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In Gaza, the West Is Enabling the Most Transparent Genocide in Human History
Richard Falk | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

17 Jan 2024 – This is extraordinary because the states supporting Israel, above all the United States, have claimed the high moral and legal ground and lectured the states of the Global South about the importance of the rule of law.

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How Wealthy Corporations Use Investment Agreements to Extract Millions from Developing Countries
Nicholas Kusnetz and Katie Surma | Inside Climate News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

14 Jan 2024 – A case in point: When Ecuador placed a windfall tax on foreign oil operations, French and U.S. companies filed claims—and were awarded more than $800 million.

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Sixty Years of ‘Dr. Strangelove’: A Nuclear War Planner on the Nightmare Comedy
Kevin Gosztola | The Wide Shot – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

24 Jan 2024 – The nightmare comedy in Stanley Kubrick’s masterpiece remains as razor-sharp as ever with the Doomsday Clock at 90 seconds to midnight.

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With God on Our Side (Music Video of the Week)
Bob Dylan | BBC – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

This is one of the very few surviving television broadcasts from Bob’s early days aired on 12 May 1964, five days before his legendary concert at Royal Festival Hall.

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The Shocking Inhumanity of Israel’s Crimes in Gaza
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

17 Jan 2024 – Survivors of Israel’s ground invasion in northern Gaza tell chilling stories of kidnappings, torture, and the rampant use of civilians as bait and human shields. The world still has no idea how inhumane Israel’s genocidal war really has been.

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War with China in 2025
Carlos Latuff | Global Times - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

Suicide Planetcide

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Year of the Dragon: Silk Roads, BRICS Roads, Sino-Roads
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

12 Jan 2024 – China, Russia and Iran will take the fight towards a more equal and just system to the next level.

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77 Groups Worldwide Back Genocide Lawsuit against Biden in U.S. Court
Prem Thakker | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

10 Jan 2024 – Dozens of legal and civil society organizations from around the world have thrown their weight behind a U.S. lawsuit accusing President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin for failing to “prevent an unfolding genocide” in Gaza.

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Gaza’s Economy Has Been Erased–Famine and Black Markets Are All That Remain
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

24 Jan 2024 – Even in areas like Rafah, where the Israeli ground invasion has not reached, Gaza’s society has been decimated. Its economy no longer exists and basic goods can only be found on the black market where they cost ten times their prewar price.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 29 Jan 2024

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Peace Journalism
Christos Frangonikolopoulos and Naya Kalfeli | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

The term “peace journalism” was originally introduced in the 1960s by the Norwegian academic Johan Galtung, a pioneer in the study of news values, to describe the orientation of journalism focusing on the causes and possible solutions of a conflict, with the aim to improve the prospects for peace.

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The Power of Arts in Encountering Individual Unspoken Values within Peacebuilding
Miho Taka and Michaelina Jakala | Coventry University – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

When we associate our values with the experiences of pain, grief, regret, guilt and trauma that we live with, many of us may try to find solace and catharsis (consciously or unconsciously) by working with others in similar contexts but without having an avenue to explore why we are doing this.

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Houthis Emerge as Latest Threat to U.S. Control Over Global Shipping
John P. Ruehl | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

On 30 Dec 2023, a ship owned by Maersk Line came under missile attacks by Houthi rebels in the Red Sea. Maersk, the world’s largest shipping company, announced it was suspending operations in the sea indefinitely, joining major Western shipping and energy companies going away from the region.

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The International Court of Justice Stops Short of Ordering Gaza Ceasefire to Stop Genocide
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

26 Jan 2024 – The ICJ ruled that Israel’s military shall not commit acts forbidden by Article 2 of Genocide Convention but stopped short of ordering Israel to cease its military operation in Gaza.

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A Unified Theory of Presidential Folly
Seymour M. Hersh | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

25 Jan 2024 – From Hiroshima to the Houthis, American presidents tend to overreach when they believe they are facing down communism or terrorism, and the world pays the price.

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Casino Capitalism and the Derivatives Market: Time for Another ‘Lehman Moment’?
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

In 2008, derivatives brought down investment bank Bear Stearns and insurer A.I.G. They could not fail because the trillions of dollars in credit default swaps would have been wiped out, forcing banks and financial institutions to write down their own risky and now “unhedged” loans. Bear and A.I.G. were bailed out; but the Treasury drew the line at Lehman Brothers, and the market crashed.  

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Many Say They Want Peace When What They Really Want Is Obedience
Caitlin Johnstone | Notes from the Edge of the Narrative Matrix – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

24 Jan 2024 – Pay less attention to people’s words about wanting “peace” and focus instead on what actions they are supporting to accomplish that end. This will show you the truth about what they really want.

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Doomsday Clock Remains at 90 Seconds to Midnight
Sarah Starkey | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

23 Jan 2024 – The Doomsday Clock was reset at 90 seconds to midnight, the closest it has ever been to midnight, reflecting the unprecedented danger the world faces. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists emphasized that the Clock could be turned back, but governments and people needed to take urgent action. 

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The Enduring Mystery
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

Meanwhile, in the US of A…

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Gaza and Germany’s Departure from Reason
[decoco] decolonial research group | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Jan 2024

22 Jan 2024 – In an open letter, 300 scholars from across the world condemn Germany’s role in silencing Palestinians and contributing to Israel’s genocide.

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From the TMS Editor
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jan 2024

Dear friends, it is the first time since 2008 that I miss two weeks in a roll. So, at the very least you deserve a truthful explanation. No drama intended.

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Israel Defends Itself at the International Court of Justice: From Genocide Victims to Perpetrators
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jan 2024

11 Jan 2024 – Israel’s legal team, a member of which is a Holocaust survivor and the country’s ex-Attorney General, will likely frontload the politico-legal mantra of Israel’s right to “self-defence”.

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(Italiano) L’energia ‘richiesta’ per il futuro: utopia o autodistruzione?
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jan 2024

10 Gennaio 2024 – La quantità di energia richiesta per i prossimi 30 anni è quasi inimmaginabile: dalle due alle quattro volte superiore a quella che usiamo oggi: qual è la soluzione, utopia o autodistruzione?

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There’s No Free Press without a Free Assange
David S. D’Amato | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jan 2024

“The truth alone will make the people free. And for this reason, the truth must not be permitted to reach the people. The truth has always been dangerous to the rule of the rogue, the exploiter, the robber. So the truth must be ruthlessly suppressed.” — Eugene V. Debs

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The Barbaric Conduct of the Israeli State Must Be Stopped
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar, Joseph Camilleri | SHAPE – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jan 2024

14 Jan 2024 – The genocidal violence unleashed by Israel in Occupied Palestine has produced unspeakable tragedy and suffering for the Palestinian people. Such barbaric behaviour places the State of Israel outside the bounds of a civilized world. Israel has become a pariah state and must be treated as such by the international community.

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All Roads Lead to Jerusalem: A Lucrative Border Industrial Complex
Petra Molnar | Transnational Institute - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jan 2024

19 Dec 2023 – Hebron, a laboratory for both technology and violence, reflects the Israeli occupation’s impact on daily life, with sterilized roads, military checkpoints, and settler violence defining the landscape. This journey unveils the complex layers of trauma, dispossession, and dehumanization, challenging preconceptions and raising questions about freedom and oppression.

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Useful Quotes Resisting Corporate, Congressional, Police State, Judicial, or Oval Office Tyranny
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jan 2024

8 Jan 2024 – When Fascist-leaning, Anti-democratic Collage of Multibillionaires, White Supremacists, Wall Street Tycoons, Washington-DC Insiders, Christian Dominionists, War-Mongering Military Generals, and Climate Change Deniers Try to Impose Their Will on the Voters Who Did Not Technically Vote for Fascism

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Pyar Karne Wale Pyar Karte Hain Shan Se (Music Video of the Week)
Asha Bhosle | Desi Music Library – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jan 2024

Enjoy the hit song from the Hindi movie Shaan vibrantly portrayed by Bollywood actors.

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The Myth of Israel’s ‘Democracy’
Ilan Pappé | The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jan 2024

5 Jan 2024 – Israeli historian Ilan Pappé on Israel’s end game in Gaza and the future of the Israeli apartheid state.

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Inside Israel’s Torture Camp for Gaza Detainees
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jan 2024

5 Jan 2024 – Palestinians arrested in the northern Gaza Strip describe how Israeli soldiers systematically abused civilians and combatants alike, from severe deprivation to brutal physical violence.

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How Israel Failed to Learn from the Northern Ireland Peace Process
Colin John Irwin | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Jan 2024

3 Jan 2024 – There is no peace in the Middle East because there is no effective peace process. The Good Friday agreement which brought peace to Northern Ireland a quarter of a century ago, provided a clear guide. The parties have to do what the negotiating teams, of which I was a part, did in Northern Ireland.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 93: Israel Surpasses Three Months of Gaza Bombing Campaign, UN Warns of Starvation
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service , 8 Jan 2024

7 Jan 2024 – Israeli forces killed eight Palestinians in the West Bank in overnight raids. In Gaza, an Israeli airstrike killed Hamza Dahdouh, son of Al Jazeera Gaza bureau chief Wael Dahdouh, in Khan Yunis.
22,835+ killed and 58,416+ wounded in the Gaza Strip.

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Just War Theory as an Inspiration for “Just AI Theory”?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

8 Jan 2024 – In Quest of a Robust Ethical Framework for AI Aided by ChatGPT – Just AI theory and Just suffering theory?

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The US Can’t Stop China’s Rise, but It Will Cripple the EU while Trying
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

4 Jan 2024 – Washington’s desperate attempts to curb Beijing’s high-tech development are hurting U.S. allies more than the Chinese.

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An Immense Hunger
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

1 Jan 2024 – What can we do, how create the new when we are such stuff as dreams are made on? To escape the period that ends every sentence, every year, every life, one only needs winged words to take flight, to shimmer in the ascending iridescent light.

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Genocide in Gaza
John J. Mearsheimer | John’s Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

4 Jan 2024 – Important document that should be circulated and read by anyone interested in the Gaza atrocities: the 84-page “application” South Africa filed with the ICJ on 29 Dec 2023 accusing Israel of genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza.

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Kristina Borjesson Broke the Truth about TWA 800: Exiled from CBS and the Profession Because of It – RIP
Celia Farber | The Truth Barrier - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

30 Dec 2023 – It was just as in Orwell’s 1984, an Immediate Rewriting of History Occurred–U.S. Journalism Lost a Giant

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2024
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

1 Jan 2024 – We at the Palestine Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainability at Bethlehem University wish you all the best in 2024 and that this year brings an end to the genocide/carnage of our people and to suffering people everywhere (Palestine, Western Sahara, Rohingya in Myanmar, Sudan, Yemen).

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For Ministries and Infrastructures of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

1 Jan 2024 – In a world torn by the wars in Ukraine and Palestine, and threatened by the Bidens, Putins and Netanyahus, we must not forget the slow, patient work of those who cultivate peace.

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A Compelling Theory to Explain a Key Trait of Modern Humans
Marjorie Hecht | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

4 Jan 2024 – Behavioral and cultural traits define human evolution; brain size, climate, and new technologies cannot explain the overall process. Hyperprosociality provides a comprehensive explanation. H. sapiens is the only species that has high levels of cooperation with those who are not related.

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A Hindu Perspective on Ambition and Unsatiated Lust
A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada | Dandavats – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

Every living being is ambitious to have the topmost level of enjoyment in the material world and yet he is always unhappy here. This unhappiness is present in all the above-mentioned planets in spite of long life and standard of comfort more and more increased. That is the law of material nature.

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The T.T.C.U.
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

1 Jan 2024 – Cinematic Universe

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 8 Jan 2024

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Turkey, Malaysia Back South Africa’s ICJ Genocide Case Against Israel
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

3 Jan 2024 – “Israel’s murder of more than 22,000 Palestinian civilians, the majority of whom were women and children, in Gaza for nearly three months should not go unpunished in any way,” said a Turkish spokesperson.

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Gaza Webinar: Is Israel Cornered?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

Wed, 10 Jan, 7 PM Eastern: The Gaza War, Short & Long-Term Diplomatic Imperatives and Implications for the Middle East and Geopolitics, with panelists Richard Falk, Irene Gendzier, and Assaf Kfoury

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(Français) Pour les Ministeres et Infrastructures de Paix
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

1 janvier 2024 – Dans un monde déchiré par les guerres en Ukraine et en Palestine, et menacé par les Biden, Poutine et Netanyahu, nous ne devons pas oublier le travail lent et patient de ceux qui cultivent la paix.

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Family of Israeli Woman in NYT Oct 7 Sexual Violence Renounces Story, Says Reporters Manipulated Them
The Short String | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

4 Jan 2024 – A New York Times story claiming a pattern of Hamas’ gender-based violence on Oct 7 hinged on the story of Gal Abdush, but her family says there is no proof she was raped, and that Times reporters interviewed them under false pretenses.

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Mandela, King, Malcolm X – and Jesus: Black Liberation Activists Who Are Safely Dead – and Widely Ignored
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

Dead men make such convenient heroes.
They cannot rise to challenge the images
we would fashion from their lives.
And besides,
it is easier to build monuments
than to make a better world.

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The Nuclear Energy Dilemma: Climate Savior or Existential Threat?
Leslie Alan Horvitz | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

4 Jan 2024 – Nuclear power has promise and peril, posing many challenging questions for environmentalists.

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Gaza: South Africa Seeks Justice
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

2 Jan 2024 – JUST commends South Africa for requesting the ICJ to issue an urgent order declaring Israel in breach of its obligations under the 1948 Geneva Convention for its massive slaughter of Palestinians living in Gaza.

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Zelensky’s Former Top Adviser Wants Kiev to Ally with Moscow against the West – What Exactly Is Going On?
Tarik Cyril Amar | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

1 Jan 2024 – Aleksey Arestovich’s latest idea is that the two warring countries should sue the US-led bloc together.

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Successful!
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

Which is the best? Why? 

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As China-Russia Economic and Diplomatic Ties Advance, Their Cultural Bond Flourishes with Ballet, Theatre and Music
South China Morning Post | BRICS Info Portal - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

29 Dec 2023 – As the Russian musical Anna Karenina is set to be staged in Shanghai and Beijing this month, theatre director Alina Chevik hopes to see how it can connect the two peoples at a time when Russian artists have been shunned in Western markets.

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The Forgotten Jewish-Christian-Muslim Alliance and China’s Silk Road
Matthew Ehret | Rising Tide Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

4 Jan 2024 – I would like to go a little deeper into the history that shapes our age by taking a look at the forgotten Jewish Kingdom of Khazaria and at some remarkable and unknown examples of inter-religious collaboration.

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Moral and Strategic Consequences of S. Africa’s Case against Israel at the World’s Court
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

5 Jan 2024 – The post-apartheid Republic of South Africa filing a genocide case against Israel is a significant act pregnant with positive moral consequences while handing the Palestinian liberation struggle an unprecedented strategic weapon.

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Imagine (Music Video of the Week)
Written by John Lennon | Worthwhile Music – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

Performed by 49 Musicians from 40 Countries

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The Empire Strikes Back
𝕭𝖔𝖓𝖎𝖋𝖆𝖈𝖊 (𝕾𝖚𝖓𝖉𝖆𝖞) | Where Is John Fisher? – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

6 Jan 2024 – A fantastic piece of analysis.

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We’re Still Breathing: Amhara Genocide in Ethiopia
Graham Peebles | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Jan 2024

18 Dec 2023 – Ignored by western governments and largely overlooked by media, a genocide is taking place in Ethiopia. The Amhara people, a large ethnic group, are being ethnically cleansed from the region of Oromia, the largest region on the country.

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 86: Israel Falls in ‘Serious Strategic Trap’ in Gaza as Netanyahu Vows to Fight ‘for Months’
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

31 Dec 2023:
• 21,822+ killed* and at least 56,451 wounded in Gaza.
• 316 Palestinians killed in West Bank and East Jerusalem.
• 504 Israeli soldiers killed and 1,952 injured.
* Some rights groups put the death toll number closer to 28,000 when accounting for those disappeared in the rubble.

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‘In a Roaring Flood’: How Israel Provoked October 7 Attacks, Yet Was Caught by Surprise
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

28 Dec 2023 – The Spark That Lit the Fire: The Untold Story

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Why the U.S. Holds Israel as a Sacred Cow?
Noam Chomsky | Free Will – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

Noam Chomsky on Israel

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Beyond the US Veto: UN Options to Protect Gaza
Marjorie Cohn | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

29 Dec 2023 – Any party to the Genocide Convention can submit the matter to the World Court, which could make a finding of genocide. The General Assembly also has an option left.

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Stunning Atrocities in Gaza Funded by US Taxpayers
Ralph Nader | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

26 Dec 2023 – The US Congress is poised to send $14.3 billion to Israeli militarism—a “genocide tax.” The atrocities are being recorded by drones and by brave Palestinian journalists targeted by the Israeli army. Over 66 journalists have been slain by the IDF so far in Palestine.

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Meet the Companies Profiting from Israel’s Gaza Genocide
Jessica Corbett | Common Dreams – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

20 Dec 2023 – As global resistance to war and apartheid grows, it is important that the public know exactly who is making this violence possible.

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Israeli Airstrikes Kill 76 Members of One Gaza Family
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

24 Dec 2023 – Israeli airstrikes killed 76 members of an extended family in “one of the most intense civilian punishment campaigns in history. This war must end,” said the head of the UN agency where one of the victims worked.

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When I Grow Older – A Gaza Poem
Ramzy Baroud | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

25 Dec 2023 – To Gaza’s little angels – in heaven, and here on earth.

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In the West Bank, I Saw How Peace Will Require Confrontation with Israel
David Ignatius | The Washington Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

16 Dec 2023 – For three days this past week, I traveled the West Bank from Hebron in the south to Nablus in the north. What I saw was a pattern of Israeli abuse that makes daily life a humiliation for many Palestinians — and could obstruct the peaceful future that Israelis and Palestinians both say they want.

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Operation Condor: The Cold War US Conspiracy That Terrorized South America
Giles Tremlett | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

During the 1970s and 80s, eight US (Henry Kissinger)-backed right wing military dictatorships jointly plotted the cross-border kidnap, torture, rape and murder of hundreds of their left wing political opponents. Now some of the perpetrators are finally facing justice.

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Let’s Hope for a Happier New Year!
Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

1 Jan 2024 – Dear friends, I hope that you, your family and friends have a Happy New Year of 2024. But to be candidly honest, I have my doubts.

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Choose Kindness
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people.
— Leo Tolstoy

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John Pilger, on the Betrayers of Julian Assange
John Pilger | New Matilda – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

More than a decade on from his forced asylum and subsequent torture in 2012 at the hands of British and US authorities, Julian Assange remains abandoned by his own government and the media.

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Prof. Galtung: Nationalism and Migration in Relation to Peace
Johan Galtung | University of Antwerp – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

25 Apr 2016 – The University Centre Saint-Ignatius Antwerp–UCSIA

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The Unbridgeable Gulf between Israeli Politicians’ Rhetoric and the Reality in Gaza
Amos Harel | Haaretz – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

24 Dec 2023 – The Israeli army is planning stage three of the atrocities, but – unusually – it is facing no pressure to meet a timetable ■ Hamas’s Sinwar is in no hurry to make another hostage deal.

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

Parental Guidance: [Sanitized] Pornographic Violence – Palestine, 1 Jan 2024 – (Un)Happy New Year!

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Israel’s War Crimes
Vijay Prashad | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

29 Dec 2023 – Every time the UN can get more aid into Gaza, the Israeli bombardment of civilian areas intensifies, and the civilian deaths increase.

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Drug-Induced Dementia IS NOT Alzheimer’s Disease
Gary G. Kohls, MD | Duty to Warn – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

Do expect denials, dismissals, distractions, delays and ad hominem attacks against the whistleblowers rather than honest mea culpas. It is up to consumers of toxic substances to do the research themselves, for they may not show symptoms until a tipping point is reached when their livers can no longer detoxify the cocktail of poisons.

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Now More Than Ever We Need a True Philosopher of Civilization
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

22 Dec 2023 – Abu Nasr al-Farabi (872-950), Islamic scientist, philosopher, mathematician and musical theorist, lived at the golden age of Islamic civilization. The medieval Latin world knew him as Magister Secundus: the second greatest teacher of philosophy after Aristotle. Al-Farabi should be heeded as the quintessential philosopher of civilization, built under the aegis of truth, virtue and compassion.

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Christmas Wishes
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jan 2024

25 Dec 2023 – Merry Christmas!!

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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 79: Bethlehem Cancels Christmas Celebrations as Israel Continues to Bomb Gaza
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

24 Dec 2023 – Palestinian pastor Munther Issac says, “If Jesus was born today, he’d be born under the rubble of Gaza” as Israeli forces flattens entire neighborhoods to create buffer zones in north, east, and south of the Gaza Strip.

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Jesus, Gaza, and the Murder of Useless People
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – Jesus was a Palestinian Jew born in Bethlehem who grew up in Nazareth and was executed as a criminal in Jerusalem. What we celebrate at Christmas is the opposite of what he stood for. Once there was a mother, father and child on the run to safety in Egypt; today, there are millions of Palestinian refugees on the run to nowhere but a dead-end.

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Declaration of Conscience and Concern of Global Intellectuals on Gaza Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – This Declaration calls not only for the denunciation of Israel’s genocidal assault but also for taking effective action to permanently prevent its repetition. The urgency of the moment obliges global intellectuals to stand against the ongoing horrific ordeal of the Palestinian people and, most of all, to implore action by those who have the power, and hence the responsibility, to do so.

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Climate Profiteers Exploit Somali Suffering
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – NGOs and other climate profiteers treat Somalia as a poster child for global warming.

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Artificial Intelligence as an Aid to Thinking Otherwise — but to What End?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

25 Dec 2023 – Cognitive Clarification Enabled by ChatGPT in Eliciting Strategic Coherence

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Yemen’s Houthis in Defense of Gaza
Huseyin Vodinali | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

21 Dec 2023 – Zionazis massacre children, women, babies, elderly journalists and doctors without showing the slightest sign of humanity. 70 days have passed since the massacre started on 7 Oct and at least 25 thousand Palestinians were killed by the Israeli army, at least 22 thousand of them civilians, and most of the civilians children and babies.

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Israel’s Latest Weapon Against Palestine Is Egypt’s Debt
Alfons Pérez and Nicola Scherer | Open Democracy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

18 Dec 2023 – Will Egypt agree to take in the Palestinian population expelled from Gaza in exchange for the cancellation of its external debt?

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Israel Killed Thousands of Children in Gaza—How Can So Many Israelis Remain Indifferent?
Amira Hass | Haaretz/Peace & Planet News – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Fall 2023 – The Gaza Strip is gradually being erased, along with its families, its people, its children, their smiles and laughter. What enables the majority of Jewish Israelis to support this systematic and mass erasure?

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“Big Money” Behind the Genocide: Israeli Settlers Plan ‘Dream Beach Houses’ in Gaza
Marc Vandepitte | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

21 Dec 2023 – The advertisement reads: “We are working to prepare the ground for the return to Gush Katif. Our employees are working on the rehabilitation of the region, cleaning up waste, and deporting the occupiers (Palestinians). We hope that in the near future, the kidnapped and our soldiers will somehow return to their homes, and we can start construction in the entire Gush Katif area in the Gaza Strip.”

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Why Empathy Constitutes the Ultimate Leadership Skill
Dr. Julia Milner | The Conversation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Managers rated ‘expressing empathy’ as the most challenging communication skill, above ‘asking questions’ and ‘providing feedback’. The trend appears to be linked to a number of old-school thinking errors.

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Boycotts and Protests – How Are People Around the World Defying Israel?
Alia Chughtai, Marium Ali and Delaney Nolan | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

15 Dec 2023 – Al Jazeera takes a look at the movements against Israel and illegal settlements in Palestine.

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Poetry Bleeds from the Shattered Normal
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

20 Dec 2023 – It seems more relevant than ever, as innocent blood flows in the wars being waged by military-political bureaucracies across the planet. How many more stunned facial expressions will I see on YouTube, of parents who have just lost their children, their spouse, their siblings?

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Christmas Wishes
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

25 Dec 2023 – Merry Christmas

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Human Rights Groups Demand ICC Issue Arrest Warrants on Israeli Officials
People's Dispatch | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

22 Dec 2023 – A joint letter sent to the International Criminal Court also demands an urgent investigation into the allegations of war crimes committed by Israel against Palestinians.

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False Transitions and Global Stocktakes: The Failure of COP28
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – The sequence of UN Climate Change Conferences is a series of the failed and the abysmally rotten.  It shows how a worthless activity can provide assurance that something worthwhile was done.  Always the same beneficiaries: fossil fuel magnates and satirists.

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Can the US-led Maritime Force Stop Yemen’s Houthi Attacks During Gaza War?
Maziar Motamedi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – The Houthis say they won’t stop attacking ships unless Israel stops its attacks on Gaza. So far, the shipping industry doesn’t appear convinced the task force can halt them.

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David Krieger (27 Mar 1942 – 7 Dec 2023): A Life of Dedication to the Abolition of Nuclear Weapons
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Although David Krieger devoted his professional life to anti-nuclear scholarship and activism, his underlying motivations were for a world anchored in dignity for all, respect for international law, and a robust UN. Remembering my long, close, cherished friendship reinforces my sense of loss resulting from David’s death. RIP

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COP28 a “Tragedy for the Planet” as Stockholm Syndrome Took Hold
David Spratt and Ian Dunlop | Pearls and Irritations – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

19 Dec 2023 – Up to 100,000 people from climate-related politics, advocacy and business flew into Dubai for the UN COP28 climate policy-making event. And the result? An unmitigated disaster: unfair, inequitable “business as usual” that did not call for the phase-out of fossil fuels.

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Hospital Bulldozed and Shelled: Kamal Adwan Was Only Hospital in Northern Gaza
Tareq Abou Azzoum | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

16 Dec 2023 – Days of intensive Israeli bombardment of the Kamal Adwan Hospital in northern Gaza have left it barely functional. It was the only working hospital in the North of Gaza.

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Murdering Fish in a Barrel
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

12 Dec 2023 – IDF in Gaza

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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Parental Guidance: [Sanitized] Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 25 Dec 2023

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That Can’t Be True about Israel
Caitlin Johnstone | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Dec 2023

Israel’s actions are so horrific and depraved I keep thinking I must be misinterpreting what I’m reading or disregarding a claim as over the top, only to find out it’s true.

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