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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
26 Feb 2024 – Casualties:
29,606+ killed* and at least 69,737 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
380+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
*The death toll number is over 38,000 accounting for those dead under the rubble.
Witnesses to Genocide: Doctors Describe Horrors in Gaza’s Hospitals
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
22 Feb 2024 – As Israel’s assault on the besieged Palestinian territory continues into its fifth month, statistics fail to describe the horror inflicted on the 2.3 million Palestinians trapped there. Gaza’s hospitals have become battlegrounds.
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The Principles of Democracy: A Conceptual Framework for Leveraging Democratic Polarities
Angelina Inesia-Forde | Walden University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
Abstract: The polarities of democracy framework is used to achieve human emancipation by simultaneously managing multiple paradoxes by employing Johnson’s polarity management as the conceptual framework. Although Johnson’s framework may be appropriate for managing other tension-dependent pairs, it is less suitable for managing multiple democratic values when the goal is human emancipation and sustainable democratic social change.
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As Israeli Forces Fire on Starving Palestinians, US again Vetoes UN Cease-Fire Resolution
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
20 Feb 2024 – “We should ask ourselves: How many innocent lives must be sacrificed before the council deems it necessary to call for a cease-fire?” said the Algerian envoy to the UN.
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Republican Joe?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – Meanwhile, in the US of A…
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US Urges UN Court Not to Order Israel Out of Palestinian Lands
Richard Carter, AFP | Digital Journal – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
21 Feb 2024 – The United States told the UN’s top court today that Israel should not be legally forced to withdraw from occupied Palestinian territory without security guarantees.
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Father of Peace Journalism Passes Away, Leaves Powerful Legacy
Steven Youngblood | Peace Journalism Insights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
The peace journalism and peace studies fields lost an intellectual and moral giant on 17 Feb 2024 with the passing of Dr. Johan Galtung at 93 years of age. He is widely credited with being the father of both academic peace studies, including the concepts of positive and negative peace, and peace journalism.
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Congolese Journalist: It’s Time to Stop Negotiating with Rwanda
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
21 Feb 2024 – Rwanda’s M23 militia and Special Forces have been advancing on Goma, the capital city of North Kivu Province in the DRC. I had a Zoom conversation with Congolese journalist Akilimali Saleh, who is based in Goma.
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UN Experts Condemn ‘Credible’ Reports of Executions, Sexual Assault by Israeli Soldiers
Nick Robertson | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
19 Feb 2024 – A group of UN human rights experts denounced the Israeli military today for “credible” allegations of execution and sexual assault against Palestinians in Gaza.
→ read full articleMairead Maguire and Dr. Aisha Jumaan: Gaza, Yemen, and Endless Wars
merchantsofdeath | Rumble - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
18 Feb 2024 – Facilitated by Kathy Kelly – A fascinating dialogue with Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and the Director of the Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation, Dr. Aisha Jumaan.
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I’m an American Doctor Who Went to Gaza: What I Saw Wasn’t War – It Was Annihilation
Dr. Irfan Galaria | Los Angeles Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Feb 2024
16 Feb 2024 – In late January, I left my home in Virginia, where I work as a plastic and reconstructive surgeon, and joined a group of physicians and nurses traveling to Egypt to volunteer in Gaza. I have worked in other war zones. But what I witnessed during the next 10 days in Gaza was not war — it was annihilation.
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Higher Dimensional Reframing of Unity and Memorable Identity
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Unification and Integration Framed Coherently Otherwise
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Genocide Accelerates while Elites Prosper
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – Day 130 of the genocide: Total killed 28,340 (+some 7,000 under the rubble) and injured 67,984. 72% are women and children. Plus thousands dead from lack of food, clean water, medicine and from infectious diseases and cold exposure. Desperate situation for over 2 million people in Gaza strip.
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(Italiano) Spiritualità e lavoro sui conflitti
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
L’Occidente ha respinto la religione nell’illuminismo-modernità-secolarismo, e sta adesso assistendo a una qualche rinascita religiosa. Allora la spiritualità entra come concetto sovrordinato, basato su elementi della maggior parte delle religioni e su valori laici.
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Confront the Principle, Not Episode
Mohammed Elnaiem | Africa Is a Country - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – It is no surprise that even today, Europe only feels guilt about the episode of the Holocaust and not the principle of genocide which made it possible.
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Crocodile Tears over Navalny while Ignoring Assange
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
17 Feb 2024 – If you’re in a country whose government has had a hand in the persecution of Julian Assange, then you can go ahead and shut the fuck up about Navalny.
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Who’s the Real A$$hole?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – As narratives go…
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South Africa Lodges Urgent Complaint with Int’l Court of Justice Over Israel’s Plan to Assault Rafah
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
South Africa lodged an urgent complaint on Monday [12 Feb] at the ICJ against Netanyahu’s plan to attack Rafah, where 1.4 million people, most of them refugees, have been pushed by the Israeli military.
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Pathetic State of Our World
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
18 Feb 2024 – We look around our world that is sinking in a spiral of violence and wonder why we humans cannot learn the way of peace, harmony, and coexistence. What are the main factors that lead to such a situation?
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Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – I spoke to Maurice Carney about the role of China in the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s mining industry.
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Rafah: The Penultimate Step in Israel’s March of Genocide
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
On Sunday [11 Feb], while 100 million Americans watched the Super Bowl, Israel unleashed the next stage in its genocide of Palestinians. Netanyahu ordered soldiers a ground entry into the city of Rafah, on Gaza’s southern border with Egypt, the last refuge for 1.5 million Palestinians displaced by the ongoing Israeli genocide.
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Saving the US from Nuclear Weapons
Ivana Nikolić Hughes | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – Why the United States Should Lead the World on Nuclear Disarmament all the Way to a World Free of Nuclear Weapons
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US Seizes Plane That Iran Sold to Venezuela–Imperialism at Its Best
Maziar Motamedi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
13 Feb 2024 – The US claims Iran violated its sanctions when it sold the jumbo jet to Venezuela.
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Defusing the Derivatives Time Bomb: Some Proposed Solutions
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
16 Feb 2024 – The “protected class” is granted “safe harbor” only because their bets are so risky that to let them fail could crash the economy. But why let them bet at all?
→ read full articleMemorial Prof. Johan Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) RIP
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
19 Feb 2024 – Johan wrote the inaugural TMS editorial on 3 Mar 2008, when our pioneer Solutions-Oriented Peace Journalism website was launched. Thus, TMS’ 16th anniversary will be celebrated exactly two weeks from today. Johan passed away in Oslo, Norway on Sat 17 Feb 2024 at 8 a.m. He was 93. RIP dear friend and mentor.
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EU Foreign Policy Chief to World Leaders: ‘Stop Saying Please’ and Cut Off Arms to Israel
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – “If you believe that too many people are being killed, maybe you should provide less arms in order to prevent so many people being killed,” Josep Borrell said in remarks directed at U.S. President Joe Biden.
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Johan Galtung “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024) performing the famous anti-militaristic ode: Le Déserteur composed by Boris Vian in 1954. Galtung was jailed for six months at age 24 for refusing military service as a conscientious objector, unlawful at the time in Norway. This single event would set in motion a lifetime of groundbreaking peace work (over 170 books written in 60 years, +++). RIP
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The War on Gaza: Public Relations vs. Reality
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – For its victims, war is . . . yes, hell. For the rest of us, war is an abstraction embedded in ignorance, a.k.a., public relations, served up for public consumption. At least that’s the way it’s supposed to be.
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Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Medicine: Case Studies from China and India
Tatiana Bokova | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
14 Feb 2024 – Due to its continuous advancement and extensive utilization, artificial intelligence technology has permeated deeply into all aspects of life, particularly within the realm of medicine, while the prospects for its application continue to broaden. AI has emerged as a powerful tool.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 19 Feb 2024
The Dharma of Mind Transmission: Zen Teachings of Worng-Puc
Sramana Da-Hsiu Cheng-Nien | Sung Dynasty – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
The great Dhyana Master admired the Supreme Mahayana Vehicle and sealed it without words, teaching the transmission of Mind only and no other Dharma whatsoever. He held that both Mind and substance are void and that the interrelationships of phenomena are motionless.
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With Netanyahu Threatening Rafah Invasion, Biden Prepares to Send Israel More Bombs
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
17 Feb 2024 – While pushing its tired narrative about Biden “losing patience,” the White House remains dedicated to Israel’s war on Gaza.
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Scientists Create Artificial Worm Gut That Breaks Down Plastic
Paige Bennett | EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – News of plastic-eating enzymes and insects have been making headlines. Take, for example, fungi that digests plastic in coastal salt marshes, or the greater wax moth caterpillar that can live on polyethylene in its larval stage. However, scientists need to be able to breed them in large numbers.
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Over 30 Countries Queue Up for BRICS Membership
Jai Hamid | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Feb 2024
12 Feb 2024 – This surge in interest reflects a growing disillusionment with traditional economic models and a collective quest for more equitable international relations.
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Netanyahu’s War on Truth
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – Israel’s Ruthless Propaganda Campaign to Dehumanize Palestinians
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Suzanne Hammad on Embedded Palestinian Resistance in Bil’in in West Bank: Rooted in Land and Home
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
6 Feb 2024 – I wanted to share a foreword that I wrote to an exceptional ethnographic study of everyday resistance by residents of the Palestinian village of Bil’in, quite near Ramallah, based on the Suzanne Hammad three years of residence and informed observation.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 12 Feb 2024
At least 28,064 people have been killed and 67,611 wounded in the Gaza Strip*
More than 380 Palestinians have been killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
Citing World Court, Japan Firm Cuts Ties with Israel Arms Maker
Ali Abunimah | Electronic Intifada – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – Itochu Corporation, a major Japanese industrial conglomerate, is cutting ties with Israeli arms maker Elbit, citing the International Court of Justice ruling that Israel may be committing genocide in Gaza. Its aviation division will terminate the partnership by the end of February.
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Friedman’s Vermin Analogies Echo Ugly Pro-Genocide Propaganda
Jim Naureckas | Fair Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
6 Feb 2024 – NYT columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a piece that compared the targets of US bombs to vermin. It’s the sort of metaphor that propagandists have historically used to justify genocide.
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Gaza and the Dilemmas of Genocide Scholars
Prof. Abdelwahab El-Affendi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
3 Feb 2024 – Increasing partisanship in Genocide Studies threatens the field itself, as well as the very act of genocide prevention.
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‘Transported in Cages’ – Shocking Details of How Israel Treats Female Gaza Prisoners
Fayha’ Shalash | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
This is a difficult, but critical read. The collective hardship experienced by Gaza’s female prisoners in Israel is unprecedented even within the tragic history of Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners.
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China Is ‘World’s Sole Manufacturing Superpower’ with 35% of Global Output
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
China’s state-led economic development model and robust industrial policy has transformed it into what an influential European think tank calls “the world’s sole manufacturing superpower”, making up 35% of global gross production – more than the 9 next largest manufacturers combined.
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Full Speed Ahead on the Global Titanic
Norman Solomon | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – Going Along with the Utter Madness of Nuclear Weapons
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Imagine a Falling Empire…
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
“A falling tree makes more noise than a whole forest growing.”
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Four Months of Gaza Onslaught
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
9 Feb 2024 – What is the bottom line after 4 months of onslaught following the initial October 7 Gaza Ghetto Uprising? Where are we?
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Words That Kill: How Western Spin Doctors Dehumanize Select Peoples to Justify War
Chay Bowes | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
6 Feb 2024 – With Israel’s punitive operation against Gaza in its fourth month, it’s impossible not to compare Western outrage regarding other conflicts with the selective morality being applied to Israel. Carefully chosen words and turns of phrase serve as lubricant for US-backed military machines.
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Global Law and Order Via the Earth Constitution and the UN General Assembly
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
8 Feb 2024 – Global law and order and democracy are absent and a glaring problem for the United Nations which too often is sidelined when it counts the most, unable to intervene when it is clearly needed.
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(Italiano) Perché il fascismo sta crescendo? Come possiamo fermarlo?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
5 Febbraio 2024 – Per comprendere perché il fascismo sta crescendo attraverso l’emergere e la crescita dei partiti di estrema destra in tutto il mondo, e soprattutto in Europa, dobbiamo tornare indietro alla fine della Prima guerra mondiale e analizzare il corso turbolento della democrazia liberale da allora.
→ read full articleRed Sea Tensions Increase
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – Tensions increase in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden.
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11,500 Children Have Been Killed in Gaza
Gideon Levy | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
5 Feb 2024 – Horror of This Scale Has No Explanation – No explanation, no justification or excuse could ever cover up this horror. It would be best if Israel’s propaganda machine didn’t even try to.
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The ICJ’s ‘Plausibility Test’ Undermines the Crime of Genocide
Sana Khan | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
7 Feb 2024 – The fact that the court in the Ukraine v. Russia case ordered an immediate cease-fire yet did not impose one in the Gaza conflict in the South Africa v. Israel case presents a quandary.
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NATO, Germany’s Role and the Russia-Ukraine War
Jenny Brömel | University for Peace (UN-Mandated) – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
A Political Historical Analysis
First part: NATO, Germany in NATO and its emergence after WWII; reunification of Germany, today’s NATO, and the European security order.
Second part: Russia’s and Ukraine’s relations with NATO.
Conclusion: Today’s NATO vis-a-vis the Russia-Ukraine war.
The Unexpected
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
9 Feb 2024 – Despite calendars and clocks and all the mental gymnastics we use to control life and time, surprises are at the heart of existence. This may seem like a truism…
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(Italiano) Donne, scienza e visioni del mondo
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
9 Febbraio 2024 – “Le affermazioni scientifiche descrivono il mondo. E nel mondo là fuori ci sono i fatti, fenomeni che esistono indipendentemente da noi che decidiamo di studiarli. Lo scopo della scienza è di conoscere queste cose in sé, cercando di rendersi indipendenti da chi le studia e garantire così l’obiettività dell’impresa scientifica”.
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China Builds as the USA Bombs: This Study Proves It
Alex Lo | South China Morning Post – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024 – On Washington’s telling, Beijing is spreading authoritarianism through producing goods and building infrastructures as the US promotes freedom and democracy by bombing and selling weapons. Remember George Orwell? “War is peace. Ignorance is strength.” Reality is easily turned upside down.
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Spiritual vs Materialist Theories of Science
Matthew Ehret and Marc Solar | Canadian Patriot Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024 – We discuss whether or not modern science allows for a spiritual/psycho-physical substrate guiding the whole, if there is meaning in the universe, and what the “right” way of thinking is.
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The Void
Ben Okri | The New York Review of Books - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
I was talking to a builder
of bridges and asked
how he built the structure
that brings two warring elements
together. This was his answer.
Winners and Losers
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
2 Feb 2024 – Spineless World Justice and Civil Society
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Why Is Fascism Growing? How Can We Stop It?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos | Z – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Feb 2024
28 Jan 2024 – To understand the emergence and growth of far-right parties around the world, and especially in Europe, we need to go back to the end of the First World War and analyze the turbulent course of liberal democracy since then.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 121: Israel Kills More Than 1,000 Palestinians since ICJ Ruling – U.S. Bombs Yemen
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
4 Feb 2024- Israeli forces bomb Rafah, where thousands of Palestinians are displaced in shelters near the Egyptian border, as an Israeli minister wishes to “encourage voluntary emigration” from Gaza. In West Bank, settlers attack Palestinian villages. Casualties: 27,365+ killed and at least 66,630 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
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Emergency London Conference to Stop Genocide in Gaza
Richard Falk | Middle East Eye - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
27 Jan 2024 – Prof. Richard Falk Discusses ICJ Ruling and Implications for Israel
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(Italiano) Il mondo oltre il disordine globale
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Gennaio 2024 – La forza di questo forum è il suo focus sulle civiltà; usiamolo per l’analisi e i rimedi. Le forme più importanti di disordine usano la violenza; la guerra è violenza organizzata dallo stato. Gli stati più bellicosi sono gli Stati Uniti d’America e Israele, entrambi con radici di civiltà.
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For Western Media, Only Israeli Lives Matter
Des Freedman | Declassified UK - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Jan 2024 – Right across the Anglo-American mainstream media, the killing of Palestinians is seen as normal. It’s only Israeli lives that matter.
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‘We Are Dying Slowly:’ Palestinians Are Eating Grass and Drinking Polluted Water as Famine Looms Across Gaza
Fadi Shana and Ibraheem Abu Mustafa | Reuters - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Jan 2024 – Hanadi Gamal Saed El Jamara, 38, says sleep is all that can distract her children from the aching hunger gnawing at their bellies. These days, the mother-of-seven finds herself begging for food on the mud-caked streets of Rafah, in southern Gaza. She tries to feed her kids at least once a day, she says, while tending to her husband, a cancer and diabetes patient.
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After Expelling Palestinian Workers, Israel Turns to the Global South for Labor
Tanupriya Singh | Peoples Dispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
26 Jan 2024 – Israel has thus far signed agreements with Kenya and Malawi to bring in workers to its agricultural sector, which has otherwise relied on Palestinian and Thai migrant labor.
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U.S. Aid to Israel in Four Charts
Jonathan Masters and Will Merrow | Council on Foreign Relations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
23 Jan 2024 – Israel has long been the leading recipient of U.S. foreign aid, including military support. That aid has come under heightened scrutiny amid Israel’s war to eliminate Hamas.
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The Transnational Capitalist Class. The Billionaires, the Trillionaires. “Stake Holder Capitalism” and the New World Order
Rick Thomas | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
21 Jan 2024 – In 2011, the Great British Class Survey was conducted in collaboration with the University of Manchester, the London School of Economics, and the University of York. The British have always been obsessed with class, so it is not surprising that they would attempt something of this nature.
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Israeli Police Repressing Anti-war Protests with ‘Iron Fist,’ Say Activists
Oren Ziv | +972Mag - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
24 Jan 2024 – Since 7 Oct, Israel’s police have systematically banned, restricted, and attacked protests against the army’s assault on Gaza, instilling a sense of fear among Jewish and Palestinian citizens alike.
→ read full article(Italiano) Conflitti armati e catastrofe climatica
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
29 Gennaio 2024 – Due pubblicazioni recenti documentano – o almeno cercano, in parte, di farlo – i danni ambientali provocati da due conflitti armati che in questo periodo richiamano più di altri l’attenzione pubblica.
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Negative and Positive News
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Jan 2024 – 2,269 massacres committed by Israeli occupation army; 33,751 martyrs and missing persons (26,751 arrived in hospitals); 11,500 child martyrs. These are not numbers. These were people with dreams and aspirations and no different than any other area on earth where indigenous people also struggled to stay on their lands.
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ICJ on Gaza: Acting against Israel
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024 – We should not be surprised that Israel has defied the International Court of Justice. It has defied it before. Israel has nothing but contempt for international law. It sees itself as above the law.
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Everything Is Great!
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
USA 2024 – Everybody Happy!!
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Don’t Let Zionists Weaponize Jewish Suffering
Shane Burley | Yes! - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
22 Jan 2024 – By framing Palestinians as Amalek, two things are accomplished. First, those being occupied are positioned not just as enemies, but as inescapable and eternal ones, poisoned at the core and whose anger is, by definition, irrational and without merit. Second, they are diagnosed incurable, so the only treatment possible is eradication.
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Genocide, Sex Extortion, and People Movement
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
28 Jan 2024 – What is the story with UNRWA? If Israel succeeds in liquidating the Palestinian cause, will the whole globe be at risk of a global war that ends humanity? And what does sex extortion and people movement have to do with it?
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(Italiano) Intelligenza artificiale e pace
Antonino Drago | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
La scienza moderna è nata con la rivoluzione copernicana che ha rotto il cosmo chiuso e finito dell’antichità per lanciare la Terra in una corsa infinita in un Universo infinito. Poi la scienza con la tecnologia ha fatto superare ogni limite.
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Turning Zeitoun into Shivat Zion: Israeli Summit Envisions Gaza Resettlement
Oren Ziv | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
30 Jan 2024 – Undeterred by the ICJ, ministers and settler leaders made plans to expel Palestinians and ‘return’ Israelis to Gaza in a “Conference for Israel’s Victory” at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center. Thousands of people danced around the hall singing celebratory songs.
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Tim Ferriss on How He Survived Suicidal Depression and His Tools for Warding Off the Darkness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
Tim Ferris is the amicable, quick-witted, high-energy writer, adventurer, and interviewer devoted to optimizing human performance on physical and mental health. But in addition to nearly dying at birth and growing up with no material luxury, Tim survived a period of suicidal depression that nearly claimed his life
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence –
5 Feb 2024, GAZA and WEST BANK: 27,365+ killed and at least 66,630 wounded in the Gaza Strip. Some rights groups put the death toll at more than 35,000.
State Department Declares “Ethnic Cleansing” in Sudan but Won’t Say the Same about Israel’s War in Gaza
Ryan Grim and Nick Turse | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
4 Feb 2024 – The U.S. risks complicity with Israeli atrocities, experts say.
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Bayer Ordered to Pay $2.25 Billion after Jury Links Herbicide Roundup to Cancer
Frances Vinall | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
27 Jan 2024 – A jury handed down the verdict, including $2 billion in punitive damages, against agrochemical giant Monsanto-Bayer, to a man who developed cancer from the company’s weed killer, Roundup.
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Will a South African Victory Stop the Gaza Genocide?
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
27 Jan 2024 – As much as the ICJ may be dismissed as a collective West farce, the fact is that the ruling explicitly calls for Israel to stop the killing. Let’s cut to the chase.
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Five Variables Defining Our Future
Pepe Escobar | Sputnik – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
25 Jan 2024 – For Germany it was a question of ‘organizing Europe’. The USA must ‘organize’ the world. Face to face with the volcanic eruption of US imperialism. Under some pretext, it will intervene in the clash to maintain its world dominion.
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US Strikes in Iraq and Syria Kill about 40, Including Civilians
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
3 Feb 2024 – A massive US bombing campaign struck scores of targets in Iraq and Syria with over 100 bombs, leaving about 40 people dead, including civilians. President Joe Biden ordered the strikes as tensions in the Middle East are rapidly escalating.
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(Français) La Culture de la Guerre A-t-elle Changé ? Est-Ce Toujours le Monopole de L’état ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
1 février 2024 – Je maintiens la conclusion suivante de mon livre de 2009, « L’histoire de la culture de la guerre », mais il y a eu des changements importants comme je l’expliquerai ci-dessous.
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Has the Culture of War Changed? Is It Still the Monopoly of the State?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
1 Feb 2024 – Will the US empire finish its time without destroying the planet with a nuclear war? Will it be succeeded by a new culture of war based in the Global South and led by China? Or will we be able to reform the UN to be based on ‘We the People’ instead of the nation-states of the world?
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Corporate Coup: Venezuela and the End of US Empire
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
Anya Parampil’s book tells the story of US hybrid warfare on Venezuela and of the tectonic social and economic shifts reshaping the world today.
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Defunding UNRWA Is Worse Than Collective Punishment
Moncef Khane | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Feb 2024
31 Jan 2024 – Cutting funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees at this time means furthering the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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Turkey ex-PM Ahmet Davutoglu | X - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
Watch via X: Prof. Richard Falk, Turkey ex-PM Ahmet Davutoglu, and British MP Jeremy Corbyn – Global Intellectuals of Conscience – 27 Jan 2024
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Why International Law Matters even if Israel Refuses to Comply with ICJ Provisional Measures Ruling
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
17 Jan 2024 – How should we interpret the South Africa allegation that Israel’s military operations in Gaza violate the country’s obligations under the United Nations Genocide Convention and that its actions constitute genocide?
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 114: UN Chief Urges Western Countries to Restore Funding to UNRWA
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
28 Jan 2024 – Casualties:
• 26,422+ killed(*) and at least 65,087 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
• 387+ Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.
• Israel revises its estimated 7 Oct death toll down from 1,400 to 1,147.
• 557 Israeli soldiers killed since 7 Oct, and at least 3,221 injured.
(*) Some rights groups put the death toll number CLOSER TO 32,000 when accounting for those presumed dead.
Neglect of Higher Dimensional Solutions to Territorial Conflicts
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
22 Jan 2024 – Conventional Dependence on “Flat Earth” Thinking Ignoring Insights of Mathematics and Physics
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This Holocaust Remembrance Day, ‘Never Again’ Is Now
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
27 Jan 2024 – Today, Gaza is a shell of its former self. Entire neighborhoods have been wiped from the face of the Earth, replaced by a gray wasteland unfit for human life: bustling markets and crowded cafes, libraries home to thousands of precious books, bakeries filled with the smell of fresh bread — all of it turned to ash by Zionist IDF forces.
→ read full articleRed Sea Politics: Ethiopia, Somalia, and the US/EU/NATO
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
17 Jan 2024 – An MOU pairing Ethiopia’s Red Sea ambitions with Somaliland’s secessionist aspirations heightens tensions in the Horn of Africa.
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“Depopulating” Palestine: Israel Through the Bifocal Lens of Hitler and Lemkin
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
20 Jan 2024 – As a human rights campaigner and a student of genocides, in my attempts to understand Israel’s physical destruction of Gaza in particular, and its foundational Zionist policies in Palestine, I find most helpful to turn to Raphael Lemkin’s grounded and multi-faceted conception of genocide and Hitler’s “blood-based” ideas of “race-state” and racialized land.
→ read full articleReality and Reflection
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
25 Jan 2024 – Day 110 of the Israeli Genocide in Gaza
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False Messiahs
Barnett R. Rubin | Boston Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
4 Jan 2024 – How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.
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Gaza: Nearly 1 Million Women and Girls Have Been Displaced and more Than 17 Thousand Women and Children Have Been Killed
UNRWA | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
23 Jan 2024 – Women and girls are among the most vulnerable groups in any society. Their vulnerability is typically amplified in times of crisis, such as the displacement of Gaza’s population because of the Israeli genocidal massacre.
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The Art of Solitude: Buddhist Scholar and Teacher Stephen Batchelor on Contemplative Practice and Creativity
Maria Popova | The Marginalian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
“Give me solitude,” Whitman demanded in his ode to the eternal tension between city and soul, “give me again O Nature your primal sanities!”
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Cobalt Red: How Congolese Blood Powers Our Lives
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
24 Jan 2024 – “Unspeakable riches have brought the people of the Congo little other than unspeakable pain.” So writes Siddharth Kara in ‘Cobalt Red, How the Blood of the Congo Powers Our Lives.’ His book exposes the exploitation behind the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
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UN Chief Blasts Israel’s War in Gaza for ‘Killing Civilians on Unprecedented Scale’
Kyle Anzalone | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jan 2024
23 Jan 2024 – “In Gaza, Israel’s military operations have spread massive destruction and killed civilians on a scale unprecedented during my time as Secretary General, including more than 150 members of our own staff,” Guterres said on Sunday [21 Jan]. “This is heart-breaking, and utterly unacceptable.”
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