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Israel’s Starvation Policy in Gaza Is Forcing People to Eat Tree Leaves
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
3 Jul 2024 – The state of hunger in Gaza is growing. Its long-term health effects are starting to show.
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Excel at Any Cost
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
Most people would want their children to be the best — to excel — be it in studies, sports, music or politics. In academics, if a parent is a scientist, doctor or an engineer, they usually want their child also to follow their profession.
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A Flawed Peace Conference Offers a Radical Proposal: Hope
Haggai Matar | +972 Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
4 Jul 2024 – In a context of fear, hatred, and violence, an Israeli-Palestinian gathering that seemed detached from reality actually represented something revolutionary.
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The System of Elections and Political Parties in the USA
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
1 Jul 2024 – In the USA, elections are organized on a regular basis for President, Congress (the House of Representatives and the Senate), and state and local government offices. In practice, …
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Gaza ‘Split in Two’ as Civilians, Humanitarians Reset Lives, Aid Efforts
UN News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
4 Jul 2024 – The Gaza Strip is virtually “split in two”, with blockades not only restricting the movement of displaced people seeking shelter, but also aid workers trying to assist civilians in desperate need, a UN relief official said yesterday.
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Zionist Terrorists Must Not Have any Control over Palestine, Einstein’s Letters Resurface
Ummid – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
One of the greatest scientists of all time, Einstein is one of the most prominent Jews the world knows. He was opposed to establishing Israel as a separate Jewish state and spotted the flaws and fault lines in 1946 at the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on the Palestinian issue. Einstein said the differences between Jews and Arabs were artificially created by the British.
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The Neck and the Sword
Prof. Rashid Khalidi interviewed by Tariq Ali | New Left Review - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
Rashid Khalidi talks to Tariq Ali about the history of the Palestinian national movement, its fraught relations with neighbouring Arab regimes, the realities of the US-run ‘peace process’, Israel’s grip on the Biden Administration and the strategic calculations – or miscalculations – of Hamas.
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Prof. Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
Religion can be hard, and soft and gentle. Any religion is a tissue with hard and soft strands, where the fundamentalists are playing on the hard. Religare sounds fine. But how?
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God Bless Anglo America
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jul 2024
Joke? No Joke!!
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AI Commentary on an Envisaged Synthesis Dialogue
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
1 Jul 2024 – On the Occasion of the Proposed Summit of the Summits and Its Possible Enhancement by AI – The early web version of the program to be held in Hakone, Japan, Sep 2024, invites critical commentary in an exercise appropriate to the times.
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Really Think about What It Means That the US President Has Dementia
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
28 Jun 2024 – It’s very revealing how everybody’s focusing on what Biden’s dementia-addled debate performance says about his ability to win re-election instead of on the fact that the current, sitting president of the United States has dementia.
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BlackRock: No Compromise with Evil
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
BlackRock has extensive investments in companies closely allied to Israel’s arms industry. It has a 7.4% stake in Lockheed Martin, a defence contractor that has played a critical role in arming the Israeli military.
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Stories of Survival and Suffering: Inside Gaza’s Al-Aqsa Hospital
Reem A. Hamadaqa | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
28 Jun 2024 – Reem Hamadaqa spent 96 days in Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza recovering from an Israeli attack that killed the rest of her family. Here are the stories of women and children she met while she was there.
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Modi’s Moscow Mission: What the Indian PM’s Visit to Russia Signals to the West
Kanwal Sibal | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
28 Jun 2024 – The prime minister’s prompt visit to Russia after re-election sends an important message: New Delhi is committed to boost relations with its time-tested partner despite Western pressures.
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The Jews in Palestine
Mahatma Gandhi | The Harijan – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
26 Nov 1938 – “And now a word to the Jews in Palestine. I have no doubt that they are going about it in the wrong way. The Palestine of the Biblical conception is not a geographical tract. It is in their hearts. But if they must look to the Palestine of geography as their national home, it is wrong to enter it under the shadow of the British gun. A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb. They can settle in Palestine only by the goodwill of the Arabs. They should seek to convert the Arab heart.”
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Children Starving, Parents Helpless as Famine Consumes Northern Gaza
Ibrahim Mohammad | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – Famine: With aid blocked and stores empty of basic goods, Palestinian children are being hospitalized with malnutrition and acute anemia.
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Assange Released from Prison after Agreeing to Plead Guilty to Espionage Act Violation
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
24 Jun 2024 – The plea bargain allows the Wikileaks founder to return to Australia after a court date in the Mariana Islands.
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Finally, an Answer to a Mystery Surrounding These 1,000-Year-Old Trees
Tom Page | CNN - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
24 Jun 2024 – For millions of years, mighty baobabs have been standing sentry on three different landmasses, posing each other an existential question: Which came first?
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In the Material World, the Search for the Spiritual World
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
26 Jun 2024 – Many are fed up with material goods and the consumerism of our culture. As a counterpoint, I want to place spiritual goods in the dramatic, dangerous and hopeful context in which humanity currently finds itself, especially the humiliated and offended Global South.
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French Far Right Wins the First Round of the Snap Parliamentary Elections
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
30 Jun 2024 – Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Grouping (RN) party has won the first round of the French legislative elections, being in a position to achieve an absolute majority in the second round and appoint the Prime Minister of France.
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Did the West Provoke the Ukraine War? Sorry, That Question Has Been Cancelled
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
26 Jun 2024 – Is it possible for an entire ‘mainstream’ media system–every newspaper, website, TV channel–to completely suppress one side of a crucial argument without anyone expressing outrage, or even noticing? Consider the following.
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Russian Health Minister Reveals Cancer Vaccine Progress
RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
9 Jun 2024 – Russian researchers are finalizing trials on a vaccine against cancer, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko revealed yesterday. The results of preclinical trials should be ready by the end of the year, he said.
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A Month Traveling in China
Stansfield Smith | Orinoco Tribune/Resumen - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – My Chinese-speaking wife and I recently traveled to nine different cities and towns in China over the course of a month, our fourth trip since 2005. Of our most significant impressions of China…
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A Call for Retraction: The Recent American Psychologist Article on Antisemitism
Roy Eidelson – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Jun 2024 – It is disappointing and distressing to see that the American Psychologist has published an article titled “The American Psychological Association and Antisemitism: Toward Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.” In my view, the article should be retracted, and I will explain why.
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Palestine – Israel
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
30 Jun 2024 – Like many Jews, I am in presumed disagreement with fellow Jews on current events. I say “presumed” because I imagine that some of us could reach common ground if true and deep dialogue was not automatically suppressed.
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Genocide on Gaza: Hunger ‘Worse Than Bombings’ for Starving Palestinians–Mostly Children
Lubna Masarwa and Rayhan Uddin | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Jun 2024 – Food is scarce, spoilt and often non-existent in besieged enclave, leaving people dizzy and weak.
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Julian Assange Arrives in Australia Back from UK Prison
9 News Australia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
26 Jun 2024 – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange had an emotional reunion with his wife Stella and his father as he disembarks from the plane in Australia welcomed by an applauding crowd after more than five years of wrongful captivity at the Belmarsh maximum security prison in England.
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Why Is NATO Expanding Its Nuclear Force?
Stephen Bryen | TFF Transnational Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
Is Washington Extending the Nuclear Umbrella to Ukraine?
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Richard E. Rubenstein – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
Zionism as Ethnic Chauvinism – When the smoke clears in Gaza, the only people not “run over” are the owners and managers of the U.S. military-industrial complex. They will be counting their money, running for reelection, and planning the next war. And that will be no accident.
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The End of the Biggest Press Freedom Case of the Century
Kevin Gosztola | The Dissenter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Jun 2024 – A global effort by advocates, campaigners, journalists, organizers, and supporters of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pushed President Joe Biden’s administration to finally free Assange.
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(Italiano) Gli umani si trastullano mentre l’umanità brucia: sarà una morte a breve o schiavitù transumana?
Robert Burrowes | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Giugno 2024 – Confrontati da un attacco ben coordinato e multidimensionale alla nostra umanità – l’identità di Homo Sapiens, la nostra libertà e addirittura la nostra esistenza – la gran parte degli umani si ritrae timorosa; e in tale stato, incapace di resistere.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 1 Jul 2024
Mairead Maguire: Israel’s ‘Genocidal Policies’ Have to Change for Peace in Palestine
Ahmet Gurhan Kartal interviews Mairead Maguire | Anadolu Ajansı - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – ‘You cannot build peace on a genocide,’ says Mairead Maguire, winner of 1976 Nobel Peace Prize and member of the TRANSCEND Network.
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Peace Activism – Gandhi’s Path to Transformative Change
Vijay Mehta – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Jun 2024 – Transformative change through peace activism will involve significant radical changes to our actions and mindset and to voices of people who believe in the propaganda of the right wing lobby for military solutions to live in peace.
→ read full articleAsymmetric Warfare and Its Characteristics
Vladislav B. Sotirovic – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
23 Jun 2024 – At least from the very academic viewpoint, war is a condition of armed conflict between at least two sides (but, in fact, states). Historically, there are several types of warfare:
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Save Ukraine from US Meddling
Jeffrey D. Sachs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – Ukraine can only be saved at the negotiating table, not on the battlefield, but this is not understood by Oleg Dunda, a member of Ukraine’s parliament. He believes that the U.S. will save Ukraine from Russia. The opposite is true. Ukraine actually needs to be saved from the U.S.
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Julian Assange Is Free, but Journalism Remains under Threat
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – Julian Assange is free. After a 14-year ordeal including over five years in Britain’s harsh, maximum security Belmarsh Prison, the founder of WikiLeaks agreed to a deal with the US, pleading guilty to one felony count. His sentence: Time served.
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Dear Child
ChrisHedgesChannel – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Jun 2024 – Written by Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Chris Hedges – The film takes you on a haunting & realistic journey through Gaza today from a child’s perspective imbued with the guilt of a foreign journalist. (Arabic version below)
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China: The Game Is Up
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – Does China deserve more respect? However much Western commentators want to sustain the age of empire, a new multipolar world order has already begun to take root.
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Occupied Palestinian Territory News and Update
OCHA UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
28 Jun 2024 – Hostilities in Gaza and Israel are ongoing, and violence in the West Bank has surged. Millions of Palestinians struggle to live with dignity under Israeli occupation, facing coercive practices and Palestinian political divisions.
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Israel Committed Crime of ‘Extermination’ in Gaza, Says UN Investigation
Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
12 Jun 2024 – Israel is guilty of a committing the crime of “extermination” in Gaza, as well as the crimes of sexual violence, torture, and starvation as a weapon of war, along with other war crimes and crimes against humanity, UN investigators have found.
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Listen Deeply
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Jun 2024 – Listen deeply to the screaming mother sand the whirring of the drones. Listen deeply to the news man’s lies and the crashing of the bulldozers. Listen deeply to the tanks and missiles as they are rolled into position. Listen deeply to the dying fish and the fruit bats dropping out of trees…
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US House Votes to Bar State Department from Citing Gazan Casualties from Health Ministry
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – If passed into law, US diplomats would be unable to discuss casualty figures from Palestinian sources that are generally considered credible.
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Israeli Defense Minister Vows to Return Lebanon to ‘Stone Age’
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – The White House reversed course and now says a ceasefire in Lebanon cannot be contingent on a deal in Gaza. It tries to avert a major war in the Middle East but is not making progress.
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‘More Horrific Than Abu Ghraib’: Lawyer Recounts Visit to Israeli Detention Center
Baker Zoubi | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – At Sde Teiman, Khaled Mahajneh found a detained journalist unrecognizable as he described the facility’s violent and inhumane conditions.
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(Português) No Mundo Material, a Busca do Mundo Espiritual
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
25 Jun 2024 – Muitos estão fartos de bens materiais e do consumismo de nossa cultura. Quero situar o tema dos bens espirituais no contexto dramático, perigoso e esperançador, em que se encontra atualmente a humanidade, especialmente, a humanidade humilhada e ofendida que vive no Sul Global.
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Debate Forces Corporate Media to Admit Biden’s Impairment
Glenn Greenwald - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
29 Jun 2024 – … after Months of Lies
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The Impending Collapse of the U.S. Empire
Chris Hedges | Declassified UK – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
18 Jun 2024 – The world as we know it is run by an exclusive class of U.S. racketeers who operate with virtually unlimited weapons and money, Matt Kennard’s book reveals.
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Assange Agreed to Destroy Unpublished Classified Material
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – As part of his plea deal with the United States, Julian Assange agreed to order the destruction of any unpublished U.S. material in WikiLeaks possession.
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The Landmark Ruling against Chiquita Exposes the Failure of Voluntary “Corporate Social Responsibility”
Manpreet Kaur Kalra and Anna Canning | In These Times – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
20 Jun 2024 – Chiquita’s financing of a Colombian paramilitary group, although claiming to be a “responsible corporate citizen,” shows the need for robust civil society institutions. Chiquita inspired the derogatory label, Banana Republic.
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Why Did the Ukraine Peace Summit Fail?
Leonid Ragozin | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
23 Jun 2024 – The Global South is not buying the Ukrainian claim to colonial victimhood, and has grown more suspicious of US client states after Gaza.
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Ansar Allah Are Not Working with Al-Shabaab – Abdiwahab Sheikh Abdisamad
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
26 Jun 2024 – US and EU forces have been unable to defeat Ansar Allah and now the US is floating a story that they’re working with Al Shabaab.
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Stand Up for Palestine (Music Video of the Week)
Roger Waters, Yusuf Cat Stevens, Lowkey | Double Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
21 Jun 2024 – Join legendary music legends Roger Waters (Pink Floyd), Yusuf Cat Stevens and iconic rapper Lowkey plus special guests for a one-off concert in aid of peace, freedom and justice for Palestine.
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Meanwhile, in Wall Street…
Other Words - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
… the Oppressed Minority Reacts
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Is Israel Committing Genocide in Gaza? Case Study
Alene Bouranova | Boston University Today - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
5 Jun 2024 – New Report from BU School of Law’s International Human Rights Clinic Lays Out Case – The report comes from researchers at the University Network for Human Rights, a consortium of human right centers.
→ read full articleWorking Men
Dr. Ravi P. Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
There are all sorts of workers who can be seen working in various jobs in Delhi — capital of India.
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The AI Bubble: Artificial Intelligence = Deficient Technology
Karsten Riise | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
24 Jun 2024 – The CEO Sam Altman from OpenAI travels the World to ask for $7 trillion for investment into AI and related technologies, including new chip factories, humongous datacenters, land, and even nuclear power to run AI’s insatiable appetite for energy. Yes, $7 trillion; more than US federal budget.
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If Gaza Opened Your Eyes to the Empire’s Depravity, Make Sure They Stay Open Forever
Caitlin Johnstone - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
24 Jun 2024 – Please please please don’t let Gaza be a one-off in terms of your opposition to the imperial machine. Keep your eyes fiercely trained on its actions after this is over, and help bring as much attention to its crimes as possible.
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New Evidence US Blocked Ukraine-Russia Peace Deal, and a New Ukrainian Excuse for Walking Away
Aaron Maté – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – Insider accounts and leaked documents show that Ukraine and Russia were close to a peace deal in April 2022, until “alarmed” US officials intervened.
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Between Mathematics and the Miraculous: The Stunning Pendulum Drawings of Swiss Healer and Artist Emma Kunz
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
As a schoolchild, she had delighted in using a pendulum to make drawings in her exercise books, but it was not until midlife that she found in this process a portal to a larger world of ideas. In 1938, using a silver pendulum with a jade end, she believed was guided by energy fields, she began making large-scale drawings.
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Chaiwat Satha-Anand (25 Jan 1955 – 27 Jun 2024)
Prof. Anoop Swarup | Centre for Global Nonkilling – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
27 Jun 2024 – It is with a heavy heart that I share the sad passing away today morning of my friend, our visionary nonkilling peace leader and CGNK Vice Chair, Dr Chaiwat Satha-Anand.
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War$ R U.S.
Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space - TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2024
All said.
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Ten Holocaust Survivors Condemn Israel’s Gaza Genocide
Open Letter | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
22 Jun 2024 – Below is a letter signed by ten Holocaust survivors condemning the genocide in Gaza and the misuse of antisemitism accusations by politicians. “Using the Holocaust to justify genocide and repress student protest is a complete insult to the Holocaust’s memory.”
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Memorable Configuration of Psychosocial “Vitamins”, “Amino Acids” and “Minerals”
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
With increasing concern for health globally, exemplified by the new WHO International Treaty on Pandemic Prevention, Preparedness and Response (2024), there is a case for exploring insights by the basic dietary elements vital to biological well-being.
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‘They’ve Done It Again’: Israeli Strikes Kill Dozens in Tents Near Rafah
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
21 Jun 2024 – The IDF today yet again shelled tents of displaced Palestinians near Rafah in the Gaza Strip, killing at least 25 and wounding another 50. U.S. President Joe Biden “must stop sending weapons to Israel,” said one critic. “This is egregious.”
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(Italiano) Diritti umani come discorso oltre 60 anni dopo
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
I diritti umani, incorporate nella costituzione francese del 1789 e riformulati come Dichiarazione Universale, sono un’importante conquista, prossima a una costituzione mondiale, pur non costituendo diritto internazionale, ma lo sono le Convenzioni – civil-politiche, economico-social-culturali del 16 dicembre 1966.
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‘Occupied’ Palestine: Jerusalem Annexed, Gaza Genocide, West Bank Apartheid
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 – The UN has lacked the ability or political will to implement its own recommendations in compliance with international humanitarian law. That which is humanly necessary seems politically impossible; the result is a moral scandal of global significance and a human tragedy by unspeakable and persistent criminality.
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Prof. John Mearsheimer: Bad Times for Israel/Ukraine/US
Judge Napolitano Interviews John Mearsheimer – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024
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“The Nationalism of Hate Is a Partner of Corporate Neoliberalism”
Pablo Castaño and Adrià Rodríguez interview Vandana Shiva | Revista Contexto - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 – CTXT meets Shiva in Barcelona, where she is attending the Fira Literal de Barcelona, a meeting of critical publishers. The Indian activist and intellectual was the star of a conversation with Yayo Herrero to an audience of around 700 people.
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How Corporations Are Fueling Geopolitical Tensions and Global Conflicts in the 21st Century
John P. Ruehl | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024 – Multinational corporations with global reach are increasingly getting entangled in conflicts and geopolitical rivalries by supporting multiple sides. As the U.S.-led global order faces challenges, their influence as transnational actors will only increase.
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Humanity Imperiled: The Path to Disaster
Noam Chomsky | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
23 Jun 2024 – It’s not that there are no alternatives. The alternatives just aren’t being taken. That’s dangerous. So if you ask what the world is going to look like, it’s not a pretty picture. Unless people do something about it. We always can.
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The Story Behind Dylan Thomas’ “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” and the Poet’s Own Stirring Reading of His Masterpiece
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
Written in 1947, Thomas’s masterpiece was published for the first time 1951. In the fall of the following year he drank himself into a coma while on a reading and lecture tour in North America.
→ read full article‘This Is a Sharp Time’ – Israel’s ‘Day of Joy’
Media Lens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 – No-one saw more clearly than Pilger that the West’s use of ultra-violence to impose its brutal, zero-sum version of ‘international order’ is now completely out in the open. Even the blurred obfuscations of the state-corporate media lens are no longer able to hide the reality of who ‘we’ are.
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Is Shell’s Exit from Nigeria a Front to Dodge Legal Responsibilities?
Andy Rowell and James Marriott | openDemocracy - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
6 Jun 2024 – Nigerian activists believe Shell’s apparent end to its 87-year operation in the country is to avoid legal responsibilities while holding onto the profitable side of the business. The oil giant is selling its Niger Delta subsidiary – but lending the new owners the money for the purchase.
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Small Steps to Russia-Ukraine Conflict Negotiations
René Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 – On the eve of the Summit in Switzerland, President Putin spoke with Russian diplomats and officials in Moscow and set out his conditions for a ceasefire and a political settlement. This meeting was the first of this style since Nov 2021, indicating the importance of what he had to say.
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RIP Donald Sutherland (17 Jul 1935 – 20 Jun 2024): Hollywood Legend Dead at 88
Eileen Jones | Jacobin - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
21 Jun 2024 – There are some actors you can’t help loving. Donald Sutherland was definitely one. He projected warmth, intelligence and menace on the big screen but wasn’t just a brilliant actor — he was a man of the Left who never abandoned those values.
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(Português) Do caos planetário atual é possível uma nova ordem?
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
17 Jun 2024 – A crise sistêmica e generalizada dá prenúncios apocalípticos que vêm sob o nome do antropoceno (o ser humano é o grande ameaçador da vida), do necroceno (morte massiva de espécies), e do piroceno (os grandes incêndios em várias regiões da Terra).
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Mainstream Media Doing Mainstream Media Things
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
12 Jun 2024 – Official Lies and Narratives
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Why Academic Scholarship on Israel and Palestine Threatens Western Elites
Joseph Massad | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024 – No institution in the liberal West is safe from pro-Israel repression, especially universities whose knowledge production has dismantled the official consensus. The gap is most apparent in the US but also in the UK and France.
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The United States Is the Main Obstacle to Peace in Palestine
Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
17 Jun 2024 – While enabling Israel’s annexation of territory and shielding it from accountability, the U.S. has guarded its role as a supposed mediator, preventing the UN and other countries from acting to enforce international law.
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93 Countries Back ICC as Israel Faces Charges of War Crimes in Gaza
Jon Queally | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – A joint statement calls on “all States to ensure full co-operation with the Court for it to carry out its important mandate of ensuring equal justice for all victims of genocide, war crimes, [and] crimes against humanity.”
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The Decline of the West–The G7 “War Summit”
Manlio Dinucci | Global Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
The idyllic staging with which this Summit was presented cannot hide the fact that it is a war summit. The USA signed a 10-year military pact with Ukraine, and the G7 granted a $50 billion loan to help it buy more weapons, a loan that will be repaid using interest accrued on $300 billion in Russian assets deposited in European banks and frozen.
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Palestine: Moral Test of Our Time
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
23 Jun 2024 – Why Palestine matters: The most important moral test of our time.
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Why Does the US Government Borrows when It Can Print?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the first seven months of FY 2024, net interest on the US federal debt reached $514 billion, exceeding spending on both national defense ($498 billion) and Medicare ($465 billion). The interest tab also exceeded all the money spent on veterans, education, and transportation combined.
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Netanyahu’s False Flag Is a Copy/Paste of the 1962 Operation Northwoods of Pentagon against Cuba
Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
“Casualty Lists Would Cause a Helpful Wave of Indignation”
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Upside Down World: Elections
Unknown - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
The Embarrassing 2024 US Empire Debate
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Israel Is a Core Pillar of U.S. Dominance
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – Over the last eight months, Israel’s genocide has killed tens of thousands of Palestinians and reduced most of Gaza to rubble. In the face of all this horror, many of us are asking ourselves: How could the U.S. government continue to support this?
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In Our Make-Believe Politics, the Strings Pulled by the Super-Rich Are All Too Visible
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – Biden wanders offstage or walks like a geriatric robot. Yet we are meant to believe he’s carefully navigating us through the nuclear tripwires of the West’s serial wars. The elites may be just out of view, but the strings they pull are all too visible. Time to cut ourselves loose.
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Full Text of Russia-North Korea Strategic Agreement
The Intel Drop – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 – Full translation of the DPRK-Russia Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership signed by Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un in the state visit of the Russian president to North Korea.
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US Air Force Engineer Resigns: Dissent against Gaza War Slowly Spreads within Military
Prem Thakker | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024 – “Utterly Dismayed–I don’t want to be working on something that can turn around and be used to slaughter innocent people.”
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teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
20 Jun 2024 – Today, experts from the UN warned that corporations selling arms and ammunition to the Zionist state may become complicit in violations of human rights and international law. They should stop transfers of war materiel “even if they are executed under existing export licenses”.
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The US List of Countries Allegedly Sponsors of Terrorism: Another Imperialistic Scam
Alfred de Zayas | CounterPunch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the US State Department’s toolkit, unilateral coercive measures (UCMs) are used to blackmail, bully and intimidate States that do not readily accept US hegemony.
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Pakistan in Search of New Future
Mahboob A. Khawaja – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
21 Jun 2024 – Evil is evil if not stopped, it becomes a habit then a tradition, so is the trajectory of military coups, if not stopped and reformed then one coup is an enticement to another coup.
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Israeli Occupation Launches Deadly Attacks on UNRWA Headquarters in Gaza
teleSUR - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
23 Jun 2024 – At least five Palestinians were killed and seven others injured after Israel bombed the headquarters of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinians in the Near East in Gaza, as confirmed by the Zionist army and Palestinian media.
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Israel’s Actions in Gaza ‘Intentional Attack on Civilians’: UN Inquiry
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – New report says Israeli military and Palestinian groups committed war crimes and rights abuses since October 7.
→ read full articleHumans Fiddle as Humanity Burns: Will It Be Near-term Death or Transhuman Slavery?
Robert J. Burrowes, Ph.D. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
Confronted by a multidimensional, highly coordinated attack on our humanity – our identity as Homo Sapiens, our freedom and even our existence – most humans retreat in fear. And, in this state, people are incapable of resisting.
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Five Decades On, Cambodia Is Taking Ownership of Its Troubled Past
Peter Maguire | The Diplomat - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
19 Jun 2024 – In the mid-1970s, Pol Pot’s black-clad armies turned the country into a byword for man-made horror. Now the country is moving on – in its own fashion.
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Blinken’s Lies about Hamas Rejecting a Ceasefire Reveal the Biden Administration’s True Intentions
Mitchell Plitnick | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
15 Jun 2024 – The Biden administration is playing a shell game with the Gaza ceasefire that aims to trick the Democratic base into thinking meaningful action is taking place to end fighting while still allowing Israel to continue its genocidal campaign.
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Three Lessons I Learned on My Visit to Cuba
Amanda Yee | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
18 Jun 2024 – The Cuban revolution offers key lessons for progressive people in the United States about how to organize society in a way that favors the majority, and not an elite few.
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Tutto Passa – A Tribute to Napoli (Music Video of the Week)
Coldplay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2024
22 May 2024 – From the new Coldplay album, Moon Music, to be released in October.
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