaders, no state is capable of large-scale crimes against humanity of which genocide is one, from the Nazis to Rwanda, to Indonesia’s CIA-facilitated, to Israel’s in Gaza. Myanmar’s genocide of Rohingya is no exception.
→ read full articleIn Praise of Nonalignment
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
This Editorial was originally published on 22 Mar 2010 – #105. We are reposting for its significance as USA/NATO hint of a nuclear war–State terrorism par excellence.
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United States Vetoes Gaza Ceasefire Resolution at UN Security Council
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
20 Nov 2024 – The USA today vetoed a UNSC draft resolution that demanded an immediate and unconditional ceasefire in the Gaza Strip.
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The U.S. National Security State Is Here to Make AI Even Less Transparent and Accountable
Matthew Guarigliae | Electronic Frontier Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
White House: The national security state is expected to take up a leadership position by poaching great minds from academia and the private sector and leveraging private AI models for US national security objectives.
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Kenya High Court Strips Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation of Its Legal Immunities and Tax Exemptions
Paul Anthony Taylor | Dr. Rath Health Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Dec 2024
29 Nov 2024 – The High Court of Kenya struck a blow against the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, suspending controversial legal immunities and privileges awarded to it. The ruling raises important questions about the power and privileges wielded by super-wealthy philanthrocapitalists operating in developing countries.
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What Is the BRICS Group and Why Is It Expanding?
Mariel Ferragamo | Council on Foreign Relations - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
18 Oct 2024 – As BRICS grows in both membership and global sway, its expansion comes with divisions among its members old and new on how to set the stage for a revised world order.
→ read full articleTranshumanist Technocracy Continues
Ana Maria Mihalcea, MD/PhD | Humanity United Now -– TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
16 Nov 2024 – Conversation with Peter Koenig. Despite a leadership change, the technocratic transhumanist agenda continues. Geopolitics is not what is seems; there is more collaboration among world powers to continue digital money, digital enslavement and the rise of AI.
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Let’s Join Our Hands to Speed Up the Demise of the US-led Imperialist World
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2024
20 Nov 2024 – I can’t tell my 15-year-old that their future will be more peaceful and the law and institutions will offer them protection, let alone Palestinian or Myanmar or Sudanese teenagers who don’t know whether they will live or get blown up before their next meal.
→ read full articleGlobal Warming: 12 Approaches
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
There is much talk about global warming, and rightly so. But we need concrete ideas about moving from talk to action, possibly with two concerns lurking in the back of the mind:
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The UN Agency for Palestine Refugees in “Darkest Moment” of Its 75-Year History
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – The UN Agency for Palestine Refugees, UNRWA, is enduring its ‘darkest moment’ as Israeli laws threaten operations, Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini said today, pointing to legislative, operational and security challenges.
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Where Is the US Evil Empire Heading Now?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
7 Nov 2024 – I keep the faith. This Evil Empire too has its own expiry date. Take the long view, if you feel dejected by the Second Coming of Trump. Genocide Joe and thick-headed, unprincipled Kamala Harris, who went to the same elementary school as my daughter, are also not good for humanity. Ask the Palestinians.
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Exploring the Journey of Child Soldiers to Adulthood
Marija Šarić, Siniša Sajević and Michaelina Jakala | Coventry University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – Coming of Age During and After the 1992-1995 War in Bosnia-Herzegovina – The journey of child soldiers after war is fraught with different challenges.
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(Italiano) Criminalizzare la guerra!
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
The Fifth Commandment, Thou shalt not kill, was for the in-group only. But today we are ever more one big in-group. Using states to kill makes the killers outlaws. Criminals. Stop it.
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The End of the US Empire, the Denial of the US, and the Rise of China and BRICS
Richard Wolff | Community Church of Boston – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
12 Nov 2024 – The political crises facing the United States at home and abroad hinge on this question: How will the US manage its decline?
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Trump’s Partner for Peace in Middle East
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
13 Nov 2024 – Yesterday, Donald Trump announced that he picked successful real estate executive Steven Witkoff to be his special envoy to the Middle East. Witkoff is a New Yorker, Jewish, and a personal friend of Trump.
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(Italiano) Pace e sicurezza: donne e uomini
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2024
12 Novembre 2024 – Il mio approccio a questo argomento è basato sull’esperienza cinquantennale di come donne e uomini si rapportano con temi di pace e sicurezza nella politica formale e informale, nella mediazione e formazione alla mediazione, nelle operazioni di peace-keeping e peace-building, e negli incontri.
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Myanmar Looks more Like ASEAN’s Syria Than a Democracy in Waiting
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
6 Nov 2024 – Myanmar’s armed conflicts are no longer a binary tale of Good vs. Evil. The Tatmadaw remains the largest armed organization and commits atrocities. The anti-junta adversaries fighting “the Common Enemy” also perpetrate atrocities against localized “enemy” ethnic populations.
→ read full articlePeace and Security: Women and Men
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
My approach to this topic is based on 50 years experience with how women and men relate to peace and security issues in formal and informal politics, in mediation and mediation training, in peace-keeping and peace-building operations, and in meetings.
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Hoax?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024
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Everybody Wants to Join BRICS
Eve Ottenberg | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2024
8 Nov 2024 – The world is changing, but Washington remains frozen and indeed left behind in its post-1991 delusion as the unipolar global godfather.
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UN General Assembly Renews Long-Standing Call for End to US Embargo against Cuba
Vibhu Mishra | UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
30 Oct 2024 – The UNGA today overwhelmingly urged the USA to end its economic, commercial, and financial embargo on Cuba, a demand it makes since 1992.
(In favor: 187; Against: 2 [USA, Israel]; Abstention: 1 [Moldova])
Displacement in Sudan Crosses 11 million as Devastating Crisis Reaches New Heights: IOM Chief
Amy Pope | UN International Organization for Migration - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
29 Oct 2024 – The situation here in Sudan is catastrophic. Hunger, disease and sexual violence are rampant. This is an underreported conflict and we must pay it more attention. Millions are suffering and there is the possibility of igniting regional instability from the Sahel to the Horn of Africa to the Red Sea.
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The BRICS Summit in Kazan: A Manifesto for a Rational World Order
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
31 Oct 2024 – There is hope in the air, a certain optimism that we can gradually change the paradigm, marshal the world disorder, move away from bloc-mentality, abandon confrontational politics, phase out dependence on the US-dollar,…
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Israeli Knesset’s Banning of UNRWA Will Deepen Palestinian Suffering
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
28 Oct 2024 – Today’s vote by the Israeli Knesset banning the UN Relief and Works Agency contradicts principles of the UN Charter, violates Israel’s obligations under international law, and sets a dangerous precedent. The UN chief pledged he would take the issue to the General Assembly.
→ read full articleCriminalize War!
Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2024
Wars get ever worse as measured by the percentage of non-combatant, civilian casualties; from about 10 percent in WWI to 90 percent in recent wars. They dare refer to crimes as “unintended consequences”, “collateral damage.” Using states to kill makes the killers outlaws. Criminals. Stop it.
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Israeli Army ‘Deliberately Demolished’ Watchtower, Fence at UN Peacekeeping Site in Southern Lebanon
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
20 Oct 2024 – The UN peacekeeping force in Lebanon informed that an Israeli army bulldozer demolished an observation tower and the perimeter fence of a UN position earlier today in the southern part of the country.
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Che Guevara, Nelson Mandela, Yahya Sinwar: Freedom Fighters
Steven Sahiounie | Mideast Discourse - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
In 1959, Che visited Gaza and transformed the Zionist colonization into a global struggle against colonialism. Mandela said, “But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians. “
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2024 Nobel Peace Winner Has Compared Hiroshima-Nagasaki to Gaza–We Must Listen to Him
Maung Zarni | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024 – The now elderly child survivor of the first atomic bomb over Hiroshima and his Hiroshima-Gaza parallel must be taken seriously. His words must be seized by the world of conscience to end Israel’s mass extermination in Gaza.
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Why Brazil Opposes Venezuela Joining BRICS
Orinoco Tribune - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
The Brazilian government’s advisor for international affairs, Celso Amorim, announced on 21 Oct that Brazil would seek to prevent Venezuela from joining BRICS. The instruction came from Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
→ read full articleGaza: Polio Could Spread Unless Vaccines Reach Genocide-Torn North
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
24 Oct 2024 – An immediate ceasefire is needed in Gaza as the enclave faces the additional threat of polio spreading, if the final phase of a vaccination campaign continues to face delays in reaching the besieged north, where the “nightmare is intensifying”, top UN officials stressed today.
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Economic Costs of the Israeli Occupation for the Palestinian People
UN General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
10 Sep 2024 – Report prepared by the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the economic costs of the Israeli occupation for the Palestinian people: the economic impact of the Israeli military operation in Gaza from Oct 2023 to May 2024.
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Call for Input for the Report of the Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territory to the Human Rights Council
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Oct 2024
Report by the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967 to the Human Rights Council 58th session. Deadline: 30 Nov 2024
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(Italiano) L’Islam e l’Occidente
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Ci siamo già passati, molte volte. Per l’Occidente, invadere le terre islamiche era parte di un massiccio esercizio noto come colonialismo.
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Over 1.8 million in Gaza Face Extreme Hunger
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
17 Oct 2024 – More than 1.8 million Palestinians in Gaza are experiencing “extremely critical” levels of hunger, with 70 per cent of crop fields destroyed by the Israeli genocidal military offensive, a UN food security assessment released today has revealed.
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The Death of Old Burma or Myanmar as a Burmese Nation-State and the Birth of ASEAN’s Syria
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
19 Oct 2024 – Myanmar’s post-independence history since 1948 is a history of conflicts among different ethnic and ideological groupings. Ethnic majority Bama or Burmese political elite, civilian and military, with colonial mindset towards the others, bear the greatest share of responsibility.
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“Israel Cannot Build Peace on Genocide”–Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate
Maung Zarni interviews Mairead Maguire | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2024
Mairead Maguire (80) has a message for Israel and western leaders who finance, arm and protect the worst Zionist government in Israel’s history, from its founding in May 1948.
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‘No Propaganda on Earth Can Hide the Wound That Is Palestine:’ Arundhati Roy’s PEN Pinter Prize Acceptance Speech
Arundhati Roy | The Wire – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
11 Oct 2024 – ‘I refuse to play the condemnation game. Let me make myself clear. I do not tell oppressed people how to resist their oppression or who their allies should be.’
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Gaza: Dramatic Escalation of Humanitarian Catastrophe with Forced Mass Displacement of Civilians
Norwegian Refugee Council - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
9 Oct 2024 – Aid Organisations Warning: Israel’s new displacement orders in northern Gaza threaten to force civilians into ever-shrinking areas and endanger aid operations.
→ read full articlePalestinians’ Liberation Struggle Needs Solidarity: Cambodians Respond with Love & Art
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
5 Oct 2024 – “Cambodians have spoken against the hypocrisy of Western governments preaching human rights, international law and the rule-based world order while condoning, aiding and abetting genocide in Cambodia in 1975-1979 and again today in Palestine.”
→ read full articleUN Commission Finds War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in Israeli Attacks on Gaza Health Facilities and Treatment of Detainees, Hostages
UN Human Rights High Commissioner – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Oct 2024
10 Oct 2024 – Israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities.
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