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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2023
Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
GAZA and WEST BANK, 18 Dec 2023
Gazan Catastrophe Shows Why the UN Needs the Earth Constitution
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2023
14 Dec 2023 – The UN General Assembly votes by a wide margin for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza but Israel ignores the resolution because it has the “protection” of the U.S., which uses its UN Security Council veto power to prevent UN intervention. What must be done?
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From the Heart of Palestine
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Palestine Museum of Natural History – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2023
15 Dec 2023 – We know that the destruction was/is intentional, hand in hand with intentional targeting of schools, hospitals, UN facilities, refugee camps, water facilities, streets, to make the Gaza Strip even more unlivable for 2.3 million Palestinians. So far, 1.9 million Gazans have been displaced (half children) and, as of this writing, over 20,000 civilians killed and 51,000 injured (70%, women and children), with practically all medical facilities pulverized.
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(Français) Et Après la Fin de États-Unis Empire?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Dec 2023
11 décembre 2023 – À court terme, il n’existe aucun moyen efficace pour mettre fin au génocide israélien de la Palestine. Mais il y a un autre facteur : Israël dépend entièrement du soutien qu’il reçoit en tant que membre de États-Unis Empire. Avec la fin de cet Empire, Israël ne pourra plus survivre.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 65: U.S. Rushes Arms to Israel as Palestinians Announce Over 250,000 Homes Destroyed in Gaza
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
10 Dec 2023 – 17,400+ killed and 46,000 wounded in the Gaza Strip.
274 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
[False Flag] Israel Knew Hamas’s Attack Plan More Than a Year Ago
Ronen Bergman and Adam Goldman | The New York Times - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
A blueprint reviewed by The Times laid out the attack in detail. Israeli officials dismissed it as aspirational and ignored specific warnings.
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What Time’s 2023 Person of the Year Reveals about the West
Rachel Marsden | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
7 Dec 2023 – Each year, editors of Time magazine choose a person, group, idea, or object that made the most impact on the world. This year’s winner is US singer-songwriter Taylor Swift. The choice is totally valid; it speaks volumes about the current state of the Western world.
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An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of the Art of Connection
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
Friendship is the sunshine of life — the quiet radiance that makes our lives not only livable but worth living.
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Inside a Southern Gaza Hospital: Screaming Orphaned Children, Amputee Toddlers and The Stench of Rotting Flesh
Bel Trew | Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
8 Dec 2023 – As Israel expands its ground assault into Khan Younis, a surgeon at the European Hospital describes desperately trying to treat a relentless stream of wounded children as critical supplies run out.
Warning: this article contains distressing detail about people’s injuries.
Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
GAZA and WEST BANK, 11 Dec 2023
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Socialism’s Self-Criticism and Real Democracy
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
5 Dec 2023 – Democracy is incompatible with class-divided economic systems. Masters rule in slavery, lords in feudalism, and employers in capitalism. Whatever forms of government coexist with class-divided economic systems, the hard reality is that one class rules the other.
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EU Reaches Agreement on Landmark Artificial Intelligence Law
Xinhua | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
10 Dec 2023 – European Union lawmakers and member states reached an agreement on rules governing artificial intelligence. “Historic! The EU becomes the first continent to set clear rules for the use of AI.”
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Damning Analysis: Short-Selling Deluge Suggests Prior Knowledge of Oct 7 Hamas Incursions
Ben Bartee | Armageddon Prose - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
6 Dec 2023 – The totality of evidence continues to make mincemeat of the official story that the Israeli government — home of the most vaunted national security apparatus on Earth, engaged in constant, near-total surveillance of the Gaza Strip — was caught unawares on October 7.
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Gaza Divides the World, Again
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
7 Dec 2023 – As the brutal crisis unfolds, the savage exercise of power by the U.S. and Israel has catalyzed world reactions. A significant transformation in global diplomacy is underway as the oppressed became the oppressors.
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Carbon Colonialism, COP28 and the Climate Crisis
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
7 Dec 2023 – Exhibit One: COP28 is being hosted by the UAE, the seventh largest oil producing nation on the planet, and the COP Presidency is currently held by Minister of Industry Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, the CEO of the UAE’s state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. Conflict of interest…?
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The UN Is Threatening Privacy under Pretense of New Cybercrime Treaty
Didi Rankovic | Reclaim the Net - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
A Trojan Horse
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The Gaza Atrocities, “Big Money” and the Insidious Role of the World Economic Forum
Ernst Wolff | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
8 Dec 2023 – Under the pretext of eradicating the “Hamas terrorist threat” once and for all, the IDF is once again slaughtering as much of the Palestinian civilian population as they can.
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Genocide Resumes
Dr. Chandra Muzaffar | JUST - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
6 Dec 2023 – After an uneasy seven-day truce, Israel and Hamas are now once again locked in a violent combat. Each side has accused the other of violating the truce. What is really important is the consequence of this resumption of conflict.
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Dr. Jill Stein: A Ballot Challenge to the Crimes of Empire
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
6 Dec 2023 – Dr. Jill Stein stepped up to compete for the Green Party presidential nomination after Dr. Cornel West decided to run as an independent. Ann Garrison spoke with her.
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Open Letter to the Irish Government to Invoke the Genocide Convention
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
To Protect Gazans from Genocide – We, the undersigned, watch with horror the death toll and humanitarian crisis in Gaza and believe there is an urgent need for action under the Genocide Convention. A public statement has highlighted the overwhelming evidence that the government of Israel has carried out acts of genocide against civilians in Gaza.
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US Sabotaged the Kiev-Moscow March 2022 Peace Agreement in Istanbul
Nauman Sadiq and Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
8 Dec 2023 – The End Game is the Destruction and Privatization of Ukraine – Ukrainian negotiators would agree not to join alliances or host bases of foreign troops. The proposals would require a referendum in Ukraine.
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Humanity’s Bombs Are Aimed at Evolution
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
6 Dec 2023 – In most media coverage of war, the unexamined assumption is that we, the readers, are spectators, looking on as the missiles fly (mostly in one direction) and Good dukes it out with Evil yet again, Paradoxically, Good and Evil are in complete agreement about one thing: The only way to deal with conflict is through violence.
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The Anti-Semite
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
5 Dec 2023 – No Comment
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ExxonMobil Wants to Start a War in South America
Vijay Prashad | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
4 Dec 2023 – In 2022, ExxonMobil [read Rockefeller] made a profit of $55.7 billion, making it one of the world’s richest and most powerful oil companies. Companies such as this exercise an inordinate power over the world economy and over countries that have oil reserves. It has tentacles across the world, from Malaysia to Argentina.
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Is Information a Form of Aid? Communication in Humanitarian Interventions
Dr. Valentina Baú | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Dec 2023
In the immediate aftermath of a disaster, communication takes on a very important role as affected communities are in need of critical information that, at times of crisis, is a form of aid. However, this key aspect of communication has long been unrecognised by humanitarian actors.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 58: Israel Kills 700 in Gaza over 24 Hours as Palestinians Get Forced Further South toward Egypt
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
3 Dec 2023 – At least 700 Palestinians were killed in Israeli bombing in Gaza over the past 24 hours as Israel pushes people south to Rafah. In Jerusalem, Israeli forces stormed the house of Al-Aqsa Mosque Iman Shiekh Ekrima Sabri.
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Gaza: After Genocide What Future?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
29 Nov 2023 – My responses waver between fears of a resumed Israeli military operation and hopes of confronting day-after issues of post-genocidal economic reconstruction and scenarios of political transformation.
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Cop28 President Says There Is ‘No Science’ Behind Demands for Phase-Out of Fossil Fuels
Damian Carrington and Ben Stockton | The Guardian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
3 Dec 2023 – The president of Cop28, Sultan Al Jaber, has claimed there is “no science” indicating that a phase-out of fossil fuels is needed. He said a phase-out would not allow sustainable development “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.
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A Corrupted Dubai COP28
Bill McKibben | The Crucial Years – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
28 Nov 2023 – Revelations that the host nation [UAE] had used its official position to leverage new oil and gas deals around the world were a reminder that there are nations that operate as oil companies, with the same attention to morality as Exxon or Shell.
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How Can War Crimes Be Stopped?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
1 Dec 2023 – Julian Assange languishes and may die in prison for having documented the war crimes of the American Empire. The UN, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch agree about daily war crimes by Israel against the people of Gaza, crimes that are financed and supplied by the USA and its allies.
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Palestine-Israel Conflict: A Brief History in Maps and Charts
Mohammed Haddad and Alia Chughtai | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
27 Nov 2023 – As Gaza reels from Israel’s devastating bombardments, here’s a brief history of the conflict using maps and charts.
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Hamas Uses Human Shields? The Evidence
Behind the Headlines | MintPress News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
28 Nov 2023 – For years we have heard in Western corporate media that Hamas uses civilians as human shields. So, what does the evidence show?
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Joe Biden and Xi Jinping Not Attending the Cop28 Climate Meeting in Dubai
Reuters | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
27 Nov 2023 – US President Joe Biden is not attending a gathering of world leaders focused on climate change in Dubai this week. Xi Jinping of China is also not expected to attend. Envoys for Biden and Xi have signaled their close cooperation before the talks.
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Kissinger: A War Criminal with a Nobel Peace Prize
Ahmed Twaij | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
The former US secretary of state left a legacy of bloody policies, some still embraced today. Kissinger was directly responsible for the murders of three to four million people during his eight years in office, 1969-1977.
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‘A Mass Assassination Factory’: Inside Israel’s Calculated Bombing of Gaza
Yuval Abraham | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
30 Nov 2023 – Permissive airstrikes on non-military targets and the use of an artificial intelligence system have enabled the Israeli army to carry out its deadliest assault on Gaza, investigation reveals.
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Israel’s Insidious Narrative about Palestinian Prisoners
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
26 Nov 2023 – More than two-thirds of the Palestinians proposed for release by Israel under the truce have not been convicted of any crimes. Most were arrested as children.
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Assault on Education
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
1 Dec 2023 – Over 56 days, the Israeli Occupation Forces denied water, food, electricity and fuel to 2.3 million Gaza residents. The IOF killed over 14,500 civilians (72% women and children) and injured over 27,000 in 40 days. Zionism is a genocidal settler project built on false mythology and sustained through perpetual violence against Indigenous Palestinians.
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(Français) Comment Arrêter les Crimes de Guerre?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
1 décembre 2023 – Les événements récents nous amènent plus que jamais à nous demander : pourquoi ne peut-on pas faire quelque chose pour arrêter et prévenir les crimes de guerre ?
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While Fire Rages in Gaza, the West Bank Smolders
Omar Shakir | Human Rights Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
22 Nov 2023 – While global attention is focused on Gaza, Israeli authorities are tightening their repression in the West Bank and settler attacks on Palestinians are surging. That repression was already at a peak before the 7 Oct Hamas-led attack, but it has gotten much worse since.
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New York Governor Announces Plans to Implement Pre-Crime Surveillance, Target Online “Hate”
Tom Parker | Reclaim The Net - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
21 Nov 2023 – In a press conference today, New York Governor Kathy Hochul outlined her administration’s aggressive new strategy for combating online “hate” and implementing pre-crime-esque online surveillance.
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False Flag: Documents Expose Israeli Conspiracy to Facilitate Hamas 7 Oct Attack
Andre Damon | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
2 Dec 2023 – Yesterday the New York Times published a report establishing conclusively that Israel was fully informed, in detail, of plans by Hamas to attack its border on 7 Oct. These revelations make clear that Israeli officials made a deliberate decision to stand down to facilitate the attack. 9/11 Redux.
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Israel’s Objective in the Gaza Incursions: Kill the Buildings
Ted Rall | Defend Democracy Press - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
24 Nov 2023 – People die when buildings get bombed. But killing people is not the Israelis’ goal. They’re out to flatten Gaza. Flattening some Gazans is a side effect of flattening buildings. Ethnic cleansing with the goal of annexing Gaza is the only plausible explanation for Israel’s behavior.
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FOI Request Reveals Bellingcat Collusion with Western Intelligence
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
30 Nov 2023 – An extraordinary email uncovered by a Dutch researcher under freedom of information laws confirms what many have long charged: Bellingcat, the “open source” collective widely cited by mainstream journalists and loved by the CIA, collaborates directly with Western intelligence agencies.
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How to Build Peace while Covering War: Peace Journalism and the Israel-Hamas Massacre
Leo Weakland | Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
Peace News Network spoke with three experts on Peace Journalism: Prof Jake Lynch, Prof Steven Youngblood, and Vanessa Bassil. They shared their thoughts on the current media coverage of the conflict, and how this could change to enhance the prospects for peace.
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This Simple Move by China Could Demolish the EU’s Aggressive Agenda
Timur Fomenko | RT - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
29 Nov 2023 – Beijing announced that the citizens of Portugal, Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain will be allowed to visit China for a 15-day period visa-free. It may throw a spanner in the works of the rhetoric about a “closed” and “bad-for-business” Beijing.
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From Cambodia to Bangladesh: A Brief History of [Nobel Peace Laureate] Henry Kissinger’s War Crimes
Bevan Hurley | The Independent - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
2 Dec 2023 – Kissinger sided with military dictators and genocidal regimes in his pursuit of projecting US power during the Cold War, resulting in the deaths of many millions of innocents.
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The Enduring Legacies of Edward Said
Richard Falk | AUC, School of Humanities and Social Sciences – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
21 Nov 2023 – The Department of English and Comparative Literature hosted the Edward Said Memorial Lecture given by Dr. Richard Falk, public intellectual and professor of international law.
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Germany’s ‘Military Schengen’ Proposal Shows EU as Geopolitical Pendant of NATO
Drago Bosnic | InfoBrics - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
28 Nov 2023 – To Ease the Movement of NATO Troops Across the European Union
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Trilateral Missile Defense System a Step towards Asian NATO
Jeffrey Wagner and Dae-Han Song | Globetrotter – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
29 Nov 2023 – The United States, Japan and South Korea will fully operationalize a missile warning system “by the end of December.” While justified as a means to counter North Korea, it escalates tensions in the region with China through the “NATOfication” of the three countries.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
GAZA 4 Dec 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
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Media’s Fatal Compromises
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
28 Nov 2023 – The practice of “embedding” struck me as a repellent compromise with power. It is no longer enough to tether correspondents to the perspective of the military from whose side they report. We are on the way to huge, bloody, consequential wars fought without any witnesses.
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West Votes against Democracy, Human Rights, Cultural Diversity at UN–Promotes Mercenaries, Sanctions
Ben Norton | Geopolitical Economy Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
26 Nov 2023 – The West voted [as a block] against the rest of the world on United Nations General Assembly resolutions opposing democracy, human rights, and cultural diversity, while supporting mercenaries and unilateral coercive measures (sanctions).
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The Real Cost of Bottled Water
Daniel Jaffee | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
30 Nov 2023 – The price of bottled water is vastly more expensive than the tap water it often replaces for consumers…. In these ways, bottled and packaged water intersects with, highlights, and exacerbates economic and racial injustice.
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What Happens When We Die
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
Here we are, each of us a trembling totality, made of particles both absolutely vulnerable and absolutely indestructible, hungering for absolutes in a universe of relatives, hungering for permanence in a universe of ceaseless change, famished for meaning, for beauty, for emblems of existence.
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The Sound of Silence
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
Meanwhile, in the Homo Sapiens’ 21st Century…
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Gaza: A Pause Before the Storm
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
23 Nov 2023 – The US and its allies will continue backing Israel’s war on Gaza after a brief truce. But as the case for ‘genocide’ grows stronger, the new multipolar powers will have to confront the old hegemons and their Rules-Based Chaos.
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Reflections on the Deep State’s Media Watchdog Tool
John Kiriakou | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Dec 2023
29 Nov 2023 – NewsGuard at first glance looks like a media watchdog organization, a group that seeks to keep misinformation and disinformation out of the mainstream. That notion is quickly dispelled, however, as soon as one takes a look under the hood.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 51: Israel Fires at Palestinians Attempting to Return to Northern Gaza Amid Shaky Truce
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
26 Nov 2023:
* 15,000 killed, including 6,150 children, and 33,000 wounded in Gaza Strip
* 235 Palestinians killed in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem
* Israel revises its estimated 7 Oct death toll down from 1,400 to 1,200
Al-Shifa Hospital, Hamas’ Tunnels, and Israeli Propaganda
Jeremy Scahill | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
21 Nov 2023 – As the death toll in Gaza surpasses 13,000, including more than 5,500 children, the IDF propaganda machine sought to use Al-Shifa Hospital as its main exhibit in justifying the unjustifiable. Israel simultaneously lays siege to another medical facility.
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Justifying Genocide, a Shameful Transparent Spectacle
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Revised version of an interview by Mohaddeseh Pakravan of Mehr News Agency published in the Tehran Times on 16 Nov 2023.
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IDF Knew Real Hamas HQ while Lying about al-Shifa
Gareth Porter | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
23 Nov 2023 – While lying to the world that Hamas HQ was under al-Shifa Hospital, the IDF had already found the actual command center 8.5 km away.
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Coherent Reconciliation of Eastern and Western Patterns of Logic
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Towards a Polyhedral Rosetta Stone in Aid of a Paradigm Shift Respecting Opposition
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Interrupting Genocide: Humanity Challenged as Never Before
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
25 Nov 2023 – The ‘pause’ or ‘truce’ as it frequently called in Western media, is detached from the genocide that preceded and closely linked to the Hamas Attack of 7 Oct, which is characterized as ‘terrorism’ whereas Israeli genocidal violence is treated as Israel defending itself on target inflicting massive casualties on Palestinian civilians.
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COP28: When Is the Climate Summit and Why Is It Being Held in Dubai?
Chen Ly | New Scientist - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
World leaders, scientists, activists and more will convene at the UN climate conference in Dubai from 30 Nov to 12 Dec 2023. After a year of extreme weather and the hottest 12 months ever recorded, here’s what you need to know about it.
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I Condemn Myself
Abdelfattah Abusrour, Ph.D. | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
9 Nov 2023 – A poem by a visionary arts educator from the West Bank, occupied Palestine.
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Tunnels for Safety and Tunnels for Death
Kathy Kelly | The Progressive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
22 Nov 2023 – An underground nuclear arsenal in Israel dwarfs the tunnels alleged at a Gaza hospital.
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Actual U.S. Military Spending Reached US$ 1.537 Trillion in 2022—More than Twice Acknowledged Level (US$ 765.8 billion)
Gisela Cernadas and John Bellamy Foster | Monthly Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Nov 2023 – How much does it cost to maintain an empire? A stunning new analysis shows the true scale of U.S. military spending, which far outstrips conventional estimates, which use data gleaned from traditional sources.
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Activating the Genocide Convention
Craig Murray | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
19 Nov 2023 – There is no room to doubt that Israel’s bombing of Palestinian civilians and depriving them of food, water and other necessities of life are grounds to invoke the 1948 Genocide Convention.
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BRICS Condemns Israel War on Gaza in Signal to the West
Shola Lawal | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
21 Nov 2023 – In a virtual summit, the BRICS grouping denounced attacks on civilians in Palestine and Israel, with many leaders calling the forced displacement of Palestinians within Gaza or outside the territory “war crimes.”
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
GAZA 27 Nov 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
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Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
22 Nov 2023 – Much as I love Thanksgiving, I find myself struggling to let a sense of thankfulness flow, because when I do–and doing so has always been a crucial part of the holiday–my gratitude for my blessings starts to feel more like luck and, even worse, privilege. Yeah, how nice.
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Israeli Intelligence to Be Granted Full Access to National Biometric Database
Ken Macon | Reclaim the Net – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Expanding Data Collection and Use – The Israeli government is implementing significant amendments in the usage and access of biometric data that could have profound implications for privacy rights.
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Ours Is an Indigenous Struggle: How Gaza United the World
Ramzy Baroud and Romana Rubeo | Politics for the People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
The consequences of this war will certainly be felt for many years to come, not only in Palestine or even the Middle East, but worldwide as well.
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Three US Presidents Who Made Thanksgiving a National Holiday — and What They Were Thankful for
Ellen Brown | Web of Debt – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
24 Nov 2023 – All three were giving thanks for bringing the country through a major financial crisis related to war, and they achieved it through the “American system” of banking and finance.
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Sunday Morning (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | GlobalFaction – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
This song is about the loss of a child.
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Emissions of Richest 1% Will Cause 1.3 Million Heat Deaths: Oxfam
Jake Johnson | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
20 Nov 2023 – “The super-rich are plundering and polluting the planet to the point of destruction and it is those who can least afford it who are paying the highest price.”
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Necessary Losses: The Life-Shaping Art of Letting Go
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
All of our creativity, all of our compulsive productivity, all of our poems and our space telescopes, are but a coping mechanism for our mortality, for the elemental knowledge that we will lose everything and everyone we cherish as we inevitably return our borrowed stardust to the universe.
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(Italiano) Come finiscono le guerre?
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Nov 2023
Sparavano sulla Colonna nemica da dietro steccati, alberi, granai, muri, da dentro le case, poi ricaricavano, avanzavano in fretta e sparavano di nuovo. Uno strano tipo nuovo di guerreggiare per i britannici senza esperienza né addestramento in merito. A loro pareva disonorevole, nascondersi e sparare a uomini allo scoperto che non potevano neppure vedere i propri nemici. Come scrisse una Giubba Rossa alla famiglia: Non ci combattevano da esercito regolare, solo come selvaggi”.
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18 Nov 2023–>Day 43: Today’s News on Palestine & Israel
Israel-Palestine News | If Americans New - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Humanitarian aid & fuel update, new Israeli airstrikes, Al Shifa Hospital crisis, Palestinian deaths in West Bank, and more.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 44: WHO Says Israel Turned Al-Shifa Hospital into Death Zone
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
19 Nov 2023 – Thousands of Palestinians ‘Humiliated’ as They Flee to Southern Gaza – A Doctors Without Borders convoy was targeted by Israeli fire as Palestinians describe the “humanitarian” route to flee south as a “corridor of death and humiliation.” Israeli forces raid Jenin and Bethlehem.
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What Israel Wants? Why Genocide?
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
16 Nov 2023 – As the genocidal assault on Gaza continues, Israel remains defiant and the US stands firm in support of its supposed goal of destroying Hamas as a presence in Gaza, but also intent on mounting an ethnic cleansing crusade with a West Bank focus but a Gaza subtext.
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Israel Faces Wave of International Condemnation over Hospital Raid
Patrick Wintour | The Guardian - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – The scale and virulence of the global condemnation from Arab and western governments raised questions about how much longer Israel can continue with its offensive. The US distanced itself from the military takeover of the hospital, saying it had not authorised the Israeli decision.
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The Extreme Ambitions of West Bank Settlers
Isaac Chotiner | The New Yorker - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – A leader of the settlement movement on expanding into Gaza, and her vision for the Jewish state. For decades, Daniella Weiss has been one of the leaders of Israel’s settlement movement. She became involved in settlement politics in the wake of the 1967 war.
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US Blows Off the Whole World to Punish Cuba
Ann Garrison | Black Agenda Report – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – On Nov 2, the UNGA voted overwhelmingly for a resolution calling on the US to lift the trade embargo against Cuba that John Kennedy imposed in 1962. The US and Israel were the only two nations to vote no, with Ukraine abstaining. Total dependence creates total compliance.
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“One Holocaust Does NOT Justify Another”: Britain’s National March for Palestine and the World’s Moral Majority
Maung Zarni | FORSEA – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Saturday’s [11 Nov 2023] march that drew 300.000 Britons is a clear testament to the global consensus moral position among hundreds of millions of people around the world.
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Gaza
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
17 Nov 2023 – From Bethlehem
11800 murdered civilians: men, women, 4600 children
But the victim we are told is the villain…
… No point to count the thousands rotting under the rubble
For no one has tools or equipment to go to the trouble
Six Unique Factors about Gaza Genocide
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – The genocide goes on: babies died when taken out of incubators that had no power and many more cancer patients sent home died. Most injured people cannot be helped since the medical system is completely collapsed and there are 27,000 injured.
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The Israeli Model vs the Global Intifada
Satya Sagar | CounterCurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – Watching the unbelievable destruction wrought by the Israelis in Gaza a simple question very high on many minds must be ‘ How in hell does this illegitimate child of European guilt and American ambition get away with all this again and again and again?’
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Long Live Palestine – Part 3 (Music Video of the Week)
Lowkey | GRM Daily – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
From Lowkey’s Soundtrack to the Struggle 2
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Pro-Palestine Protests Are Ignored by the Western Elite, and It May Be a Fatal Mistake
Bradley Blankenship | RT – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
15 Nov 2023 – Liberal democracy is being destroyed from within by leaders who refuse to stand up to Israel despite public pressure.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
GAZA 20 Nov 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
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Special Delivery
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
13 Nov 2023 – Diplomacy? No Joke…
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Lucille Clifton on the Balance of Intellect and Intuition in Creative Work and the Healing Power of Connection
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
How to Be a Living Poem
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Peace through Horror
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Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – Palestine and the New World Order – Bombing hospitals was, just a few days ago, a red line the IDF dared not cross without provoking international condemnation. Today the IDF is bombing hospitals and its soldiers are shooting invalid patients as Gazans try to evacuate bombed buildings.
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Plato’s Fight against Apollo’s Temple of Delphi and the Cult of Democracy
Cynthia Chung | Rising Tide Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
Homer’s great poems that are left to us today, The Iliad and The Odyssey, describe the events of the Trojan War, which marked the descent of Greece into a Dark Age. Following the Trojan War, c.1190 BCE, the civilization of Greece collapsed, written language was lost, and cities disappeared.
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Bill Gates ‘Digital IDs’ Will Be Mandatory to Participate in Society
Patricia Harrity | The Exposé – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – On 7 Nov was launched the “50-in-5” agenda. The UN, Bill Gates Foundation, and the Rockefeller Foundation are launching a campaign to accelerate digital ID, digital payments, and data-sharing rollouts in 50 countries under the umbrella of digital public infrastructure by 2028.
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Palestinians Fear ‘Slow Death’ as Hunger and Thirst Spread in Gaza
Mahmoud Mushtaha | +972 Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023 – Israel’s assault has created a severe food and water crisis, with bakeries, shops, and local authorities unable to meet the population’s minimum needs.
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Anyone Who Believes in the Hollywood Image of the CIA Should Come to Serbia—Where the Agency Has Long Aligned with One of the Country’s Most Notorious Criminal Gangs
Olga Peterson | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – Most people tend to believe that the CIA is just an intelligence service, gathering information to enable better public policy. However, its real purpose is to engage in political skullduggery and subvert or destabilize other countries in order to help facilitate the goal of U.S. global domination and hegemony.
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 37: Al-Shifa Hospital No Longer Functioning as Israeli Ground Troops Surround the Hospital
Mustafa Abu Sneineh | Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
12 Nov 2023 – Thousands of lives are at risk as Al-Shifa Hospital becomes non-operational, with ICUs and incubators shutting down due to lack of fuel, and medical staff and patients trapped waiting to die. Israeli forces continue to shell hospitals in north Gaza.
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