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Peace Journalism Training for Journalists in Afghanistan
Jake Lynch and Matt Freear | MDPI-Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
18 Mar 2024 – A Contribution to the ‘Preventing Violent Extremism-PVE Project’ in the New Afghanistan
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Polling Begins in India: 969 million Voters to Participate in 7 Phases of the National Elections
Nava J. Thakuria | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
19 Apr 2024 – The biggest electoral show on Earth begins in India as polling starts at 7 am today. Voters will exercise their franchise through the electronic voting machines to elect 543 members to the 18th Lok Sabha for the next five years.
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Preventing Armageddon in the 21st Century
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Political Therapy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
Some conflicts – whether between spouses, labor and management, or nations – seem to escalate out of control. They follow a malignant course toward outcomes that nobody wants. People who are caught up in such conflict usually find ample justification for blaming the other party.
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Armenian Christians under Siege by Israel
Jeremy Loffredo | The Grayzone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – A 4th century community of Armenian Christians face displacement by a shadowy Israeli corporation called Xana Capital and the violent settlers it uses as hired muscle.
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44% of All Palestinians Killed by Israel Since October 7 Are Children
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – Over 14,000 children have been killed and nearly 17,000 others have lost at least one or both of their parents in the Israeli bombings or ground offensives in the last six months in Gaza.
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Gaza Is Unlike Anything I’ve Ever Seen
Arwa Damon | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
9 Apr 2024 – “Nothing goes in and out of Gaza without Israel’s approval. That includes aid, and that includes people. The zone needs to be flooded not only with aid but also with humanitarian workers.”
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Harmonizing Dissonance via a Rubik’s Cube Framework
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
15 Apr 2024 – Experimental Guide to Navigation of Hypersensitive Global Polarization – There is no lack of reference to global division and polarization: Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, Vaccination-Antivax. Each of these now constrains discourse — even to the point of dividing families, friends, communities, or collegial groups.
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‘Come Out, You Animals’: How the Massacre at Al-Shifa Hospital Happened
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – Human heads eaten by crows, unidentified and decomposing body parts, and hundreds of corpses piled up and buried in mass graves are all that remained of the massacre at al-Shifa Hospital where the Israeli army shot patients in their beds and doctors who refused to abandon the sick, executing hundreds of civilians.
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The Speech That I Could Not Deliver Because German Police Burst to Disband Our Palestine Congress
Yanis Varoufakis | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
12 Apr 2024 – Judge for yourselves the kind of society Germany is becoming when its police bans the following words (1930s style):
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(Italiano) Dopo Impero USA: un mondo di regioni?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Nonviolenza, sofisticazione, mondo, e norme di traffico domestiche/nazionali anziché interminabile interventismo per qualunque scopo. Possa l’attuale miscela asiatica di antica saggezza ed energia giovanile ispirare un mondo saturo di pessimismo e paura.
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Weaponising Underwear: Genocide with a Semi-Pornographic Twist
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
12 Apr 2024 – Let’s pretend for a moment that Hamas militants from Gaza were posing for social media with lingerie from Israeli women who fled their homes or were killed. Imagine the moral outrage that would ensue, entailing racist and self-righteous allegations of Arab perverseness, the barbaric sexism of Islam, and the tendencies of sexually repressed Muslims.
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Israel’s Message: ‘Don’t Feed the Palestinians or You Will Die’
Andrew Mitrovica | Aljazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
7 Apr 2024 – The invading Israeli army ought to have erected signs throughout Gaza that read: “Don’t feed the Palestinians: Punishable by death.” The killing of the seven aid workers in Gaza is a direct consequence of Israel’s brutal ‘rules of engagement’.
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(Italiano) Gesù, Giuda e Che Guevara
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Aprile 2024 – C’è un esercizio detto Civiltà Occidentale, e una narrazione drammatica al centro di tale esercizio con due personaggi nei ruoli chiave, Gesù e Giuda. Il periodo pasquale attuale è qui per rammentarci del dramma.
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In Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
10 Apr 2024 – Judi Rever risked her life to write the true story of the Rwandan Genocide.
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There Is No Grudge That Cannot Be Resolved: China’s Xi Jinping to Former Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
“[There is] [n]o problem that cannot be talked through. And there are no forces that can separate us,” Xi Jinping said in momentous Beijing meeting.
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Five Years at Belmarsh: A Chronicle of Julian Assange’s Imprisonment
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – Calls for Assange’s freedom are renewed as the WikiLeaks founder marks five years in Belmarsh prison.
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Violating Diplomatic Missions
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – The Premises of the Diplomatic Missions Shall Be Inviolable – From Israel’s bombing of Iran’s embassy in Damascus to Ecuador’s raid on the Mexican embassy in Quito, leaders feel emboldened by the impunity granted by the Global North to disregard diplomatic norms and respect.
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Israel’s UN Ambassador Holds Up Picture of Hitler with Grand Mufti at Session on Palestinian Statehood
Bradford Betz | Fox News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – Erdan tries to impress upon diplomats at the UNSC that Muslims were connected with Hitler, saying the Palestinians goal of eradicating Jews predated the UN or the creation of the state of Israel. (See debunking Addendum by TMS Editor)
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World Economic Forum’s Great Reset: The Great Dispossession. The Loss of Property Rights in Financial Assets. “Own Nothing Be Happy”
Paul Craig Roberts | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – Klaus Schwab tells us that in the Great Reset that the WEF is preparing for us “you will own nothing and you will be happy.” Well, we already own nothing. Our bank deposits and stocks and bonds, in the event the depository institution gets into trouble, belong to the their creditors, not to us. We are not happy!
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For Roma, Justice Truly Is Blind
Jonathan Lee | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
10 Apr 2024 – Europe’s courts fail to deliver justice to Roma abused by police even presented with overwhelming video evidence.
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The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth
Andreas Malm | Verso Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
8 Apr 2024 – The last six months of genocide in Gaza have ushered in a new phase in a long history of colonization and extraction that reaches back to the nineteenth century. A true understanding of the present crisis requires a longue durée analysis of Palestine’s subjugation to fossil empire.
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Ukraine May Have to Compromise with Russia, Says NATO Chief Stoltenberg
Ahmed Adel | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Ukraine may ultimately have to agree to some kind of compromise with Russia to end the conflict, NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in an interview with the BBC published on April 6, adding that it is up to the West to ensure Kiev achieves an “acceptable result.”
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A.I. Systems That Manipulate the Human Nervous System, Thoughts, Emotions and Perceptions Should Be Banned Outright
Michel Chossudovsky and Mojmir Babacek | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
2 Apr 2024 – They Derogate Fundamental Human Rights – Open Letter to the European Parliament
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The Dark Origins of the Davos’ Great Reset
F. William Engdahl | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
12 Apr 2024 – Important to understand is that there is not one single new or original idea in Klaus Schwab’s so-called Great Reset agenda for the world. Nor is his Fourth Industrial Revolution agenda his or his claim to having invented the notion of Stakeholder Capitalism a product of Schwab.
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Microsoft Pitched OpenAI’s DALL-E as Battlefield Tool for U.S. Military
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
10 Apr 2024 – Microsoft last year proposed using OpenAI’s image generation tool, DALL-E, to help the DOD build software for military operations months after OpenAI ended its prohibition against military work. Contradiction: OpenAI describes its mission as developing AI that can benefit all of humanity.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Up to 14 Apr 2024:
33,686 + killed* and at least 76,309 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
462+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
*Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much, much higher when accounting for those presumed dead under the over 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris. Ralph Nader: Over 200.000 Palestinians killed to date.
World Meteorological Organization Bright Red Alert
Robert Hunziker | Pressenza – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
7 Apr 2024 – The inherent antagonism between neoliberalism’s free market dictates of “follow the money” versus the planet’s complex ecosystems that don’t need money is addressed in Global Social Challenges. What’s more important for life: Profits or Mother Nature?
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Praxis Peace Institute – Mondragon Seminar and Tour
Georgia Kelly | Praxis Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Praxis Peace Institute offers a 5-day seminar at the Mondragón Cooperatives in Spain! It includes tours to key areas in the Basque region: Bilbao, San Sebastian, Vitoria (Basque capital), and visits to Mondragón businesses, a Research & Development center, the Basque Culinary Arts Center, the Basque Parliament where we have a special session, a day at Mondragón University, and much more!
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Extractivism in the Anthropocene
John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
April 2024 – The idea of extractivism is a key concept in understanding our current planetary crisis. The accelerated extraction of Earth’s resources since the mid-twentieth century threatens not only the natural world, but the means of life for the entire planet.
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West Votes Against Rest of World, Supporting Illegal Sanctions in UN Human Rights Council
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
6 Apr 2024 – In the United Nations Human Rights Council, the West voted against the rest of the world, supporting illegal sanctions (known as unilateral coercive measures).
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Extractivism
Dio Cramer | Science for the People - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
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How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for AI
Cade Metz, et al. | The New York Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
11 Apr 2024 – OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems.
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Regressive Populism and the Resilience Imperative: Evading Global Challenges
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
This is the foreword I wrote to a recent book on the rise of ultra-nationalist populism around the world by the distinguished British author and historian, Deepak Tripathi. What is depicted in the book is emblematic of the populist and inter-governmental myopia that has become a menacing characteristic of the global setting.
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All the News That Fits
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2024
Same old, same old…
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Dahiya Doctrine: Justifying Disproportionate Warfare—A Prelude to Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 Apr 2024 – This essay originated from my responses to questions from a journalist preparing an article on the Dahiya Doctrine. It led me to consider the relevance of the doctrine and link it to the events in Gaza, the Hannibal Directive, antisemitism, and genocide.
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Arakan Army Leadership Displays Deep-Seated Genocidal Racism Towards Rohingya in Myanmar
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
2 Apr 2024 – The extreme racism that Rakhine nationalists display–-their sense of racial and religious superiority vis-à-vis Rakhine state’s largest minority population of Rohingya Muslims, their dogged attempts to deny and destroy Rohingya identity–appears to be their Achilles’ heel.
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Imagining a Future Union of Artificial Intelligences (UAI)
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
By Reframing the History of a Union of International Associations (UIA)
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Eric Nshimiye, Another Rwandan American Facing Trial in Another Rwandan Witch Hunt
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024 – The totalitarian state of Rwanda is guilty of many forms of transnational repression, including the lawfare exemplified in the case of Eric Nshimiye.
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Likely Widening of Middle East War
Jim Albertini | Malu 'Aina Center for Non-violent Education & Action – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
4 Apr 2024 – Is Israel’s Bibi Netanyahu moving toward “The Sampson Option”–the use of nuclear weapons (and possible WW III)–as a desperate attempt to avoid his removal as head of state and imprisonment for corruption? The protests against him inside Israel keep growing.
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Israeli Soldiers Film Themselves Mocking Destruction of Palestine
Al Jazeera | TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Israeli soldiers have been filming themselves mocking Palestinians and posting it on social media as they continue their offensive in Gaza.
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Niger to US: Pack Up Your Forever War
Nick Turse | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024 – The latest in a series of stalemates, fiascos, or outright defeats in Washington’s Global War of Terror.
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CIA Front Companies Play Crucial Role in Arms Pipeline to Ukraine and Profit from the Human Misery it Generates
CIAGate | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 Apr 2024 – Below is a series that CIAGate published on the CIA’s involvement in the arms pipeline to Ukraine through a shadowy CIA company that supplies drones to Kyiv.
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How Israel Weaponizes Water
Vijay Prashad | Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
4 Apr 2024 – Thousands Have Lived without Love, but Not One without Water – Israel is using water as a weapon in its war of aggression against Palestinians by denying access and destroying infrastructure.
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By the Dawn’s Early Light: On the Fall of the Francis Scott Key Bridge
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
7 Apr 2024 – The Baltimore bridge that collapsed on 26 March was named for Francis Scott Key, who wrote the lyrics to the US national anthem “The Star-Spangled Banner” in 1814. His inspiration was the British bombardment of Fort McHenry in the critical port of Baltimore during the War of 1812. The British had just burned the U.S. Capitol and the White House.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
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Doctor at Israeli Detention Camp for Gazans Blows Whistle on War Crimes
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
4 Apr 2024 – A doctor at the Sde Teiman Israeli detention center for Palestinians is sounding the alarm about torture in what human rights defenders call a concentration camp. “Just this week, two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries, which unfortunately is a routine event.”
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(Français) Écoutez les Femmes
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 avril 2024 – Comme nous le montre l’exemple de Search for Common Ground, la paix ne peut venir que du dialogue et de l’instauration d’un climat de confiance entre les deux parties au conflit. C’est un processus long et difficile, mais il n’y a pas d’autre solution.
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Carl Jung’s Legacy and the Countercultural Courage to Reclaim the Human in a Posthuman Age
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
Between Psyche and Cyborg – The technosphere now overlays the ecosphere and we cannot help but inhale its post-industrial gases. Virtuality has begun to displace reality, making the ground of human existence hard to discern… in today’s technocratic cult of posthumanism.
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Chosen People or People Who Choose?
Michael A. Cremo (Drutakarmā dāsa) | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
The rich theology of the Vedic literature can end speculative attempts to resolve the apparently contradictory concepts of predestination and free will.
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‘Lavender’: The AI Machine Directing Israel’s Bombing Spree in Gaza
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties.
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‘Obscene’: Biden Quietly OKs More 2,000-Pound Bombs, Warplanes for Israel
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
29 Mar 2024 – “Arming a war criminal makes you a war criminal,” one critic admonished the U.S. president.
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Listen to the Women
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 Apr 2024 – As ‘Search for Common Ground’ shows us by example, peace can only come from dialogue and trust-building between the two sides of the conflict. This is a long and difficult process, but there is no other way.
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Operation Amazon
Jon Lee Anderson | The New Yorker – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
3 Apr 2024 – As miners ravage Yanomami lands, combat-trained environmentalists work to root them out.
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Western Countries in ‘Peace Talks’ without Russia
Lucas Leiroz de Almeida | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
1 Apr 2024 – The “peace negotiations” about Ukraine continue to take place without Russian involvement. According to German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, diplomatic initiatives are taking place to end the conflict but Moscow continues to be excluded, which obviously invalidates the negotiations.
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The Age of Extinction: ‘Ecocide in Gaza’
Kaamil Ahmed, Damien Gayle and Aseel Mousa | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
29 Mar 2024 – Does Scale of Environmental Destruction Amount to a War Crime? Satellite analysis shows farms devastated and nearly half of the territory’s trees razed. Alongside air and water pollution, Israel’s onslaught on Gaza’s ecosystems has made the area unlivable.
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Israel Is Wielding Starvation as a Weapon of War
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
4 Apr 2024 – Israel is imposing a famine on the more than two million Palestinians trapped in Gaza, one million of whom are children. Twenty-seven children have already starved to death since Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant declared: “There will be no electricity, no food, no fuel, everything is closed… We are fighting human animals.”
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Biden’s Warning to Netanyahu: Political Maneuver, Not Policy Shift
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Apr 2024
6 Apr 2024 – Critique of Biden’s ‘muscular approach’ to foreign policy, specifically in relation to China, Russia and Israel, at the expense of the peoples of the world, including of the North Americans. Biden is guilty of war-mongering, reluctance to engage in peace diplomacy, and complicity crimes of support given to Israel on its genocide against the civilian population of Gaza.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 175: ICJ Orders Israel to Stop Famine in Gaza as Israel Continues to Raid Hospitals
Qassam Muaddi | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
29 Mar 2024 – The International Court of Justice imposed new provisional measures in South Africa’s case against Israel for its genocide in Gaza, ordering Israel to ensure the entry of food and other supplies in order to stop the spreading famine.
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Just Skin and Bone: The Starving Gaza Children Kept in Incubators
Perkin Amalaraj | Daily Mail - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
UN Human Rights Chief Warns Israel May Be Guilty of War Crime if It Has Cut Off Food Aid
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(Italiano) Ritorno di Gaza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Oltre l’immane tragedia umana in svolgimento nell’atrocità di Gaza, prende forma una domanda: i dirigenti israeliani, politici e militari, hanno perso del tutto il lume della ragione? Un maglio per un mal di denti, quelle punture d’ago di razzi lanciati per rabbia, 8 uccisi – e allora ne uccidono 800?
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Israel Blocks UNRWA’s Food Convoys from Entering Starving North Gaza
Sanjana Karanth | HuffPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
25 Mar 2024 – The agency’s chief accused Israel of intentionally obstructing aid as Palestinians face a starvation crisis created by the military offensive.
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VIP Memo: The French Road to Nuclear War
VIPS Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity | Information Clearing House - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
France could be leading the USA down a path toward a nuclear conflict decidedly not in its interests–or of humanity itself, VIPS warn President Joe Biden.
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When Starvation Is a Weapon, the Harvest Is Shame
Kathy Kelly | The Progressive Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
14 Mar 2024 – As Palestinians die of starvation under occupation, it brings grim echoes of another famine nearly two centuries ago in Ireland.
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The UN Security Council Has Approved a Cease-Fire Resolution for Gaza
Jaclyn Diaz and Michele Kelemen | NPR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
25 Mar 2024 – The UNSC has voted 14-0 in favor of a resolution demanding a cease-fire in Gaza for the rest of Ramadan. The US abstained from the vote, clearing the way for the measure to pass.
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‘Kill Them All’: Inside the Israeli Blockade on Gaza Aid
Jeremy Loffredo | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
On a bus caravan through illegal Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Loffredo films Israeli citizens as they physically block trucks. There, a reservist confesses to an array of war crimes, including blowing up the offices of UN centers dedicated to providing food to the local population.
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The Infinite Hotel Paradox
Jeff Dekofsky | TED-Ed – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
The Infinite Hotel, a thought experiment created by German mathematician David Hilbert, is a hotel with an infinite number of rooms. Easy to comprehend, right? Wrong. Jeff Dekofsky solves some heady lodging issues using Hilbert’s paradox.
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Evil Empire
Chalmers Johnson | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
31 Mar 2024 – Is Imperial Liquidation Possible for the USA? In politics, as in medicine, a cure based on a false diagnosis is almost always worthless, often worsening the condition that is supposed to be healed. The United States, today, suffers from a plethora of public ills.
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Love Anyway
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
You know that the price of life is death, that the price of love is loss, and still you watch the golden afternoon light fall on a face you love, knowing that the light will soon fade, knowing that the loving face too will one day fade to indifference or bone, but you love anyway.
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(Italiano) Un pianeta accogliente: forme di nonviolenza attiva, azioni di contrasto e azioni di sostegno
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
29 Marzo 2024 – L’Associazione ‘A Sud’ è un’organizzazione ecologista indipendente, formata da attiviste e attivisti da vent’anni impegnat* per la giustizia ambientale e climatica, per vivere in un pianeta accogliente.
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Stop the Worsening UNDERCOUNT of Palestinian Casualties in Gaza
Ralph Nader | Defend Democracy Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
From accounts of people on the ground, videos and photographs of deadly episode after episode, a more likely estimate is that at least 200,000 Palestinians must have perished by now and the toll is accelerating by the hour.
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Twenty-Two Years After It Was Created, Guantanamo Bay Prison Remains a Monstrosity
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
19 Mar 2024 – During the 2020 election campaign, Joe Biden followed Barack Obama in promising to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay, which had become an embarrassing symbol of human rights violations, but has actually upgraded it.
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Assange Extradition Delayed: UK High Court Asks US to Offer ‘Assurances’ or Face Limited Appeal
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
26 Mar 2024 – While granting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange a limited appeal against extradition, the US government was encouraged by the UK High Court to submit “assurances” that could prevent further proceedings.
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The CIA Does “Soulful Work”
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
25 Mar 2024 – Back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, a spate of books and articles extolling the word “soul” became the rage in the United States. Soul became the chic word. It popped up everywhere.
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Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
… Life goes on…
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Weaponizing Reality: The Dawn of Neurowarfare
Stavroula Pabst | Unlimited Hangout - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
21 Mar 2024 – Exploring the race to apply emerging neurotechnologies, such as brain-computer interfaces, in times of both war and peace, expanding conflicts into a new domain — the brain — while perhaps forever changing humans’ relationship with machines.
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Israel’s Conscientious Objectors Stand on the Shoulders of Giants
Ariel Gold | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
“Slaughter cannot solve slaughter,” 18-year-old Israeli-American Tal Mitnick said in Dec 2023 before receiving his first 30-day prison sentence for refusing to join Israel’s military.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
Up to 29 Mar 2024:
32,623 + killed* and at least 75,092 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
450+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
*Some rights groups put the death toll number much, much higher when accounting for those presumed dead under the 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris. Ralph Nader: around 200.000 Palestinians killed to date.
Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?
Sam Klug | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2024
27 Mar 2024 – Long decried by liberals and conservatives alike, the Martinican psychiatrist remains one of the most piercing critics of colonialism.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 170: Israel Assaults al-Shifa, Nasser, and al-Amal Hospitals in One Day
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
25 Mar 2024 – Israeli forces ordered Palestinians inside al-Amal Hospital in Khan Younis to leave “naked,” while survivors of the al-Shifa Hospital raid witnessed numerous atrocities committed by the Israeli army. In Jerusalem, Israeli settlers stormed al-Aqsa.
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“Man-Made Hell on Earth”: A Canadian Doctor on His Medical Mission to Gaza
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
23 Mar 2024 – “I saw scenes that were horrific and I never want to see again,” said Yasser Khan, a surgeon from Toronto. Warning: This article contains graphic images.
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Johan Galtung Obituary
Hugh Miall | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
The Norwegian sociologist Johan Galtung, who has died aged 93, was a leading contributor to peace and conflict research. His ideas about positive peace and structural violence have had a global resonance. Now taught in more than 500 universities, the field he helped to establish has become a worldwide endeavour.
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(Italiano) Globalizzare Dio: Religione e pace nelle scienze sociali
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Le letture arcigne portano all’intolleranza o alla tolleranza malmustosa. Quanto mai necessari: rispetto e curiosità; dialogo e reciproco apprendimento. C’è tanta saggezza! La si selezioni! Si estrapoli conciliando! Si vada oltre i confini territoriali di stato e culturali di nazione, e di trascendano quelli mentali gelosamente protetti, fra le discipline e le religioni.
→ read full articleHow Paul Kagame Deliberately Sacrificed the Tutsi
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
20 Mar 2024 – 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of the Rwandan Genocide. Review of “How Paul Kagame Sacrificed the Tutsi,” one of many important books that challenge the prevailing narrative about the events of 1994.
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“Never Again”: Arundhati Roy on Palestine at Delhi Press Club
Arundhati Roy | The Wire - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
8 Mar 2024 – Public meeting held at the New Delhi Press Club to voice opposition to the genocide in Gaza. Arundhati Roy’s statement is titled, “Never Again”.
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An Ugly Comparison
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – I don’t make this comparison lightly. The IDF is conducting a medieval-style siege on Gaza making them go thirsty, starving, and without electricity. The IDF talks about flattening and burning down Gaza – it’s not about Hamas. If you still think the Israeli government is just defending itself, I have a bridge to sell to you.
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The Spiraling Absurdity of Germany’s Pro-Israel Fanaticism
Michael Sappir | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
21 Mar 2024 – As repression of Palestine solidarity penetrates every sector of life, the state’s liberal self-image is fast becoming a tragic story Germans can only tell themselves.
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Real Estate Events to Sell Stolen Palestinian Land Met with Protests Internationally
Global News Service | TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
19 Mar 2024 – “The Great Israeli Real Estate Event” toured the United States and Canada, exhibiting property for sale on stolen Palestinian land. Each event has been met with mass protests by Palestine solidarity activists.
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Gaza and Its Astounding Parallels with 9/11: “A Territory or Country Is Targeted for Previously Established Geostrategic Goals”
Richard Gage | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
17 Mar 2024 – Has the Israeli government betrayed its own people, as well as the Palestinians, with its own “9/11 Moment”?
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US Rejects Russian Ceasefire Proposal for Ukraine
Kyle Anzalone | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
18 Mar 2024 – Russia’s attempt to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine, along the current lines of control, was met with a firm rejection in Washington.
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Remembering a Voice for Peace: Johan Galtung (1930-2024)
Kelly Rae Kraemer | Global Campaign for PEACEducation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Our world lost a giant of peace research. Johan Galtung, “the Father of Peace Studies,” author of more than 170 books and 1,500 scholarly articles about world peace, passed away on 17 Feb 2024, at age 93. Galtung taught at 30 universities on five different continents over the course of his seven-decade career…
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Up to 24 Mar 2024:
32,223+ killed* and at least 74,518 wounded in the Gaza Strip
435+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
* Some rights groups estimate the death toll to be much, much higher when accounting for those presumed dead under the 23 million tonnes of rubble and debris.
Meet the AI-Censored? Naked Capitalism
Matt Taibbi | Racket News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
22 Mar 2024 – The future of AI-powered censorship is here, and the early returns are as error-filled and clumsily destructive as Google’s infamous Gemini rollout, which provides an early, scary test case for mechanized suppression and threats of demonetization.
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What Was Palestine Before the Nakba?
Mohammed El-Kurd | The Nation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
14 Mar 2024 – A stunning photo archive reveals a time before the walls and checkpoints, when Palestine was not defined by its ailments but by its industries and cultures.
→ read full articleGardening as Resistance: Notes on Building Paradise
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
“The gardener digs in another time, without past or future, beginning or end… Here is the Amen beyond the prayer,” Derek Jarman wrote as he grieved his dying friends, faced his own death, and contemplated art, mortality, and resistance.
→ read full articleThe Song of Songs as Indicative of the Pattern That Connects
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Implications for strategic cultivation of global division?
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Johan Galtung on the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Amy Goodman | EnvisionPeaceMuseum - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024), the “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies,” was a Norwegian sociologist and mathematician who taught around the world, helped found many institutions to build peace, and been honored with the Right Livelihood Award among many others. He served on the advisory board of Envision Peace Museum.
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Trump Son-in-Law Jared Kushner Calls for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza to ‘Finish the Job’
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
19 Mar 2024 – Kushner, who served as a key Middle East adviser to Trump, said that Gaza’s “waterfront property could be very valuable” and urged Israel to “clean it up.”
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(Français) Des élections en mal de démocratie ?
Frédéric Thomas | CETRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
4 mars 2024 – La démocratie est souvent réduite aux élections. Mais la croyance en l’efficacité de celles-ci décroit partout dans le monde, à mesure que croît la défiance envers la politique. Et la soif de démocratie effective.
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Armed by Washington, Israel Trashes the Genocide Convention
Priti Gulati Cox and Stan Cox | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
19 Mar 2024 – Stop Treating Gaza like a Natural Disaster
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Blame Game
Unknown | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Mar 2024
No kidding…
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