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Doctors in Gaza Respond to Israeli Doctors Who Endorsed Bombing of Hospitals
Julia Conley | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – “Israeli doctors who signed a letter promoting [the] bombing of hospitals with patients inside have committed a betrayal to their noble profession and bear responsibility,” said a group of doctors in Gaza.
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Does the Truth Matter?
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
11 Nov 2023 – The Israeli government just downgraded the number of killed in Oct 7 to 1200 from 1400. George Galloway wrote: “The foul allegations of rape have been dropped by the Israeli government. The forty beheaded babies have been downscaled to one, not beheaded, and killed by persons unknown.” The truth matters because lies are being used to justify an ongoing genocide.
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Can Crimes of Resistance Ever Justify Genocide? The Tragic Reality of Gaza
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
3 Nov 2023 – Israel has seized this opportunity to fulfill Zionist territorial ambitions amid “the fog of war” by inducing one last surge of Palestinian catastrophic dispossession. Whether it is called “ethnic cleansing” or “genocide” is of secondary importance; it qualifies as the predominant humanitarian catastrophe of the 21stcentury.
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On Gaza
Phil Wilayto | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 marked 106 years since one Englishman, Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour, gave another Englishman, Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, the right to establish a “homeland” for his people. The land targeted in the Balfour Declaration was in the Middle East and it already was home to millions of Palestinians.
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The Nobel Peace Prize Can Still Become Our Rescue
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
‘The Real Nobel Peace Prize: A History of Squandered Opportunities’ by Fredrik S. Heffermehl, 2023, 406 pp. –
Address by the author at book launch, 11 Nov 2023
An Epistle to Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
10 Nov 2023 – Seeing you stumble on your way by throwing your full support to the Zionist leaders of Israel has been a body blow to me. That you have not defended the children of Gaza and condemned their massacre by the thousands has shocked and sickened me.
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Militarism vs. Our Shared Humanity
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – If you don’t care about the victims, the dehumanization process kicks in and, if you’re reading about it on the Internet or watching it on TV, it starts morphing into a video game. Crash, boom, hooray! This is war and we’ve got no choice but to win, no matter the cost.
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US Corporate Media Outlets Allow IDF to Vet ‘All Materials’ from Embedded Reporters in Gaza
Brett Wilkins | Common Dreams - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – U.S. corporate media outlets have granted Israeli military commanders pre-publication review rights for “all materials and footage” recorded by their correspondents embedded with the Israel Defense Forces during the invasion of Gaza, a precondition condemned by press freedom advocates.
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The Dangers of ‘Minstrel Diplomacy’
Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III | The Seattle Medium - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
Black faces are being used by the failing empire to sell failed racist, neocolonial militarism.
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West Asian Governments Take Assertive Stances against Israeli Occupation and Its Crimes
Abdul Rahman | Peoples Dispatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
10 Nov 2023 – A large number of Arab and other West Asian countries have defied the US pressures and openly taken a stand against the Israeli war in Gaza for the first time in decades.
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Will David again Slay Goliath?
Steve Corbett | CovertAction Magazine - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – Lambs being led to the slaughter, these and countless other children need all the good shepherds we can provide to protect them before desperation and suffering drive them to kill in the name of the free Palestine they deserve. Peace, not war, is always worth the effort.
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Mainstream Media Kills Truth
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
7 Nov 2023 – We in the West Bank witness this genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza and know we are next. Already 163 Palestinians were murdered by the army and settlers since 7 Oct. Israel blocked our cantons and arrested/kidnapped over 2500 more Palestinians in the West Bank.
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Conflating Jewish and Pro-Israel Is Wrong and Misleading
Ari Paul | Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – As protests erupt worldwide against Israel’s ferocious bombardment and invasion of Gaza, US media ponder how this impacts Jewish people. The way this is framed completely mischaracterizes Jewish opinion, falsely acting as if it is unquestionably unified in support of Israeli military attacks.
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Alain de Botton on the Qualities of a Healthy Mind
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
“The mind is its own place, and in it self can make a Heav’n of Hell, a Hell of Heav’n,” Milton wrote centuries before modern science came to illuminate how the mind renders reality — the mind, this sole lens we have on what the world is and what we are.
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Reflections on Evil
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
8 Nov 2023 – In light of current events, I am posting my exploration of evil, written 15 years ago.
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The ICC Must Investigate the Crime of Genocide in Gaza
Jeremy Corbyn | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – We need a ceasefire. The existence of the Palestinian people is at stake.
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Good Times for the Military-Industrial Complex
William D. Hartung | TomDispatch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
But Is It Truly the Arsenal of Democracy?
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Genocide Convention Analysis and Explanation
William A. Schabas | UN Library of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
The term “genocide” was first used by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. Although the word appears in the drafting history of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, the final text of that instrument uses the cognate term “crimes against humanity” to deal with the persecution and physical extermination of national, ethnic, racial and religious minorities.
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Full Steam Ahead
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – Killing Democratically
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Media Coverage of Israel and Gaza Is Rife with Deadly Double Standards
Editorial | The New Humanitarian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
‘Terrorism’ vs. ‘self-defense’ – Journalism that presents Palestinians as less than human makes their killing more acceptable: Palestinians “die” while Israelis are “killed”.
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Why Native Hawaiians Are Being “Pushed Out of Paradise” in Their Homeland
Adam Yamaguchi and Kerry Bree | CBS News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Nov 2023
4 Nov 2023 – Doreen Hall is among the thousands of native Hawaiians who decided to leave the state with her family because of rising prices. Each year, 15,000 native Hawaiians leave for the US mainland. There are fears that rebuilding from the wildfires from Maui will lead to even more displacement.
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Slaughter in Gaza: The Failures of International Law and Responsible Statecraft
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – Israel’s bloodlust shows international law is ‘a manipulated series of norms.’ International Law Professor Richard Falk says Western leadership becomes “self-righteous” to enforce international law “when it’s in their interest” while in other cases, they remain silent.
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Gaza in Real Time: Geopolitics vs Genocide
Richard Falk | Global Justice in the 21st Century – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – Israel has long been a master of what is called in Hebrew hasbara–the spinning, manipulating and distorting of public discourse so that it either justifies what Israel is doing or diverts attention from the message of critics and skeptics to the supposedly questionable credibility of the messenger. ‘The weaponizing of antisemitism’ is a cynical example of the deployment of hasbara.
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(Italiano) L’uomo allo specchio: Uno sguardo al cuore e alla mente dietro TRANSCEND Media Service
Marilyn Langlois | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Rincantucciati in un appartamentino all’ottavo piano di un caseggiato non lontano dal fiume Douro a Porto, in Portogallo, ci sono uno scrittoio, due computer laptop e una poltrona ortopedica. “Questo è il TMS!” proclama Antonio, l’uomo allo specchio, con ostentazione.
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Letter to the World (from Palestine)
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – I will start by saying THANK YOU on behalf of all Palestinians. Thank you for keeping your humanity. Thank you for not succumbing to the lies and distortions from corrupt politicians and media. Do not underestimate your individual power to act. Millions went to the streets in the last few days in this global uprising.
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Why Israel Wants to Erase Context and History in the War on Gaza
Ilan Pappé | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
5 Nov 2023 – The dehistoricisation of what is happening helps Israel pursue genocidal policies in Gaza.
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How Artificial Is Human Intelligence — and Humanity?
Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
6 Nov 2023 – Consideration of AI Safety versus Safety from Human Artifice
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New Document Leak on Plan to Expel Gaza Population
Joe Lauria | Consortium News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
30 Oct 2023 – A leaked document from the Israeli Ministry of Intelligence to an Israeli news site today lays out a plan to transfer more than 2 million Palestinians from Gaza to Egypt’s Sinai desert. [Moses, 13th century BCE, Redux]
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Japan, G-7 on Different Pages Regarding Middle East Conflict
Shino Matsuyama and Akira Nemoto | The Asahi Shimbun - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Despite being its chair, Japan was “excluded from the G-7.” On 22 Oct Biden held talks with the leaders of the G-7 nations, except for Japan, and the six leaders issued a joint statement in support of Israel’s right to self-defense. Japan has long supported the two-state solution, in which Israel and Palestine coexist as independent nations.
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William A. Schabas | UN Library of International Law – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
The term “genocide” was first used by Raphael Lemkin in 1944. Although the word appears in the drafting history of the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, the final text of that instrument uses the cognate term “crimes against humanity” to deal with the persecution and physical extermination of national, ethnic, racial and religious minorities.
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Iran-Russia Set a Western Trap in Palestine
Pepe Escobar | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
27 Oct 2023 – The only country that could possibly distract the West from Ukraine is Israel. But the US and its allies are walking into an existential trap if they think a West Asian victory will be more easily won than a European one.
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US House Passes $14.3 Billion in Military Aid for Israel
Dave DeCamp | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – The US Congress today passed a bill to provide Israel with $14.3 billion in military aid, a strong show of support for the Israeli onslaught on Gaza, which has killed over 9,000 Palestinians in last 26 days.
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Come Back, just Come Back!
Refaat in Gaza | X – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Oh Rascal Children of Gaza.
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Debate Palestine-Israel: Noam Chomsky & Rudy Rochman (must watch)
Posted by Antonio C.S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Noam Chomsky Destroys Israel
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Some Documents of Hope
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
1 Nov 2023 – Your students, like all young people today are pushed towards pessimism by the mass media and the pronouncements of their national governments. Is there some way that we can give them hope for the future? I want to give you four documents of hope.
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Where Is the ‘Responsibility to Protect’ in Gaza?
Abdelwahab El-Affendi | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Yesterday’s proponents of the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine are today’s biggest supporters of Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza.
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(Italiano) Il pianeta non può sopravvivere alla crescente corsa agli armamenti
Elena Camino | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Novembre 2023 – TNI ha da poco pubblicato uno ‘studio di caso’, mettendo in relazione le spese militari previste dalla NATO e gli obiettivi di riduzione delle emissioni di gas serra. La conclusione è netta: “il pianeta non può sopravvivere all’attuale corsa agli armamenti”.
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United Nations General Assembly Overwhelmingly Adopts Resolution Calling for an End to Violence in Gaza
Nicolas Boeglin | Pressenza - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – On 27 Oct the UNGA adopted a resolution entitled “Protection of civilians and upholding legal and humanitarian obligations .” See which 14 countries voted against in the placard above.
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How the Forgotten Prodigy William James Sidis Presaged the Quantum Undoing of Time and Thermodynamics
Maria Popova | The Marginalian – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
Dismantling the Dogmas of Life and Death
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(Italiano) Comprendere il passato per guardare al futuro
Angela Dogliotti Marasso | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
30 Ottobre 2023 – La storia è lo scenario nel quale si collocano e acquistano senso gli eventi dell’oggi. Comprendere il passato per guardare al futuro, come ha affermato il segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite, Guterres…
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Gaza Children Buried Alive, Buried Alive, Buried Alive
Roger Kotila, Ph.D. | Earth Federation News & Views – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – State Terrorism: As I watch the relentless airstrikes on Gaza, I can’t stop thinking about children trapped underneath the tons of concrete rubble and buried alive. Netanyahu, his generals, and President Biden must be prosecuted by the ICC for genocide and “collective punishment” — a scholarly way of describing mass murder of civilians.
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Israel: Deeper into Depravity
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
31 Oct 2023 – The video provokes a disgust as profound as any I have ever felt. It features Israelis recording themselves sadistically ridiculing Palestinians in the most cruel manner. They imitate Palestinian children dying or starving. They apply racially offensive makeup and mock Gazans as Israel deprives them of power, potable water, food and much else.
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Operation False Flag to Set the Middle East on Fire
Manlio Dinucci | Il Manifesto – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
28 Oct 2023 – Facts, not opinion, are increasingly showing that the attack carried out by Hamas on 7 Oct in Israel was the detonator for an Operation False Flag, similar to the 11 Sept 2001 attack in the US. The U.N. Secretary General reports that more than 35 U.N. personnel have been killed by Israeli shelling in Gaza.
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The Jewish-Arab Peace Song (Music Video of the Week)
Shamai Leibowitz | TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
A beautiful song with an inspiring message. There are many Israelis, Palestinians and Arabs working for peace and this Middle-Eastern jazzy song should be their hymn!
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Israel in Search of Its Hiroshima: Massive Bomb Wipes Out 20 Apt. Buildings, Kills, Wounds 400 Civilians
Juan Cole | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
In one of the biggest massacres it has so far committed, the Israeli Air Force on Tuesday [31 Oct 2023] bombed the Jabaliyaa refugee camp in Gaza, killing or wounding at least 400 persons and destroying the Block Six residential complex, felling 20 buildings. Many more victims are under the rubble.
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Israel’s Big Lie of “Self-Defense”
Kieran Kelly | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – An occupier does not have the right to use arms in “self-defense.” Is the mass slaughter of civilians self-defense?
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How to Stop Genocide and Prevent Atrocities
Taylor O’Connor | Everyday Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
3 Nov 2023 – Outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights writes: “Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it.” He explains that with Western leaders providing weapons and diplomatic cover, the only hope we have is that people around the world demand that governments stop Israel’s ongoing atrocities.
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Joe Biden Gives Speech Detached from Reality Justifying U.S. Support for Ukraine and Gaza Wars
Jeremy Kuzmarov | CovertAction Magazine – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Right out of a George Orwell Novel – As the U.S. escalates its involvement in wars in Ukraine and Gaza, Joe Biden gave a speech at the Oval Office on 19 Oct trying to legitimize $106 billion for Ukraine, Israel, Gaza, Taiwan.
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(Français) Quelques Documents d’Espoir
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
1 novembre 2023 – Vos étudiants, comme tous les jeunes d’aujourd’hui, sont poussés au pessimisme par les médias et les déclarations de leurs gouvernements nationaux. Existe-t-il un moyen de leur donner de l’espoir pour l’avenir ? Je veux vous donner quatre documents d’espoir.
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Number of Planned Low-orbit Satellites Now Exceeds One Million
Arthur Firstenberg | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
2 Nov 2023 – On Sunday [29 Oct], SpaceX launched 23 satellites from Cape Canaveral in the morning, and 22 more from Vandenberg Air Force Base in the evening. This brought the total number of operating satellites irradiating the Earth to about 8,800.
→ read full articleLet’s Stop Dehumanizing the Future
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
1 Nov 2023 – We — by which I mean most of humanity — are still playing with the so-called “just war theory,” the intellectual justification for war dating back to St. Augustine and the early centuries of the Common Era.
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Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
GAZA 6 Nov 2023 – Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence
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The World Has Never Cared about Gaza’s Suffering
Ahmed Nehad | The Nation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
27 Oct 2023 – Gaza is being obliterated, and no global power is doing anything to stop it.
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Guernica, Revisited
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Nov 2023
23 Oct 2023 – Palestine
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Anthony Judge | Laetus in Praesens - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Experimental Use of ChatGPT to Develop a Realistic Game
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‘Operation Al-Aqsa Flood’ Day 20: Human Rights Group Warns Israel Is ‘Using Starvation as a Weapon of War’ in Gaza
Leila Warah | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
26 Oct 2023 – As Israel’s Gaza assault enters day 20, food, clean water, and fuel are running out. Oxfam warns “millions of civilians are being collectively punished in full view of the world, there can be no justification for using starvation as a weapon of war.”
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Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
23 Oct 2023 – Dear fellow Palestinians, many of us were addressing the world but did not address you. We know 1.2 million of you are children and that Israeli campaign displaced 1.4 million of you from your homes (half are children). We can’t imagine the terror all 2.4 million of you face. I am not sure if some of you who still have internet will see this.
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The Day UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres Becomes Relevant Israel Calls for His Resignation
Dr. Binoy Kampmark | - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
27 Oct 2023 – The relevance of a UN Secretary-General depends on his degree of controversy. Dag Hammarskjöld was murdered over his intervention in Congo, 1961. The big powers like to render such figures impotent, if not insignificant. Thus, it was refreshing to hear the current UNSG speak truth to the powers that be. BRAVO!!
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Israel: What Really Happened on 7th October?
Sharmine Narwani and Robert Inlakesh | The Cradle – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – Evidence is now emerging that up to half the Israelis killed were combatants; that Israeli forces were responsible for some of their own civilian deaths; and that Tel Aviv disseminated false ‘Hamas atrocities’ stories to justify its devastating air assault on Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
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They Let Humanitarian Aid in and Then Bombed It So That Gaza Would Starve
Tareq S. Hajjaj | Mondoweiss - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
26 Oct 2023 – One of the bakeries that Israel bombed in Nuseirat refugee camp had just received a shipment of flour from UNRWA meant to cover the food needs of the entire camp. Israel waited to bomb it after all the flour was unloaded.
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Can You Believe They Attacked Us?
Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Animals!!
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Dear Dove
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – What Is Going On
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A Divided European Union Can’t Even Agree on Need for Ceasefire in Israeli Aggression against Gaza
Marc Martorell Junyent | Informed Comment - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – The European Union’s initial response to the Israel-Gaza atrocities has been chaotic. Shortly after the Hamas attack in Israel, the European Commission announced the suspension of “all payments” to the Palestinians. The EU is the biggest donor of aid to Palestinians in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
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“Wiping Gaza Off the Map”: Big Money Agenda. Confiscating Palestine’s Maritime Natural Gas Reserves
Felicity Arbuthnot and Michel Chossudovsky | Global Research - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Netanyahu’s 2023 declaration of war against 2.3 million people of the Gaza Strip is a continuation of its 2008-2009 “Operation Cast Lead.” The objective is the military occupation of Gaza and the expulsion of Palestinians from their homeland. However, the ultimate objective consists in confiscating the multi-billion-dollar Gaza offshore Natural Gas reserves.
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Why Capitalism Cannot Finally Repress Socialism
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
In fact, the capitalism-versus-socialism contest does not really resume because it never really stopped. As changing social conditions changed socialism—a process that took time—it sometimes seemed to wishful thinkers that the systems struggle had ended with capitalism’s victory.
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Israel’s Collective Punishment of Gaza Must End
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
“It is important to also recognize the attacks by Hamas did not happen in a vacuum. The Palestinian people have been subjected to 56 years of suffocating occupation. They have seen their lands steadily devoured by settlements and plagued by violence, their economy stifled, their people displaced and their homes demolished. Their hopes for a political solution to their plight have been vanishing.” — UN Secretary-General António Guterres
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(Italiano) Sociocidio, Genocidio, Ecocidio di Israele a Gaza
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Gli USA e Israele sono nati allo stesso modo, come popolo eletto di Dio con tanto di terre promesse, ricorrendo al sociocidio e al genocidio (gli USA). Senza cambiar politica possono declinare e cadere anche allo stesso modo. E magari presto.
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(Italiano) Palestina e Israele: come sarebbe la pace
Johan Galtung | Centro Studi Sereno Regis –TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
Le visioni/intuizioni di Galtung son quanto mai rilevanti oggi in vista della pulizia ernica degli abitanti di Gaza da parte IDF, debitamente disinfettata, banalizzata, normalizzata dalle narrazioni dei telegiornali mondiali. Il riferimento a Hamas del presidente Biden come ‘l’altra squadra’ rivela le loro mentalità: si tratta di una partita, non una faccenda di vita e di morte per i 2 milioni d’abitanti di Gaza massacrati mentre ne parliamo. È tragico che le guerre vincano le elezioni nelle (cosiddette) democrazie dell’Occidente.
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Confessions of a Think Tank Junkie
Diane Perlman, Ph.D. | Substack - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Expanding on Caitlin Johnstone’s Brilliant Analysis
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Richmond, California Becomes First U.S. City to Declare Support for Palestinians Amid Israel-Gaza Massacre
Katie Lauer | The Mercury News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Nearly five hours of public testimony preceded the 5-1 vote yesterday night.
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We’ve Seen This Movie Before
Tom Tomorrow | Daily Kos – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
NO Joke
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All of Palestine Is under Attack
The Wire | Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
24 Oct 2023 – For many of us, it’s impossible to imagine the scale of death and destruction in Gaza. Let us be clear: This is genocide. This isn’t a war on Hamas. It’s a war on the Palestinian people.
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The Lights Are Off – Here’s What We Know about Life and Death Inside Gaza
Ryan Grim | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
28 Oct 2023 – In a chilling interview on this week’s “Deconstructed,” Ryan Grim speaks with Maram Al-Dada, who has been in regular touch with his family in Gaza as they’ve been killed one after the other.
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Igniting a Peace Fire, Even as War Rages
Robert C. Koehler | Common Wonders – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Oct 2023
25 Oct 2023 – Here’s some advice about parenting: Write your child’s name on his or her leg or stomach, so that when your building is bombed, the child can be identified from the rubble. Mothers in southern Gaza are doing this now.
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Operation Al-Aqsa: Middle East Scholars Weigh in on Gaza–Israel Conflict
Daniel Falcone interviews Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes | CounterPunch - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – International relation scholars Richard Falk and Stephen Zunes comment on the politics of Hamas, the role of the press, how international law is applied in the region, human rights for civilians, the nature of terrorism, and the prospects of a Third Intifada.
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Israeli Airstrike on Gaza City Hospital Kills at Least 500 People
Diego Ramos | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – An Israeli airstrike on the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza City has killed more than 500 people. “This is genocide. This is a war crime,” a Red Crescent Society representative said.
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Soil Not Oil: Transforming the Industrial Fossil Fuel Food System into Fossil Fuel Free, Biodiverse, Regenerative Food Systems
Prof. Vandana Shiva | Navdanya International – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Industrial Agriculture Is Rupturing the Planetary Boundaries and Driving Climate Change – How living soil teeming with microbes and fungi can mitigate climate change and increase nutrition, just as Earth’s ecology regulated climate over billions of years. Working with nature to address environmental ills.
→ read full articleAs Israel Levels Gaza, the U.S. Media Fuels the Fire
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | Democracy NOW! – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – As Israel intensifies its brutal response to Hamas’ 7 Oct attacks, it is important to hear from those at the target end of the weapons – from both sides of the conflict. The mainstream media in the US consistently brings us only the voices of Israelis who have suffered violence.
→ read full articleOptimistic Day 16
Mazin Qumsiyeh | Popular Resistance – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
22 Oct 2023 – I remain optimistic on day 16 of the horrific onslaught on the people of Gaza; optimistic that we can stop large scale US/Israeli genocide in Gaza. But most of all I am optimistic because the Zionist onslaught (targeting hospitals, schools, universities, bakeries, residential buildings, mosques, churches, wiping out whole families) has ignited the global uprising that I and others have been calling for and predicting for a long time.
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Europe’s Largest News Aggregator Orders Editors to Play Down Palestinian Deaths
Daniel Boguslaw | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – Upday, an app owned by the German media giants Axel Springer, is instructing journalists to cover the war in Gaza with a pro-Israel bent as Israeli bombing raids virtually eliminated internet access in the Gaza Strip.
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Palestine/Israel: A Textbook Case of Genocide
Raz Segal | Jewish Currents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – Israel’s campaign to displace Gazans and expel them into Egypt is another chapter in the Nakba where 750,000 Palestinians were driven from their homes for the creation of the State of Israel. The assault on Gaza is a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes. I say this as a scholar of genocide.
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Daniel Medina | Racket Cartoons – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
12 Oct 2023 – NO Joke
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The Truth about Gaza
Norman Finkelstein | The Jimmy Dore Show – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Here’s What You Need to Know about Gaza’s History
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Instagram/Facebook Censored Image of Gaza Hospital Bombing, Claims It’s Too Sexual
Sam Biddle | The Intercept - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
18 Oct 2023 – In responses to users who tried to post pictures of the Gaza hospital bombing, Instagram and Facebook said they violated guidelines for sexual content or nudity.
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G7 Versus BRICS: Power Struggles Are Not Class Struggles
Richard D. Wolff | Independent Media Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
16 Oct 2023 – Class struggles interact with but are different from power struggles. The ancient conflicts between city-states Athens and Sparta were power struggles, while within each, slaves and enslavers engaged in class struggles.
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“Peace, War, and 9/11”: A Cinematic Portrait of Graeme MacQueen, a Warrior for Peace
Edward Curtin | Behind the Curtain – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – It is one thing to read a review of this important and compelling film and another to watch it. The former fades into insignificance when one takes an hour-and-a-half to immerse oneself in its tragic yet revelatory story.
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Nonviolence Is the Missing Path to Israeli-Palestinian Peace
Ali Abu Awwad | Daily Beast – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – I’m a Palestinian nonviolence leader for my people’s freedom and I will never be a victim of the Israeli occupation or a prisoner of hate.
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The Mask Is Off: Gaza Has Exposed the Hypocrisy of International Law
Wesam Ahmad | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – The mask that has long obscured the true nature and purpose of “international law” is finally off. The sinister truth: international justice is used as a tool to advance imperial interests, and not justice.
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Mohsen al Attar | Opinio Juris - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 – As scholars and practitioners of international law, conflict studies and genocide studies, we are compelled to sound the alarm about the crime of genocide by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. We do not do so lightly, but the gravity of the current situation demands it. 791 Signatories
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Israel and the Weaponization of Empathy
Belen Fernandez | Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
15 Oct 2023 – Selective empathy is not empathetic at all.
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Atrocity Propaganda
Elizabeth Vos | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – Israel and its supporters in the West are helping to provide psychological cover for an ongoing massacre of Palestinian civilians.
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Stunning US State Department Memo Warns Diplomats: No Gaza ‘De-Escalation’ Talk
Akbar Shahid Ahmed | HuffPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
13 Oct 2023 – As Israel escalates its attacks on Gaza, in messages circulated today US State Department staff wrote that high-level officials do not want press materials to include three specific phrases: “de-escalation/ceasefire,” “end to violence/bloodshed” and “restoring calm,” according to internal emails viewed by HuffPost.
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Former Ambassador and Assange Advocate Craig Murray Detained under UK Terror Laws
Kit Klarenberg | The Grayzone – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
17 Oct 2023 – The former diplomat’s detention is just the latest example of British terror laws being used to harass and intimidate dissidents, while brazenly prying into their private affairs.
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Bare Bones
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
10 Oct 2023 – Palestine Israel
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Johan Galtung Sings “Le Déserteur” (Music Video of the Week)
Posted by Antonio C. S. Rosa | Editor - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Prof. Johan Vincent Galtung 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 (170 books written in 60 years, +++).
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Struggles for a Just Multipolar World: Obstacles and Opportunities
Prof. Joseph A. Camilleri | SHAPE - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Richard Falk, Chandra Muzaffar and I, in an attempt to constructively react to a changing international landscape, invite you to a conversation with four leading thinkers from China, Iran, Russia and the United States on Sunday, 29 Oct 2023. Please see flyer enclosed for full details.
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The US/NATO/EU World Now Accepts Defence through Genocide
Jan Oberg, Ph.D. | Transnational Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
21 Oct 2023 – In civilisational terms war is a backward, primitive thing that solves no conflicts and creates no security. It’s a system of structural evil. Equally primitive and uncultured is the black-and-white, simplified narrative that there is only one evil party: Gazans/Hamas.
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‘Al-Aqsa Flood Operation’ Day 13: Humanitarian Aid to Gaza Stalls as Israel Renews Airstrikes
Leila Warah | Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
19 Oct 2023 – Due to the destruction Israel wrought at the Rafah crossing and to roads, moving humanitarian aid into Gaza is currently impossible. Meanwhile, Israel has renewed its indiscriminate airstrikes with U.S. diplomatic cover.
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Competing Theories of Nonviolent Politics
Karuna Mantena | Academia – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
Abstract: The contemporary literature on nonviolent politics relies upon a sharp distinction between strategic and principled nonviolence. Gandhi and King are associated with the latter, defined as a strict moral commitment to nonviolence that both scholars and activists view as unnecessary for the successful practice of nonviolent politics. I argue the distinction between strategic and principled nonviolence is misleading.
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White House Seeks $105 Billion to Arm Israel, Ukraine, and Taiwan
Kyle Anzalone | Antiwar - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Oct 2023
20 Oct 2023 – Today, the Biden administration rolled out its proposed $105 billion bill to arm Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan. White House officials say over $50 billion will go to US weapons manufacturers.
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